Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul

by Jennifer Tucker

Breath as Prayer will guide you through the practice and proven health benefits of Christian breath prayer, which involves intentional prayers centered around Scripture that focus our minds on Christ as we calm our bodies through breathing.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle

This book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as creators of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present.

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books, and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology.

Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement. Together with Dr. Howard Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2,500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense, The Art of Happiness is a book that crosses the boundaries of traditions to help readers with difficulties common to all human beings. After being in print for ten years, this book has touched countless lives and uplifted spirits around the world.

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen

This remarkable collection of true stories draws on the concept of "kitchen table wisdom"—the human tradition of shared experience that shows us life in all its power and mystery and reminds us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives.