These books have all had a dramatic shift in how I show up in the world at some time. Yes, some of these I read decades ago and still re-read. 

Living in the light

Personal growth pioneer Shakti Gawain has been mentoring readers toward optimal living for three decades. Her books are ever-vital classics that not only broke ground for peers such as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Don Miguel Ruiz but continue to empower succeeding generations of seekers and teachers. Here, with her trademark insight and accessibility, Gawain highlights the transformative power of bringing the light of awareness to every aspect of the self — intuitive wisdom and rationality, power and vulnerability, peacemaker and warrior. Exercises on subjects including creativity, the world as mirror, relationships, parenting, money, health, and transforming the world help readers put Gawain’s teachings to personal, practical use. Together they compose a comprehensive map to growth, fulfillment, and heightened consciousness. 

Into the Magic Shop: A neurosurgeon’s true story of the life-changing magic of mindfulness and compassion that inspired the hit K-pop band BTS

James Doty grew up in California, deeply poor, with an alcoholic father and an invalid mother who tried to commit suicide. His life was a dead end until the summer he was 12, when he stumbled into the Cactus Rabbit Magic Shop looking for a plastic thumb. Inside he encountered Ruth, who gave him a series of practices designed to ease his suffering and manifest his desires. Her final mandate was that he make sure to keep his heart open and to teach these techniques to others.

The Secret

About the Author Rhonda Byrne is the creator behind The Secret, a documentary film that swept the world in 2006, changing millions of lives and igniting a global movement Later that same year, Rhonda’s book of The Secret was released It has been translated into more than fifty languages and remains one of the longest-running bestsellers of this century Rhonda has written three more bestselling books: The Power in 2010, The Magic in 2012, and Hero in 2013

Atomic Habits

People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions- doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call.

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Lucidly and beautifully written, PEACE IS EVERY STEP contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh’s experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is – in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking in a park – and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. The deceptively simple practices of PEACE IN EVERY STEP encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the ‘mindness’ into the mindful.

Abundance: The Inner Path To Wealth

An enlightening guide to success, fulfilment and wholeness by the world’s master of modern meditation, Deepak Chopra

Discover the keys to a life of success, fulfilment, wholeness and plenty

We live in a time of fear and insecurity, wrapped up in a mindset of lack, scarcity and limitation. Too often we focus on the things we don’t have and allow our egos to drive our thoughts, actions and reactions, preventing us from reaching something greater. Now is the time for change, to reset our focus and strive for life’s unbounded possibilities.

In The Yoga of Money, master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra illuminates the path to abundance, helping readers become agents of change in their own lives. Demonstrating how to work past self-generated feelings of limitation and fear and providing meditations to help you focus and direct your attention and intuition, this is your guide to a life of stability, prosperity, insight, creativity, love and true power.

You Can Heal Your Life

Special edition of the international bestseller, You Can Heal Your Life, released to commemorate Hay House’s 30th anniversary.

This New York Times bestseller has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, including over 200,000 copies in Australia. 

Louise’s key message in this powerful work is- “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” 

Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life! Packed with powerful information – you’ll love this gem of a book!

This special edition, released to mark Hay House’s 30th anniversary, contains 16 pages of photographs.

The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

True leadership isn’t a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. In his seminal work, leadership guru John Maxwell presents readers with the five stages of leadership and explains how to maximize each one to become more influential, respected and successful:

1. Position – People follow because they have to.

2. Permission – People follow because they want to.

3. Production – People follow because of what you have done for the organization.

4. People Development – People follow because of what you have done for them personally.

5. Pinnacle – People follow because of who you are and what you represent.