Living with Cancer or The Joy of Yoga

Living with Cancer: Meditations on Patience and Love

Author: Melody Kee Smith

When cancer strikes, not only is the patient impacted, but all those within the patient's circle of family and friends are affected as well. A cancer diagnosis can create chaos characterized by medical consultations, surgeries, radiation and chemotherapies. Living With Cancer: Meditations on Patience and Love reveals a deep level of familiarity with these challenges to life and health. Melody Kee Smith and her husband Richard Smith know firsthand about the ups and downs of living with recurrent cancer. They have composed mediations that include brief prayers and an invitation to write or think through issues, such as being frustrated with the health care system, building support communities, and preserving a sense of the sacred in one's life. Living With Cancer is written for all those living with cancer: patients, their loved ones, and their caregivers.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	7
1	Patience	9
2	Reverence	14
3	Happiness	21
4	Clarity	25
5	Devotion	32
6	Compassion	39
7	Grace	48
8	Courage	54
9	Melancholy	64
10	Harmony	69
11	Energy	79
12	Unity	85

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The Joy of Yoga

Author: Jennifer Schwamm Willis

As interest in yoga continues to grow ever more broadly in the U.S., more and more Americans are trying out yoga and discovering its benefits. At the same time, millions of people who already practice yoga are finding that it can play many different roles in their life—from physical release to spiritual growth—and wonder how to unlock that potential fully. The Yoga Mind offers a bridge between yoga as a physical practice and yoga as a spiritual inquiry. A wide-ranging, considered investigation of the deep mind-body connection yoga promotes, it includes the best work of great yoga teachers and philosophers, as well as contemporary yoga teachers and practitioners who draw wisdom and insight from their practice. Selections include writings by Patanjali, B. K. S. Iyenger, Judith Lasater, Margot Anand, Stephen Cope, Geeta Iyengar, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Erich Schiffman, and many others. The Yoga Mind is for people who want to explore yoga's deepest potential to change and enhance their lives on the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes.