Mindsight:  The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel

A groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.  Siegel (The Mindful Brain) combines Western neuroscience with Eastern meditation in an exciting exploration of how a troubled mind can right itself. Drawing on current science and case studies, Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, reinforces the idea that the power of reflection allows us to approach, rather than withdraw, from whatever life brings us.

Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck

Like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide us back to our "essential self."  Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck invites us to explore our heart's desires and the vast social webs that keep such desires in check. The goal is not to forsake the "social self" and indulge every emotional impulse of the "essential self." Rather, we can achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices.

 The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

Determine what you want to accomplish this year, and then let Jack guide you through 64 principles in meeting your goals through easy-to-apply action steps and unique life-planning tools to get you where you want to be.  Jack Canfield is co-author of the worldwide bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul books and holds a Guiness Book of World Records title for most number of books on the New York Times best seller list at one time. 

Books by Dr. Wayne Dyer:

The Power of Intention

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He is the author of 30 books, has created many audio and video programs, and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows.  Despite his childhood spent in orphanages and foster homes, Dr. Dyer has overcome many obstacles to make his dreams come true. Today he spends much of his time showing others how to do the same.  

Steering By Starlight by Martha Beck

Martha Beck describes the step-by-step process she uses with her private clients to help them navigate the terrain of their best lives. Using her trademark wisdom, empathy, and engaging style, Dr. Beck connects readers with fresh, never-before published strategies that have proven most effective and efficient for the hundreds of people she has coached.  

Books by Byron Katie:

I Need Your Love—Is That True?

Loving What Is:  The Four Questions that Can Change Your Life

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering.  As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves—radically shift and their lives are changed forever.   

The Joy Diet by Martha Beck

The Joy Diet, designed for the soul rather than the body, is composed of 10 steps that, once learned, are to be practiced on a daily basis to achieve greater fulfillment and a happier life.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes, Ph.D.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a relatively new variety of psychotherapy that puts cognitive behavioral techniques into the service of helping people escape their symbolic prisons by teaching them how to become more conscious of and less embedded in their symbolic prisons. When painful experience is not avoided anymore, people become more able to connect with what they value and then to act (commit) to actions that are consistent with their values (rather than consistent with avoiding what they fear).

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle 

Humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our ever-expanding egos.  According to Tolle, "millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore, but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new consciousness, the awakening".

Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Dr. Kabat-Zinn describes how, through paying attention, by both literally and metaphorically coming to our senses, we can live our lives much more as if they really mattered and realize the full extent our potential as human beings, in ways both little and big.  Other titles by Dr. Kabat-Zinn include:

—Wherever You Go, There You Are

—A Mindful Way Through Depression

—Mindfulness at Work CD