"Take a Deep Breath." "Just breathe." These are common calming mantras, but what do they really mean? Though every second of life is governed by breath, few people pay heed to this important facet of good health. The Miracle of the Breath explores the importance of breath not only to physical well-being but also as a powerful conduit of divine energy. Replete with stories and case studies of people healed from asthma, arthritis, anxiety attacks, and other physical and mental traumas through proper breath work, the book also examines the concept of breath as a spiritual life force. Drawing on methods of observing and controlling the breath developed by ancient masters in India, China, and Tibet, it includes meditations and practice techniques to help readers improve their emotional and spiritual health.

Each story here has its own miracle...some big...some small, some inexplicable by scientific laws, and some amazing and or extraordinary. While each miracle is unique to that person, they share Transformational Breath as a healing tool that gives them the ability to bring about any changes that are important to their lives.The fourteen stories share how Transformational Breath sessions helped individuals ease anxiety, eliminate physical pain, make more money, attain new jobs, and became more creative, confident and secure within themselves. The names are not real but the miracles are.

Dr. Ginnelle Ries has witnessed proof that this life is not the end and miracles do happen. Take a Deep Breath is two memoirs intertwined into one. The first is the story of Ginnelle, a girl who from a young age strives to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor. It chronicles her life as she struggles with the insecurities of her younger years and her simple wish to be loved. It shares her poignant relationship with her father, her resiliency as she attends medical school as a single mother on welfare, and the stories of the patients she will never forget. You will rejoice with her as she finds love and grieve with her as she loses loved ones. Living through a life-threatening illness brings her full circle and to a point where she can finally say, "No matter what, it will be okay." The second and more important story is the spiritual one, not distinct but rather woven intimately within Ginnelle's life. You will share in her spiritual growth and discovery and the stories of miraculous healings, guardian angels, and messages from loved ones who have passed. You will be beside her as she hears her husband recount his life-after-death experience and be with her as she witnessed something during the death of a loved one that convinced her that this life is not the end. Take a Deep Breath will make you laugh, will make you cry, but, more importantly, will give you hope that we are not alone; this life is not the end; and miracles do happen.

A classic spiritual book with 108 life-changing tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose from #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back and Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein. Let’s be real for a sec. Most of us don’t have time for an hour of yoga or 30 minutes of meditation every day for stress management. We’re overwhelmed as it is. Our spiritual practice shouldn’t add to that. That’s why Gabby Bernstein, who has been featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday as a next-generation thought leader handpicked 108 simple techniques to combat our most common problems—stress, burnout, frustration, jealousy, resentment, and more. The stuff we have to deal with on a daily basis. This book is designed so that you can achieve peace and open your heart to experience miracles now. Inspired by some of the greatest spiritual teachings these practical, moment-to-moment tools will help you eliminate blocks and live with more ease, inspiration, and purpose. They’re powerful, life-changing meditations and principles, modernized and broken down into easy-to-digest techniques to fit your lifestyle. Some example life-changing tools featured in Miracles Now are: · Happiness is a choice you make. · Clean up your side of the street. · To feel supported, support yourself. · Peace is in your pulse. · Why am I talking? · Peace begins with YOU. · The miracle comes quietly. · Positive-perception playlists are powerful. · When you’re feeling helpless, help someone. Gabrielle says, “This book offers soulful methods for achieving peace drawn from some of the world’s greatest spiritual teachings. What’s unique about the techniques I’ve chosen is that you can use them to quickly clear your stress and fear any time—even if you only have a minute to spare.” Throughout the book, Gabby shares spiritual principles from both A Course in Miracles and Kundalini yoga and meditation. These tools can help your mental health and help you find your true purpose and inner strength. When you practice these techniques, fear will melt away, inspiration will spring up, and a sense of peace will set in. “Gabrielle is the real thing. I respect her work immensely.”— Dr. Wayne Dyer

Since David Hume, the interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West by the binary distinction of fact vs. fiction. The form-critical method added another restriction to the interpretation of miracles by neglecting the context of its macrotexts. Last but not least the hermeneutics of demythologizing was interested in the self-understanding of individuals and not in political perspectives. The book revisits miracle stories with regard to these dimensions: 1. It demands to connect the interpretation of Miracle Stories to concepts of reality. 2. It criticizes the restrictions of the form critical method. 3. It emphasizes the political implications of Miracle Stories and their interpretations. Even the latest research accepts this modern opposition of fact and fiction as self-evident. This book will examine critically these concepts of reality with interpretations of miracles. The book will address how concepts of reality, always complex, came to expression in stories of miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art, literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to the Middle Ages. Only through such bygone concepts, contemporary interpretations of ancient healings can gain plausibility.

Christianity Today 2013 Book Award Winner Winner of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship's 2012 Award of Excellence 2011 Book of the Year, Christianbook.com's Academic Blog Most modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact, hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced miracles. New Testament scholar Craig Keener argues that it is time to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence available to us. This wide-ranging and meticulously researched two-volume study presents the most thorough current defense of the credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts. Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout history and from contemporary times are best explained as genuine divine acts, lending credence to the biblical miracle reports.