Article Topic: Self-Help

Each year Llewellyn produces a line of annuals, calendars, and datebooks designed to keep you abreast of timely topics and filled with relevant articles from innovative thinkers, authors, and experts. New this year is Llewellyn's 2009 Green Living Guide, which, from green careers to green houses to green weddings, explores how to live in harmony with the environment. Ranging from personal lifestyle options to broad solutions, you'll find a bounty of ways—small and large—to make a difference. This issue features over twenty in-depth articles on ecotravel, transportation alternatives, rain gardens, vermicomposting, beekeeping, wind turbine power, permaculture, and more, such as this excerpt. Read Laura E. Kreger's foray into the world of bicycle commuting and living "car-free."

In the first of a series, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke takes on New Worlds of Body, Mind, and Spirit. The Body is a foundation and also a vehicle to experience the beauty and pleasure of the material world. Understanding of the Body/Mind Connection has opened us to new healing techniques as well acceptance of old ones. Thinking has moved beyond perceiving the body in mechanical terms, and from rejecting it as “un-spiritual” to a balanced approach giving respect to the whole mind/body/energy complex. Read about the "Brave New World of the Body."

There is an old saying that advises us to turn the lemons that life deals us into lemonade. No matter what age we find ourselves, life does, on occasion, present us with difficult challenges. I prefer to consider these challenges lessons in ...