Want to take charge of your health naturally? Sit down, relax, and soak up some Asian Health Secrets with Letha Hadady, "the Martha Stewart of herbs." Stroll with her through a Chinese market and see the herbs, teas, and foods that can help common problems from arthritis to high blood pressure, and even aid weight loss and depression safely and gently. Hadady then moves into the kitchen to delve further into the wonders of ginseng, ginger, lemongrass, and many other powerful tonics, showing off their beauty and touting their other sensory delights. Suggestions for working them into your diet and supplement regimen complement the theoretical information about why they work. Maybe it will motivate you to take a few steps away from Western medicine, toward remedies as close as the local grocer. --Rob Lightner 

Asian Health Secrets - A Practical Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine

Wellspring Media

Andrew Weil, M.D., a graduate of Harvard Medical School who has become a celebrity for advocating a "balanced lifestyle" of "body, mind, and spirit," provides energetic lectures advocating an eight-week program that will lead the viewer to a healthier life. Standing before an attentive audience, Weil is an engaging lecturer, relying often on commonsense analogies while avoiding medical jargon. As the director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona's medical school, Weil doesn't discount traditional medicine. But he notes that our bodies can get "knocked out of balance," making them more susceptible to illness, and so a program combining exercise, diet, vitamins, and meditation can make us more resilient. As Weil puts it, "Resilience is our greatest ally, and it can be worked on." Though Weil's thought may seem somewhat ethereal at first, he presents his eight-week program very practically, beginning with tips on what to eat (and what to avoid), and proceeds to offer advice on exercise, how to handle stress, and related topics. Weil is intelligent and articulate, with a gift for delivering complicated ideas simply, and in this video he comes across as an engaging teacher. --Robert J. McNamara 

8 Weeks to Optimum Health

"As you think, so shall you be" is the advice Dr. Wayne Dyer imparts in How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want. The author of numerous bestselling books, including Your Erroneous Zones, and the video Improve Your Life with the Wisdom of Ages, Dyer says, "Every person has the ability to attract anything she or he wants and that by following four simple steps"--represented by four "reallys" in the video title--"each one of us can reach new levels of awareness." Teaching us to manage the coincidences in our life, Dyer uses personal anecdotes (including some humorous tales of his six daughters and oh-so patient wife) and elaborate metaphors to express his ideas. He refers frequently to spirituality, and this video will be best received by those with an openness in belief and a faith in something greater than themselves. But even skeptics will find truth in Dyer's wisdom and can benefit from his "pathways to mastery and manifesting" to help find the trust, generosity, gratitude, and connection to help them reach a higher level of awareness. --Jenny Brown

How to Get What You Really Really Really Really Want [VHS]

VHS by Dr. Wayne Dyer - well known and has a large following. A guru that brings clarity to many things. WISDOM is a good thing and his take is enlightening to many.

Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages

<p>Physician and pop culture phenomenon Deepak Chopra presents two separate lectures on this DVD, both of which deal with a concept Chopra characterizes as "the wizard inside us all." In his introductory remarks, Chopra, addressing an attentive audience on a stage set resembling the exterior of a venerable and warmly lit house, promises to tell how to "find the wizard inside," while noting that this is "a destination and a journey at the same time." Skeptics, of course, may find this to be the most maddening New Age claptrap, but given Chopra's large and devoted following, many viewers will no doubt find his lengthy lecture on finding this elusive wizard to be inspiring. The second presentation on the disc also talks about the wizard, but in relation to the notion of alchemy, meaning a spiritual transformation. Chopra introduces the episode by noting that storytelling can go deeper than a logical lecture. What follows is something of a dramatic reading featuring actors Martin Sheen and Robert Guillaume as Arthur and Merlin, with narrator Joanna Cassidy. Some viewers will no doubt roll their eyes, but Dr. Chopra would placidly contend that those seeking a deeper meaning in their lives may locate wisdom by seeking their "inner wizard." <i>--Robert J. McNamara</i></p>

Deepak Chopra - The Way of the Wizard/Alchemy: The Art of Spiritual Transformation [DVD]

The Tibetan Book of the Dead (A Way of Life / The Great Liberation) [DVD]

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