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This is Exclusive to elib.clickYou Will be Banned if you Share This ElsewhereChoose to ChangeSix Weeks to Take Charge of Your Habits, Goals, and Emotional PatternsDescriptionDo you feel stuck in old habits that no longer serve you? Have you been struggling to make a change that you know will bring greater health and happiness into your life? In Choose to Change, Dr. Kelly McGonigal presents a six-session online video course on the process of intentional change, blending lecture, experiential exercises, guided meditations, and more.Six Sessions of Practical GuidanceDrawing from her popular courses at Stanford University, Dr. McGonigal presents six video sessions designed to help you reach your specific goal. Whether it’s changing a habit, cultivating a particular strength, creating health, or transforming a stressful pattern in your life, find support in choosing a personal focus and implementing the strategies for making that change.Each session blends lecture, experiential exercises, and easy-to-follow guided meditations with the author. In addition, you’ll receive real-world homework assignments and self-reflection practices.Mindful Awareness and Self-Compassion for ChangeFor so many of us, even the idea of change can be overwhelming. We fear that true change is impossible; we give up too easily in the face of obstacles; we focus on the wrong things and try to control the uncontrollable; or we might even think that we can’t be happy until we accomplish the change we most want.With Choose to Change, discover how to create a new and healthy relationship to change through a compassionate, mindful approach seen throughout the world’s wisdom traditions—and being verified today in the emerging fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Learn more about:    Cultivating a transformational vision for your life    How to mindfully engage with your new choices    Identifying your core values and making specific commitments    How to move from self-criticism to self-compassion    The dance of change and acceptance    How to direct the ongoing flow of changeThe Unfolding Process of Personal TransformationFrom behaviors to beliefs big and small, everyone has something they’d like to change about themselves. Choose to Change brings you clinically supported methods—what Dr. McGonigal calls her favorite science-help strategies—for training the mind away from default states and negativity that no longer serve us and establishing behaviors and attitudes aligned with our highest values and aspirations. Join her in this empowering program for reflecting inner change in the outer world and embracing the unfolding process of personal transformation.Course objectives:    Design a transformation vision for your life.    Choose a personal focus and implement strategies to make a change.    Identify your core values and make specific commitments.    Utilize Science-help strategies to train the mind away from default states and negativity.    Participate in experiential exercises and guided meditations.Kelly McGonigalKelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and award-winning lecturer at Stanford University. A leading expert on the mind-body relationship, her work integrates the latest findings of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine with contemplative practices of mindfulness and compassion from the traditions of Buddhism and yoga. She is the author of The Willpower Instinct and Yoga for Pain Relief.