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As our world grows increasingly more complex and stressful, developing our capacity for dynamic balance in our lives, work, and relationships becomes more and more vital. Based on the ancient wisdom traditions, contemporary neuroscience research, and the insights of indigenous cultures throughout our world, Living in Balance shows that, in each moment, we have the capacity to be mindful of whether our thoughts and actions are moving toward harmony and balance or away from it. Through this awareness we can make a conscious choice to continue on the path we are on or to change our attitude and direction. With a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama, Living in Balance offers a rare synthesis of ancient wisdom traditions with cutting-edge research on peak human performance that points toward mindfulness as being truly the key to living in balance.
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Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey have devoted their lives to studying, researching, and teaching disciplines related to how to live and thrive in greater harmony and balance. They have been pioneers over many decades in developing extra-ordinary capacities of leaders, teams, organizations, and communities through the emerging fields of mindfulness, mindbody medicine and contemplative science; integrative health care; change resilience; neurofeedback, cyberphysiology, interpersonal neurobiology; collective wisdom and intelligence; systems thinking; and the global compassion movement. Michelle and Joel have worked with hundreds of leading organizations and communities around the globe to inspire people to deepen their capacity to bring a deeper wisdom, compassion, resilience, and creative intelligence to life, work, and relationships. Their clients include: NASA; Google; British Parliament; N.I.H.; Intel; M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center; World Bank; NOAA; The Clinton Global Initiative; U.S. Army Special Forces; West Point Military Academy; Earthsave; Forest Ethics; Compassionate Action Network International; Stanford Research Institute International; U.S. Surgeon General's Office; Washington Athletic Club; St. Francis Hospice; M.I.T; and World Business Academy. They served as Chairpersons for the Center for Corporate Culture & Organizational Health at the Institute for Health & Productivity Management, and on the Board of Advisors for the International Campaign for Compassionate Cities; The Art Monastery Project; and The International Working Group on Compassionate Organizations. The Dalai Lama, an advisor on a number of their projects, encouraged the Leveys in their work, saying: "You are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the Dharma (the inner sciences of transformation) to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with these teachings." Joel and Michelle have studied closely with many of the world's most respected teachers in the mind science and contemplative science traditions, and were fortunate to participate in a year-long silent contemplative retreat.The Leveys are co-founders of Wisdom at Work; the International Institute for Mindfulness, Meditation and MindBody Medicine; InnerWork Technologies Inc.; and SportsMind, Inc. They serve as clinical faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School's Center for Spirituality and Healing, and Bastyr University where they teach special programs on Mindfulness, Compassion, Meditation, and Mindbody Medicine. They have also developed and taught special graduate programs for Mahidol University in Thailand; Indian Institute of Management; Antioch University; and University of Texas Center for Spirituality and Health. The Leveys were honored by the Institute of Noetic Sciences as leading "teachers of transformation." Joel and Michelle directed clinical programs related to mindfulness, resilie
