We used to sell a fair range of books at LifeTools, but amazon.com and amazon.co.uk offer such hefty discounts, and such brilliant service too, that we have pulled out of books completely!
However we are an amazon affiliate company, so if you are interested in any of the titles below, click on them to go to the amazon site. If you decide to buy, we make a small commission which enables us to develop our LifeTools site more, and add more of our favourite books!

Here then are some of my favourite books (writes Chris Payne)...

The Prophet's Way

This book by Thom Hartmann I wrote about in our first Effort-Free Newsletter as the stroy inspired me so much. If you want a copy of this book, then click here and go to Amazon to order it.

How to Argue and Win Every Time

This book by Gerry Spence I wrote about in our first Effort-Free Newsletter has some wonderful and powerful stories. If you want a copy of this book, then click here and see it listed at Amazon.

Megabrain

This is a truly wonderful book.Michael Hutchison has been called the ‘high-tech guru’ of the mind fitness revolution.He has an incredible fast-paced, easy-to-read writing style that made me feel I was reading twice as fast as usual. there's lots on light and sound machines (like our MindLab Proteus), Monroe's research with Hemi-Sync/binaural beats, cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES), brainwave biofeedback, and much more. (380 pages)
"A lucid review of the field of brain science... all-encompassing" Psychiatric Times

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
the very best how-to book on lucid dreaming with fabulous accounts of lucid dreams. It comes with the NovaDreamer lucid dreaming device which author Stephen LaBerge designed.
Stephen spends most of his time in a Sleep Lab in Palo Alto, California, studying lucid dreams on various subjects. I went to meet him a few years ago and found him to be a fascinating character with a complete passion for lucid dreaming and its power to increase self confidence and a more accepting view of the world and your place in it.
the book is full of great accounts from people who have gone lucid, and lots of exercises you can do to increase your chance of having a lucid dream quite dramatically.

the Power of Now

If you have bought our Sedona Method CDs you are going to LOVE this book. Eckhart Tolle’s life changed overnight after a long period of deep depression. He shows you the importance of living in the now, letting go of the past and the future:

"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. the compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."

Tolle again: "If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances, such as when you are sitting alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something 'goes wrong' or you are faced with difficult people or situations, with threat of loss. You will be taken over by a reaction, which ultimately is always some form of fear, and pulled into deep unconsciousness." A fabulous read.
You can get the book on CD -- and a two-CD set of talks by the author.

the High Performance Mind
there is a particular brainwave pattern that has been found in accomplished meditators, yogis, artists and many highly productive individuals. It is called the ‘Awakened Mind’ state. I’ve met the author, Anna Wise, and I think she’s wonderful. She has been training people to master their brainwaves for 20 years.
Have you ever wanted to increase your intuition? Well, think of the colour blue while you're relaxing and thinking. Anna has consistently seen that theta brain waves increase when you think of that colour: that's probably why we have the expression: 'that brilliant idea came out of the blue'.
Would you like to reduce your 'mind chatter'? Relax your tongue so it starts to expand in your mouth. It works! Why? Anna's view is that your tongue makes tiny movements as you chatter silently to yourself, so if you relax your tongue you reduce the number of thoughts!
Do you ever have great meditations but don't remember what happened during them? You're probably going into a theta state, then coming out into beta. You need to create an 'alpha bridge' between the two states. Try telling yourself that you will remember your meditations and, if you were hooked up to an EEG machine, you would see in increase in alpha!
This great book includes guided exercises to help you develop the brainwave pattern of the awakened mind state. You can also buy a CD set containing many of the guided journeys she has printed in the book.

SuperLearning 2000
A classic book on accelerated learning which covers all the latest techiniques and technologies including the following enthusiastic endorsement about our best-selling PhotoReading CD set:
PhotoReading is literally eye-opening...
the goal: Let your unconscious take a snapshot, imbibing a whole page in a glimpse. In a published report, Dr Hideo Seki of Tokyo said that his own and his students’ reading became at least ten times faster.
In a sense PhotoReading is a specialised case of Superlearning ..... being in the right state of body and mind, feeding data to and accessing it from the unconscious..
" PhotoReading may well be standard equipment for 21st century Superlearners.
the authors enthuse about the power of baroque music to help you learn information faster. You will find some "Relax with the Classics" CDs, specifically designed for this purpose, in our online store.
Do get this book -- I'm sure you'll get some great ideas.

the Einstein Factor
In this remarkable book you’ll find details of a wonderful technique called Image Streaming to improve your creativity and imagination, along with many other fabulous new strategies. Author Dr Win Wenger enthuses about the PhotoReading CD set we sell:
PhotoReading appears to be a natural step forward in the evolution of human reading skills... (it) frees us from the need to subvocalise, allowing us to read at brain speed rather than tongue speed.... Try PhotoReading a dictionary several times, whether in English or some foreign tongue. This exercise will greatly enhance your vocabulary. In tandem with formal study, PhotoReading will accelerate your progress in almost any area many times over. It is a metaskill with few equals.

Smart Moves
I had the great pleasure of seeing author Carla Hannaford in action at the SEAL Accelerated Learning conference in Bath in April of this year. Her fabulous book completely sold out there. the book explores the body's role in thinking and learning. Carla, a neurophysiologist and educator, tells you why we must move our bodies and shows us how to move to fully activate our learning potential. Her remarkable insights will be of great and immediate value to learners of all ages, from the gifted to the so-called learning disabled.

Another common comment when people ring or write about PhotoReading is: "I try activating and nothing happens."
First you need to determine your predominant learning style. Are you auditory, visual or kinesthetic (feeling)?
Examples of each are set out in a fabulous new book called Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: the Six Step Plan to Unlock Your Master Mind by Colin Rose and Malcolm Nicholl. Colin wrote the superb book Accelerated Learning, and created the Accelerated French, German, Spanish and Italian 12-CD sets (available from Accelerated Learning). You can also get his first book which is a lot cheaper.

the Learning Revolution
I found this very inspiring and with some great ideas. Gordon Dryden is an award-winning journalist from New Zealand who has written up some of the best strategies for accelerated learning.
the left-hand page throughout the book has a list of ideas, points or relevant quotations, and the body of the book is on the right-hand pages, which makes for a more interactive and purposeful read.
I also bought this book for my wife when we very first started dating (she's a teacher of Spanish and French to business people, and has also taught English as a foreign language.) How romantic!
I thoroughly recommend this book.

Simply Live It Up
Another book has been published that raves about the PhotoReading CD set. Simply Live It Up is written by Teri-E Belf and Charlotte Ward. Teri-E has a BA in Psychology and coaches clients in productivity and life planning. Charlotte is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and teaches accelerated learning classes.

they write: "No longer does anyone have to settle for kindergarten slowness. By following the PhotoReading Whole Mind System, you can enhance your learning and greatly reduce the time you spend regular reading. You can program your creative mind to store meaning at the astonishing rate of 25,000 or more words a minute."

they even give some very helpful tips: "My favourite chant is 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star'. A musically inclined friend flips her pages to the undulating rhythms of a Bach cantata in her mind's ear. Intoning words keeps your left brain busy while your right brain absorbs the message."

I tried the nursery rhyme myself, singing it to myself, and found that I was more relaxed while I PhotoRead, and I maintained the Blip Page throughout the whole book. In case you've forgotten how the rhyme goes (!), it carries on: 'How I wonder what you are. Up above the clouds so high. Like a diamond in the sky.' If there are any further verses or variations, please let me know!
the book carries on with some further advice: "I usually PhotoRead round trip once from front to back, and once upside-down and backwards from back to front. If I find the subject matter complex, I PhotoRead until I feel satisfied, an accurate albeit subjective indication."

the authors also tell a story about a neuro- physiologist called Izzy Katzef: "He suffered a stroke which partially paralysed his right side and obliterated a fourth of his visual field, thereby annihilating his ability to comprehend any written material. After recovering from the trauma he began playing with PhotoReading again. To his amazement, what he PhotoRead he could then read with complete conscious comprehension. This was nothing short of a miracle to him. He has hypothesised that PhotoReading sends information directly into the brain via the right hemisphere. Subsequently, researchers have found what may be a neural pathway for visual information that had previously not been known."
Simply Live It Up offers brief, creative solutions to ensure your success in the art of living, and looks at PhotoReading between pages 165 and 180. Paul Scheele describes the book as a "playful and clever approach to personal development".

Paul Wilson: the guru of calm
Paul has sold 7 million books on calm worldwide. I called him up some time ago and together we created the Little Calm Machine, a relaxation device which comes with two awesome relaxation CDs from Paul, and a really brilliant book to help you get the most from the device. Paul is a real expert on relaxation, and I can thoroughly recommend his books.
the Little Book of Calm
the Big Book of Calm
Calm at Work

the E-Myth Revisited
Managing staff has been one of the biggest challenges in my life. How do you keep them on track and ensure consistent results? This book has the answer! Author Michael Gerber shows you how to build a business with watertight systems so you can ensure that work is done to a particular standard so customers are delighted. (And Michael has been tranformed by the Sedona Method too.)

the Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
Idries Shah brings together the very best stories of the wise fool Nasrudin, and I'm sure you've heard at least one of them. Here's my favourite... A man walked down a street at night and saw Nasrudin on his hands and knees underneath a street lamp. "What are you doing", he asked.
Nasrudin replied: "I am looking for my front door key."
the man asked: "Where did you drop the key?".
"Over there by my front door."
" Well, why are you looking over here then?",
to which Nasrudin retorted: "Because there's more light over here."
If that kind of story strikes a chord with you then you are in for a treat!
I'm also about to start reading Caravan of Dreams, full of Sufi stories. I can't wait!

Harry Potter
Look: I’m 40 years old. I picked up the first Harry Potter book, intrigued by all the fuss, and when I started to read I was totally hooked! My sister, Louise, who's a GP, got hooked too. Fabulous storytelling even for the most seasoned adult reader. the stories all race along at a cracking pace, and I never get a sense that these books are really meant for children .Go on: try one!!
You can buy the first three books as a box set, and you can get the fourth, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in hardback -- all 636 pages of it!

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