There may be times when you’re feeling lost or searching for guidance in certain areas of your life, especially when it comes to your physical, mental or spiritual wellbeing. Maybe you’ve been struggling with self-confidence, or perhaps you’re feeling disconnected from your intuition and sense of spirituality.
Books written by spiritual leaders, medical professionals and self-help experts can offer us help. Especially by guiding us through the steps needed to become happier, more successful, and at peace within ourselves.
Along with mindfulness and yoga, reading wellbeing books can be a key part of the journey to self-improvement. So, to help inspire your spiritual journey, we’ve created a list of the best wellbeing books for healing and inner peace.
What are the benefits of reading wellbeing books?
Along with providing an alternative perspective, wellbeing books can give us insight into our behaviours or past experiences. They may also teach professional techniques so we can unlearn or heal from these unresolved issues.
Alternatively, they may be tools for self-improvement These books guide us so we make healthy changes to our lifestyles. Much like a wellbeing journal, self-help books may boost our confidence or motivation to achieve our personal goals.
A book may be a good idea to read before bed - so you can end the day on a positive note and start the following day with all the tools you’ve learned. Additionally, reading before bed for just six minutes has been proven to reduce stress by 68 per cent!
What types of books are there?
Generally, wellbeing books will come under the category of self-help or self-improvement, as their purpose is to help heal the mind, body and spirit.
Physical wellbeing: May include topics surrounding health, fitness, and exercise. These books often motivate the reader to make healthy changes to their lifestyles.
Mental wellbeing: Often, wellbeing books about the mind can include trained CBT techniques from professional psychologists used as coping strategies.
Emotional wellbeing: May include topics about managing, regulating or the healthy expression of your emotions. These books may encourage you to redirect those more challenging emotions into something more positive.
Spiritual wellbeing: These books may work towards spiritual awakening, potentially heightening psychic abilities such as intuition.
The best wellbeing books for adults in the UK
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**_“In therapy, you learn about how your mind works and how to use that to your advantage. In this
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**_“In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their
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**_“I found that I could choose who I was, and most importantly, that who I was didn’t have to be
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_**“When we tune out the opinions, expectations, and obligations of the world around us, we begin
5. The Life-Changing Power of Intuition: Tune into Yourself, Transform Your Life by Emma Lucy Knowles
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**_"Let’s turn the intuitive whispers up - you’ve got this and intuition has you!" - Emma Lucy
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_**“The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off
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**_“I long to see men free themselves from emotional incarceration, to see their minds renewed,
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**_“I realised that I could spend the rest of my life doubting myself, or I could make the brave
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_**“Lunar Living provides an understanding of emotional impulses, allows a time to be and a time
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_**“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to
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**_“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of