As we wade into the new year, many of us will be looking to make some changes to our lives. Whether you want to focus more on your mental health, take up yoga, or bring order to your daily chaos, there's a self-help book for you.

We've put together a list of self-help books to educate and and inspire you as you work towards your goals in 2022.

Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking - Dr Caroline Leaf - R299

We live in a chaotic world, and it frequently aggravates our toxic thoughts, depression, and anxiety. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's the new normal.

The road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may be shorter than you think.

In Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health.

If you're looking for a self-help book that will give you a clear plan to improve your mental health, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess could be the book for you. In just 21 days, you can start to clean up your mental mess and be on the road to wholeness, peace, and happiness.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson - R212

Jordan B. Peterson's self-help books have helped millions of people aim at a life of responsibility and meaning.

Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and lessons from ancient myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve profound and realistic principles to live by.

Here's what one of our booksellers had to say about it:

"I am not one for 10 step plans and 101 rules to follow to have a so-called better life. However, I always strive for better - for improvement - even if it's just to make things easier.

At first glance these 12 “Rules” come across as silly--meaningless even. But allow yourself to be guided into these rules by Jordan Peterson and soon you will see these are not the age old rules that add weight to our already burdened shoulders. Rather, they lift the world off you, they pick you up and essentially help you to stand up straight, as he would say in his first rule.

All in all, it is a call to be better. Better in the best of situations; better in the worst of situations. Write these rules on your wall so that every day you see them you can practice even just one. You will walk taller, feel lighter and be… Better."

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy - Sadhguru - R471

Yoga is so much more than we commonly know it to be.

Consisting of eight branches, yoga is in fact a sophisticated system of self-empowerment that is capable of harnessing and activating inner energies. This allows your body and mind function to at their optimal capacity.

It is a means to create inner situations exactly the way you want them, turning you into the architect of your own joy.

A true yogi lives life in this expansive state.

In this transformative book, Sadhguru tells the story of his own awakening: from a boy with an unusual affinity for the natural world to a young daredevil who crossed the Indian continent on his motorcycle.

He relates the moment of his enlightenment on a mountaintop in southern India, where time stood still and he emerged radically changed. Today, as the founder of Isha, an organization devoted to humanitarian causes, he lights the path for millions.

The term guru, he notes, means “dispeller of darkness, someone who opens the door for you... As a guru, I have no doctrine to teach, no philosophy to impart, no belief to propagate. And that is because the only solution for all the ills that plague humanity is self-transformation. Self-transformation means that nothing of the old remains. It is a dimensional shift in the way you perceive and experience life.”

The wisdom distilled in this accessible, profound, and engaging book offers readers time-tested tools that are fresh, alive, and radiantly new. Inner Engineering presents a revolutionary way of thinking about our agency and our humanity and the opportunity to achieve nothing less than a life of joy.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One - Dr Joe Dispenza - R395

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor, Dr. Joe Dispenza, combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.

Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change any aspect of yourself, but you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life.

Here's what one of our booksellers had to say about it:

"By now most people are familiar with terms like the “Law of Attraction” and Quantum Physics. And how these ideas and sciences are saying that we create our own reality.

But how do we use these concepts and ideas? How does it all work? How do we create our lives?

For me this was the book that finally brought it all together in an easy to understand way and not only gave me the information needed but also how to put it in to practice.

Finally, a way to understand AND practice these farfetched yet provable concepts and become the person you want to be."

Do any of these self-help books intrigue you? What's your favourite?