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The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life
Avery
June 2011
On Sale: June 9, 2011
368 pages ISBN: 1583334262 EAN: 9781583334263 Hardcover
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method
can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change
bad habits for good.
A leading
neuroplasticity researcher and the coauthor of the
groundbreaking books Brain Lock and The Mind and
the Brain, Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his career
studying the structure and neuronal firing patterns of the
human brain. He pioneered the first mindfulness-based
treatment program for people suffering from OCD, teaching
patients how to achieve long-term relief from their
compulsions.
For the past six years, Schwartz has
worked with psychiatrist Rebecca Gladding to refine a
program that successfully explains how the brain works and
why we often feel besieged by bad brain wiring. Just like
with the compulsions of OCD patients, they discovered that
bad habits, social anxieties, self-deprecating thoughts, and
compulsive overindulgence are all rooted in overactive brain
circuits. The key to making life changes that you want-to
make your brain work for you-is to consciously choose to
"starve" these circuits of focused attention, thereby
decreasing their influence and strength.
As
evidenced by the huge success of Schwartz's previous books,
as well as Daniel Amen's Change Your Brain, Change Your
Life, and Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes
Itself, there is a large audience interested in
harnessing the brain's untapped potential, yearning for a
step-by-step, scientifically grounded and clinically proven
approach. In fact, readers of Brain Lock wrote to the
authors in record numbers asking for such a book. In You
Are Not Your Brain, Schwartz and Gladding carefully
outline their program, showing readers how to identify
negative brain impulses, channel them through the power of
focused attention, and ultimately lead more fulfilling and
empowered lives.
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