02-19-2014, 05:02 AM
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Two neuroscience
experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive
thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good.A leading
neuro-plasticity 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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