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BookPrices.net - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780812929973
ISBN: 0812929977
Label: Crown
Manufacturer: Crown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1998-12-22
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: 1998-12-22
Studio: Crown
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Summary: change your brain, change your life
Comment: is the professional opinion explained by Dr. Amen in plain English. It is like you have a doctor appointment at your convenience.
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Summary: Interesting notions, questions answered
Comment: If you are not a doctor but want to learn about potential reasons for behavioral abnormalities, emotional volatility, depression, emotional disconnection from others, impulsivity, attentional deficits and the like, this book has a myriad of examples that expand your thoughts on possibilities and then possible treatments. The actual photos of brain scans are educational and create a powerful expression of what is possible when a correct diagnosis is made.
Rena Reese
Founder, Soul Salon International and author of The Soul Salon, among other titles
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Summary: Great cd
Comment: This is a CD that everyone should own. A lot of good infomation that will make you think. I saw the author on our local PBS station and was impressed.
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Summary: a two star review of a four star book
Comment: I usually put forth a pretty decent effort when I bother to write a review, but I'm just going to be honest and warn you ahead of time that this is will be a marginal critique.
To begin with, while I have actually read the book through twice, complete with underlining and marking important items, I have forgotten nearly everything I read. That may speak as much to the book as to me- it may have been better as a little less of an ambitious work, especially if the reader is meant to follow through with any of it.
As self-help books go it is interesting, and seems to have some pretty good (if not revolutionary) ideas. Get rid of automatic negative thoughts, that sort of thing. Most of the ideas are easier said than done, and it's probably the rare person who is going to undo twenty, thirty, or forty years of habituation (not to mention hundreds of generations of genetics) and create a new way of living life. I tend to fall into default patterns, as do most people, and unless the reverse course has some kind of fairly immediate benefit/reward for behavior modification the behavior isn't going to modify much. Again, this seems to me the book's weakness, but if you are smart enough to pull out the handful of things that really seem to apply to you and ignore the rest, you can probably derive some benefit. I wasn't that smart, and it's only after wading through it two times that I realized that was the wise way to use the book. I will probably get back to it one of these days and see what jumps out at me, but it is an intimidating thought.
Like most self-help books, it is at best as good as the reader, and the average reader who is desperate enough to dive into a tome like this probably has more than one issue, and those issues have probably found a pretty good home and don't want to be messed with. It's a bit of a catch-22 in that if you can practice this stuff you probably don't need it, and if you need it you probably are going to find it hard to practice. Again, my advice is to pick out two or three key chapters and concentrate and them and don't try everything at once.
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Summary: Interesting
Comment: It's a prescription drug culture. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen tries to help people through meditation not medication. Other remedies he suggests are self-hypnosis and biofeedback, herbal remedies and dietary supplements among others. The book will give the reader many insights into the depths of the human brain. Don't be afraid trust in God where there life there's hope.
By the way, I see from reading the reviews on this site some people have recommend my book, "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," and again I just want them to know how much I appreciate their recommendation, especially at such a excellent site. I wrote this book out of love and for the glory of God and Jesus, not for my own fame or fortune. I welcome people to read my book, I'm sure you'll find this non-fiction account of a loving God just as and inspiring.
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Do you panic at the thought of walking into a room full of people you don't know? Do you feel as if a cloud of gloom is always hovering over your head? Do you have the same negative thoughts over and over? Are you so easily distracted that you often can't finish a project? Do you fly off the handle at your spouse for no good reason? Do you have trouble connecting meaningfully with other people? If you've been struggling to overcome a problem like these without success--perhaps you've even tried therapy but given up--it probably isn't for lack of trying, thinking, or motivation; you just didn't have the right answers or the right tools. Now you do.
In his pioneering new book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Dr. Amen explains how you can "optimize" your brain to achieve your fullest potential. Using state-of-the-art brain imaging technology, Dr. Amen has spent the last decade helping thousands of patients understand how the way their brains are wired can affect their thoughts and emotions. He explains which brain systems are associated with particular problems, gives detailed checklists to help you pinpoint your problems, and offers specific yet simple "brain prescriptions" (cognitive exercises, nutrition, medication, and more) to help actually enhance brain function and heal each problem.
Many of the difficulties associated with anxiety, depression, excessive worrying, anger, and distraction are related to five specific systems in the brain. Dr. Amen explains how these systems work and how malfunctions can affect your behavior. If you've always believed that you were just going to have to live with the way you are, you'll be amazed by the vivid before-and-after brain scans of some of the thousands of patients that have been successfully treated at the Amen Clinic--visual proof that the right treatment can help you. You certainly don't need a brain scan to understand the basis of your particular problem or implement the correct solution, but these striking images will inspire you to make meaningful and effective changes. Seeing is believing!
Brain Prescriptions That Really Work
See the Anxious Brain *Â Â See the Depressed Brain *Â Â See the Angry Brain *Â Â See the Impulsive Brain *Â Â See the Worried Brain
In this breakthrough book, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. But you're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising--and effective--"brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life:
To quell anxiety and panic:
Follow the 18/40/60 rule
Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil
Learn which foods calm anxiety
To fight depression:
Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
Build a library of wonderful emotional experiences
Surround yourself with antidepressant fragrances
To curb anger:
Follow the Amen anti-anger diet
Learn the nutrients that can calm rage
Let Mozart calm you
To conquer impulsiveness and learn to focus:
Develop total focus with the "One-Page Miracle"
Use lights and sounds to stay focused
Get coaching from a professional organizer
To Stop obsessive worrying:
Learn the nutrients and foods that help
Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise
Do simple problem-solving exercises
When your brain doesn't work right, you can't work right. With its easy-to-follow program and compelling evidence that you can actually retrain your brain to work more optimally, this breakthrough book will help you make lasting changes.
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