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    You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life
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    You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life

    Written by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Rebecca Gladding, M.D.

    Narrated by Mel Foster

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    About this audiobook

    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 obsessive-compulsive disorder, teaching patients how to achieve long-term relief from ther 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 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 making your brain work for you-is to consciously choose to starve these circuits of focused attention, thereby decreasing their influence and strength.

    In You Are Not Your Brain, Schwartz and Gladding carefully outline their program, showing listeners how to identify negative brain impulses, channel them through the power of focused attention, and ultimately lead more fulfilling and empowered lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateJun 8, 2011
    ISBN9781452671611
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    You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life

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    • 4/5
      Mindfulness For Dummies!

      A very helpful book that illustrates exactly how to get rid of bad habits through mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy. The accessibility of the writing is both the strength and weakness of the book as it makes it easy for anyone (especially the distressed demographic the book is aimed at) to get comprehend and begin applying the '4 steps' to their lives immediately, but will also inevitably leave some people feeling patronized as a result of seeing brain parts such as the hypothalamus and hippocampus be renamed as the 'Uh Oh Center' and 'habit center' respectively. That's not to say the science isn't there, as the author(s) made sure to give a fairly concise explanation on how neuroplasticity works, from the initial stimulus to the quantum zeno effect, to form habits. It's just represented in a very layman, self-help way (which, again, is probably for the best considering the book's audience).

      Another thing I liked about the book is that it sort of serves as an all-in-one self-help book by taking relevant excerpts and lessons from other self-help books and presenting them in a summarized fashion, such as the importance of having meaning in life in Frankl's best selling book: Man's Search for Meaning, or the 5 A's from Feeling Good. I'd like to end by saying that I'm obviously a little biased here, since I'm kind of feeling fantastic after having applied the knowledge presented in this book to my life. I'd recommend this to anyone looking to make use of mindfulness to get rid of and incorporate certain habits. For those looking for a more in depth approach to neuroplasticity however, I'd look more towards The Brain That Changes Itself, or perhaps Shwartz's other book on the mind and the brain.
    • 1/5
      I've been on a neurology kick, and picked this up at the library based on the credentials of the author. I thought it would not be a typical self-help book, even though the cover sure looked like one. I should have turned it over and noticed that one of the blurbs on the back was from Leonardo DiCaprio, noted neurology researcher movie actor.

      I guess that was a good example of a deceptive brain message, because this is a self-help manual with all the smarmy examples one might imagine. Abby thinks too much! Sarah is depressed! Let's examine their behaviour at length.

      The death knell, for me, was the part where the authors explain, briefly, the neurology behind a certain response, then in essence dismissively say that you needn't bother your pretty little head- here's a perfect example:

      "Collectively, you can think of the amygdala, insula, and anterior cingulate as the warning center of the brain, or what we like to call the Uh-Oh Center." Uh-oh, indeed.

      This book didn't work for me (not that I applied it to any of my bad habits, I mean I didn't like it) and I can't recommend it unless you like dumbed-down science wrapped up in magazine-article style examples of people just like you only with no bad habits!!!!1!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book has the potential to help a lot of people. Some of the ideas and strategies in the book have been around for a while, but this particular "four-step" formulation is something I haven't seen before, and I have personally found that the "refocus" step is very helpful. If you want to change your behavior, this book may be extremely helpful. Read it and see for yourself.
    • 2/5
      This book was a real disappointment. There's nothing new here, just the same old advice wrapped in the flag of neuroscience. The neuroplasticity information is accurate, but has little to do with the advice and procedures contained in the book. This is very reminiscent of faith-based advice books, substituting a pseudo-scientific "wise advocate" for the god of your choice.Not really worth the time spent reading it.