Download or read book Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds written by Inga Wiehl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has been thought and said” in literature. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their minds, exchange ideas, and discover a sense of closeness and community that extends beyond the page. Featuring detailed accounts of the recruitment process, strategies for meetings, and the methods of choosing the featured texts, this book is a vital tool for anyone interested in starting a reading group or rekindling a love of literature.
Download or read book Your Brain at Work written by David Rock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows how it’s possible for this couple, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today’s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
Download or read book Reclaim Your Brain written by Joseph A. Annibali and published by Avery. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A too-busy brain can interfere with attention, concentration, mood and even the ability to make decisions and solve problems. Annibali shows you how to restore cognitive calm, and provides useful suggestions to help you understand your own brain functions so you can discover which techniques will work for you.
Download or read book The Evolved Nest written by Darcia Narvaez, PhD and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look into nurturing and parenting in the natural world, supplemented with original illustrations For readers of Becoming Animal and World of Wonders A beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the Animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives. Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal’s parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their “evolved nests.” You’ll learn: How Wolves build an internal moral compass How Beavers foster a spirit of play in their children How Octopuses develop emotional and social intelligence How, when, and whether (or not) Brown Bears decide to have children What their lessons can teach you--whether you’re a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or childfree Psychologists Drs. Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw show us how each evolved nest offers inspiration for reexamining our own systems of nurturing, understanding, and caring for our young and each other. Alongside beautiful illustrations, stunning scientific facts, and lessons in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, we learn to care deeper: to restore our innate place within the natural world and fight for an ecology of life that supports our flourishing in balance with Nature alongside our human and non-human family.
Download or read book The Compassionate Mind Approach to Recovering from Trauma written by Deborah Lee and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrible events are very hard to deal with and those who go through a trauma often feel permanently changed by it. Grief, numbness, anger, anxiety and shame are all very common emotional reactions to traumatic incidents such as an accident or death of a loved one, and ongoing traumatic events such as domestic abuse. How we deal with the aftermath of trauma and our own emotional response can determine how quickly we are able to 'move on' and get back to 'normality' once more. An integral part of the recovery process is not only recognising and accepting how our lives may have been changed but also learning to deal with feelings of shame - an extremely common reaction to trauma. 'Recovering from Trauma' uses the groundbreaking Compassion Focused Therapy to help the reader to not only develop a fuller understanding of how we react to trauma, but also to deal with any feelings of shame and start to overcome any trauma-related difficulties.
Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Linda Graham and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2013 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While resilience is innate in the brain, our capacity for it can be impaired by our conditioning. Unhelpful patterns of response are learned over time and can become fixed in our neural circuitry. What neuroscience now shows is that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired.
Download or read book Focus Unlocked Reclaiming Your Mind in a Distracted World written by F.G Cardin and published by DigitalSphere Creations. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's fast-paced, distraction-filled environment, maintaining focus can feel like an impossible task. Focus Unlocked: Reclaiming Your Mind in a Distracted World is your essential guide to mastering concentration and enhancing productivity. This transformative eBook delves into the science behind attention and provides practical strategies to help you reclaim your mental space.You will discover how to:Identify Distractions: Learn to recognize the triggers that pull your attention away from what truly matters. Cultivate Deep Focus: Implement techniques to enter a state of hyperfocus, allowing you to tackle complex tasks with clarity and efficiency. Balance Work and Creativity: Understand the importance of scatterfocus in fostering creativity and problem-solving. Develop Sustainable Habits: Create a personalized plan that integrates focus-enhancing practices into your daily routine.
Download or read book Take Back Your Brain written by Kara Loewentheil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY #1 NONFICTION BESTSELLER PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts. I never look good in tight skirts. I can’t ask for a raise or my boss will think I’m greedy. I’m getting too old to find a partner. I’m a bad mom. I’m always behind. I’ll never be good enough. What if every time you had a self-critical thought, you heard it in a man’s voice? The truth is not far off. Living in a patriarchy, women absorb a lifetime of messages that say your worth is defined by your looks, your accomplishments, and how well you take care of everyone around you. In fact, these messages are so pervasive that, even knowing they exist, they still manage to program themselves into our brains. The result is that women end up feeling anxious, guilty, and vaguely ashamed of themselves no matter how much they do for others or achieve for themselves. So how do we deprogram our thoughts from patriarchy’s corrosive influence? And once we do, how can we create new, self-empowering beliefs? Master Certified Life Coach and host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast Kara Loewentheil knows how. Despite graduating from Harvard Law School and getting her dream job, Kara spent her twenties and thirties feeling insecure and anxious, until she learned how to change her thoughts—which led her to become a coach. In Take Back Your Brain, she draws on cognitive psychology, feminist theory, and years of experience as a neuroplasticity-focused coach to break down how the patriarchy hijacks women’s brains, and how women can get free. To bridge the gap between your inner voice and your true potential, she says, you must begin with your thoughts. By using the skills in this book to literally rewire your brain, you can create new thought patterns that will directly transform outcomes in your life. Ultimately, Take Back Your Brain invites you to replace the thoughts that no longer serve you and make room for a kind of confidence you never thought possible. Because when women unleash their true power, they awaken new possibilities for the world.
Download or read book World Without Mind written by Franklin Foer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 • One of the best books of the year by The New York Times, LA Times, and NPR Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. We shop with Amazon; socialize on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience. As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy. They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection—a world without mind. In order to restore our inner lives, we must avoid being coopted by these gigantic companies, and understand the ideas that underpin their success. Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science—from Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stewart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley—Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology. The corporate ambitions of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are trampling longstanding liberal values, especially intellectual property and privacy. This is a nascent stage in the total automation and homogenization of social, political, and intellectual life. By reclaiming our private authority over how we intellectually engage with the world, we have the power to stem the tide. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. There have been monopolists in the past but today's corporate giants have far more nefarious aims. They’re monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making. Until now few have grasped the sheer scale of the threat. Foer explains not just the looming existential crisis but the imperative of resistance.
Download or read book Neuroplasticity Performativity and Clergy Wellness written by William D. Roozeboom and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites readers, particularly clergy members, to rethink their understandings of the human person in light of recent developments in neuroscience. In addition to bringing together religion and neuroscience, it engages narrative theory, exercise physiology, and constructions of wellness to raise crucial questions about human identity and relationality and argue for a model of care that connects self-care and care for/with others. Furthermore, it claims that human beings are whole, intra/inter-relational, dynamic, plastic, and performative agents who have the capacity to story themselves neurophysiologically (in both “top-down” and “bottom-up” ways) through their regular practices of wellness.
Download or read book Summary of You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffrey M Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for anyone who’s ever experienced intrusive thoughts or anxiety, neuroscientists Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding challenge the neural wiring that creates these thoughts in an effort to equip readers for fighting them. By providing readers with a toolkit called the Four Step Method, Schwartz and Gladding teach us to free ourselves from toxic thought patterns by simply relabeling, reframing, refocusing, and revaluing our thoughts. Exploring therapeutic techniques and neural concepts such as self-directing neuroplasticity with accessibility and ease, You Are Not Your Brain invites readers to disengage from negative self-talk and remember that the lies produced by our brains do not define our self-worth. Do you want more free books like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a preview and not a replacement for the original work. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book on QuickRead and want us to remove it, please contact us at [email protected].
Download or read book The Body Keeps the Score written by Bessel A. Van der Kolk and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.
Download or read book Light Medicine written by Michael D. Winer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine your body as a unique expression of your joy and aliveness, and the Earth as your playground to create Life exactly the way you want. Imagine you can use everything that occurs in your life and in your body as an opportunity to actively move beyond limitations, to further your growth and evolution, and to assert and express your heart's desires. Light Medicine takes you on a journey to realize these opportunities. By applying the Emotional Process from Michael's first book, Healing: The Path to Freedom--and his concept of healing as moving through your experience and your emotions--you will explore the world of your atoms, hormones, organs, and DNA as well as more abstract levels of your energy like the true Self, and the Yin and the Yang of Light. Light Medicine serves as a guidebook for unlocking the potential that sleeps within you, opening you to a universe of possibilities and to the freedom of truly being your Self. --Barbara Jakesz, MD, Vienna, Austria
Download or read book Woke Mind Virus written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 2024-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unapologetic and patriarchal book, author Conrad Riker exposes the menacing influence of progressive ideologies, such as Marxism, critical theories, and gender studies, on Western civilization. Focusing on the perspectives of rational men, Riker investigates the destructive impact of the woke mind virus on traditional family structures, masculine authority, and cultural production. Through a combination of redpilled insights and objective facts from evolutionary biology and psychology, this book provides a powerful and necessitous antidote to the subversive cultural revolution waged by the progressive left.
Download or read book Reclaim Love written by Giordana Silverberg and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of a breakup or loss, the idea of finding meaning and moving on seems impossible. While we cannot stop the loss from occurring, we can change our thoughts around it. These difficult events can remind us that relationships are lessons and true gifts. A broken heart is an open heart, and endings are also beginnings. Reclaim Love aims to empower an extraordinary new way of thinking about broken hearts and inspire you to seek out another chance at love. Author Giordana Silverberg writes from her own experiences of losing her partner to cancer and later finding new love. She presents tools that can help transform your grief to love by uncovering and releasing any fears, limiting beliefs, and unhealthy patterns that block you from finding and having the love you truly desire. The guidance offered here can comfort you on your journey to healing, acceptance, and closure from the past, allowing to manifest the future and love you deserve. This self-help guide explores the emotions that result from the loss of a loved one or relationship and helps those suffering to move from grief to love.
Download or read book How to Work Without Losing Your Mind written by Cate Sevilla and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan 'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop 'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi Adegoke Award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief Cate Sevilla has survived the messy, stressy and sometimes bizarre world of work - just. In How to Work Without Losing Your Mind, she gives an unflinchingly honest account of the bad bosses, the time spent crying in work loos, the hell and humiliation of her working life but, most importantly, she reveals the solid self-belief, the sage advice and the hard-won lessons that got her through. Filled with humour, wit and supportive words, this book is your essential guide to fixing your relationship with your work. Press it into the hands of every womxn who is sinking in a toxic work environment, battling burnout, recovering from redundancy or trying to find the right career fit. 'Entertaining and practical; moving and funny; a helping hand from someone who's been through it' Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author
Download or read book Forever Beautiful written by Natalia Rose and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her private practice, leading nutritionist Natalia Rose has discovered that given the continual onslaught of toxicity and stress typical of the modern lifestyle, the average person today is actually mutating her cells and accelerating the aging process. The problem is that one cannot undo decades of toxic living with even more toxic "anti-aging" remedies. The good news: Each of us carries our own fountain of youth--a body that will continually renew itself on the cellular level, if only we give it a chance. Written to inspire and instruct, Forever Beautiful offers a deeply compelling alternative to conventional anti-aging methods, including: -- Five core principles of youth regeneration -- Illustrated facial exercises and deep stretches -- A 3-week rejuvenation plan -- A recipe section and shopping guide
