You Are Not Your Brain: the 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits

Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help identify negative thoughts 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 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. Schwartz works with psychiatrist Rebecca Gladding to refine a program that successfully explains how the brain works and why we often feel besieged by overactive brain circuits (i.e. bad habits social anxieties etc.) 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. You Are Not Your Brain carefully outlines their program showing readers how to identify negative impulses channel them through the power of focused attention and ultimately lead more fulfilling and empowered lives. Author: Jeffrey Schwartz Rebecca Gladding Publisher: Avery Publishing Group Published: 06/05/2012 Pages: 384 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.90lbs Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d ISBN: 9781583334836 Age Range: 18-UP About the Author Jeffrey M. Schwartz M.D. is a research psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine and a seminal thinker and researcher in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity.