New Book by author of Brain Lock

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Just wanted to share this new book. I just got it and have skimmed and it looks

really good. I've copied the write up about it below. Can buy through

Amazon.com.

You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending

Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life

by M. Schwartz M.D., Gladding M.D.

" Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break

destructive thoughts and actions 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, 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 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

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. "