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A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s. They have merged their wisdom and expertise for a bold new understanding of the “three-pound universe” and its untapped potential.
In contrast to the “baseline brain” that fulfills the tasks of everyday life, Chopra and Tanzi propose that, through a person’s increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations. “We are living in a golden age for brain research, but is this a golden age for your brain?” they ask.
Super Brain explains how it can be, by combining cutting-edge research and spiritual insights, demolishing the five most widespread myths about the brain that limit your potential, and then showing you methods to:
-Use your brain instead of letting it use you
-Create the ideal lifestyle for a healthy brain
-Reduce the risks of aging
-Promote happiness and well-being through the mind-body connection
-Access the enlightened brain, the gateway to freedom and bliss
-Overcome the most common challenges, such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, and obesity
Your brain is capable of incredible healing and constant reshaping. Through a new relationship with your brain you can transform your life. In Super Brain, Chopra and Tanzi guide you on a fascinating journey that envisions a leap in human evolution. The brain is not just the greatest gift that Nature has given us. It’s the gateway to an unlimited future that you can begin to live today.
This companion book to a PBS pledge drive offers Dr. Deepak Chopra's best advice about improving our health and happiness by activating our brains and increasing our self-awareness. A clear, positive plan to overcome challenges such as memory loss, anxiety, depression, and obesity.
Deepak Chopra, MD, is the author of more than 65 books including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and a Senior Scientist at the Gallup organization.
Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, is the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Tanzi co-discovered the first Alzheimer's disease gene and several others, as head of the Alzheimer's Genome Project and is the co-author of the book Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Chopra's bestselling books on a variety of topics have been translated into 35 languages. His lectures, seminars, and learning materials are immensely popular, as are his television specials for PBS. In addition, he has founded his own medical center called the Chopra Center for Well Being and has won fans amongst celebrities ranging from Prince Charles to Mikhail Gorbachev to Demi Moore to David Lynch. When financier/philanthropist Michael Milken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he claimed that Chopra's holistic methods shrunk his lymph nodes by 90%.
Chopra's interest in alternative medicine initially grew out of concern for his own health. After moving from India to set up a practice medicine in Boston some 25 years ago, Chopra succumbed to many of the stresses that plague medical professionals. As a result, he guzzled coffee, chain-smoked, and drank heavily. Once he began studying eastern philosophies by way of Krishnamurti and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he became aware of medical practices outside of the sometimes limited western perspective. This awakening changed his life.
While Chopra is viewed as a major proponent of the role of Eastern philosophies in healing, he does not reject western medicine. In fact, what makes his approach so unique is the way he incorporates the best aspects of western medical research into his theories. This amalgamation of medical philosophies is at the root of self-help volumes like Restful Sleep, Perfect Weight, and Boundless Energy. Elsewhere, Chopra has addressed such diverse issues as reversing the aging process (Ageless Body, Timeless Mind), perfecting personal relationships (The Path to Love), and achieving capitalist goals via Eastern philosophies (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success).
Chopra has also become concerned with the causes of war and violence and the principles of Eastern religions, especially Buddhism, and his books on these subjects have garnered praise from such major international figures as the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Boutros-Boutros Ghali. Consequently, Chopra continues to play a significant role in world health and world politics in spite of detractors and skeptics. With an immense body of work behind him and more volumes of wisdom sure to follow, he continues to preach the simple philosophy he is certain is the key to understanding ourselves, mentally and physically: "We're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, it's the other way around: we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences."
Chopra's father was a prominent cardiologist and an anglophile who distrusted Indian philosophies and alternative medical practices.
Despite his reputation as a serious-minded intellectual, Chopra describes himself as "playful" and "carefree."
PART 1
DEVELOPING YOUR GREATEST GIFT
A GOLDEN AGE FOR THE BRAIN FIVE MYTHS TO DISPEL Super Brain Solutions: MEMORY LOSS
HEROES OF SUPER BRAIN Super Brain Solutions: DEPRESSION
PART 2
MAKING REALITY
YOUR BRAIN, YOUR WORLD Super Brain Solutions: OVERWEIGHT
YOUR BRAIN IS EVOLVING Super Brain Solutions: ANXIETY
THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN Super Brain Solutions: PERSONAL CRISES
FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION Super Brain Solutions: FINDING YOUR POWER
WHERE HAPPINESS LIVES Super Brain Solutions: SELF-HEALING
PART 3
MYSTERY AND PROMISE
THE ANTI-AGING BRAIN Super Brain Solutions: MAXIMUM LONGEVITY
THE ENLIGHTENED BRAIN Super Brain Solutions: MAKING GOD REAL
THE REALITY ILLUSION Super Brain Solutions: WELL-BEING
Rudy’s Epilogue:
LOOKING AT ALZHEIMER’S WITH HOPE AND LIGHT
Deepak’s Epilogue:
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Index
Anonymous
Posted November 15, 2012
This was the first book of Dr. Copra's that I have read, and it has left me facinated. As always I'm a little skeptical of some of his claims, but the ideas he presents about the minds healing capabilities are incredible! A must read for anyone who is doing a bit of "soul searching" or just wants to be more in tune with the universe.
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Posted November 11, 2012
Reading this book has help me in many ways to improve my personal life.
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Posted December 11, 2012
My favorite parts of the book were on the subject of "consciousness" because it is such a big mystery. The existence or lack of existence of consciousness has been a nagging question for humankind. The authors make compelling arguments about consciousness, and offers us plenty of food for thought. Posted by Larry.
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Posted December 14, 2012
Very informative. Loved it.
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Posted November 25, 2012
I havent read it yet but the minute i laid my eyes on it i said i wanted to read it
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Posted January 28, 2013
This well written books bashes myths about the aging or damaged brain! The authors let you know that you can maintain the brain that has been damaged and enjoy normal brain activity into the 80's and beyond. Don't accept that an old brain will slowly fail...keep it sharp until the end!
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Posted January 19, 2013
I am highly impressed with this exellent book. It is easy to read and I feel I have learned so much about the human brain that I have ever known. I can't put it down. Ctl
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Posted February 10, 2013
I no but wut do i do? Wanna go have a drink at love party? Res 2? Ill be better. And be ur gf too.
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Posted April 26, 2013
This book is amazing. It teaches you to use your brain to its maximum capacity. This book also answers any question you may have about this control center we all have. It's a must read. Thanks Deepak for another good text.
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Posted April 9, 2013
Social networks are clearly last season. THESE KIDS NEED A new place to bore & bugg others & come here. GRRREAT!
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Posted February 17, 2013
An offering worthy of any, that flows from Dr Deepak Chopra. I recommend it highly for all who are with the Brain or affiliated with Neurol sciences to go ahead and be with this book. Our understanding and ability to treat any malady or brain symptom is utterly lacking in totality especially in terms of results. Vibratory sounds and energy vortexes which center around the brain especially Amygdala and mid brain accessed through the third eye can be of immense benefit. Hospitals and doctors apart all of us will surely be with rich rewards to further our inroads to overcome matters regarding the brain with Dr Deepak Chopra's book. Being clairvoyant I resonate with a lot said in the book. The rest God willing will be done when I am with a copy. Cheers for a great weekend and Sunday. Love and light Nayanika Jayaram
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Posted February 10, 2013
U suck at this
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Posted February 10, 2013
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Posted January 16, 2013
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Posted January 15, 2013
Plato is awesomeness
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Posted January 15, 2013
I never really got into Smallville, oh well.
Johan Brauer is an ancient vampire of eleven thousand and two years. He looks to be you average introverted and agoraphobic young man, with a face that looks twenty but could easily be thirty. His messy, golden-blonde hair frames a handsomely thin face with sharp stormy blue eyes. A pair of black thin-framed spectacles perch precariously on the bridge of his nose. A corner of his full lips turn up into a wry grin, revealing a neat dimple and betraying his good humor. Despite being as old as he is, Johan has no trouble thinking of, or accepting new ideas. Nor is he cynical, seeing only the bad things in everything. He ascribes to himself to one of Plato's philosophies, "A little experience makes a man cynical, a lot teaches a man to enjoy the little things."
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Posted January 14, 2013
That explains alot. I hate Smallvile
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Posted January 16, 2013
It is based on the tv show that was on channel 4(the CW) called Smallville. If you watvhed it you will remember that it was a modern take on superman. Thats where i got it from. [] Sheyna Bently[]
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Posted January 11, 2013
I have not finished the book fully but so far it is great.
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Posted December 9, 2012
New camp
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Overview
A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s. They have merged their wisdom and expertise for a bold new understanding of the “three-pound ...