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Overview

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, 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 OCD, teaching patients how to achieve long-term relief from their 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 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 Daniel 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.

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Using research based on patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, U.C.L.A. psychiatrists Schwartz (The Mind and the Brain) and Gladding have developed a program that helps patients literally change the brain pathways that lead to unhealthy behavior-from obsessively checking e-mail to self-hatred to drug addiction. Aspects of their common-sense scientific approach include: understanding how the brain works; understanding what constitutes a "deceptive brain message;" acting as one's own Wise Advocate by analyzing the effects of any choice and picking the one likely to lead to a positive result; setting and prioritizing goals, and more. Success depends on the patient's innate ability to reason and focus on healthy alternatives to the preferred or automatic behavior. Changing one's will can essentially change the brain, the authors argue, and the methods will work as long as the desire to change is there. Though Schwartz and Gladding add a fascinating self-actualizing component of choice and control, readers may have trouble grasping the more science-heavy passages, such as why addiction happens at the cellular level or neuroscience theory.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583334263
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 6/9/2011
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 40,330
Product dimensions: 9.08 (w) x 6.24 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine and a seminal thinker in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity.

Rebecca Gladding, M.D., is a clinical instructor and attending psychiatrist at the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Both authors live in Los Angeles.

Introduction xi

Part 1 A Sense of Self

Chapter 1 You Are Not Your Brain 3

Chapter 2 Using Your Mind to Change Your Brain: The Power of Self-Directed Neuroplasticity and Meaningful Goals 30

Chapter 3 Why Habits Are So Hard to Break 60

Chapter 4 Why These Sensations Feel So Real: The Biology of Deceptive Brain Messages 73

Chapter 5 A New Sense of Self: Overcoming Your Deceptive Brain Messages with the Four Steps 82

Part 2 The Skills

Chapter 6 Ignoring, Minimizing, and Neglecting: How Deceptive Brain Messages Distort Your View of Yourself 103

Chapter 7 Moving Forward with the Four Steps: Tips and Recommendations 125

Chapter 8 You Can't Change What You Can't See: The Power of Awareness and Step 1: Relabel 144

Chapter 9 Changing Your Relationship to Deceptive Brain Messages with Step 2: Reframe 179

Chapter 10 Reframing Your Thinking Errors 200

Chapter 11 The Power Is in the Focus: Step 3: Refocus 238

Chapter 12 Progressive Mindfulness and Step 4: Revalue 274

Part 3 Applying the Four Steps to Your Life

Chapter 13 What Is Going On Here? Is This a True Emotion or an Emotional Sensation? 297

Chapter 14 Using the Four Steps to Help You Move Forward in Your Life 309

Chapter 15 Putting It All Together 335

Acknowledgments 347

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Anonymous

Posted July 20, 2011

Great find...highly recommend this book!

Heard an interview with Rebecca Gladding and downloaded this book. It is clear, concise, uses great examples and is easy to read. I can imagine it applying to both sophisticated, self-reflective thinkers and people who are more concrete in how they view themselves and life. I like how it reenforces the message(s) over and over again, using the techniques they describe to build new thought patterns. With each segment this gets reiterated...I can almost feel new neural networks developing in my brain. I can see this as a means of encouraging clients in my psychotherapy/psychopharmacology practice to empower themselves to change how they view themselves. It's a great method for people with learned helplessness. I'm buying three more to loan out.

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Posted April 2, 2012

Useful and doable approaches

Well-thought-out theory and methods for gaining the upper hand in one's inner life, relationships and worldly activities. A gem for anyone who cares how they feel.

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Posted July 4, 2011

Recomend

This book is helping me recognize the thoughts that are impulse. Worth your time.

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Posted May 15, 2012

A book well worth your time. Have experienced many AH HA moment

A book well worth your time. Have experienced many AH HA moments. I have found an experience of space between my awareness and thoughts, a pause that invites both hope and infinite possibility.
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