Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health

by Caroline Leaf

Overview

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According to researchers, the vast majority—a whopping 75-98 percent—of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty different hormones! Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illnesses.

Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr. Caroline Leaf gives readers a prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology. She shares with readers the "switch" in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives where we achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent. She shows us how to choose life, get our minds under control, and reap the benefits of a detoxed thought life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801018398
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/04/2015
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	40,171
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Dr. Caroline Leaf holds a PhD in communication pathology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Since 1981 she has researched the science of thought as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Dr. Leaf is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance, such as stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, thinking and learning, controlling our thought lives, wisdom, and how to identify and use one's natural gifts. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show starting in 2013. Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Texas.

Table of Contents

Prologue 13

Acknowledgments 17

Introduction: Switch On Your Brain with Hope 19

Part 1 How to Switch On Your Brain

1 Mind Controls Matter 31

2 Choice and Your Multiple-Perspective Advantage 39

3 Your Choices Change Your Brain 55

4 Catch Those Thoughts 71

5 Entering into Directed Rest 79

6 Stop Milkshake-Multitasking 93

7 Thinking, God, and the Quantum Physics Brain 103

8 The Science of Thought 123

Part 2 The 21-Day Brain Detox Plan

9 What Is the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan? 139

10 How and Why the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan Works 147

11 Gather: Step 1 157

12 Focused Reflection: Step 2 171

13 Write: Step 3 181

14 Revisit: Step 4 187

15 Active Reach: Step 5 193

Afterword 203

Notes 207

Recommended Reading 217