Description
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 remedy program for people affected by OCD, teaching patients how to succeed in 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 incessantly feel besieged by overactive brain circuits (i.e. bad habits, social anxieties, and so forth.) the secret to meaking life changes that you wantâto make your brain work for youâis to consciously make a choice 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 in the end lead more fulfilling and empowered lives.