Healing the Hardware of the Soul

Author: Daniel Amen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743242351
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Dr. Daniel Amen's breakthrough brain-healing program has helped hundreds of thousands to overcome depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention deficit disorder. The maverick author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Healing ADD now presents his proven program for repairing and strengthening our relationships, child-rearing practices, work and study routines, and, ultimately, our soulful connections, in the deepest ways possible. Guided by this book, each of us can learn to balance and optimize the parts of the brain responsible for inner growth, intimacy, and spiritual health. Drawing upon his experience with over fourteen thousand brain-imaging studies of patients from all walks of life, Dr. Amen has developed an essential tool called the Amen Brain System Checklist, a 101-question self-test used to evaluate the five brain systems that are key to achieving and maintaining a healthy brain-soul connection. The questionnaire identifies the problem brain areas readers may need to work on, offers insight into the degree to which these imbalances affect their lives, and provides targeted strategies for each area of the brain involved with spiritual issues. These are just a few of the many "brain prescriptions" to be found in Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Develop focus and improve decision-making with the One-Page Miracle for the Soul Use prayer, meditation, and diaphragmatic breathing exercises for superior emotional and spiritual flexibility Heal painful deep soul memories through thought and behavior exercises Learn how forming strong, positive new bonds actually controls impulsive behavior and stabilizes mood swings Dr. Amen's recommendations include cutting-edge advice on diet, nutritional supplements, and the judicious use of medication when needed. He also explains which medications can unbalance the brain when used improperly. Dramatic before-and-after pictures of the brain demonstrate the medical effectiveness of these clinically based healing techniques. Whether we learn the self-help strategies of cognitive reprogramming, self-hypnosis, or nutraceutical therapy, seek out psychotherapy, or rely on prescription antidepressants and antianxiety medications, Dr. Amen's sage advice and comprehensive treatment programs give us all the tools we need to optimize our work, relationships, and spiritual connections to become the people we want to be.

Work Makes Me Nervous

Author: Jonathan Berent
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470882182
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A proven therapeutic method that channels workplace anxiety into powerful, confident performance Millions of people are afraid of work. The situations they fear may be different-public speaking (e.g., presentations and speeches), meetings, conference calls, new assignments, performance reviews, promotions or praise, client consultations, team projects, and so on. But the feeling is often the same: some combination of obsessive worry, fear of being noticeably nervous, clammy hands, racing thoughts, sweating, blushing, heart palpitations, trouble breathing, and more. That feeling is called "workplace anxiety." And Work Makes Me Nervous is the cure. An effective self-empowerment training program, Work Makes Me Nervous lays out a proven therapeutic method for dismantling the wall between you and your ability to excel at work. The program trains you to: Channel workplace anxiety into powerful performance Identify anxiety symptoms and pinpoint where fears originate Achieve a High Performance Mind through a technique called Mind States Balance Abandon fear and ride the wave of adrenaline through every work situation Filled with real stories of real people and a 21-day developmental program of practical exercises and effective stress-management techniques, Work Makes Me Nervous will enable you to finally say, "I can handle whatever situations come my way."

Mental Health Care in the African-American Community

Author: Sadye Logan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136430032
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
Over the course of an African American’s lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual’s unique interactions with his or her environment. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community uses this perspective to provide a deeper analysis of factors and issues affecting the mental health of African Americans. This comprehensive text provides a current and historical analysis of the impact of mental health research, policy, community, and clinical practice from a life course perspective. Stressing evidence-based practice as an expanded way to think and talk about individualizing and translating evidence into a given practice situation, this valuable book provides a social work context for all helping professions. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community provides the helping community with non-traditional, expanded ways of thinking and intervening in the mental health needs and care of African Americans. Organized logically, this complex subject presents data in a user-friendly way that engages the reader, and provides chapter summaries and suggested group/classroom activities to facilitate understanding. This text is extensively referenced and includes figures and tables to clearly illustrate data. Topics in Mental Health Care in the African-American Community include: a historical overview of African Americans’ mental health care a conceptual and theoretical framework for African Americans’ mental health current issues affecting mental health intervention for African Americans mental health in group homes and foster care depression substance abuse poverty ADHD suicide mental health in elderly African Americans mental health policy rural African American mental health needs kinship care multiethnic families and children much, much more! Mental Health Care in the African-American Community is a valuable textbook for practitioners; administrators; researchers; policymakers; educators; and students in social work, psychology, mental health services, case management, and community planning.

Don't Suppress Your Empathy

Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434939227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description

Love Your Body, Love Your Life

Author: Sarah Maria
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440504431
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
Eating disorders. Steroids. Plastic Surgery. We'll do anything to look better—and yet we still feel bad about how we look. Self-loathing has reached epidemic proportions. But there is a way to end self-destructive thoughts and behavior. In this book, noted body-image expert Sarah Maria presents her proven five-step plan anyone can use to overcome negative body obsession (NBO). She helps you: Commit to change Identify and detach from negative thoughts Discover who you really are Befriend your body Find your purpose Love your body, love your life Complete with exercises, case studies, and testimonials, you can learn how to stop obsessing over food and your body and achieve permanent peace with both. You'll banish NBO forever, and feel healthy, radiant, beautiful, and desirable—every day!

Manufacturing Depression

Author: Gary Greenberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141657008X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this convergence is a public health triumph: the recognition and treatment of an under-diagnosed illness. Gary Greenberg, a practicing therapist and longtime depressive, raises a more disturbing possibility: that the disease has been manufactured to suit (and sell) the cure. Greenberg draws on sources ranging from the Bible to current medical journals to show how the idea that unhappiness is an illness has been packaged and sold by brilliant scientists and shrewd marketing experts—and why it has been so successful. Part memoir, part intellectual history, part exposé—including a vivid chronicle of his participation in a clinical antidepressant trial—Manufacturing Depression is an incisive look at an epidemic that has changed the way we have come to think of ourselves.

Inside a Cutter's Mind

Author: Jerusha Clark
Publisher: Tyndale House
ISBN: 1615214968
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Cutting is a practice that has crossed age and gender lines. It’s not just depressed teens who inflict injury on themselves—it can be anyone dealing with overwhelming feelings. This book explores the complex issue of cutting without offering any pat or simple fixes. It examines the psychology of, the feelings of anger and despair behind it, and the counseling resources that can help. This book is a great tool to help those who engage in cutting, pastors who want to learn more, or those who need to understand someone who practices self-injury.

From Fear to Eternity

Author: Gina-Dianne Harding
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 145254185X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Whether you want quick tips to shift into higher vibration, or want to take a reflective journey along your spiritual path, this book provides the essential information you need. The author invites you to start your transformation today. Humanity is going through a rapid transformation. You may follow one of two paths: Be dragged through; stuck in overwhelmingly fearful and limiting beliefs, energy-draining thoughts, and painful feelings. OR Learn the tools that shift you into the higher-conscious life youve yearned forwhere you experience improved health, connected and loving relationships, fulfilling work, and the knowledge that, no matter what happens around you, everything is ultimately right in your life! Dive into this book and discover: How vibrational energy can connect you to everything around you; How modifying your affirmations to bite-size, believable pieces helps prevent becoming overwhelmed; How to prevent leaking your energy and keep energy vampires from depleting your vitality; Tools to shift your energy almost instantaneously, Why consciously adopting these new behaviors now is vital as we approach 2012 and move toward the next age of human evolution. This important book shows how we have an opportunity to greatly improve our lives and, by this simple action, uplift humanity James F. Twyman, Peace Troubadour. This book makes relevant to the reader the path of personal awakening and self-empowerment. Gina-Diannes personal life experience and spiritual awakening has created this fine reference work for the seeker who wishes to improve their spiritual focus and avoid the many distractions of our time. Richard Jelusich, PhD, author of Eye of the Lotus: Psychology of the Chakras Gina-Dianne Hardings book becomes a bridge between the different theories about 2012 written by scientists and researchers of the Mayan culture. She shares her own Spiritual experiences which she lived during her visits to the Mayan ceremonial centers in the lands of Yucatan. Sacred Knowledge, practice, and experiences of the Maya worldview has left a deep imprint on her mind and soul, which gives this book a special stamp, written as a real experience of the heart and manifesting the messages that shape this magnificent example. ...Miguel Angel Vergara, Maya Wisdom Teacher

The Brain in Love

Author: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307589609
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
You hold the key to stronger relationships, deeper connections, and heightened intimacy. Everyone wants to know how to improve his or her love life, but so few of us understand the integral role the brain plays in attraction, keeping us excited about our partner, and helping us feel a strong connection. Based on Dr. Daniel Amen’s cutting-edge neuroscience research, The Brain in Love shares twelve lessons that help you enhance your love life through understanding and improving brain function. Filled with practical suggestions and information on how to have lasting and more fulfilling relationships, The Brain in Love reveals: • How emotional and physical intimacy can help prevent heart disease, improve memory, stave off cancer, and boost your immune system • How the differences between men’s and women’s brains affect our perceptions and interest in sex • The science behind why breakups hurt so much, and what you can do to ease the pain • Surefire techniques to fix common problems–depression, PMS, ADD–that contribute to conflicts • How to make yourself unforgettable to your partner The Brain in Love explains everything there is to know about the brain in love and lust, guiding you to the emotional and physical intimacy you need.

The Amen Solution

Author: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307463613
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
A breakthrough, easy-to-follow brain-based program to lose weight and keep it off—for the rest of your life—from the bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Magnificent Mind at Any Age, and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Have you tried diet after diet without success? Want to know the two major secrets why most diets don’t work? The #1 secret is that most weight problems occur between your ears, not in your stomach. If you want a better body the first place to always start is by having a better brain. Secret #2 is that there isn’t just one brain pattern associated with being overweight; there are at least five patterns. Giving everyone the same diet plan will make some people better, and a lot of people worse. Finding the right plan for your individual brain type is the key to lasting weight loss. In The Amen Solution bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen shares his one-of-a-kind brain-based program that helps you lose weight, improve your memory, and boost your mood at the same time. This is the same program offered at the world-renowned Amen Clinics that has already helped thousands of people lose the love handles and muffin tops. Based on the most up-to-date research, Dr. Amen shows you how to • Determine your individual brain type so you can find the plan that will work for you • Say goodbye to emotional overeating to shed pounds • Curb your cravings and boost willpower • Improve your brainpower, memory, and mood • Make small lifestyle changes that have a huge impact on weight loss • Prepare easy, delicious brain-healthy meals Packed with insight, motivation, and everything you need to get started right away, The Amen Solution will help you lose unwanted weight and teach you the strategies to keep it off for a lifetime.