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Title: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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| Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books amazing | | This book was amazing-the implications are far reaching for your own life, as well as your childrens lives. As a mom of three, and someone new to meditation, it's an exciting time to be raising young people. This book has made me think about every aspect of my life differently. I've reccommended it to everyone!! | | Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books Could the ideas presented in this book help prevent Alzheimer's disease and related dementias | Sharon Begley's fascinating book, shares new ways that show the reader how to train his/her brain. The inner powers of the mind go along way to make a differnce. Meditation is a pwerful tool in expanding brain function. Could those who meditate, decrease their risk of developing brain conditions such as Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia? Read this book and discover the powers of meditation. This book is full of hope and optimism. Let the author share this and so much more with you.
by Susan Berg, author of Adorable Photographs of Our Baby: Meaningful, Mind Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, Their Loved Ones, and Involved Professionals | | Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books Great summary of new developments. | | This book is a great summary of developments in the new field of neuroplasticity. It was a real eye-opener to learn how so many of "long time accepted" concepts in medicine have been proven to be wrong. It is also encouraging to see how thinking people are able to continue to contribute to learning new ideas. | | Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books Incredible | This is an incredible book with news from the frontiers of neuroscience. It is well written in a very readable style.
For many years scientists and medical practitioners considered that once we reach adulthood our brains abilities were fixed. This book documents discussions between neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama and his scholars regarding recent new understanding about the ability of the brain to change at any age. | | Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books Minor Corrections | The reviews here are in general substantially on target. The book does miss the target advertised by the title editors. (ie. This is not a how-to book) Oh wait. That is not how it's done. The book gets written and then the marketing people try to help it find a place in the market, shaping its position with title, color, designs, and testimonials. (OK the editors may sometimes commission and then guide the project towards a market. But I digress and confuse.)
To Amazon: The graphic for the book is incorrect and not consistent with the title accompanying it. It is confusing.(Just Deserts for title writers who can't make up their minds about how to position their book on "changing" minds?)
To the audio production team: Did you hire the editor in the middle of the recording? Did you not pay her enough to listen to the entire reading? My relief was enormous when the obvious voice-over edit of the word "Causal" was finally (and from that point on) pronounced correctly. (Track 7 of disc 3, I think) Every single time before that the word was mispronounced as "casual," I wanted to scream. (Heck, I was alone in my car, I did scream.) There really is a big difference in science as well as in the language.
To Ms. Eliza Foss (reader): Once someone pointed out your error, did you not want to admit that you had been mispronouncing "causal" during all of the prior recording sessions?
Wait? Am I blaming the wrong people? I did not purchase the print version. Is it possibly spelled wrong all those other times in the print version? OK so I'm picky. | | Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Ballantine Books Product Description | In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity–the ability of the brain to change in response to experience–reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire itself to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and OCD. And as scientists are learning from studies performed on Buddhist monks, it is not only the outside world that can change the brain, so can the mind and, in particular, focused attention through the classic Buddhist practice of mindfulness.
With her gift for making science accessible, meaningful, and compelling, Sharon Begley illuminates a profound shift in our understanding of how the brain and the mind interact and takes us to the leading edge of a revolution in what it means to be human.
“There are two great things about this book. One is that it shows us how nothing about our brains is set in stone. The other is that it is written by Sharon Begley, one of the best science writers around. Begley is superb at framing the latest facts within the larger context of the field. . . . This is a terrific book.”
–Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
“Excellent . . . elegant and lucid prose . . . an open mind here will be rewarded.”
–Discover magazine
“A strong dose of hope along with a strong does of science and Buddhist thought.”
–The San Diego Union-Tribune |
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