The emotional life of your brain
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hodder, 2013Description: xviii, 279 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781444708820
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BF503 LAW Driven | BF503 PIN Drive | BF515 GRE The private life of the brain | BF531 DAV The emotional life of your brain | BF561 BAR How emotions are made | BF561 EKM El rostro de las emociones | BF575.G7 JAM The grief recovery handbook |
One brain does not fit all The discovery of emotional style-- Assessing your emotional style-- The brain basis of emotional style-- How emotional style develops-- The mind-brain-body connection, or how emotional style influences health-- Normal and abnormal, and when 'different' becomes pathological-- The plastic brain-- Coming out of the closet-- The monk in the machine-- Rewired, or neurally inspired exercises to change your emotional style.--
Why we behave the way we do has been the life study of pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson. Helping us to understand our own emotional responses and discover our unique 'emotional style', they also show how we can retrain our brains through mindfulness and meditation to alter lifelong patterns of destructive or unhelpful behaviour.