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The emotional life of your brain, how its unique patterns affect the way you think, feel, and live--and how you can change them, Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The emotional life of your brain

bibliography

726817983

Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley

how its unique patterns affect the way you think, feel, and live--and how you can change them

In this book the author, a pioneer in brain research offers an entirely new model of our emotions, their origins, their power, and their malleability. For more than thirty years, the author has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our emotions, as well as practical strategies we can use to change them. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional "styles," including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain chemistry that underlies each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions if that is what we want to do. By giving us a new and useful way to look at ourselves, we can develop a sense of well-being, and live more meaningful lives

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