Healing the Hardware of the Soul: How Making the Brain Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth

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Healing the Hardware of the Soul: How Making the Brain Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth

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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...more 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 flexibilityHeal painful deep soul memories through thought and behavior exercisesLearn 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.(less)

Hardcover, 288 pages

Published April 2nd 2002 by Free Press

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Dec 15, 2007 Sue rated it 2 of 5 stars

Much the same as the first book I read by him; he seems to be churning out a lot of books and if this book is any indication, doesn't have much new to say.

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May 31, 2011 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Daniel Amen's one of my favorite authors in the world of psychology and health. I recommend him to clients all the time. This book takes his previous work even farther, explaining the biology behind our experiences of the world, and how to use positive steps for better health, better relationships, more joy and even more rewarding spiritual life. Reading it slowly in hopes of absorbing it better.

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Mar 30, 2010 Marci rated it 4 of 5 stars

Reading this book and the Mars Venus Diet book has really helped me boost my brain food and feel better. It makes you wonder how judgement day will go down when some peoples bad actions may have been caused by damage to the brain.

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Sep 10, 2011 T White rated it 2 of 5 stars

While Dr. Amen's brain research is interesting, and telling, I didn't expect each book yo repeat the same examples and applications. I get it.

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I always like Dr. Amen's books.

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Took me a long time to finish this book because of the massive, thought provoking information that Dr. Amen shares. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, in fact, I bought my sister Carri a copy of this book too.

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About Daniel G. Amen

Daniel G. Amen, MD is a physician, child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, bestselling author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. (ACI) in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia .

ACI is the world leader in applying brain imaging science to clinical practice. AC...more Daniel G. Amen, MD is a physician, child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, bestselling author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. (ACI) in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia .

ACI is the world leader in applying brain imaging science to clinical practice. ACI has the world’s largest database of functional brain scans related to psychiatric medicine, now totaling more than 50,000 scans, and the clinics have seen patients from 75 countries.

Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, where he teaches medical students and psychiatric residents about using brain imaging in clinical practice.

Dr. Amen is the author of 35 professional articles, 4 book chapters and 23 books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Magnificent Mind At Any Age. He is also the author of Healing ADD, Healing The Hardware Of The Soul, Making A Good Brain Great, The Brain in Love, and the co-author of Healing Anxiety And Depression and Preventing Alzheimer’s. In February 2010, Harmony Books will publish Dr. Amen’s new book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body. He has also written and produced three recent blockbuster fundraising shows for public television, raising more than 16 million dollars. Dr. Amen, together with The United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a show called The Truth About Drinking, on alcohol education for teenagers, which won an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show.

Dr. Amen, together with his son-in-law, Jesse Payne, has developed a 12 week high school course on practical neuroscience called Making A Good Brain Great. The course is now being taught in 40 states and 7 countries.

A small sample of the organizations Dr. Amen has spoken for include: the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Harvard’s Learning and the Brain Conference, the Million Dollar Round Table, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen has been featured in Parade Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Men’s Health and Cosmopolitan. He is on the editorial board of Men’s Health Magazine.

Dr. Amen is married, father of four children, and an avid table tennis player.

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