Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life

by Daniel G. Amen

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

Genres: Nonfiction, Spirituality, Psychology

304 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2002

About the author

The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare.com named him the web's most influential expert and advocate on mental health.
Daniel Amen is a life-long Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and multiple NY Times bestselling author, with such blockbuster books as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and The Daniel Plan, co-authored by Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman. In November 2016, he and his wife Tana published The Brain Warrior's Way.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 6 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 SPECT scans on patients from 111 countries.
Dr. Amen's research team has published more than 70 scientific articles on a wide variety of topics related to brain health. He is the lead researcher on the largest brain imaging study on active and retired NFL players and was a consultant on the movie Concussion starring Will Smith. In 2016, Discover Magazine named his brain imaging work for psychiatric diagnoses as one of the top 100 stories in all of science.
Dr. Amen has also hosted 11 national public television shows about the brain, which have aired more than 80,000 times across North America and raised more than 75 million dollars for stations.

You can connect with Dr. Amen on Facebook and Twitter

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I find Dr. Amen's books and work so intriguing and interesting. I enjoyed this book and learning a little about how the brain and the soul can be connected. I think his thoughts are forward-thinking and provoking. In my own life, being spiritual, having faith and a religion are all things that keep me grounded and give me hope. I do believe this has positive influences on the brain. This book gave me an interesting perspective on looking at the brain and how it's malfunctions can truly affect behavior. It offered me a whole new level of empathy for people who can't control themselves or their emotions and their misbehavior. I highly recommend reading this book to gain insight into a field that, I think, is surely up-and-coming in the future.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Sue · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.

[Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. Changed my perspective and career path.

[Marci · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Jamie Holloway · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Eyvonne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learned a great deal about the brain

I liked the explanations about different parts of the brain and medications that are associated with treating various diagnoses. The spiritual contributions to maintaining a healthy brain were also useful.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always like Dr. Amen's books.

[T White · Rating 2 out of 5]

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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