Switch On Your Brain
The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
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Publisher Description
According to researchers, the vast majority--a whopping 75-98 percent--of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty different hormones! Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illnesses.
Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr. Caroline Leaf gives readers a prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology. She shares with readers the "switch" in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives where we achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent. She shows us how to choose life, get our minds under control, and reap the benefits of a detoxed thought life.
Customer Reviews
Switch on Your Brain
This book has brought the little rivulets of learning and experiences throughout my life of 70 years, into an understandable recognition of, 'how it has all worked to make me what and who I am today'. The brilliant part of all this is that I can now choose to keep the parts I want, and to change the memories, attitudes, actions and emotions, that I want and need to change! Indeed a revelationary and life-changing book for me. Well written and easy to understand as well.
Mind controls matter … really?
So I'm not even 2 pages through the first chapter and I have alarm bells ringing.
Dr Leaf, who says that she is a cognitive neuroscientist, says that people called "materialists" propose that "thoughts come from your brain as though your brain is generating all aspects of your mental experience." Sorry, but people who believe this fact are called Doctors and Neuroscientists. If you change the chemicals in the brain, you change its thoughts. This has been happening for centuries with illicit drugs like marijuana, and more recently with LSD, and medically with SSRI's. How can she claim to be a neuroscientist and deny such a basic tenet of neuroscience.
The other worrying thing is that she says the modern medical management of depression is "biblically and scientifically incorrect". Again, how can she be a neuroscientist and deny such fundamental facts? Read the Cochrane reviews on the subject, or other published meta-analyses. Medication for depression is equivalent to cognitive therapy, and medications combined with cognitive therapy is more effective than cognitive therapy alone. The only scripture uses to justify herself is 2 Tim 1:17. I didn't know that the Apostle Paul was a psychiatrist!
She then directly contradicts herself - we can control physical matter with our minds, but we can't control our circumstances in life (which are dependant on our thoughts). So which is it?
And this is only the first few pages of the first chapter. If you buy this book, be prepared to check her references for yourself. Personally, I think she is in some form of intellectual denial. If she really is a researcher, that's disturbing. But if you are willing to spend the money, read what she has to say and decide for yourself.
Wow
Life changing, so much truth in this book.