Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 288 pages
• Published by: HCI January 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 075730480X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0757304804
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Book Description
Take Your First Step Toward True Evolution Ever wonder why you repeat the same negative thoughts in your head? Why you keep coming back for more from hurtful family members, friends, or significant others? Why you keep falling into the same detrimental habits or limiting attitudeseven when you know that they are going to make you feel bad? Dr. Joe Dispenza has spent decades studying the human mindhow it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolvesby learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos, and even healing the body and the psyche. Evolve Your Brain presents this information in depth, while helping you take control of your mind, explaining how thoughts can create chemical reactions that keep you addicted to patterns and feelingsincluding ones that make you unhappy. And when you know how these terrible habits are created, it's possible to not only break these patterns, but also reprogram and evolve your brain, so that new, positive, and beneficial habits can take over. This is something you can start to do right now. You and only you have the power to change your mind and evolve your brain for a better lifefor good.

From the Inside Flap
It took one moment to change Joe Dispenza's life forever. A car sent him toppling off his bike, causing multiple fractures to his vertabrae. Several doctors said his only hope of walking again was to fuse some of the vertebrae in an operation that would leave him with a lifetime of pain and limited mobility. But as a chiropractor, Dispenza knew enough about spinal health and his own post-accident physical state to take a remarkable risk: he refused the operation and, along with a careful therapeutic program, literally thought his way to healing. Nine months later, he was able to walk and function as well as he had before the accident, and he credits a large amount of that recovery to the power of his own mind. This incredible experience spurred Joe on to learn about this most important tool that we all possessthe brainand he passes that potent knowledge on to you. He explores how the brain learns, how it processes information, and, when it isn't stimulated enough by new experiences, how it can become addicted to comfortable, familiar patterns. Every time we think a thought or feel an emotion, the brain sends chemicals throughout the body that reproduce that feeling, often giving us a physical reaction. Through prolonged repetition, self-limiting thoughts and feelings can become habitualproducing mindsets such as unworthiness and attracting negative experiencesyet we can still crave them, even when they don't feel good. But all this can changeand Joe Dispenza will show you how to do it. Step by step, he'll walk you through the structures of the brain, how your thoughts and emotions become hardwired in the brain, how to recognize the patterns you want to change, and finally, how to create new, positive habits that will not only change your life, but also change youinto the human being you've always wanted to be.

Reader Reviews
Having purchased Dr Dispenza's DVD "Mastering the Art of Observation" and watched it more than once - and loved it - I was surprised to find that his new book "Evolve Your Brain" is so different in approach - even in philosophy. It is as if biology - and in particular the brain - reigns supreme over all else. This is not the message I received from the DVD. First of all, this book is a summation of many others' writing on the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the interaction between mind and brain: Candice Pert, Bruce Lipton, Win Wenger, Stanislav Groff, Michael Lesser, Sharon Begley, David Sousa and Michael Gelb to name just a few. And if physiology is to be considered first and foremost, surely the heart-brain interaction needs to be included (as shown by research conducted by the Heartmath Institute and reported in Doc Lew Childre's books.) Since this information is already available, I had hoped for a more personal application from the author. His account of his recovery from serious spinal injuries is indeed inspiring, but I was very disappointed to find that Dr Dispenza did not share his actual healing process (apart from making a brief reference to some of the physicial modalities he used.) How did he find the courage, for example? Or was this just another reflexive activity of the frontal cortex as he claims happiness is? (I would have thought that courage and happiness are both acts of choice, even of personal will, of which the brain is mediator, not originator.) If you approach your own body like you do the mechanics of your car, with complete objectivity, then familiarity with your neuro-physiology may well get you through such an ordeal. But for those of us who do not think this way, it would help to know what thoughts and beliefs sustained Dr Dispenza, especially in the serious risks he took. I detect an intuitive leap in his making decisions that went entirely against prevailing medical opinion. The rest of the book ignores this "X-factor." Apparently, for Dr Dispenza, even faith can be boiled down to biology. One of the main points with which I take issue is Dr Dispenza's contention that "without the brain, there is no consciousness." He is entitled to this point of view, but it needs to be pointed out that other authorities of equal standing (perhaps even greater) disagree with him, and would point to their own research on "non-local mind" and that of others who have replicated the results. These authorities include the likes of Professor William Braud and Professor William Tiller, whose separate double-blind experiments in this subject are meticulous - none of the hazy, wishful thinking that Dr Dispenza abhors. I also find his contention of a brain-based reality contradictory, particularly as he has taken advice from a disincarnate called Ramtha. Which is it to be, Dr Dispenza? It has been said that knowledge is power, and "Evolve Your Brain" certainly provides knowledge, even if it is a replication of other sources. But there are few specifics in this book about what we can DO with that knowledge in our daily life - like Dr Dispenza's practice that was explained in "What the Bleep" - of his setting his intentions for the day on waking in the morning. Now that is something I can use. I admire other reviewers their apparent ability to translate this book into action, but I find Lynne McTaggart's "The Intention Experiment" (published about the same time) more powerful, as well as easier to apply. McTaggart's book is of everyday practical use, even as it convinces me (with explicit research examples) that I am more than my biology - or my brain. Comments (4) | | (Report this)