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BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
Change Your Brain Change Your Life is a breakthrough program for conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness. In this bestselling program, you’ll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You’re not stuck with the brain you’re born with.
Through his brain imaging work at the Amen Clinics with tens of thousands of patients from 68 countries over the last two decades Dr. Daniel Amen has come to understand that you can literally change your brain and change your life.
This is one of the most exciting breakthroughs in medicine, because with a better brain, always comes a better life.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life DVD is an extended version of the breakthrough PBS special. Packed with helpful tips and practical brain science including:
- Dr. Amen’s SEVEN simple principles to change your brain and change your life.
- The ONE question you should ask yourself everyday if you really want to be successful in your life.
- Tips on how to be happier, more focused, less anxious and less depressed by balancing three important brain systems.
- A sneaky “brain based strategy” to deal with the most difficult people in your life.
- Clear, concise and effective strategies to make your brain great.
- TWELVE brain-healthy foods everyone should include in their diet.
- Things you can do NOW to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. (and he’s not kidding)
Filled with “brain prescriptions” (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who’ve experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life demonstrates the strong link between brain and body. Dr. Amen advocates nutrition, natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that so often require medication and it’s associated side effects.
Here are just a few of Dr. Amen’s surprising – and effective – “brain prescriptions” that can help heal your brain and change your life:
- To Quell Anxiety and Panic: Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil
- To Fight Depression: Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
- To Curb Anger: Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage
- To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus: Develop total focus with the “One-Page Miracle”
- To Stop Obsessive Worrying: Follow the “get unstuck” writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises
The good news is no matter how bad you’ve been to your brain up to this point in your life, you CAN make it better – and Dr. Amen will show you how
BONUS SEGMENT: Dr. Amen hosts a fascinating and informative Q&A session (approximately 30 minutes)
INTRODUCTION by Bill Cosby