Sharon Begley
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Is change possible? Everyone who has tried and failed, wished they could be happier, or has been told they were too old to learn something, has wondered why we just seem to be stuck with ourselves. But this amazing and hopeful audio book shows us that it is not only possible for us to control our brains but also for us to rewire them. In late 2004, the Mind and Life Institute brought Western Scientists together with the Dalai Lama and other distinguished...
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior-using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most of us have witnessed in daily life. But compulsions exist along a broad continuum, and at the opposite end of these mild forms exist life altering disorders....
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En este fascinante y trascendental libro, la escritora científica del Newsweek Sharon Begley explica cómo la ciencia de vanguardia y la antigua sabiduría del budismo se han unido para revelar que, al contrario de lo que la creencia popular afirma, tenemos el poder para cambiar literalmente nuestros cerebros para cambiar nuestras mentes. Experimentos pioneros recientes en el campo de la neuroplasticidad la capacidad del cerebro de cambiar como respuesta...
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A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.
Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's groundbreaking work, The Mind and the Brain, argues...