books about: brain-soul     books:       Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life1 review Daniel Amen Free Press, 2008 An Amazing Book I read this book after reading Dr. Amen's "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life." This was the perfect follow-up. A lot of the information is the same as "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" but it is expanded to include spirituality. Dr. Amen explains his theory on the brain, how it works, and how it can often mis-fire, causing a physical imbalance that is shown on his SPECT scans. He ...             Will Shortz Presents Sudoku to Soothe Your Soul: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles Will Shortz St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 Clear your mind with sudoku!   Many solvers love sudoku not just for the intellectual challenge or the sheer fun of solving, but because sudoku puzzles help them attain an almost Zen-like state of mental relaxation. Sudoku, to put it simply, help solvers get in the zone.   Features: · 100 all-new puzzles · Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz · Big grids with lots of space for easy solving             Retrieve Your Destiny: Living the Soul's Path3 reviews Kelly Howell Brain Sync, 2003 This Cd is Great! I am very impressed with this CD! The Music is wonderful, and Kelly Howell's voice makes you just relax. She has a soft yet raspy voice that when you hear it just begins to relax your whole body and mind. I really Love the descriptions in the guided meditation, I can really picture myself in the desert. This Cd is NOT amature(spelling?) at all!!! I am very happy with this cd and I am feeling ...             The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief2 reviews Michael R. Trimble The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 Fascinating throughout After a lifetime studying epilepsy and other neurological disorders, Michael Trimble has taken his considerable experience and used it as a means to explore how we become poets, prophets, or madmen (or all of the above). Those interested in the work of Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, and V.S. Ramachandran will welcome this highly interesting volume. Trimble is Professor of Behavioral Neurology ...             The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul31 reviews Mario Beauregard, Denyse O'leary HarperOne, 2007 An excellent book In The Spiritual Brain, Dr. Beauregard explains why his research on the brain states of 15 Carmelite nuns shows that religious, mystical, and spiritual experiences cannot be explained away as merely a "God spot" in the brain or a "God gene". He states that the findings of his study do not "prove that mystics contact a power outside of themselves", but that "to the extent that spiritual ...             Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World18 reviews Carl Zimmer Free Press, 2005 What Willis was talking about For about a thousand years, the smartest people of every European generation tried to understand the world around them by reading texts based on scriptures and the works of ancient philosophers. At the end of the thousand years, the living conditions of the average person were the same as they were at the beginning of the thousand years. Life expectancy was around 40, and most people lived in ...             El alma esta en el cerebro /The Soul is in the Brain (Ensayo (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)1 review Eduardo Punset Punto de Lectura, 2008 Interesante, pero esperaba mas No niego que estoy aprendiendo cosas interesantes con este libro. Quizas pido demasiado. Esperaba que el libro me "enganchara" - que no pudiera soltarlo. Pero es un poco aburrido para leer.             Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough10 reviews Elio Frattaroli Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Good Medicine for Your Soul! As a therapist I am always interested in books which will challenge my thinking and practice around my work with my clients. Here is a book which has helped me understand the underlying philosophical differences which come into play when making a diagnosis. Is my diagnosis driven by a mechanistic worldview or by a relational worldview? Will I follow the medical model rooted in a scientific ...             Healing the Hardware of the Soul: How Making the Brain-Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and ...9 reviews Daniel Amen Free Press, 2002 The Inspiration for my New-Found Compassion For the first time in my life, BECAUSE of Dr. Amen's book, my outlook on sick & suffering people, is FOREVER altered. I am deeply grateful for this book, for Dr. Amen's work, his compassion, and his graciousness in sharing it with the world. I, like most people, have expended energy on judging certain people, and groups of people. After a huge spiritual & emotional break-through while reading ...             The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain13 reviews Paul M. Churchland The MIT Press, 1996 Good Intro to Neural Nets and Its Consequences The book comes in two parts. The part one, which takes up more than a half of the whole book, explains what recurrent neural networks are and how those can be used to explain our own cognitive functions. This is generally a good introduction, I think. His style is casual, and we see certain smugness you normally expect at a college lecture, e.g., introducing certain authorities as his friends ...             Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul (Ashgate Science and Religion Series) Mark Graves Ashgate, 2008 Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses - or apparently empty gaps between the neurons in one's brain-where informative relationships give rise to human mind, culture, and spirituality. Drawing upon the ...             The Conscious Mind and the Material World: On Psi, the Soul and the Self1 review Douglas M. Stokes McFarland & Company, 2007 Author's Overview In the interest of full disclosure, this review may not be entirely unbiased, as I am the author. This book examines the possible nature of the soul or self in light of modern scientific research, including neuroscience, quantum mechanics and cosmology. It also contains a critical review of parapsychological research into such psi phenomena as ESP and psychokinesis. Most people identify ...             Heal from the Heart: Odyssey through Nature, Soul and Recovery from Multiple Sclerosis Norma Schell Norma Schell, 2001 Heal From The Heart, Odyssey through Nature, Soul and Recovery from Multiple Sclerosis is one woman?s adventurous quest for life, as well as, recovery from MS. Schell relentlessly searches for answers to her unease. She breathes life into the meaning and power of her childhood of joy and pain on the family farm in Nebraska. Norma pursues academic degrees and travels the globe in her restless search. Then with the threat of MS, together with ...             The Way from Science to Soul; Integrating Physics, the Brain, and the Spiritual Journey3 reviews Casey Blood Pivotal Soul Publishing, LLC, 2007 Scientists Making Room for Spirit Married to a scientist, I am all too familiar with the argument that a belief in "Something Greater" ([God] or [ ], according to Casey Blood)has nothing to do with science and can only reflect one's act of Belief. It is with gratitude that I acknowledge Dr. Casey Blood's report from his life work as a scientist that science itself leaves room for the existence of [ ]! And he does it in a way ...             Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul M.D., Stuart Brown Avery, 2009 From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our intelligence and happiness throughout our lives. We?ve all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless and all-consuming. And, most important, it?s fun . As we become ...             Access Your Brain's Joy Center: The Free Soul Method3 reviews Pete A., Jr. Sanders Free Soul, 1996 Make your life a GREAT one in every aspect of it. Excellent book, the author is clear and gives practical examples and exercises. By learning the techniques in the book you can achieve a lot in your life. The techiques guide you step by step in learning how to improve areas of your life. How can you use a couple of simple techniques to conquer fear, worry, hurt, and stress. Reduce the stress level in your life by using techniques that take ...             Venom in My Veins: Soul Survivor Terry L. Jones; David F. Nixon Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2005             Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies / Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies10 reviews Brent Hartinger HarperTeen, 2007 An interesting new way to read a great story Brent Hartinger has done it again. This is another great book in the Geography Club story line. The book stands alone, but you can get more out of it if you read the first two books in the series, Geography Club, and The Order of the Poinson Oak. This book is a very interesting book. It is not just one book, but two books in one. The books tells a story of the same time in space, from the ...             Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science1 review Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 The New Face of Interdisciplinary Studies of Mind, Brain and Spirituality One of the most important undertakings in neuroscience and psychology is to try and achieve a rapprochement between different observations and descriptions of experience: to honor, respect and embrace physical, psychological and spiritual experiences without trying to reduce them to physical accidents. This undertaking matters: how we see ourselves and our experiences has everything to do with ...             Brain & Belief: An Exploration of the Human Soul21 reviews John J. McGraw Aegis Press, 2004 Reflecting On The Soul When I discuss the topic of the soul (or the mind) with others, we inevitably arrive at the question, "What is this soul-thing anyway?" Most people respond, "I don't know. It's just something we have." McGraw's "Brain & Belief" is the answer to that question. It answers the question first on an historical level--how other cultures in the past regarded this non-physical entity that still ...              search for books brain-mind, brain-soul, cerebral, connection, conscious, crossword, directions, discovery, existence, exploration, hardware, imagination, integrating, invigorates, language, material, medication, multiple, neuroscientist, optimize, philosophical, presents, recovery, religion, retrieve, sclerosis, soul-sucking, spiritual, survivor, wordless books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Jeeps 1941-45 (New Vanguard) leave a comment home  impressum - about us