Open-Focus Brain Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body

Name: Open-Focus Brain Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
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ISBN: 9781590303764

ISBN-10: 1590303768

ISBN-13: 9781590303764

Edition: 2007

Authors: Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins

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This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in "narrow-focus attention": a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress--and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls "Open Focus." This highly readable and empowering book offers…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Jim Robbins is an award-winning journalist and science writer, with frequent contributions to the New York Times, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Discover, and Psychology Today. In connection with his reporting, he has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



An Addiction to Narrow Focus


Exercise: Expanding Your Awareness of Visual Space



Sweet Surrender: Discovering the Benefits of Synchronous Alpha Brain Waves



The Full Complement of Attention



What Lies Beneath: Anxiety


Exercise: Head and Hands in Open Focus



Dissolving Physical Pain



Dissolving Emotional Pain


Exercise: Dissolving Pain



Love Is a Way of Paying Attention: Open-Focus Tools for Relationships


Exercise: Heart-Centered Open Focus



Peak Performance



Living in Open Focus


Exercise: How Am I Now Paying Attention?



Attention and Psychotherapy


Exercise: Thinking in Open Focus


Exercise: Seeing in Open Focus


Conclusion: Thoughts on the Evolution of Attention


Epilogue


Notes


Index


About the Authors