Book description
This groundbreaking book by a pioneer in neuroscience brings a new
understanding of our emotions - why each of us responds so differently
to the same life events and what we can do to change and improve our
emotional lives.
If you believe most self-help books, you would probably assume that
we are all affected in the same way by events like grief or falling in
love or being jilted and that only one process can help us handle them successfully.
From thirty years of studying brain chemistry, Davidson shows just
why and how we are all so different. Just as we all have our own DNA,
so we each have our own emotional 'style' depending on our individual
levels of dimensions like resilience, attention and self-awareness.
Helping us to recognise our own emotional style, Davidson also shows
how our brain patterns can change over our lives - and, through his
fascinating experiments, what we can do to improve our emotional
responses through, for example, meditation.
Deepening our understanding of the mind-body connection - as well as
conditions like autism and depression - Davidson stretches beyond
mainstream psychology and neuroscience and expands our view of what it
means to be human.
'The best book I know on how to use the exciting discoveries of
neuroscience to change your life. A fabulous read - a scientific
adventure story like Sherlock Holmes meeting Watson and Crick with the
Dalai Lama as their advisor.'
