Bouncing back : rewiring your brain for maximum resilience and well-being

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-411) and index.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction what resilience is and how we rewire our brains to recover it
How the brain develops resilience or doesn't
How the brain's strategies of resilience become wired in
How the wiring in of resilience can go awry
Harnessing the brain's neuroplasticity to recover your resilience
Using mindfulness to foster self-awareness and flexible responses
Using empathy to create connections and self-acceptance
Five additional practices that accelerate brain change
Self-directed neuroplasticity
Recovering resilience through resonant relationships
How bonding and belonging nourish resilience
Creating inner security and confidence
Developing relational intelligence
Keep calm and carry on : recovering resilience through resources of the body
Losing and recovering our balance
Recovering our balance through the body
Developing somatic intelligence
Recovering resilience through emotional well-being
How neuroscience is revolutionizing our thinking about feelings
How positive emotions build resilience
Developing emotional intelligence
Shift happens : recovering resilience through reflection and response flexibility
Using reflection to identify options
Shifting gears: modifying our patterns of response
Discerning wise choices and responding flexibly
Recovering resilience through simply being
Resting in the wisdom of being
Launching into a more resilient life
Moving resilience beyond the personal self
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author.

Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait); Self-consciousness (Awareness); Self-confidence.; Neuropsychology.

Publication date: 2013
Reproduction: Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9781608681303 (electronic bk.); 1608681300 (electronic bk.); 9781608681297; 1608681297