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Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain Using Neuroscience to Beat Anxiety, Fear, Worry, Shyness and Panic Attacks
Use developments in neuroscience to rewire your brain and free yourself from the chains of anxiety, shyness and panic attacks.
If anxiety dictates the way you live your life and you are ready to make a change and take charge of your life, this book will help you overcome axiety.
Fear and the amygdala have been studied since the 1800s, with scientists making a connection between the two. Both the brain and fear are complex, and the studies continue today. It turns out the finding in the 1800s was true, and the amygdala does play a significant role in emotion known as fear. To complicate matters even more, fear is a state, and you can feel it to different degrees. These range from mild worry, anxiety, fear, and panic. However, not all of these are related to the amygdala, the first two, worry and anxiety are actually linked to the prefrontal cortex. This is a fairly new finding, but something that has been studied by neuroscientists ever since its discovery.
Fear is an intense emotion that can take many different forms, including both anxiety and panic disorders. Even though they can both be debilitating, it is possible to use the brain’s own fear response to rewire it. This is possible because over time the brain has been conditioned to react a certain way to both real and perceived threats. So, just as it learned to this the first time, it can learn to do it again, in a way that is not harmful. Fear takes two different paths in the brain, with different techniques that correspond with the two. So it is important to be knowledgeable about different brain functions and how to improve and develop them. This the key to releasing the grip fear has on you and your brain.
You will learn and much more!
If anxiety dictates the way you live your life and you are ready to make a change and take charge of your life, this book will help you overcome axiety.
Fear and the amygdala have been studied since the 1800s, with scientists making a connection between the two. Both the brain and fear are complex, and the studies continue today. It turns out the finding in the 1800s was true, and the amygdala does play a significant role in emotion known as fear. To complicate matters even more, fear is a state, and you can feel it to different degrees. These range from mild worry, anxiety, fear, and panic. However, not all of these are related to the amygdala, the first two, worry and anxiety are actually linked to the prefrontal cortex. This is a fairly new finding, but something that has been studied by neuroscientists ever since its discovery.
Fear is an intense emotion that can take many different forms, including both anxiety and panic disorders. Even though they can both be debilitating, it is possible to use the brain’s own fear response to rewire it. This is possible because over time the brain has been conditioned to react a certain way to both real and perceived threats. So, just as it learned to this the first time, it can learn to do it again, in a way that is not harmful. Fear takes two different paths in the brain, with different techniques that correspond with the two. So it is important to be knowledgeable about different brain functions and how to improve and develop them. This the key to releasing the grip fear has on you and your brain.
You will learn and much more!
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50 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2016
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September 15, 2017
Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain Using Neuroscience to Beat Anxiety, Fear, Worry, Shyness and Panic Attacks — Jeffrey Holloway (6 chapters) — Sept. 14, 2017
The title is a mouthful, and I honestly did not think I would neither like it nor get through this ebook because of the way it started: with big, sciency, scary-like words. But after I got past that first part, it was surprisingly very good. There were several times that I thought: “yeah, that’s what I do;” or “I know that feeling!”
The author takes a complete, well thought out approach to this book. Each chapter is set up to be a fairly easy to understand read, starting with the history of "fear;" to why we "fear;" and what we can do about it; and how we can recover from it. It includes exercises that (from my own experiences,) really do work!
Very impressive. If you suffer from any of the issues mentioned in the title, this book will definitely be one you will want to read. I suggest reading it before an issue comes on. If you don’t have any of these but know someone who dies: this is a good book to understand how to support a loved one who does suffers from anxiety.
I am definitely putting this on my “Continue-To-Read” list.
(I only saw one place were sentence structure was lax. A word was missing, or atleast it seemed that way.)
Five stars.
The title is a mouthful, and I honestly did not think I would neither like it nor get through this ebook because of the way it started: with big, sciency, scary-like words. But after I got past that first part, it was surprisingly very good. There were several times that I thought: “yeah, that’s what I do;” or “I know that feeling!”
The author takes a complete, well thought out approach to this book. Each chapter is set up to be a fairly easy to understand read, starting with the history of "fear;" to why we "fear;" and what we can do about it; and how we can recover from it. It includes exercises that (from my own experiences,) really do work!
Very impressive. If you suffer from any of the issues mentioned in the title, this book will definitely be one you will want to read. I suggest reading it before an issue comes on. If you don’t have any of these but know someone who dies: this is a good book to understand how to support a loved one who does suffers from anxiety.
I am definitely putting this on my “Continue-To-Read” list.
(I only saw one place were sentence structure was lax. A word was missing, or atleast it seemed that way.)
Five stars.
August 19, 2017
This book does have some good points and tips that I am looking forward to reviewing and implementing into my life. There is a lot of information into how the brain and body process fear and anxiety. The fact that I am going to review it to try to implement the suggested actions is why I gave it three stars.
However, the writing in general was terrible. I am unsure if my ebook through Amazon some how was corrupted or if this is actually how the book went into print. If the issues were actually ignored by the publisher, than I can completely understand why this book was on sale for free.
There were multiple issues with sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, reused thoughts and words, incorrect words, missing letters from words, etc. There were multiple occasions where I reread a sentence multiple times and still couldn't figure out what it meant. The writing issues in this book actually caused me anxiety. If the book had been longer I would have stopped reading it due to the issues.
However, the writing in general was terrible. I am unsure if my ebook through Amazon some how was corrupted or if this is actually how the book went into print. If the issues were actually ignored by the publisher, than I can completely understand why this book was on sale for free.
There were multiple issues with sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, reused thoughts and words, incorrect words, missing letters from words, etc. There were multiple occasions where I reread a sentence multiple times and still couldn't figure out what it meant. The writing issues in this book actually caused me anxiety. If the book had been longer I would have stopped reading it due to the issues.
September 20, 2021
This book would have been better served with its intro and conclusion swapped, as the conclusion framed the book much better than a very long "please please please don't sue me!" intro.
This book is probably a better intro for someone who is just beginning their journey; but it was still a good overview of brain study and known techniques (final chapter). I don't see myself recommending this book, but I wouldn't actively discourage people from reading it.
This book is probably a better intro for someone who is just beginning their journey; but it was still a good overview of brain study and known techniques (final chapter). I don't see myself recommending this book, but I wouldn't actively discourage people from reading it.
May 29, 2017
Makes sense
I liked this book. It's well written and gives good practical advice. Title sounds more scientific than it is. Enjoy!
I liked this book. It's well written and gives good practical advice. Title sounds more scientific than it is. Enjoy!
August 5, 2017
Great book
It was very helpful and helped me understand some vital information. I would recommend . I would say don't make someone who has anxiety be force to write a review.
It was very helpful and helped me understand some vital information. I would recommend . I would say don't make someone who has anxiety be force to write a review.
August 13, 2017
Simple and easy book on anxiety
This book is a very easy read, taking an hour to get through it. It provides simple tools to consider which are helpful.
This book is a very easy read, taking an hour to get through it. It provides simple tools to consider which are helpful.
December 2, 2017
Good easy read
Good techniques that are easy to put in practice, ready to use them on my list of years and anxieties
Good techniques that are easy to put in practice, ready to use them on my list of years and anxieties
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