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The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
By Les Fehmi PhD, and Jim Robbins
NeurOptimal® training has been shown to increase focus and attention, and expand present moment awareness. 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. 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.”
The Body Keep Score
By Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Trauma is a fact of life. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative interventions—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.