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21) Outsmart Yourself: Brain-Based Strategies to a Better You: Episode 21,How Your Brain Falls in Love
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Poets have been ruminating about love for ages, but what do the neuroscientists have to say? Here, consider why people fall in love, and what role simple exposure, facial symmetry, and eyes play in romantic attraction. Review what happens inside the brain when you fall in love.
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Are you ready to unlock the life you've always wanted?
"The Power of Positive Thinking: Train Your Brain To Create A Life You Love" is here to show you how!
In this quick, easy-to-digest guide, you'll discover small, manageable tasks that you can start today to harness the power of positive thinking and rewire your brain to be more resilient, optimistic, and proactive.
You'll learn how to overcome negative beliefs and self-limiting...
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Human brains and behavior are shaped by genetic predispositions and early experience. But we are not doomed by our genes or our past. Neuroscientific discoveries of the last decade have provided an optimistic and revolutionary view of adult brain function: People can change. This revelation offers hope to therapists and to couples seeking to improve their relationship. Loving With the Brain in Mind explores ways to help couples become proactive in...
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Why do we create puzzles simply for the pleasure of solving them? After proposing a few theories, Professor Rosenhouse notes that mathematicians love puzzles, especially those that lead to deep mathematical insights. Get warmed up for the series with six brain teasers involving hourglasses, a restaurant order, a biased coin, the numbers on a clock face, and two chessboard scenarios.
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"The vast majority of love and sex occurs in the brain. Your brain decides who is attractive to you, how to get a date, how well you do on the date, what to do with the feelings that develop, how long those feelings last, when to commit, and how well you do as a partner and a parent. Your brain helps you be enthusiastic in the bedroom or drains you of desire and passion. Your brain helps you process and learn from a breakup or makes you vulnerable...
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Are you a new parent introduced to the world of diapers, milk bottles and onesies? Or maybe you're a seasoned parent or an aspiring parent.
Wherever you are in your parenting journey, this book will provide you the timeless and universal principles to help you educate, guide and bond with your little one. If losing your cool happens often and you need some help, maybe the 4 'S's of Healthy Attachment is what you need to implement.
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Why do we create puzzles simply for the pleasure of solving them? After proposing a few theories, Professor Rosenhouse notes that mathematicians love puzzles, especially those that lead to deep mathematical insights. Get warmed up for the series with six brain teasers involving hourglasses, a restaurant order, a biased coin, the numbers on a clock face, and two chessboard scenarios.
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Karen Rachels' "Body, Brain, Love: A Therapist's Workbook for Affect Regulation and Somatic Attachment," is a first-of-its-kind contribution to the dynamic and unfolding world of body-brain integration. This workbook accessibly integrates three critical areas of therapeutic work brought to us by the Decade of the Brain: 1) brain-based attachment theory, 2) the neuroscience of affect regulation, and 3) practical somatic skills to grow clients' brains.
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There are many books that talk about fighting your anxiety. They instruct you on how to deny, distract, even hate your anxiety. Many focus on using your cognitive processes to fix your anxiety. Some even encourage you to rage at and hate your anxiety. Whilst these approaches can alleviate anxiety to some degree, they don't quite teach you how to actually deal with it effectively with a long term effect. We are made up of a three part system. The thinking...
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You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones.
To which this audiobook says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design - and in its place...
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Great Courses volume 22
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Look beyond the superficial qualities of attraction and delve into love as a long-term emotional commitment. Examine the three main "love systems" in the brain and what we can learn from them. This lecture shows us why staying in love can be a bigger challenge than falling in love.
32) The New Science of Love: How Understanding Your Brain's Wiring Can Help Rekindle Your Relationship
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Your brain is the heart of love. Did you know that you already own some cutting-edge tools for creating deep, lasting change? They're available to you anytime and anywhere-and they're inside your head. Dr. Fran Cohen Praver will show you how to access these tools and literally use your brain to help bring back love. By understanding a few ways your mind works, you can take advantage of its phenomena and strength to create change in your relationship-by...
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Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them?
Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?
Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out?
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Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?
Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out?
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"What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people's minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it possible to actually neurologically prime the brain for greater love and fewer conflicts.
Wired for Love is...
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Ever wonder why your self-control, rationality, and compassion seem to go out the window when dealing with your partner? Couples therapist and psychiatrist Steven Stosny explains it all in this revelatory book about the divide between our adult and our toddler brains. Too often, conflict in our intimate relationships reactivates our least-regulated "toddler" side, bringing out an instinctive desire to assert our own way and make everything a zero-sum...
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Happiness: Is It a Matter of Luck . . . or a Learnable Skill?
Why do some people seem happier than others, regardless of their situation? In the face of fear, sadness, and other emotional suffering, we may believe that there's simply something wrong with us. Yet in his decades of pioneering research, Dr. Rick Hanson has revealed a simple yet profound truth: Happiness can be learned. And like any other skill, it can support us throughout our lives.
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. The love of a parent is more important to a young child's development than you think. Discover why a child's...
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Cosmopolitan meets Scientific American in this entertaining and informative question-and-answer book on human attraction. Based on the latest studies in science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? answers more than 100 wild, weird, and very pressing questions, including:-Why do some men smell better to you than others?-Are good dancers also good in bed?-Why are more women than men bisexual?-Can your genes make you adulterous?-What can you tell about...
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Glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma are two of the most common form of brain tumors in adults. Too often they can be life changing, even life limiting for patients, wreaking devastation on their families.
This readable, moving and non-technical guide is your comprehensive patient focused guide to these obstinate brain cancers. It covers everything from getting an accurate diagnosis, to dealing with the physical, mental and emotional impact of...
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