|
|
Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > General
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Do the Work comes this paradigm-shifting guide to healing your relationships, beginning with the one you have with yourself.
Relationships have always been essential to human survival. Our bodies and brains are programmed to seek out connection, whether familial, romantic, or platonic. And yet, these vital bonds are often at the root of our deepest suffering. While our hearts are primed for compassionate connection, our nervous systems—which store all our past hurts and disappointments—are wired for threat and negativity.
For decades, leading relationship advice has maintained that successful relationships require a specific compromise—that we must change our authentic expression to better meet the needs of others, and vice versa. It may sound reasonable in theory, but as Dr. LePera explains, this approach is nothing less than a recipe for a lifetime of resentment.
In How to Be the Love You Seek, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. LePera—whose integrative, holistic approach to psychology has attracted an international audience of millions—offers a new path to healing our relationships. Harnessing the latest scientific research, she teaches us to recognize how unmet needs from our earliest relationships create our current, dysfunctional relationship patterns, and leave us in a state of constant internal threat, even with those closest to us.
This book, the last in her “How To” trilogy, illuminates the way out of trauma bonds and into relationships rooted in mutual respect and compassion. In it, you will learn how to create safety in your own body and mind; identify your unmet needs; develop emotional resilience; cultivate heart coherence to build deep emotional connections with others; and maintain healthy interdependence in our communities.
Whether you struggle to maintain the kinds of relationships you want, or are facing a specific challenge with a spouse, partner, parent, sibling, child, friend, or colleague—Dr. LePera teaches us how to break painful cycles and reconnect with the wisdom, appreciation, and compassion that lives in each of our hearts. It is our heart’s innate capacity to love that is the true source of all healing. When we tap into that power, we can become the love we seek.
Complete with stories, exercises, journal prompts, and other practical tools, How to Be the Love You Seek offers a healing roadmap for all generations of cycle-breakers.
Beliefism (noun): Discrimination against people who disagree with us.
Do you avoid people who are strongly against immigration? Or strongly for trans rights? Against abortion? For drug legalisation? We might like to think that we're tolerant, but many of us struggle to engage with people whose opinions differ strongly from our own, even if they might have something useful to contribute to the debate. That means we're falling victim to what behavioural scientist Professor Paul Dolan defines as Beliefism: discrimination against those with different beliefs to us.
Drawing on the evidence from across the social sciences, Dolan shows how easy it is for us to divide ourselves into opposing camps - and how harmful that can be. Using the central metaphor of the duck-rabbit illusion - where the same image can be viewed as one animal or the other - the book shows that looking at an issue from only one perspective can lead to bad decisions and unnecessary conflict. The world would be a better place if there was less beliefism and Dolan shows how more tolerance is only possible "by design". We need to embed less beliefism into our organisations and lives and he provides a checklist called EMBRACE to help us do that.
Combining curiosity, irreverence and warmth, Beliefism is a definitive behavioural science take by a leader in his field. Whether it's among friends, at university or at work, being less beliefist will make you a better partner or parent, and a more effective buddy or boss.
Unlock a world of infinite possibilities, adopt the mantra at the heart
of this growing movement, and prioritize feelings over outcomes in this
step-by-step process for manifesting Intentionality into success.
Combining scientific and spiritual principles, Finnian Kelly, founder
of Intentionality Inc., leads you through 5 key intentions, including
actionable steps and targeted breathing exercises you can incorporate
into your everyday life.
Through this process, you will:
· Learn the core makeup of your emotional operating system
· Let go of social conditioning
· Master your built-in superpower of breath
· Recode your mind
· Elevate your consciousness
Intentionality is more than just a concept―it's a profound shift in
consciousness that will enable you to truly feel and experience more of
what life has to offer."
How do you lead a fulfilling life? That profound question animates
this book of inspiration and insight from world-class business
strategist and bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma,
Clayton Christensen. After beating a heart attack, advanced-stage
cancer and a stroke in three successive years, the world-renowned
innovation expert and author of one of the best selling and most
influential business books of all time - The Innovator's Dilemma -
Clayton M. Christensen delivered a short but powerful speech to the
Harvard Business School graduating class. He presented a set of
personal guidelines that have helped him find meaning and happiness
in his life - a challenge even the brightest and most motivated of
students find daunting. Akin to The Last Lecture in its revelatory
perspective following life-altering events, that speech
subsequently became a hugely popular article in the Harvard
Business Review and is now a groundbreaking book, putting forth a
series of questions and models for success that have long been
applied in the world of business, but also can be used to find
cogent answers to pressing life questions: How can I be sure that
I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my
relationships with my spouse, my family and my close friends become
enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my
integrity (and stay out of jail)? How Will You Measure Your Life?
is a highly original, surprising book from a singular business
figure. It's a book sure to inspire and educate readers - companies
and individuals, students of business, mid-career professionals,
and even parents - the world over.
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false
memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers
of brain science, he foresees a future where we can replace our
negative memories with positive ones. In How to Change a Memory,
Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and
recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited and even constructed from nothing.
A future in which we can change our memories of the past may seem
improbable, but in fact, the everyday act of remembering is one of
transformation. Intentionally editing memory to improve our lives takes
advantage of the brain's natural capacity for change.
Ramirez explores how scientists discovered that memories are fluid -
they change over time, can be erased, reactivated and even falsely
implanted in the lab. Reflecting on his own path as a scientist, he
examines how memory manipulation shapes our imagination and sense of
self. If we can erase a deeply traumatic memory, would it change who we
are? And what would that change mean anyway? Throughout, Ramirez
carefully considers the ethics of artificially controlling memory,
exploring how we might use this tool responsibly - for both personal
healing and the greater good.
A masterful blend of memoir and cutting-edge science, How to Change a
Memory explores how neuroscience has reached a critical juncture, where
scientists can see the potential of memory manipulation to help people
suffering from the debilitating effects of PTSD, anxiety, Alzheimer's,
addiction and a host of other neurological and behavioral disorders.
|
|