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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation



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Author: Daniel J. Siegel

Publisher: Bantam

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Publish Date: December 28, 2010

ISBN-10: 553386395

Pages: 336

File Type: Epub, Mobi

Language: English

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Book Preface

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

WITHIN EACH OF US there is an internal mental world—what I have come to think of as the sea inside—that is a wonderfully rich place, filled with thoughts and feelings, memories and dreams, hopes and wishes. Of course it can also be a turbulent place, where we experience the dark side of all those wonderful feelings and thoughts—fears, sorrows, dreads, regrets, nightmares. When this inner sea seems to crash in on us, threatening to drag us down below to the dark depths, it can make us feel as if we are drowning. Who among us has not at one time or another felt overwhelmed by the sensations from within our own minds? Sometimes these feelings are just a passing thing—a bad day at work, a fight with someone we love, an attack of nerves about a test we have to take or a presentation we have to give, or just an inexplicable case of the blues for a day or two. But sometimes they seem to be something much more intractable, so much part of the very essence of who we are that it may not even occur to us that we can change them. This is where the skill that I have called “mindsight” comes in, for mindsight, once mastered, is a truly transformational tool. Mindsight has the potential to free us from patterns of mind that are getting in the way of living our lives to the fullest.

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

CONTENTS

Foreword by Daniel Goleman

Introduction: Diving into the Sea Inside

PART I • THE PATH TO WELL-BEING: Mindsight Illuminated

1 • A Broken Brain, a Lost Soul: The Triangle of Well-Being

Minding the Brain: The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand

2 • Crepes of Wrath: Mindsight Lost and Found

Minding the Brain: Neuroplasticity in a Nutshell

3 • Leaving the Ether Dome: Where Is the Mind?

Minding the Brain: Riding the Resonance Circuits

4 • The Complexity Choir: Discovering the Harmony of Health

PART II • THE POWER TO CHANGE: Mindsight in Action

5 • A Roller-Coaster Mind: Strengthening the Hub of Awareness

6 • Half a Brain in Hiding: Balancing Left and Right

7 • Cut Off from the Neck Down: Reconnecting the Mind and the Body

8 • Prisoners of the Past: Memory, Trauma, and Recovery

9 • Making Sense of Our Lives: Attachment and the Storytelling Brain

10 • Our Multiple Selves: Getting in Touch with the Core

11 • The Neurobiology of “We”: Becoming Advocates for One Another

12 • Time and Tides: Confronting Uncertainty and Mortality

Epilogue • Widening the Circle: Expanding the Self

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes


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