Tame Your Anxiety (eBook)

Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness

Loretta Graziano Breuning (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
160 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1777-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Learning to calm anxiety is a difficult task after years of responding to your brain’s warning signs for threats. But understanding the mechanisms that launch you into anxious states will help you train your brain to make new connections, new paths to awareness and calm. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how.

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Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned.If you didn't learn yesterday, you can learn today.It's not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it's hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don't have an off switch until you build one. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how.Readers learn about the brain chemicals that make us feel threatened and the chemicals that make us feel safe. You'll see how your brain turns on these chemicals with neural pathways built from past experience, and, most important, you discover your power to build new pathways, to enjoy more happy chemicals, and reduce threat chemicals.This book does not tell you to imagine yourself on a tropical beach. That's the last thing you want when you feel like a lion is chasing you. Instead, you will learn to ask your inner mammal what it wants and how you can get it. Each time you step toward meeting a survival need, you build the neural pathways that expect your needs to be met. You don't have to wait for a perfect world to feel good. You can feel good right now.The exercises in this book help you build a self-soothing circuit in steps so small that anyone can do it. Once you learn how it's done, and how it can help ease your anxiety, you will learn how to handle situations in which you feel threatened or anxious. Understanding the underlying mechanisms will help you stop them before they get ahead of you.

Autor

Loretta Breuning is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels; and The Science of Positivity: Stop Negative Thought Patterns by Changing Your Brain Chemistry. She is Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. The Inner Mammal Institute offers resources that help you rewire your mammalian brain chemistry, including books, videos, podcasts, blogs and graphics. Dr. Breuning’s work has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Turkish, German, and appeared on Forbes, NPR, Wall St Journal, Psychology Today, Time, Fox, NBC, Dr Oz, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Men’s Health, and many podcasts.

Inhalt

Introduction1. What is Tame?2. What Is Anxiety?3. A Taming Tool That Works4. Find Your Power Over Your Brain5. Design the Tool That’s Right For You6. Avoid These Six Pitfalls7. Keep It Tame In the Long Run8. Stock Your Pantry with Anxiety Tamers9. Food and Anxiety10. Help Others Tame AnxietyEpilogue Keep In Touch

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Angst / Depression / Zwang
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • anxiety after drinking • anxiety after eating • anxiety and sleep • anxiety at work • anxiety books • anxiety breathing • anxiety causes • anxiety cures • anxiety definition • Anxiety Disorders • anxiety exercises • anxiety symptoms • anxiety treatment • calm • calm aid • calm anxiety • Calm down • calming • calmness • how to rewire a brain • neural pathway and brain • neural pathway habit • neural pathways • neural pathways habits • rewire anxious brain • rewire brain anxiety • rewire brain depression • rewire brain for happiness • rewire brain for positivity • rewire brain positive • rewire brain to be happy • rewire your anxious brain book
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1777-0 / 1538117770
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1777-4 / 9781538117774