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The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live - and How You Can Change Them
The Emotional Life of Your Brain How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think Feel and Live and How You Can Change Them Author:Richard J. Davidson Ph.D. and Sharon Begley For more than thirty years, Richard J. Davidson has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our emotions, as well as practical strategies we can use to change them. Davidson has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional ?styles,? including resilience, self-awareness, ... more »and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain chemistry that underlies each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, on that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions?if that is what we want to do.« less