Switch on Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health

by Caroline Leaf

Overview

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and audiologist who has worked in the area of cognitive neuroscience since 1985. Her pioneering work on neuroplasticity--that changes in thinking actually change the brain and can effect behavioral change--paved the way for her current research on how scientific principles are supported by Scripture and vice versa. She is a prolific author and has been featured on Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer, LIFE Today with James and Betty Robison, Today with Marilyn and Sarah, It's Supernatural with Sid Roth, and Doctor to Doctor. Dr. Leaf also hosts Switch On Your Brain on TBN. She and her husband, Mac, live in Dallas, Texas, with their four children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801018398
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/04/2015
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	12,065
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr. Caroline Leaf holds a PhD in communication pathology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Since 1981 she has researched the science of thought as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Dr. Leaf is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance, such as stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, thinking and learning, controlling our thought lives, wisdom, and how to identify and use one's natural gifts. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show starting in 2013. Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Texas.

Table of Contents

Prologue 13

Acknowledgments 17

Introduction: Switch On Your Brain with Hope 19

Part 1 How to Switch On Your Brain

1 Mind Controls Matter 31

2 Choice and Your Multiple-Perspective Advantage 39

3 Your Choices Change Your Brain 55

4 Catch Those Thoughts 71

5 Entering into Directed Rest 79

6 Stop Milkshake-Multitasking 93

7 Thinking, God, and the Quantum Physics Brain 103

8 The Science of Thought 123

Part 2 The 21-Day Brain Detox Plan

9 What Is the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan? 139

10 How and Why the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan Works 147

11 Gather: Step 1 157

12 Focused Reflection: Step 2 171

13 Write: Step 3 181

14 Revisit: Step 4 187

15 Active Reach: Step 5 193

Afterword 203

Notes 207

Recommended Reading 217