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Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Dispenza
Publisher: HCI
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
Pages: 510
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0757307655
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780757307652
ASIN: 0757307655
Publication Date: October 22, 2008
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'Dr. Joe Dispenza delves deep into the extraordinary potential of the mind. Read this book and be inspired to change your life forever.' --Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field and The Intention Experiment
'A beautifully written book that provides a strong scientific basis for how the power of the human spirit can heal our bodies and our lives.'
--Howard Martin, executive vice president of HeartMath and coauthor of The HeartMath Solution
'Joe Dispenza gives you the tools to make real changes in your life.' --William Arntz, producer/director of What the Bleep Do We Know!? Joe Dispenza, D.C., has spent decades studying the human mind---how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolves---by learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos, and even healing the body and the psyche. Evolve Your Brain presents this information in depth, while helping you take control of your mind, explaining how thoughts can create chemical reactions that keep you addicted to patterns and feelings----including ones that make you unhappy. And when you do know how these bad habits are created, it's possible not to only break these patters, but also reprogram and evolve your brain, so that new, positive, and beneficial habits can take over.
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 A different angle April 19, 2007
S. J. Bockett (Wellington New Zealand)
85 out of 93 found this review helpful
Having purchased Dr Dispenza's DVD "Mastering the Art of Observation" and watched it more than once - and loved it - I was surprised to find that his new book "Evolve Your Brain" is so different in approach - even in philosophy. It is as if biology - and in particular the brain - reigns supreme over all else. This is not the message I received from the DVD.
First of all, this book is a summation of many others' writing on the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the interaction between mind and brain: Candice Pert, Bruce Lipton, Win Wenger, Stanislav Groff, Michael Lesser, Sharon Begley, David Sousa and Michael Gelb to name just a few. And if physiology is to be considered first and foremost, surely the heart-brain interaction needs to be included (as shown by research conducted by the Heartmath Institute and reported in Doc Lew Childre's books.)
Since this information is already available, I had hoped for a more personal application from the author. His account of his recovery from serious spinal injuries is indeed inspiring, but I was very disappointed to find that Dr Dispenza did not share his actual healing process (apart from making a brief reference to some of the physicial modalities he used.) How did he find the courage, for example? Or was this just another reflexive activity of the frontal cortex as he claims happiness is? (I would have thought that courage and happiness are both acts of choice, even of personal will, of which the brain is mediator, not originator.) If you approach your own body like you do the mechanics of your car, with complete objectivity, then familiarity with your neuro-physiology may well get you through such an ordeal. But for those of us who do not think this way, it would help to know what thoughts and beliefs sustained Dr Dispenza, especially in the serious risks he took. I detect an intuitive leap in his making decisions that went entirely against prevailing medical opinion. The rest of the book ignores this "X-factor." Apparently, for Dr Dispenza, even faith can be boiled down to biology.
One of the main points with which I take issue is Dr Dispenza's contention that "without the brain, there is no consciousness." He is entitled to this point of view, but it needs to be pointed out that other authorities of equal standing (perhaps even greater) disagree with him, and would point to their own research on "non-local mind" and that of others who have replicated the results. These authorities include the likes of Professor William Braud and Professor William Tiller, whose separate double-blind experiments in this subject are meticulous - none of the hazy, wishful thinking that Dr Dispenza abhors. I also find his contention of a brain-based reality contradictory, particularly as he has taken advice from a disincarnate called Ramtha. Which is it to be, Dr Dispenza?
It has been said that knowledge is power, and "Evolve Your Brain" certainly provides knowledge, even if it is a replication of other sources. But there are few specifics in this book about what we can DO with that knowledge in our daily life - like Dr Dispenza's practice that was explained in "What the Bleep" - of his setting his intentions for the day on waking in the morning. Now that is something I can use.
I admire other reviewers their apparent ability to translate this book into action, but I find Lynne McTaggart's "The Intention Experiment" (published about the same time) more powerful, as well as easier to apply. McTaggart's book is of everyday practical use, even as it convinces me (with explicit research examples) that I am more than my biology - or my brain.
 An answer to many prayers! May 22, 2007
Nina Clock (NE Georgia)
54 out of 54 found this review helpful
I had no trouble whatsoever relating to Dr. Dispenza's descriptions of how the human brain functions. In fact, I found his no-nonsense discussions of the brain extremely refreshing and encouraging, especially in view of the fact that I was so sorely in need of obtaining a practical working model of why large-scale healing and personal change are even possible.
For me, the greatest value of Dr. Dispenza's book is in gaining the practical tools to heal. To that end, what healed Dr. Dispenza's multiple vertebral fractures was his level of consciousness and his ability to think. Without prior knowledge of how to help himself, he more than likely would have gone the conventional route of treatment and ended up as a cripple. And without the Four Pillars of Healing (well-described in the text), the cases of spontaneous remission presented by other people in the book would probably not have occurred. Thus, when all is said and done, the power of thought appears to be at the core of healing.
To make this book more user-friendly for myself, I outlined what were, for me, its key points:
1) Decide who/what you want to be and create an ideal picture of that in your mind.
2) Allow the frontal lobe of your brain to fulfill its functions as your guide; the frontal lobe is so skillful that the only limitation on its ability to construct these models is your own skill at envisioning the ideal of yourself. The frontal lobe allows you to transcend the slow, linear process of evolution and to advance beyond the natural progression of adaptation.
3) Regularly rehearse the new attitudes and behaviors internally and externally, including at bedtime.
4) Break your brain and body's chemical addictions to negative thinking and feelings by stopping automatic negative thinking and feeling and interrupting the flow of repetitive thoughts that occupy most of your waking moments.
5) Address your attitudes and discover what groups of thoughts that are clustered together in habitual sequence (i.e., attitudes) that you have to break free of.
6) Resolve to no longer revisit memories of your past and the associated attitudes that define you as a victim.
7) Stop blaming others for your problems.
8) Deny your familiar internal voice and external voices of other people.
9) Replace negative "priming" with positive priming, such as feeling appreciation and gratitude; mentally rehearsing your new role; taking breaks in routine (such as travel); changing negative perceptions to positive perceptions).
10) Break away from customary routines.
11) Get feedback from others on how you're doing [as the "new person"].
12) Devote every spare minute to moving into the new life.
13) Become so involved in focusing on the present moment and on your intent that you completely lose track of your body, time, and space. Nothing, then, will be real but your thoughts.
14) Seek out instruction to get to the next level.
15) Work with the Four Pillars of Healing.
16) Make the healing/changing process the most important thing in your life.
Since reading Evolve Your Brain, I have come across another book called What To Say When You Talk To Yourself by Shad Helmstetter. This book is in the same vein, but it concentrates on the practical aspects of reprogramming your thoughts and feelings and spends almost no time on related scientific aspects of brain chemistry. (What To Say was written much earlier than Dr. Dispenza's book, but is unequivocally on the same page as the work of Joe Dispenza.)
I highly recommend both books - and note that after several weeks of working with each of them, I am in incredibly different and better spaces than I was.
Best book since Molecules of Emotion on mind/body January 17, 2007
E. Messer (Yelm, Washington)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I HAVE READ this long-awaited book by Dr. Joe Dispenza and have found it to be practical and inspiring. It puts right back into our own conscious control the unfoldment of our lives and our health. It describes Dr. Joe's journey to discovery of principles which he first applied to his own life and then studied in depth to understand the scientific basis for what he was learning. He applies both spiritual understanding and new discoveries in quantum physics and molecular biology in a very understandable and readable format which can be understood by all -- I give it five stars!
 Beyond "I Create My Day" March 30, 2007
Amy Wachspress (Northern California)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
This is the kind of book that could change your life, but it's not an easy read. If you were looking for more from Dr. Dispenza about "I Create My Day" as seen in What the Bleep, you will be disappointed with this book. If you are fascinated by how the brain works and how to use more of your brain to fulfill your potential, you will love this book. If you are looking for details about exactly how to change yourself and your life with focused intention then skip to the last 2 chapters of this 500-page lesson in brain function. This is a dense, scientific work, not as spiritual as many would like. But Dr. Dispenza finally explained a great many things I have always been curious about, including quantum physics, in a way that I could understand.
Infinite Sea of Potential October 25, 2008
Susan Donlon
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Before attending a seminar this past summer given by Dr. Dispenza, I read this book and found it as fascinating and life altering as the seminar itself. I find myself returning to this book for inspiration and to remind myself that I am not simply flesh and blood but an amazing dynamic living organism. Where emotions do not need to rule my actions or thoughts. Discovering how the mind works and processes thoughts and actions is one of the most profound and powerful tools you can have in creating and living the life you want - not one that is riddled by fleeting emotional ups and downs.
Two other author's works I highly recommend are by Ariel and Shya Kane. The Kanes' work is based in their technology called "Instantaneous Transformation" where neutrally observation of unwanted behaviors, without judging, can have a quantum shift not just in regards to that behavior but in all areas of your life. The Kanes books "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life", "Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment" and "How to Create a Magical Relationship" and their #1 internet radio show called "Being Here" on The 7th Wave Network channel on Voice America.com are all simply brilliant.
To quote Dr Dispenza "in this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us, how come we keep creating the same realities?" With accessible and insightful works like his and the Kanes you don't need to keep creating unwanted or unsatisfying ways of being or living in today's world.
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