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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9781590303764
ISBN: 1590303768
Label: Trumpeter
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
Publisher: Trumpeter
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Sales Rank: 37834
Studio: Trumpeter
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This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress—and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls “Open Focus.”
This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance. The Open-Focus Brain features eight essential attention exercises for improving health, along with an audio CD in which the author guides the reader through fundamental Open-Focus exercises that can be used on a regular basis to enhance our health and well-being.
Dr. Fehmi writes, “Everyone has the ability to heal their nervous systems, to dissolve their pain, to slow down and yet accomplish more, to experience the deeper side of life—in short, to change their lives for the better dramatically.” At last readers can learn the techniques that Dr. Fehmi has offered to thousands of clients—the same drug-free, safe, and effective techniques that have led to remarkable and long-lasting results.The Open-Focus Brain offers readers a revolutionary, drug-free way to:
alleviate depression, anxiety, and ADD
reduce stress-related chronic pain
optimize mental and physical performance
Includes a 60-minute audio CD:
essential attention exercises from the book, led by Dr. Fehmi
listeners learn how to 'train the brain' to reduce stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and more
safe and effective techniques used in Dr. Fehmi's clinic for decades
Listen to an excerpt from the audio CD online in MP3 format:
Track 1: Introduction
Track 2: Head and Hands
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Having read a lot of meditation books, zen books, power of now and attention deficit books, this book is a very interesting perspective on the subject of focus and attention.
First off the book explains what open focus is but it took me a while to grasp it. It wasn't until I read the first exercise that I 'felt' what open focus is about. I feel the book does require a few reads. More importantly, I felt I was very drawn to re-reading it, especially after listening to the cd.
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I was recommended this book by Martha Beck, the famous coach on Oprah. And while I was skeptical that a book could actually help with physical conditions, I have been surprised by how effective doing the Open Focus exercises diminish or eliminate pain for days at a time. I've been practicing the exercises for nearly three weeks and have gone from daily migraines to one or two a week.
Reading this book came at an opportune time -- my doctor had just prescribed migraine medication, but ... Read More
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From co-author Jim Robbins; "The premise is that we all hold on to emotional stress that we have carried with us since infancy and childhood. Because this stress -- which moves through our body as well as our mind -- is painful, we shut it down reflexively to keep from feeling it. To keep our stress from surfacing we stay in a type of attention called narrow objective. This fear lives on in our stomach, our chest, our heart and other organs and muscles and causes a host of problems, including anxiety, ... Read More
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This fascinating piece of work is a both a history and a set of methods for those who wish to improve their perceptions, physical well-being and emotional state. Fehmi, one of the original researchers in biofeedback, tells of how he stumbled upon the technique of paying attention to space (like between the eyes, the fingers, etc.) and how that instantly catapulted subjects into an Alpha state, while no other method worked, whether visual, mental, auditory, olfactory, tactile or a combination of these. ... Read More
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The open focus book is very revealing and detailed.It is a real eye poener.I am still reading it.We cannot wait to play the cd and improve our lives.
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