Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain
Breaking the Doom Loop to Heal Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain
By Dr. Daniel G. Amen | Publisher: HarperCollins
About the book
One of our leading experts on the brain and #1 New York Times bestselling author explores how chronic physical and emotional pain are both rooted in your brain’s wiring, leaving you stuck in the doom loop and how you can break free to heal from the \"doom loop\" and reclaim a vibrant, pain-free life.
In the United States alone, one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For too long, when a doctor couldn’t find the source of frequent pain, the patient was dismissively told “it’s all in your head.” Today, we know that our somatic responses to trauma, anxiety, and depression create real suffering, and that physical pain can lead to trauma, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this “the doom loop”—the dance between physical and emotional pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom loop into a healing loop, and in this vital book, he shows us how.
Dr. Amen has been researching a new brain-based approach to pain. In Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain he draws on those studies to reveal:
- Pain producing versus pain soothing thought patterns
- Muscle tension and trauma vs calmness and clarity
- The use of medical and nutraceuticals to help calm the pathways
- The effects of diet, exercise, meditation, breath to help pain
Our current approach to understanding and treating physical and emotional pain is misguided. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain offers a healthier way, one that involves less medication, less surgery, and better outcomes. Just like the human heart, the human brain is an organ, and that to be free of emotional or physical pain, it is critical to get the brain as healthy as it can be—not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually, as well.
Editions of Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780063426702
- EBook
- ISBN 9780063426719
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One of our leading experts on the brain and #1 New York Times bestselling author explores how chronic physical and emotional pain are both rooted in your brain’s wiring, leaving you stuck in the doom loop and how you can break free to heal from the \"doom loop\" and reclaim a vibrant, pain-free life.
In the United States alone, one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For too long, when a doctor couldn’t find the source of frequent pain, the patient was dismissively told “it’s all in your head.” Today, we know that our somatic responses to trauma, anxiety, and depression create real suffering, and that physical pain can lead to trauma, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this “the doom loop”—the dance between physical and emotional pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom loop into a healing loop, and in this vital book, he shows us how.
Dr. Amen has been researching a new brain-based approach to pain. In Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain he draws on those studies to reveal:
- Pain producing versus pain soothing thought patterns
- Muscle tension and trauma vs calmness and clarity
- The use of medical and nutraceuticals to help calm the pathways
- The effects of diet, exercise, meditation, breath to help pain
Our current approach to understanding and treating physical and emotional pain is misguided. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain offers a healthier way, one that involves less medication, less surgery, and better outcomes. Just like the human heart, the human brain is an organ, and that to be free of emotional or physical pain, it is critical to get the brain as healthy as it can be—not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually, as well.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain about?
One of our leading experts on the brain and #1 New York Times bestselling author explores how chronic physical and emotional pain are both rooted in your brain’s wiring, leaving you stuck in the doom loop and how you can break free to heal from the \"doom loop\" and reclaim a vibrant, pain-free life.
In the United States alone, one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For too long, when a doctor couldn’t find the source of frequent pain, the patient was dismissively told “it’s all in your head.” Today, we know that our somatic responses to trauma, anxiety, and depression create real suffering, and that physical pain can lead to trauma, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this “the doom loop”—the dance between physical and emotional pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom loop into a healing loop, and in this vital book, he shows us how.
Dr. Amen has been researching a new brain-based approach to pain. In Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain he draws on those studies to reveal:
- Pain producing versus pain soothing thought patterns
- Muscle tension and trauma vs calmness and clarity
- The use of medical and nutraceuticals to help calm the pathways
- The effects of diet, exercise, meditation, breath to help pain
Our current approach to understanding and treating physical and emotional pain is misguided. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain offers a healthier way, one that involves less medication, less surgery, and better outcomes. Just like the human heart, the human brain is an organ, and that to be free of emotional or physical pain, it is critical to get the brain as healthy as it can be—not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually, as well.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain?
Mathematics and Science > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
Where can I read a sample of Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780063426702
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain?
Dr. Daniel G. Amen
Who is the Publisher of the book Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain?
HarperCollins
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780063426702) and ebook(ISBN 9780063426719)
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