Occasional Book Review from Ocean City, New Jersey
My wife, Leslie, recently read the book, Change Your Brain Change Your Body (2010) by Daniel G. Amen, MD, and she recommended it to me. The sub-title, "Using Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You have Always Wanted, sounded interesting, and my wife rarely recommends books for me ... so I picked it up at the Ocean City Library a couple of weeks later.
Although a great deal more technical than I might prefer in my reading, it offered a variety of useful ideas for working with the most important part of your body ... the brain. When I come upon one of these "useful books" (as I refer to them), I often take notes in my journal and sometimes copy a couple of pages that I can later underline and reference in my journal. So I read the book in a few days taking necessary notes.
The doctor makes a great deal of connections between the brain and a variety of factors, habits, and problems that individuals have with the rest of their body. From the impact of alcohol, or tension, or depression, or keeping weight off or putting weight on, etc.; the book provides a lot of strategies for dealing with these problems as well as techniques of working through some of them by working with your brain.
For example: if you have a mild to even more serious sleeping disorder, the author goes on to provide a number of techniques as well as natural remedies to help you improve your sleeping. I made a copy of the many natural remedies suggested and added some of his techniques to my journal information. Another interesting topic was "meditation," which I did have a useful technique during my 17 years as a high school principal, when I needed it most; but some of these ideas are well thought out because all real estate agents tend to be "up and available" too much of the time. We must seek out quiet times and thoughtful exercises and activities to enrich ourselves. Exercise is the final topic that tended to run throughout the book. Most of us are active ... but not as organized and dedicated to doing it on a regular basis.
I would not recommend the book to be read completely, but I would recommend it as a resource if you have an issue that relates to some of the above discussion. Of course, our great Ocean City Library, the best library system that I ever been associated with, have these kinds of resources on there for all of their barrier island members. dap
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