Change Psychology

Author Michael Pollan digs through decades of research and plays human guinea pig to illustrate the potential of psychedelics to alter the mind. Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

Do your endless overanalyzing, obsessive thinking, and worrying make it a hard time to enjoy life and easy out? This detailed step-by-step guide will help you fight to overthink and the skills you need to find a more peaceful way of life. The author will take you by the hand throughout the mental maze with time-tested and effective strategies. Written in a simple way by Tony J. Adams, profound, complex psychological concepts are turned into easy-to-understand and follow strategies. Are you anxious?

Hypnotists and hypnotherapists are often regarded as masters of change. Having an effective system for change work is important to your success. In this book, you will learn the two neurological requirements for all change work, five powerful therapeutic tools, how to design a transformative process, and how to use this system to enhance performance, resolve mental issues, and improve healing.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Stoffers hat eine bewegte Karriere hinter sich: Im Alter von 18 Jahren ging er zur Bundeswehr. Schon früh entdeckte er sein Herz für Südostasien, reiste viel und studierte internationale Beziehungen. Nach seiner Promotion wurde er Banker und arbeitete zwei Jahrzehnte für die Deutsche Bank in Deutschland und Vietnam. Im Jahr 2014 beschloss Andreas Stoffers, seine praktischen Erfahrungen als Professor in Deutschland, Malaysia und Vietnam an junge Studenten weiterzugeben.

Con el espíritu de su exitoso programa Médico de familia, uno de los médicos y divulgadores más populares de la televisión argentina nos propone una serie de hábitos saludables que, adoptados paso a paso—sin prohibiciones ni fundamentalismos, en la medida de los deseos y las posibilidades de cada uno—generarán sensibles mejoras en nuestra vida cotidiana.

This is a guidebook on how to get the most out of your sessions, and make the progress you desire and deserve. You already know that therapy can help you address issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. This insightful book not only covers the basics, but offers helpful tips, reminders and anecdotes to help you delve deeper during and outside of your therapy sessions.

Letters to Jennifer is intended for mature, responsible, open-minded adults wishing to explore their sexual nature and learn generally hidden knowledge I wish I knew before having sex the first time. This book discusses illegal activities, illicit drugs, sexual behavior, and concepts that are not acceptable to the majority of prurient individuals.

Do you want to learn how to appeal to people, be happier, healthier, and freer? How to Make People Do What You Want will get you started on that wonderful path. Modern life distracts us from what's really important, causing us to forget who we really are. None of us were born with fears, depression, or nervousness, no, something in our lives along the line pushes us into a downward spiral, careening into problems left and right.

Talking It Better is a practical book about the everyday practice of counseling and psychotherapy, written by a practitioner for fellow practitioners. Using case studies based on his own clients, Elton carefully examines what helps and what hinders the process of change in the therapy room. At the heart of therapeutic work, he argues, is the development of effective mind skills. And he shows us that, when it comes to developing our mind skills, practice is often far more important than insight or theory.

Este libro intenta recorrer algunos de los mecanismos psicológicos y cognitivos involucrados en la resistencia al cambio de visión. Las preguntas irán desde cómo nuestras expectativas y creencias afectan la manera en la que percibimos el mundo hasta si existen bases biológicas que expliquen las diferencias en ideología política.

Self-improvement is a lifelong quest. We all have things we’d like to change about ourselves, which is why many people make New Year’s resolutions. Yet, research shows that only about 8 percent of resolution makers achieve their goals. Changing personal habits is both hugely difficult and hugely rewarding. Here, Scientific American offers this guide on breaking bad habits and the ultimate satisfaction of making difficult life changes.

Follow a crawling baby around and you’ll see that right from the beginning, nothing excites us more than something new and different. Our unique human brains are biologically primed to engage with and even generate novelty, from our ancestors’ first bow and arrow to the latest tablet computer. This “neophilia” has enabled us to thrive in a world of cataclysmic change, but now, we confront an unprecedented deluge of new things, from products to information, which has quadrupled in the past 30 years and shows no sign of slowing.

Es scheint manchmal so, als ob eine höhere Macht wichtige Lebensentscheidungen für dich fällt und du hilflos vom Spielfeldrand zuschaust. Und so ganz falsch ist das nicht, denn wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen haben bewiesen, dass lediglich 5 % deiner Handlungen aktiv von deinem Bewusstsein gesteuert werden, 95 % geschehen jedoch unbewusst. Niemand will die Statisten-Rolle im eigenen Leben spielen. Und das musst du nicht, denn es gibt einfache Methoden, um dein Unterbewusstsein zu steuern und Einfluss auf dein tägliches Handeln zu nehmen. Entdecke:

Our mindset matters a lot when we want to measure the scale of our success in the future. Our success also depends on the level of positivity that our brain harbors. A change in mindset is crucial if we want to keep up with this fast-evolving world. Otherwise, we will be at a serious disadvantage; something no one craves. This audiobook doesn’t claim to have the recipe for a magic potion from the world of Harry Potter that will transform your life overnight. Instead, it has all the realistic formulas that you need to bring about a big change in your life.

Fear is designed to paralyse us, to keep us safe from the risk of rejection and failure. But change and growth are often on the other side of such risk, so how are we to get there if fear is so controlling? The loudest guest, explored in this fascinating new book, is fear. Author and psychologist, Dr. Amy Silver, believes that if you reduce the control that fear has on you, you take back control of your life. Fear is merely a guest in your mind, albeit a noisy one, and you are the host.

Why are there great athletes, leaders, students, artists, and so on? What separates greatness from mediocrity? What do they have that others don’t? So what makes these people successful? The answer is mental toughness, or what others call grit. And what’s great about it is that it can be learned. It is not something that you are born with, like intelligence or talent. So why is it essential in achieving success? Everything will be discussed in this audiobook. This audiobook shows you how to find your mental hardness and make the best use of it.

Anxiety is one of the most powerful emotions. It has a very strong effect on your mind and body. In some cases, it can take over your life, affecting your ability to eat, sleep, concentrate, travel, enjoy life, or even leave the house and go to work or school. This can hold you back from doing things you want or need to do, and it also affects your health. So what? Are you thinking you are hopeless? Condemned to a life full of anxiety and fear? Don’t worry, there’s a way out!

The body and mind cannot live different lives, and distress in the mind leads to distress in the body. Do you have high blood pressure or excess fat around the midsection? Can you believe it may be because of your mental health? If it’s time to co-create a better, less stressful, more fulfilling life, Mental Health–Mental Peace is your answer.

Learn to leverage your relationships so you can dream bigger, achieve whatever you want, and build a life that makes you happier with each passing day. No greater force for change exists than the people we surround ourselves with. Relationshift explores how the people in your life have colored your worldview, how this limits or expands your options, and what to do about it. Through the stories of British explorer Gertrude Bell, abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass, music icons the Beastie Boys, and many others, this book will show you how.

Hooking up, marriage, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood - women's lives have many stages, changes, and challenges. A prevailing question on women's minds as they age is, "How do I handle the shifts in my sexuality caused by these transitions?" In Sex After…, veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Iris Krasnow tackles this question head-on. Krasnow traveled the country, interviewing over 150 women, from waitresses to CEOs, ages 20 to 88. Here she shares their varied stories.