Mind-Body Intelligence: How to Manage Your Mind Using Biofeedback & Mindfulness - Paperback

by Glyn Blackett (Author)

Do you ever feel like your mind is out of control, overwhelming you with racing thoughts, painful emotions, or impulses to endless activity?

Coach and therapist Glyn Blackett proposes that emotional well-being and optimal mental performance are founded on skills in regulating the physiology that underlies mental states. The author calls these mind-body skills, and they include:

• awareness of the mind-body connection: how thoughts and beliefs influence body feelings and sensations, and vice versa
• ability to calm the body and let go of negative emotions and cravings
• stable but flexible focus and concentration
• ability to access and sustain positive emotion and motivation.

Inside the book you'll discover:

• underlying patterns common to self-regulation problems from stress, anxiety and low mood to brain fog and fatigue
• the common mistake that actually amplifies the stress response
• the science behind the mind-body connection and how it can be effectively applied with biofeedback and neurofeedback
• why breathing is right at the heart of self-control challenges and solutions
• practical models for working with self-control challenges and solutions
• the preconditions for flow (i.e. states of optimal functioning and self-control)
• how attentional flexibility is key to mind-body regulation, and how it can be trained using mindfulness
• different forms of biofeedback and neurofeedback, and how their individual strengths combine to develop mind-body skills
• how biofeedback actually supports mindfulness in spite of apparent contradictions.

About The Author

Glyn Blackett runs a coaching and therapy practice helping people with stress and self-control challenges such as anxiety, panic, low mood, fatigue, insomnia and cravings, by teaching them mind-body skills using biofeedback and mindfulness. A graduate of Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, Glyn first encountered biofeedback when searching for ways to calm his unruly, distractable mind and more effectively access meditative concentration. Impressed by its power and potential, he decided to make biofeedback the basis of a career as a therapist and coach.

For more information please visit: www.stressresilientmind.co.uk