Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

by Joe Dispenza

Take Your First Step Toward True Evolution

Ever wonder why you repeat the same negative thoughts in your head? Why you keep coming back for more from hurtful family members, friends, or significant others? Why you keep falling into the same detrimental habits or limiting attitudes--even when you know that they are going to make you feel bad?

Dr. Joe Dispenza has spent decades studying the human mind--how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolves--by learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos, and even healing the body and the psyche.

Evolve Your Brain presents this information in depth, while helping you take control of your mind, explaining how thoughts can create chemical reactions that keep you addicted to patterns and feelings--including ones that make you unhappy. And when you know how these bad habits are created, it's possible to not only break these patterns, but also reprogram and evolve your brain, so that new, positive, and beneficial habits can take over.

This is something you can start to do right now. You and only you have the power to change your mind and evolve your brain for a better life--for good.

• ISBN10: 075730480X
• ISBN13: 9780757304804
• Publish Date: 1 January 2007
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Health Communications
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[Joséphine]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars

Initial thoughts: Recently, I attended a networking session during which I met a really interesting person. We had a great exchange of ideas, although, or maybe precisely because, he's more into psychology and I'm more into sociology. I ended up scrolling through the list of audiobooks on his Audible app, and this title caught my eye, so I decided to give it a go.

Evolve Your Brain goes into a lot more biology than I have read in a long time. But it did recap a good deal of neurology that I vaguely remember studying in tenth grade. It was pretty insightful to learn more about the applied science of it, in terms of how it translates into how we think.

That being said, there were sections that had rather strong New Age tendencies. Some of the scientific information was framed in New Age thoughts as well. Going into the audiobook, I had no idea who this author was, but now that I've looked him up, this shouldn't have come as a surprise. I don't subscribe to these beliefs, so those aspects didn't add much value for me.

Nonetheless, I found Evolve Your Brain to be a clear introduction to neuroscience and psychology. It brought up some concepts as well regarding focus and concentration that I want to delve deeper into. For that however, I'll be sure to look out for authors who have the proper training and qualifications and who don't use science to seamlessly anchor their pseudoscience.