What Your Body Knows About Happiness : How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
What Your Body Knows About Happiness : How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
Janice Kaplan
On Sale Date: January 7, 2025
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The Body Keeps the Score meets The Happiness Advantage in a new book by the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, Janice Kaplan. It explores the new science of the mind-body connection, showing that instead of the brain telling our bodies what to do, it's really our body programming the brain, and when our body and mind work together, we can achieve a deeper sense of happiness and pleasure.
In school, we're taught that the central nervous system, including the brain, is the big computer telling our bodies how to respond to a trigger. But there's a growing body of research proving that in fact the system often works in reverse, that it's our body programming the brain by acting without being told what to do. For example, the act of smiling can improve your mood. Or when you pass a dark alley and your body tenses and your heart starts pounding, your cardiovascular system is sending a message to your brain to be scared.
In this book, Janice Kaplan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, will explore the mind-body connection and show that our feeling bodies are often smarter than our thinking minds, by weaving together new scientific research from experts from around the globe and from various disciplines, including psychologists, neuroscientists, and environments. And she’ll provide tips and strategies for discovering this vital mind-body connection so they can work together to make you happier.
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