Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
by Daniel J. Siegel
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Author: Daniel J. SiegelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-01-12
ISBN: 0553804707
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Bantam
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- ISBN13: 9780553804706
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Book Reviews of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Book Review: Where are we coming from?
Summary: 4 Stars
I just got finished with this book, and I found it quite fascinating on many levels. I didn't always agree with the author's materialist/reductionist views, emphasizing the brain's role in thoughts and behavior, but considering that's the dominant stance in mainstream medicine, science, and psychology, it's totally understandable. However, he managed to balance it fairly well by emphasizing the mind's power, through awareness, to "rewire" the brain.
He describes the three aspects of well being: Mind, brain, and relationships, and how to reach that state through integration, self-observation, acceptance, and awareness. He spends a fair amount of time describing various practices and exercises for achieving those states, and a lot of time describing the underlying mechanics and practical applications. He talks about the FACES qualities of integration: Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energetic, and Stable. He talks about how we all travel down the river of integration, one bank is chaos, the other is rigidity, and that striking a balance between the two allows us to flow more easily through life. He talks about integrating the various levels and regions of the brain (brain stem, limbic system, right, left), along with memories (how to deal with painful memories, how memories form beliefs), and temporal integration (looking at the past, present, and future in a healthy way).
The subject matter was well organized, easy to digest and understand, and made sense on a lot of levels. Basically if you took Ekhart Tolle's "Power of Now", tossed in a bit of Ken Wilber, and applied it to psychology and relationships, explaining everything from a neurological perspective, you'd come pretty close to the general vibe of Mindsight.
I'd highly recommend it to anyone. It's not the whole picture, but it's a pretty significant contribution. It covers a lot of material, and breaks a lot of concepts down into easy to grasp terms. I'm looking forward to reading it again, and I have a list of friends and family members who I wish I could get to read it. Good stuff.
I would give it 5 stars, but I knocked off one star because he tends to overemphasize the influence of the past, society, parents, and family on human behavior, and the reductionist/materialist philosophical tone (downplaying or ignoring the transpersonal, spiritual dimension, or couching their effects in neurological terms). I agree with another reviewer as well that it could do with a bit more emphasis in specific exercises. It's not exactly a step by step how-to guide; it paints a picture and gives you a few hints, but leaves it to you to figure out how to arrive at the destination. It's a good map, but as a guidebook, it's somewhat lacking.
Summary of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain?and in your life.? Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can' t shake?
? Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?
? Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?
? Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?
What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.
Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients heal themselves from painful events in the past and liberate themselves from obstacles blocking their happiness in the present. And now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. Showing us mindsight in action, Dr. Siegel describes
? a sixteen-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who uses meditation and other techniques instead of drugs to calm the emotional storms that made him suicidal
? a woman paralyzed by anxiety, who uses mindsight to discover, in an unconscious memory of a childhood accident, the source of her dread
? a physician?the author himself?who pays attention to his intuition, which he experiences as a "vague, uneasy feeling in my belly, a gnawing restlessness in my heart and my gut," and tracks down a patient who could have gone deaf because of an inaccurately written prescription for an ear infection
? a twelve-year-old girl with OCD who learns a meditation that is "like watching myself from outside myself" and, using a form of internal dialogue, is able to stop the compulsive behaviors that have been tormenting her
These and many other extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help us master our emotions, heal our relationships, and reach our fullest potential.
A book as inspiring as it is informative, as practical as it is profound, Mindsight offers exciting new proof that we aren't hardwired to behave in certain ways, but instead have the ability to harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that will be life-transforming.
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