When you hear the term neuroscience, do you find yourself shutting down and suddenly not paying attention? Do you wonder if brain science is something that could possibly help you in any way? Well, I found a book that will help you tune in instead of tune out. 

Neuroscience Is Now For Everybody

Science and technology have exploded in recent decades, but one area of exploration continues to be one of the biggest mysteries: that is the brain. Most people don’t understand much about how their brains operate, but Jill Bolte-Taylor’s most recent book, Whole Brain Living, answers many questions in a way that makes understanding neuroscience so much more practical matter than we could have believed before now.

How Neuroscience Can Help Us In Our Daily Lives

Dr. Bolte-Taylor talks about how we each have four characters in our brain: a left brain thinking part, a left brain feeling part, a right brain feeling part, and a right brain thinking part. These parts can tend to operate as isolated entities that have relatively little to do with each other, but Dr. Bolte-Taylor shows us how to be more aware of each of these parts and to help them function as a unified whole.

The “Brain Huddle“ is the Key to Therapeutic Neuroscience

If you’ve struggled to be able to reconcile your thinking and feeling capacities, then you’re very much not alone. Most of us look at ourselves as beings that have strong reasoning abilities, but Dr. Bolte-Taylor talks about how we are feeling beings that think, rather than thinking beings that feel. When we are able to look at our left and right brain emotional parts and help them relate to our left and right brain thinking parts, we have the ability to become much more whole and functional human beings then we ever have before. By using what she calls, the “Brain Huddle,“ all four parts of your brain can relate to each other and figure out what a best course of action is in conceivably any situation. The only thing you need to do is to be able to have a moment to pause, and then to breathe so that you can be able to notice all four characters of your brain all at once. Once that’s established you have the ability to call all four parts of your brain into the ‘huddle’ and figure out which one(s) will take the lead and how each part can support the whole in moving forward in any situation.

How Neuroscience Can Help You Be More Free

By having regular brain huddles, we are able to make better choices for our lives, and ones that help to simply live our lives better. When you can choose minute by minute how you were going to show up in any situation, your ability to overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles can be vastly improved. You can gain a better ability to know how to respond to people in situations in ways that will allow you to grow and thrive. Even in our times of such tremendous isolation and societal strife, we can find a place of peace by relating to all four parts of our brain and positive and supportive ways.

What If Using Neuroscience Is a Problem for You

While I am not any kind of a brain geek, I have been helping people to improve their brain health and become more whole in the process of recovering from mental illness. I have a solid feel for each of the four characters in your brain, and can lend my professional skills to helping you with yours. But don’t take my word for it, feel free to call the number at the top of the page or fill out the inquiry form below to get a free 20 minute phone consult with me. That will help you and each of your four characters get a better idea about whether I could help you and recovering from whatever ails you. The path to wholeness lies in front of you--all you need to do is take the next right step.

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About the author:  Scott Kampschaefer, LCSW is a private practice therapist in Frederick, Maryland.  He has an extensive background in working with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder at a clinic for older adults with these disorders in Austin.  He now works with adults and adolescents 14 and up in private practice. His most recent book is titled The 5 Pillars of Addiction Recovery and is available for purchase on Amazon and in paperback on this website.