Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain: Integrating Neuroscience Strategies for ADHD, Anxiety, Depression & PTSD - Softcover

Tarrant, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683730720 ISBN 13: 9781683730729

Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media, 2017

Synopsis

Discover how to increase the power of meditation and mindfulness in your clinical practice.

Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain takes a practical, individual, brain-based approach to the practice of meditation. Author Jeff Tarrant, PhD, goes beyond traditional meditation practices to include a broad collection of mind-body strategies to effectively treat ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD.

Over 50 worksheets, handouts, tips, scripts and exercises on:
- Matching the four styles of Neuromeditation with client needs and goals
- Yoga, meditation-in-motion and nature-based strategies
- Using therapeutic tools such as biofeedback, essential oils & virtual reality
- Everything you need to immediately begin using these methods in your practice

About this title

About the Author

Jeff Tarrant, PhD, BCN, is the founder and CEO of the NeuroMeditation Institute (NMI). He is a licensed psychologist, educator, and speaker. He has devoted his career to exploring and teaching about the mind/body connection. His work utilizes several forms of technology-based therapies including neurofeedback, audio visual entertainment, virtual reality, and heart rate variability biofeedback. In addition, Dr. Tarrant has studied and taught Qigong, mindfulness, and energy psychology for the past 15 years and incorporates these practices into his model of treatment.

Review

"Dr. Jeff Tarrant helped me better understand my brain! Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain clearly explained to me many things that I had wondered about and how meditation is an effective non-medication treatment." --Jim Spencer, Founder, Newsy

"Ready to embrace a new, better version of yourself and open to the beauty and magic that surrounds you in your everyday life? Then this book is for you! Anyone interested in exploring meditation as a tool to combat anxiety, lower stress and find a deeper sense of peace will benefit from this book! Dr. Tarrant, an expert in the field of neuromeditation strategies, will show you how you can combat anxiety, lower stress, find a sharper focus as well as a deeper sense of peace. Dr. Tarrant offers concrete, scientific data which explains how and why this practice works. A fascinating and mind opening read, Dr. Tarrant's writing style is down to earth, clear and welcoming; he explains some advanced scientific ideas in an easy, digestible way! Allow this book to be a guide into embracing a new, more beautiful and powerful way to live!" --Laura Lynne Jackson, NY Times bestselling author of The Light Between Us

"Dr. Tarrant has written a groundbreaking new book that should become essential reading for not only meditators and teachers of meditation, but also neuroscientists, mental health practitioners, and anyone looking for the most up-to-date information on brain and mind. This work combines current insights and the latest brain monitoring technology, to open new doors to practice, exploration, and research. The potential of meditation as a life-enhancing and healing practice reaches new levels with Dr. Tarrant's innovative teachings." --, Past President, International Society for Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR), Past President, Association for Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback (AAPB)

"Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain is a pathbreaking book that brings meditation and mindfulness firmly into the 21st century. Neuromeditation expert Jeff Tarrant skillfully integrates fascinating real-life stories and cutting-edge brain science to provide a clear roadmap for how different meditative practices engage, rewire and integrate the brain. This is a must-have book for clinicians and anyone working with meditation and mindfulness. Highly recommended!" --Donald Altman, MA, LPC, bestselling author of The Mindfulness Toolbox and 101 Mindful Ways to Build Resilience

"Dr. Jeff Tarrant, a researcher in human consciousness for over 15 years undertook a surging and cutting-edge work in understanding the latest brain wave patterns and mechanism during meditation. Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain is Dr. Tarrant's platform of presenting what is happening in meditation in health and in disease conditions. The book presents the essentials in understanding the neuroscience of meditation to models of brain wave patterns in regular meditation practices and in clinical conditions frequently encountered like PTSD, ADHD and Depression. Jeff Tarrant s emerging knowledge of the brain and its relationship with meditation will guide future scientists and usher this subfield of neurological research called neuromeditation." --Master Blenn J Mendoza, MD, MPH author of Better Person Mindset

"Dr. Tarrant's book has the perfect balance of technical precision and creativity, scholarship and personal experience. This is more than a workbook about how to 'rewire the brain.' Integrating information from diverse fields, it presents practical steps to reduce anxiety, increase compassion, improve focus and, in general, improve quality of life. Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain is written as much for the clinician as for the meditator or anyone who wants to recover joy of life in these stress-filled times. I highly recommend it!" --Kenneth Cohen, author of The Way of Qigong

Edition details

• Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1683730720
• ISBN 13: 9781683730729
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188