Train Your Brain Engage Your Heart Transform Your Life: A Two Step Program to Enhance Attention; Decrease Stress; Cultivate Peace, Joy and Resilience; . in Attention Interpretaion Therapy (Ait)

Have you ever wondered if there is a way to integrate science and spirituality to nurture a healthier brain, and abiding peace and joy? Is there a universal language of happiness and suffering? How can we overcome the limitations of attention deficit, negative ruminations and fear? Are peace, joy, resilience, and altruism hardwired within us, and if so, why do they play hide and seek with us and are not so easily accessible? Scientists and mystics have been asking these questions for a very long time. In his book, Train Your Brain....Engage Your Heart....Transform Your Life, physician and integrative medicine expert Dr. Amit Sood answers these and many other questions. Dr. Sood synthesizes concepts from neurosciences, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to offer a practical, hands-on approach to cultivate a healthier brain. By training our attention and refining interpretations, by nurturing gratitude, compassion, acceptance, forgiveness, and higher meaning and purpose, and by developing deeper relationships, better self care, meditation, and prayer, we can cultivate the level of objectivity required to successfully cope with daily obstacles like stress and illness. The skills train your brain's higher center to help you decrease the negative ruminations of the mind and enhance its engagement with the present moment and its contents. The skills also engage your heart to fill the present moment with greater joy. This book is not a one way dialog but offers an interactive experience using concepts and exercises many of which have been tested in research studies. The book offers a complete program toward enhancing present moment awareness and embodying greater gratitude, compassion, acceptance, forgiveness, and higher meaning and purpose-a state of Heartfulness.

Dr. Amit Sood is the Director of Research and Practice in the Mayo Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic. An Associate Professor of Medicine, he chairs the Mind Body Medicine Initiative. He completed his residency in Internal medicine at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, earned an Integrative Medicine Fellowship from the University of Arizona, and a Masters in Clinical Research from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He has received several NIH and foundation grants for conducting research to develop and incorporate integrative and mind-body approaches into conventional medical care and to promote well being. He provides integrative and mind-body medicine consults to patients at the Mayo Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program in Rochester, MN.