Controlling Mental Chaos

Harnessing the Power of the Creative Mind

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

479 kr

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Readers will learn how to use simple, time-tested techniques to control anxiety and recover their creative nature.For centuries, spirituality has told us that the answer to life’s problems lies within us, if only we would realize that we are more than what we imagine. Now, scientific understanding is showing us the way. For humans, anxiety is the background “fever” that never breaks but can often get much worse. Whether the causes are individual, relational, cultural, or pandemic problems, when they occur, they affect our ability to live a joyful and creative life. This often means getting mired in uncontrolled mind loops and incessant circular thinking, making us feel helpless and stuck. In this book, Jaime Pineda shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how using simple, time-tested techniques we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature.The key to the solution is to understand that the intellect only helps to some extent, but by itself cannot solve its own problem. What we need is a mind that can, in a nonjudgmental way, distance itself from the thought patterns that trap us. We are born with an incredible, original mind that quickly becomes obscured by the fever of fear and anxiety. But we can recover this mind quickly. Pineda teaches us how to recognize the basic problem and find the solution through a series of steps and techniques that help bring us out of the loops and recover a cleaner mindset that enables us to move beyond the static of anxiety.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-07-21
Mått148 x 218 x 21 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538179802

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Jaime A. Pineda, PhD, is professor of cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. For 28 years, he directed the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory where he explored the relationship between mind and brain. He is the author of many widely cited papers in animal and human cognitive and systems neuroscience. He is the editor of Mirror Neurons and author of The Social Impulse: The Evolution and Neuroscience of What Brings Us Together. He residesJaime lives in San Diego, California with his wife Jane.

According to Pineda, a professor of cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychiatry, we are born with an “original mind” that is open, eager, and without preconceptions. But life experiences have a way of disrupting this natural flow. Gradually we begin to overthink, analyze, and worry, creating a monkey mind that leads to obsession and unease. The mind turns from without to within, the world becomes smaller, focus centers on the future and the past instead of the present, and we lose creativity. Pineda blends years of scientific study with the tenets of Zen Buddhism to create a plan to reset the mind and return to our original thoughts. He includes exercises intended to raise questions, prompt self-love, and reduce ruminations and detailed instructions on practicing mindfulness and setting boundaries on our thoughts. Pineda combines case studies and his personal experiences with scientific studies to illustrate the process. Change isn’t easy, but under the author’s guidance, readers will learn to welcome insights, clear out the chatter, and find balance in their thoughts.