The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body

The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body | Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins | Worth the time if you're open to the technique

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	The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins Trumpeter, 2007 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in ?narrow-focus attention?: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress?and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls ?Open Focus.?

This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance. The Open-Focus Brain features eight essential attention exercises for improving health, along with an audio CD in which the author guides the reader through fundamental Open-Focus exercises that can be used on a regular basis to enhance our health and well-being.

Dr. Fehmi writes, ?Everyone has the ability to heal their nervous systems, to dissolve their pain, to slow down and yet accomplish more, to experience the deeper side of life?in short, to change their lives for the better dramatically.? At last readers can learn the techniques that Dr. Fehmi has offered to thousands of clients?the same drug-free, safe, and effective techniques that have led to remarkable and long-lasting results.The Open-Focus Brain offers readers a revolutionary, drug-free way to:

alleviate depression, anxiety, and ADD

reduce stress-related chronic pain

optimize mental and physical performance

Includes a 60-minute audio CD:

essential attention exercises from the book, led by Dr. Fehmi

listeners learn how to "train the brain" to reduce stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and more

safe and effective techniques used in Dr. Fehmi's clinic for decades

Listen to an excerpt from the audio CD online in MP3 format:

Track 1: Introduction

Track 2: Head and Hands

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Methods to Attain Alpha and Beyond

This fascinating piece of work is a both a history and a set of methods for those who wish to improve their perceptions, physical well-being and emotional state. Fehmi, one of the original researchers in biofeedback, tells of how he stumbled upon the technique of paying attention to space (like between the eyes, the fingers, etc.) and how that instantly catapulted subjects into an Alpha state, while no other method worked, whether visual, mental, auditory, olfactory, tactile or a combination of these.

The author provides several excellent and well tested methods to open one's focus, and the effects of this process are extremely beneficial in almost all areas of life.

The text is well written and easy to understand, and I recommend it highly for just about anyone that isn't an Aharant.

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Worth the time if you're open to the technique

I have often found it difficult to relax as often during the day as I should. By taking the time to practice the Open-Focus technique I have found that I can invoke alert relaxation pretty much instantly (still not as often as I probably need, but I only started this a month ago). Perhaps most importantly for me, by combining Open-Focus with deep breathing, I have been able to pretty much eliminate frequent, stress induced headaches that had been a problem for years.

I have not found the supplied CD exercises useful for me and like most books of this stripe there is a fair amount of repetition (probably a word count issue). However, as a long time personal growth pursuer who has paid fairly close attention to this sort of stuff, I did learn enough new information that I can use to make me recommend this book.

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The open focus book is very revealing and detailed.It is a real eye poener.I am still reading it.We cannot wait to play the cd and improve our lives.

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