Health Research

Our digestive system plays an unusual role in mind/body health in that unlike most of the body other than the brain and spinal cord, it contains the largest concentration of brain-like cells and neurotransmitters. The “trust your gut” concept is just as important as trusting your brain. This convenient, short-listen audiobook explores how the brain in your head and the brain in your gut can work together to improve your health.

"Mom, I'm so scared! I think my brain is breaking!" When Michelle Reittinger was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at twenty-four, she eagerly sought psychiatric help, only to find herself on a harrowing rollercoaster of erratic mood swings, multiple psychiatrists, and a cocktail of psychiatric drugs. Her struggles led to a devastating breakdown, numerous hospitalizations, and suicide attempts. Overwhelmed by hopelessness, she believed that her family—her husband and young children—would be better off without her. But then, a glimmer of hope appeared.

Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and the news you read, numbers have worked their way into every part of our lives. But is life better this way? How are all of those numbers affecting us? With fascinating, sometimes frightening and sometimes shrewdly funny research, behavioural economists Micael Dahlen and Helge Thorbjørnsen explain why we're so attached to numbers and how we can free ourselves from their tyranny.

Levi Cohen's "Sleep IQ" is a manual that offers 300 smart suggestions to improve the quality of your slumber. The methods Cohen uses in "Sleep IQ" are both creative and useful. The audiobook is meant to provide listeners with rapid, doable advice; that they should be able to find a suggestion they can put to use right away. Because of its format, it's the perfect bedside companion for both daily listening and long-term reference.

Once you understand how the brain and mind literally “talk” to the rest of the body, you next need to grasp how transformation works in just about any system and endeavor. While this convenient, short book conveniently dips into the world of philosophy, it does so in a practical way that the listener can understand and apply when it comes to mind/body healing.

The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over. In The Persuaders best-selling author Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarisation.

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes that too many Australian boys have got it too easy - and the result is a generation of ‘boofheads’: boys with huge egos who think they are too good to stack the dishwasher or turn up to school. They expect the world and give little in return. But things are about to change. From the author of the groundbreaking Australian best seller The Princess Bitchface Syndrome and researcher Elly Robinson comes this essential companion book for boys.

This audiobook talks about a popular low-carb diet - the ketogenic diet - popular with people who feel low carb diets are effective. This is part of a three-book series that covers different diets. However, what's different about this book (and others) is the fact that I am presenting to you my research findings complete with the framework I built on the Ketogenic diet - essentially an objective review of the diet based upon authenticated scientific research.

Discover the empowering, vibrant world of simple, natural herbal remedies that ACTUALLY work to improve wellness, even if you're a beginner and have been overwhelmed before with a flood of confusing info. Are you seeking natural, eco-friendly alternatives to conventional medicine for those pesky health issues? Do you dream of managing your health independently, using nature's bountiful resources safely and effectively? Or perhaps you're overwhelmed by the flood of information out there, wary of trying something new without proper guidance? If any of these resonate, you're not alone.

This convenient, short-listen book explores how two-level immune system works and how the mind can communicate and influence its functioning. Specifically, this book addresses the general concept of balancing the immune system through external influences, such as a patient’s thought processes. It also delves into general health concepts as well as specific disorders, such as psychosomatic illnesses and cancer. This is the fifth book in this series.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was developed to accelerate human change. Typically training includes route mastering of an seemingly endless array of techniques. While students of the field may be awed by the results and how quickly that can change human behavior, rarely do they understand why they work. Thus, they have very little capability when it comes to modifying the techniques to fit their situations. This book provides the solution to that dilemma.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have a long history when it comes to healing the body. More recently revelations about mind/body integration have revealed many of the secrets of how the suggestion and imagination can affect both psychosomatic and somatic health.

The implications of Erickson's approaches to hypnotherapy and psychotherapy are vast. This concise audiobook presents the four major developments that emanated from his work. It is through understanding these views that you may discover ways to further implement his ideas and techniques in your practice. Milton H. Erickson, MD was an American psychiatrist who pioneered several indirect or permissive hypnosis techniques. He also developed several naturalistic techniques using metaphors and stories.

The Neurology of Suggestion is the one book that will have anyone who has studied or uses hypnosis or hypnotherapy scratching my head and wondering whether they have been getting it wrong for all these years. Based upon centuries of mesmerism, suggestopedia, hypnosis, and hypnotherapy tradition, this book is bold enough to shatter myths while updating theory with scientific findings in the field of neurology and other science.

One of the first skills that NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) students are taught is how to immediately establish rapport - and how to break rapport when needed. This book presents several techniques that can be used to gain a high-level rapport that can then be used to influence, sale, and gain better empathy. Although NLP was first developed in the 1970s, this book considers up-to-date developments in the field of neurology and how they relate to NLP.

Every human activity or occurrence takes place in a specific place and time. That includes behaviors and competencies as well as our physical and mental health. Just about all transformation involves a change in the space and time attributes as we move from the past, the present, and the future. Understanding these easy to grasp concepts can yield fast personal changes and provide the serious transformational coach and mental health, and medical practitioners a radical new way of thinking.

The concepts in Neurology of Suggestion series are key to human transformation. These concepts start with traditional direct hypnosis methods and indirect suggestion hypnotherapy then incorporates recent findings in mind/body health, modern neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and a touch of Tibetan Buddhism. Our goal was to find a comprehensive transformation technology that is logical, science-based, but easy to master quickly.

Behavior change is hard, but O’Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behavior, individuals and organizations can adapt to the demands of the modern world.

This book is a detailed manual of the e-cigarette. But along with hard facts, personal experiences also provide the stimulus for this publishing effort. I have been puffing cigarettes as long as I can remember, and it was inevitable that I would not only contract a sinus, but also go through a throat surgery. Undergoing the medical procedure, I was strictly warned not to smoke for a week. Since I had no other choice, I figured out that after 29 long years, the time had come for me to say goodbye to smoking.

While ageing itself may be inevitable, what if there were a way to measure our biological age? And what if there were strategies to slow down, or even reverse, the ageing process? In True Age, Dr Morgan Levine gives us an insight into the cutting-edge developments in the science of ageing and longevity and teaches us that through understanding our biological age, we can monitor and even control the process of ageing.