Coach and therapist Glyn Blackett proposes that emotional well-being and optimal mental performance are founded on skills in regulating the physiology that underlies mental states. The author calls these mind-body skills, and they include:
- awareness of the mind-body connection: how thoughts and
beliefs influence body feelings and sensations, and vice versa
ability to calm the body and let go of negative emotions and
cravings
- stable but flexible focus and concentration
- ability to access and sustain positive emotion and motivation.
Inside the book you'll discover:
- underlying patterns common to self-regulation problems from
stress, anxiety and low mood to brain fog and fatigue
- the common mistake that actually amplifies the stress response
the science behind the mind-body connection and how it can be
effectively applied with biofeedback and neurofeedback
- why breathing is right at the heart of self-control challenges and
solutions
- practical models for working with self-control challenges and
solutions
- the preconditions for flow (i.e. states of optimal functioning and
self-control)
- how attentional flexibility is key to mind-body regulation, and how
it can be trained using mindfulness
- different forms of biofeedback and neurofeedback, and how their
individual strengths combine to develop mind-body skills
how biofeedback actually supports mindfulness in spite of
apparent contradictions.
