Marsha Lucas - Rewire Your Brain For Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness

Praise forRewire Your Brain for Love

With entertaining humor and enlightening clarity, Dr. Lucas blends cutting-edge discoveries in neurobiology and psychology with time-honored practices from ancient wisdom traditions to help us navigate the challenges of intimate relationships. Full of real-life examples and practical tools, this book is a delightful must-read for anyone wanting to get along better with other people.

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; author of The Mindfulness Solution

Rewire Your Brain for Loveis delightfully engaging and easy to read. Everyone will find something life-enhancing inside these pages.

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of the New York Times bestsellers Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

Honest, warmhearted, and funny. Marsha Lucas explains neuroscience in plain English, so all of us can understand. She brings great clarity to the sometimes murky waters of romantic relationships and gives us a wonderful introduction to mindfulness meditation and its benefits.

Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

Marsha Lucas takes the mystery out of two mysterious subjectsthe inner workings of our brains and the successful pursuit of true love. Shes a wise and funny cupid, bringing together our hearts and minds as she explains amygdalas and anxiety, frontal lobes and commitment-phobes. Shes an excellent advocate for meditation, presenting its benefits in a unique, compelling way.

Priscilla Warner, author of Learning to Breathe

Each of us has the potential to live with an open, loving heart. This book shows us how meditation awakens our capacity for increased presence, intimacy, and understanding in our relationships. With clarity and humor, Marsha Lucas gives us both the fascinating science behind this transformation, and the practices that make it possible.

Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance

WithRewire Your Brain for Love,Marsha Lucas has pulled off an achievement that is as valuable as it is rare: she synthesizes complex neurophysiological information about the brains role in relationships, in clear, reader-friendly ways; and combines this with effective tools and suggestions for beefing up the capacity for attachment. And theres a bonus: shes a really fine, witty, accessible writer. Anyone who struggles with garden-variety anxiety about love, all the way up to fullblown phobia, should read this book, more than once. And it should be dog-eared and well worn on every therapists reference shelf.

Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, author of Invisible Heroes and creator of the Health Journeys guided imagery series

Dr. Lucas shows readers how to use the power of neuroplasticitythe capacity of the mind to change the brainto build up the circuits of resilience, empathy, and assertiveness for relationships. Her voice is warm, funny, down-to-earth, practical, and so very helpful. This book is like having a best friend who is both savvy about the brain and a world-class therapist.

Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddhas Brain

Marsha LucassRewire Your Brain for Loveis a smart and reader-friendly guide for an exciting journey through our hearts and brains. Dr. Lucas skillfully interweaves her therapeutic and neuroscientific knowledge with personal wisdom into a rich, meaningful, and accessible tapestry that expands our self-awareness in the service of sustaining and deepening our relationships.

Louis Cozolino, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Pepperdine University; author of The Neuroscience of Human Relationships Dr. Lucas provides an accessible and practical guide to help us bring alive the exciting intersection of mindfulness and neuroscience for healthier relationships and a better life.

Elisha Goldstein, PhD author of The Now Effect and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

We live in a world of failed relationships and loss of love. Dr. Lucas has given us the science and clinical application of mindfulness meditation tools to help us heal ourselves, our relationships, and our world. We are all in need of this sage advice.

Allan Warshowsky, MD, FACOG, ABIHM, Director Emeritus of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine

You hold in your hands a unique piece of work. Marsha guides you carefully, to help you understand the unique benefits of mindfulness from the inside-out, and so helps to ignite or re-ignite your passion for the meditative practice. Better relationships lie at the heart of a life of health and well-being. Through reading this book, you learn to become an electrician of your own brain, and discover specific mind techniques that lead to a better relationship with both yourself and those close to you. A delight to readhighly recommended!

Shamash Alidina, author of Mindfulness for Dummies and Relaxation for Dummies

This excellent book takes the reader on an exciting journey of self discovery and healing through the emerging field of neurobiology and mindfulness meditation. Dr. Lucas presents scientific concepts in an easily understood manner and goes on to assist the reader to learn meditation techniques that have demonstrated proven healing benefits for emotional, psychological, and physical problems as well as for those individuals who strive for optimal wellness. This book is a must-read for everyone.

Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP, Professor at George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Colorado; author of The Scientific Basis of Integrative Medicine Ever wondered why you get stuck in the same old relationship patterns? With no-nonsense wit and warmth, Marsha Lucas shows you whats happening at brain level when habits form, persist, and most importantly, shift. Crucially, she also shows you how to apply this knowledge to transform your intimate connectionsall with the simple practice of mindfulness. This book will bring joy not just to many readers, but to those who share their lives.

Ed Halliwell, co-author of The Mindful Manifesto

Copyright 2012 by Marsha Lucas

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: Mountain Meditation from The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems by Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD 2010. Published by The Guilford Press; used with permission of the publisher.

Cover design: Julie Davison Interior design: Tricia Breidenthal

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