Amen - Change your brain, change your body: use your brain to get and keep the body you have always wanted: boost your brain to improve your weight, skin, heart, energy, and focus

PART ONE

Introduction: The Missing Link
Boost Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

1. The Brain-Body Solution
Ten Basic Principles to Change Your Brain and Your Body

PART TWO

2. The Craving Solution
Use Your Brain to Increase Your Willpower and Calm the Urges That Prevent You From Achieving Your Goals

3. The Weight Solution
Use Your Brain to Achieve Your Optimal Weight

4. The Nutrition Solution
Feed Your Brain to Look and Feel Younger

5. The Exercise Solution
Exercise Your Body to Strengthen Your Brain

PART THREE

6. The Skin Solution
Brain Signals to Soothe and Smooth Your Skin

7. The Hormone Solution
Balance Your Hormones to Turn Back the Clock

8. The Heart Solution
Use Your Brain to Strengthen and Soothe Your Heart

9. The Focus and Energy Solution
Boost Your Energy to Stay on Track Toward Your Goals

PART FOUR

10. The Sleep Solution
Rest Your Brain for a Slimmer Shape and Smoother Skin

11. The Stress Solution
Relax Your Brain to Reduce Your Wrinkles and Improve Your Immune System

12. The Memory Solution
Remember What You Need to Do Every Day

13. The ANT Solution
Think Your Way to Being Thinner, Younger, and Happier

14. The Passion Solution
Make Love to Recharge Your Brain and Body

15. The Brain Health Solution
Treat Brain Disorders to Protect Against Physical Illnesses

16. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Change Other Peoples Bodies
How Your Brain Influences the Physical and Mental Health of Others

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BRAIN BASICS

THE MISSING LINK
B OOST Y OUR B RAIN TO G ET AND K EEP THE B ODY Y OU H AVE A LWAYS W ANTED

Fifty percent of the brain is dedicated to vision.
How you look plays a large role in how you feel. Both matter
to your success at work and in your relationships.
It is not just vanity, it is about health.
To look and feel your best, you must first think about and
optimize your brain.

I live in Newport Beach, California. We have often been called the plastic society, because we have more plastic walking around our streets and beaches than almost anywhere else in the world. One of my friends says that God will never flood Newport Beach because all of the women will float. Most people throughout the world, not just in Newport Beach, care more about their faces, their boobs, their bellies, their butts, and their abs than they do their brains. But it is your brain that is the key to having the face, the breasts, the belly, the butt, the abs, and the overall health you have always wanted; and it is brain dysfunction, in large part, that ruins our bodies and causes premature aging.

It is your brain that decides to get you out of bed in the morning to exercise, to give you a stronger, leaner body, or to cause you to hit the snooze button and procrastinate your workout. It is your brain that pushes you away from the table telling you that you have had enough, or that gives you permission to have the second bowl of Rocky Road ice cream, making you look and feel like a blob. It is your brain that manages the stress in your life and relaxes you so that you look vibrant, or, when left unchecked, sends stress signals to the rest of your body and wrinkles your skin. And it is your brain that turns away cigarettes, too much caffeine, and alcohol, helping you look and feel healthy, or that gives you permission to smoke, to have that third cup of coffee, or to drink that third glass of wine, thus making every system in your body look and feel older.

Your brain is the command and control center of yourbody. If you want a better body, the first place to ALWAYSstart is by having a better brain.

My interest in the brain-body connection started more than thirty years ago. As a college student, my thinking was influenced by the work of O. Carl Simonton, the oncologist who taught people to use visualization to boost their immune system in order to fight cancer. In medical school, I became trained in the use of medical hypnosis and began to see the powerful effect it can have on healing the body. I personally saw that it was helpful for treating headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, pain, weight loss, insomnia, a Parkinsonian tremor, and heart arrhythmias. I then became trained in a treatment technique called biofeedback and found that when I taught my patients to use their brains to warm their hands or breathe with their bellies, their whole body went into a relaxed state, which was helpful in decreasing stress, lowering blood pressure, and combating headaches.