Charlotte A. Tomaino - Awakening the Brain

Human potential cannot be quantified. The more we learn about the brain, the more hidden promise we unearth.

W hat if you could harness the full spectrum of your abilities by engaging your brain in such a way to expand your awareness and broaden your skill sets? Through simple exercises and insights, you can increase your capacity to learn and fundamentally change the way your brain functions.

In Awakening the Brain, Dr. Charlotte A. Tomaino reveals how the way you think and what you believe can actually awaken your brain and expand your consciousness. Youll learn how to:

read your Brain-Body Compass to make positive choices;

alleviate stress to keep your brain in its optimal arousal state;

focus your mind to guide your thoughts and emotions;

connect with the inherent strength of your intuition; and

engage the full power of your thoughts and beliefs.

Microsoft Tags throughout the book link to free explanatory videos for those who want more information.

Wake up to your true potential!

Awaken your brain and unleash your hidden potential

In Awakening the Brain, youll meet ordinary individuals who unleashed their full potential in profound, miraculous waysfrom recovering from severe brain injuries to overcoming anxiety disorders.

Drawing from her unique background as a neuropsychologist and former nun, Dr. Charlotte A. Tomaino explores the powerful impact of belief and spirituality on the actual function and structure of the brain to offer the tools you need to expand your consciousness, raise your awareness, and fully engage the power of your brain to create the life you desire.

Awakening the Brain offers the wisdom of experience from Charlotte Tomaino, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist and a spiritual pilgrim. Hope for regaining brain function after trauma and for transcendence of our human consciousness to awakened states is skillfully shared in these pages.

Joyce Whiteley Hawkes, PhD, author of Cell-Level Healing and Resonance: Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality

Illuminating the interaction between the brain, faith, spirituality, and personal choices, Tomaino offers hope that each person can achieve an enlightened state that will enrich their lives and transform the world.

Sister Janice McLaughlin, MM , president of the Maryknoll Sisters

Dr. Tomainos brilliant work as a neuroscientist and devoted spiritual practitioner has birthed an inspiring, practical book that offers readers all that they would want to know about the undeniable partnership between the human brain and inner spirit.

Michael Bernard Beckwith , author of Spiritual Liberation

Charlotte A. Tomaino, PhD , is a clinical neuropsychologist with thirty years of experience. Her dedication to helping patients develop practical solutions for the traumatic loss of brain function and her unique focus on the effects of thought and spirituality on the brain have garnered national media attention in Time magazine and the New York Times for her groundbreaking work in neuroscience. Dr. Tomaino is a full-time clinician in private practice in White Plains, New York, and a popular guest speaker at keynotes and conventions.

Learn more at awakeningthebrain.com.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tomaino, Charlotte A.

Awakening the brain : the neuropsychology of grace / Charlotte A. Tomaino.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Brain. 2. Mind and body. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.

QP376.T633 2012

612.8'2dc23

2011053031

ISBN: 978-1-58270-311-4

ISBN: 978-1-4516-2827-4 (ebook)

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This book is dedicated to all who are seeking this information, including those who desire brain expansion due to injury or developmental limitations, those who seek spiritual expansion, and those who are aging and are approaching another life stage to be transformed.

G etting an authors inspiration onto paper and into your hands, eyes, or ears is a vast undertaking in our technological world, and I have great appreciation for all those who have contributed to and expanded my journey with Awakening the Brain .