What is Earthing?

Studies now show that just standing on the earth barefoot has amazing health benefits as we drain off free-radicals and the electric charge we carry with us. This phenomena is also known as "earthing".

Think of it this way. The earth is a giant car battery with a liquid metal core. It carries a strongly negative charge. And anything above the ground (such as in the air or insulated from the ground) carries a positive charge. This is why lightning strikes oocur, and why we need to “ground” or protect all of our electrical and electronic equipment, to keep them from sparking or short circuiting.

In essence, to ground something is to plug it back in to the earth, which is actually the third prong on our electrical outlets (called a ground).

Human beings, and all organisms for that matter, are electrical in nature as well. We get ekgs, mri’s, and all sorts of electrical tests to measure our health, hearts, and bodies; our nervous system works on electrical impulses, and even the heart beats with an electrical charge (which is why you may get a pacemaker if it starts getting out of tune).

We are electrical in nature, and like electrical equipment and electronics needs to be properly grounded to function well (if you’ve ever listened to an ungrounded radio you know what I mean, you’ll hear tons of static and background noise until it’s grounded), we need to be grounded for proper health and well-being and for proper functioning of our bodies.

At no point in our history have we been this disconnected or insulated from the earth. We wear insulated rubber-soled shoes rubber does not conduct electricity, but insulates or prevents its conduction or transmission),, drive insulated cars with rubber tires, and live in insulated homes; AND we even practice YOGA on insulated rubber mats.

This insulation allows us to build up a charge throughout the day, particularly as we’re swimming a sea of electrical transmisions and wires (in our phones, our appliances, our walls, beneath our feet (look at the electrical cords down by your computer) and all around us. So we’re insulated from the ground, AND surrounded by electricity.

What does this mean? Well, as you’ve seen in the winter-time (when you may inadvertently, or DELIBERATELY zap the person standing next to you) we carry a HUGE charge on and in our bodies.

And that charge turns out to be quiet harmful to our bodies. It disrupts our nervous system, confuses our minds (like that noise on the ungrounded radio going on through our brains), creates inflammation throughout the body (free radicals are positively charged particles with no way to be drained) and raises our cortisol levels (those pesky fight-or-flight stress hormones that keep us on edge, can put us in a panic, and wreak havoc on entire system, and in particular our blood-pressure, when they’re constantly being produced and have no way to drain).



All of these things occur, or build up, because we’re ungrounded and have no way to drain them. However, once we go barefoot outside, such as when we’re barefoot running or barefoot walking, they instantly begin to drain as we plug back in to the earth. However, most of us can't spend 24/7 in direct contact to the Earth. We're sitting at our computers at work for 9 or more hours per day, then we're commuting in our insulated cars, and next thing you know you're busy at home taking care of the family. Fortunately, there are Earthing products that help ground us even when we're indoors. Direct contact to the Earth is always preferred, but if you can't make it happen all the time, these products are the next best thing.  You can find out more about Earthing products by clicking here. 

We’ve all felt that amazing “ahhhhhhhh” sensation of stress and pressure draining away at the end of the day when we slip off our shoes and go barefoot through the grass or on the beach.

That sensation isn’t just in our heads, it’s real. When we connect with the earth barefoot, we’re LITERALLY draining that tension away, because we’re draining off that positive electrical build-up we’ve generated in our bodies.

Studies show this helps with reducing blood pressure, inflammation, helping regulate our sleep and other body functions, levelize blood-sugar levels, and preliminary studies show even helps with many auto-immune system diseases.

These are HUGE health benefits, and all available to us if we simply slip off our shoes and feel the earth beneath our feet.

Hippocrates and the Water Cure

HISTORY OF WATER CURE

(From Back to Eden – Jethro Kloss)

Water has been used from time immemorial for remedial purposes. The world’s oldest medical literature makes numerous references to the beneficial use of the bath in treating various diseases. The learned Greek, Hippocrates, who lived about five hundred years before Christ and is referred to as the “father of modern medicine,” was the first to write much on the healing of diseases with water. He used water extensively, both internally and externally, in treating illness of all kinds.“When pain seizes the side, either at the commencement or at a later stage, it will not be improper to try to dissolve the pain by hot applications...A soft large sponge, squeezed out of hot water and applied, forms a good application...A soft fomentation like this soothes pains, even such as shoot to the clavicle.” Hippocrates goes on to say: “...for the bath soothes the pain in the side, chest and back; concocts the sputa, promotes expectoration, improves the respiration, and allays lassitude; for it soothes the joints and the outer skin, and is diuretic, removes heaviness of the head, and moistens the nose. Such are the benefits to be derived from the bath.”

Long before Hippocrates recorded his experiences with the healing properties of water, we have learned from the study of ancient history that the Egyptians enjoyed bathing in their sacred river, the Nile. Pictures of ancient Egyptians, found in the tombs, show people preparing for a bath. The baby Moses was found in the rushes when Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the river to bathe. Bathing held a prominent place in the instructions that were given by Moses, under divine guidance, for the government of the Hebrew nation. The relations of the bath to the treatment of leprosy would lead us to believe that it was used for its curative effects, and it would seem likely that an agent held in such high regard as a useful remedy would also be highly esteemed as a preventive of disease.

The ancient Persians and Greeks erected stately and magnificent public buildings devoted to bathing. The baths of Darius I (about 558-486 B.C.), one of the earliest Persian kings, are spoken of as being especially remarkable. The Greeks were probably the first nation to use the bath for personal cleanliness as well as for health reasons. Records show that they were using the warm bath more than one thousand years before the birth of Christ. In the ruins of King Nestor’s palace in Greece there was found a built-in-bathtub and drainage system more than 3000 years old. Rome, however, surpassed all the older nations in the costliness and magnificence of her bathing facilities. The first public bath was erected in Rome in the year 312 B.C. and it used only cold water. It was not long, however, until warm water baths replaced all those using cold water alone. Some of the greatest works of architecture in Rome were the warm public baths, which were supplied with every convenience for increasing the use and luxury of bathing as well as having many rooms for social gatherings. Kings and emperors each endeavored to construct a larger and more ornate public bath than their predecessors. The baths of Diocletian, completed in 302 A.D., were the largest in the world and could accommodate up to 18,000 bathers at the same time. It took 10,000 Christian slaves nearly seven years to complete their construction. When the baths were completed, the slaves had the choice of renouncing their religion or suffering martyrdom. At one time the number of public baths in Rome reached nearly one thousand.

Two noted physicians of the Roman Empire, Celsus and Galen, praised and glorified the bath as being invaluable for the treatment of a number of specific diseases. Galen said that exercise and friction must be used with the bath in order to have a perfect cure. If only the physicians through the following centuries had continued the practice of Galen, as described in his works, what a lot of suffering would have been avoided. Doctors would have refreshed and revived their fever-stricken patients with the use of God-given water, instead of giving them drugs like quinine, mercury, arsenic, etc, and letting them be consumed by fever that parched their lips and disorganized their blood. The Emperor Augustus was said to have been cured by water remedies of a disease that had resisted all other methods of treatment.

The Arabians have sometimes been looked upon as a wandering horde of wild men, but about one thousand years ago they had physicians among them that were some of the most learned men of that age. They were very sensible and enthusiastic about the benefits of the bath. Rhazes, one of the most prominent among them, described a method that is scarcely outdone by present-day water treatments. Baths were also used during pestilences.

In Constantinople, Turkish baths were very popular during the fifteenth century.

In the year 1600 A.D., public vapor baths were numerous in Paris, France. They were connected with the barber shops, as many still are in that country at the present time. Dr. Bell, of Paris, states that in connection with the city hospitals nearly 130,000 baths were given in a single year to outside patients. Undoubtedly, patients in the hospitals were steamed and bathed as well. What a marked contrast with present-day hospitals in this country where the use of water treatments is most sadly neglected. Such neglect is inexcusable.

The Germans in olden times were very fond of bathing. According to the records of history, during the Middle Ages when there were many cases of leprosy, it was a religious duty to bathe because of the national faith in bathing. History also tells us that Emperor Charlemagne, who was a giant of a man over seven feet tall with long blond hair, held court while relaxing in a huge warm bath.

During the early part of the eighteenth century, water was used medicinally. Floyer published a history of bathing in which remarkable cures were reported, and he recommended the bath for numerous diseases. A Mr. Hancock, who was a minister, published in 1723 a book called “Common Water, the Best Cure for Fevers.” Another book, whose author is unknown, was called “Curiosities of Common Water.” It was also published in 1723. In this book water was said to be an “excellent remedy which will perform cures with very little trouble, and without charge, and may be truly styled a universal remedy.” French and German writers were also advocating the use of water as a remedy during this same time.

In the early part of the nineteenth century, Vincent Priessnitz popularized the use of cold water as a curative measure. He was a peasant who lived in the Austrian part of Silesia from 1799 to 1851. In the small Austrian town where he grew up, water was used by the people to treat many ailments. When only a young man, Priessnitz suffered a severe injury. Several of his ribs were broken and his chest was caved in on the left side by a loaded wagon. Several of his teeth were also knocked out. The doctors who came to see him did not offer any hope for a cure. But he remembered several years before when he had successfully treated a badly crushed finger by holding it in cold water until the bleeding stopped and the pain was relieved, and he decided to treat his broken ribs in the same way. So by taking deep breaths while leaning over a chair to expand his ribs and using cold water, he was gradually completely cured.

It was not long after this that Priessnitz began to use this cold water treatment on others. His routine course of treatment consisted of cold baths and compresses, along with friction. He used this form of treatment for all manner of disease, since this was what had cured him. He combined the cold water therapy with exercise, deep breathing, and a diet of dark bread, meat, and vegetables that he grew in his own garden. His success greatly encouraged, but he met with considerable opposition from the doctors when he treated some of their patients and cured them, after the doctors had given them up.

Although Priessnitz had no formal education, he developed various ways of applying cold water to the body to treat different diseases. His fame increased rapidly and in a few years he was known throughout the world. Today he is called the father of modern hydrotherapy. He succeeded in restoring hundreds of people to health who had been pronounced incurable. His friends claimed that he was a great discoverer, but he really didn’t discover anything that had not been known for at least a century, if not for thousands of years before.

A famous neurologist in Vienna, Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, went to observe Priessnitz’s water cure treatment center in Graefenberg, Austria. He was so impressed with what could be accomplished with such simple means that he spent the rest of his life working to develop new methods of water treatment. The influence of Dr. Winternitz was felt by such well-known American water cure advocates as Dr. Simon Baruch and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. It was Dr. Baruch who was chiefly responsible for the passage of laws in the state of New York that required the establishment of municipal baths in that state. Dr. Kellogg was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, the largest hydrotherapy treatment center in the United States until it was destroyed by fire on February 18, 1902. He developed many new treatments, including the electric light bath, that used natural methods.

The “water cure” spread to America about 1850 and until about 1854 it prospered greatly, but most of the doctors were opposed to this treatment. It seemed almost as though they did not want the people to get hold of any remedy that was practical, inexpensive, and could be used in any home. About 1870 they successfully had a law passed that prevented the water cure practitioners from practicing in New York. Since New York City was the headquarters, as soon as these treatments were stopped there, their use was abandoned nearly everywhere for a while.

Sebastian Kneipp, a Catholic priest in Bavaria who cured Archduke Joseph of Austria of Bright’s disease during the late nineteenth century, gained a wide reputation because of his success with the water cure. He also had his patients return to nature, as far as possible. He used herbs with great success because he combined their use with other natural remedies.

The North American Indians used baths for many diseases. They developed original ways of giving both water and vapor baths. The vapor bath was the most commonly used, and it was followed by a plunge into a cold stream. This is similar to the custom so widely practiced at the present time in Finland, of jumping into either the snow or ice-cold water following a hot sauna bath.

The native Mexicans also use a hot-air bath (sauna). They confine themselves in a brick house that is heated by a furnace located on the outside. They seem to have implicit confidence in the efficiency of the sauna bath to destroy disease, using it with much success when ill.

Water is one of the most powerful and yet one of the simplest remedies that can be used by an intelligent mother who understands the effects of hot and cold on the body. If you cleanse and nourish your body properly, and leave nature to itself, it will renovate and heal the body.

Lately, people have been led to believe that there are remarkable virtues in certain spring waters (this refers to water from certain hot mineral springs that is used for external treatments). The claim that these waters are possessed of a miraculous healing power is not true. The healing virtue is in the moist heat that is obtained from the water.

THE WHOLE THING IN A NUTSHELL IS THAT THE USE OF WATER, COMBINED WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF FRESH AIR, SUNSHINE, PROPER DIET, EXERCISE, REST, RECREATION AND PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS, EFFECTS A CURE.

Unfortunately, in the early days the reputation of water as a remedy was injured because people such as Vincent Priesnitz used it to extremes. Such practitioners did not understand the human body, the use of hot and cold water, or the useful and powerful reactions that are produced in the body when it is properly used. People were led to believe that it was a cure-all, and that cold water was the only remedy no matter what the condition of the disease might be. Rest, pure air, nourishing and simple food, sunlight, and exercise are of equal importance to water in all cases. Although water is not a specific, it is one of the most valuable remedies. This is true not only of water, but also of all the other natural remedies. There may be a specific remedy for a particular disease, but there is not one and only one remedy for every disease. Several remedial agents must be combined to suit the condition, and not a single one used to the exclusion of all the others. But even so, water is an important agency in the treatment of nearly every disease when it is correctly applied and used with other forms of treatment.

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HISTORY OF WATER CURE

(From Back to Eden – Jethro Kloss)

Water has been used from time immemorial for remedial purposes. The world’s oldest medical literature makes numerous references to the beneficial use of the bath in treating various diseases. The learned Greek, Hippocrates, who lived about five hundred years before Christ and is referred to as the “father of modern medicine,” was the first to write much on the healing of diseases with water. He used water extensively, both internally and externally, in treating illness of all kinds. “When pain seizes the side, either at the commencement or at a later stage, it will not be improper to try to dissolve the pain by hot applications...A soft large sponge, squeezed out of hot water and applied, forms a good application...A soft fomentation like this soothes pains, even such as shoot to the clavicle.” Hippocrates goes on to say: “...for the bath soothes the pain in the side, chest and back; concocts the sputa, promotes expectoration, improves the respiration, and allays lassitude; for it soothes the joints and the outer skin, and is diuretic, removes heaviness of the head, and moistens the nose. Such are the benefits to be derived from the bath.”

Long before Hippocrates recorded his experiences with the healing properties of water, we have learned from the study of ancient history that the Egyptians enjoyed bathing in their sacred river, the Nile. Pictures of ancient Egyptians, found in the tombs, show people preparing for a bath. The baby Moses was found in the rushes when Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the river to bathe. Bathing held a prominent place in the instructions that were given by Moses, under divine guidance, for the government of the Hebrew nation. The relations of the bath to the treatment of leprosy would lead us to believe that it was used for its curative effects, and it would seem likely that an agent held in such high regard as a useful remedy would also be highly esteemed as a preventive of disease.

The ancient Persians and Greeks erected stately and magnificent public buildings devoted to bathing. The baths of Darius I (about 558-486 B.C.), one of the earliest Persian kings, are spoken of as being especially remarkable. The Greeks were probably the first nation to use the bath for personal cleanliness as well as for health reasons. Records show that they were using the warm bath more than one thousand years before the birth of Christ. In the ruins of King Nestor’s palace in Greece there was found a built-in-bathtub and drainage system more than 3000 years old. Rome, however, surpassed all the older nations in the costliness and magnificence of her bathing facilities. The first public bath was erected in Rome in the year 312 B.C. and it used only cold water. It was not long, however, until warm water baths replaced all those using cold water alone. Some of the greatest works of architecture in Rome were the warm public baths, which were supplied with every convenience for increasing the use and luxury of bathing as well as having many rooms for social gatherings. Kings and emperors each endeavored to construct a larger and more ornate public bath than their predecessors. The baths of Diocletian, completed in 302 A.D., were the largest in the world and could accommodate up to 18,000 bathers at the same time. It took 10,000 Christian slaves nearly seven years to complete their construction. When the baths were completed, the slaves had the choice of renouncing their religion or suffering martyrdom. At one time the number of public baths in Rome reached nearly one thousand.

Two noted physicians of the Roman Empire, Celsus and Galen, praised and glorified the bath as being invaluable for the treatment of a number of specific diseases. Galen said that exercise and friction must be used with the bath in order to have a perfect cure. If only the physicians through the following centuries had continued the practice of Galen, as described in his works, what a lot of suffering would have been avoided. Doctors would have refreshed and revived their fever-stricken patients with the use of God-given water, instead of giving them drugs like quinine, mercury, arsenic, etc, and letting them be consumed by fever that parched their lips and disorganized their blood. The Emperor Augustus was said to have been cured by water remedies of a disease that had resisted all other methods of treatment.

The Arabians have sometimes been looked upon as a wandering horde of wild men, but about one thousand years ago they had physicians among them that were some of the most learned men of that age. They were very sensible and enthusiastic about the benefits of the bath. Rhazes, one of the most prominent among them, described a method that is scarcely outdone by present-day water treatments. Baths were also used during pestilences.

In Constantinople, Turkish baths were very popular during the fifteenth century.

In the year 1600 A.D., public vapor baths were numerous in Paris, France. They were connected with the barber shops, as many still are in that country at the present time. Dr. Bell, of Paris, states that in connection with the city hospitals nearly 130,000 baths were given in a single year to outside patients. Undoubtedly, patients in the hospitals were steamed and bathed as well. What a marked contrast with present-day hospitals in this country where the use of water treatments is most sadly neglected. Such neglect is inexcusable.

The Germans in olden times were very fond of bathing. According to the records of history, during the Middle Ages when there were many cases of leprosy, it was a religious duty to bathe because of the national faith in bathing. History also tells us that Emperor Charlemagne, who was a giant of a man over seven feet tall with long blond hair, held court while relaxing in a huge warm bath.

During the early part of the eighteenth century, water was used medicinally. Floyer published a history of bathing in which remarkable cures were reported, and he recommended the bath for numerous diseases. A Mr. Hancock, who was a minister, published in 1723 a book called “Common Water, the Best Cure for Fevers.” Another book, whose author is unknown, was called “Curiosities of Common Water.” It was also published in 1723. In this book water was said to be an “excellent remedy which will perform cures with very little trouble, and without charge, and may be truly styled a universal remedy.” French and German writers were also advocating the use of water as a remedy during this same time.

In the early part of the nineteenth century, Vincent Priessnitz popularized the use of cold water as a curative measure. He was a peasant who lived in the Austrian part of Silesia from 1799 to 1851. In the small Austrian town where he grew up, water was used by the people to treat many ailments. When only a young man, Priessnitz suffered a severe injury. Several of his ribs were broken and his chest was caved in on the left side by a loaded wagon. Several of his teeth were also knocked out. The doctors who came to see him did not offer any hope for a cure. But he remembered several years before when he had successfully treated a badly crushed finger by holding it in cold water until the bleeding stopped and the pain was relieved, and he decided to treat his broken ribs in the same way. So by taking deep breaths while leaning over a chair to expand his ribs and using cold water, he was gradually completely cured.

It was not long after this that Priessnitz began to use this cold water treatment on others. His routine course of treatment consisted of cold baths and compresses, along with friction. He used this form of treatment for all manner of disease, since this was what had cured him. He combined the cold water therapy with exercise, deep breathing, and a diet of dark bread, meat, and vegetables that he grew in his own garden. His success greatly encouraged, but he met with considerable opposition from the doctors when he treated some of their patients and cured them, after the doctors had given them up.

Although Priessnitz had no formal education, he developed various ways of applying cold water to the body to treat different diseases. His fame increased rapidly and in a few years he was known throughout the world. Today he is called the father of modern hydrotherapy. He succeeded in restoring hundreds of people to health who had been pronounced incurable. His friends claimed that he was a great discoverer, but he really didn’t discover anything that had not been known for at least a century, if not for thousands of years before.

A famous neurologist in Vienna, Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, went to observe Priessnitz’s water cure treatment center in Graefenberg, Austria. He was so impressed with what could be accomplished with such simple means that he spent the rest of his life working to develop new methods of water treatment. The influence of Dr. Winternitz was felt by such well-known American water cure advocates as Dr. Simon Baruch and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. It was Dr. Baruch who was chiefly responsible for the passage of laws in the state of New York that required the establishment of municipal baths in that state. Dr. Kellogg was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, the largest hydrotherapy treatment center in the United States until it was destroyed by fire on February 18, 1902. He developed many new treatments, including the electric light bath, that used natural methods.

The “water cure” spread to America about 1850 and until about 1854 it prospered greatly, but most of the doctors were opposed to this treatment. It seemed almost as though they did not want the people to get hold of any remedy that was practical, inexpensive, and could be used in any home. About 1870 they successfully had a law passed that prevented the water cure practitioners from practicing in New York. Since New York City was the headquarters, as soon as these treatments were stopped there, their use was abandoned nearly everywhere for a while.

Sebastian Kneipp, a Catholic priest in Bavaria who cured Archduke Joseph of Austria of Bright’s disease during the late nineteenth century, gained a wide reputation because of his success with the water cure. He also had his patients return to nature, as far as possible. He used herbs with great success because he combined their use with other natural remedies.

The North American Indians used baths for many diseases. They developed original ways of giving both water and vapor baths. The vapor bath was the most commonly used, and it was followed by a plunge into a cold stream. This is similar to the custom so widely practiced at the present time in Finland, of jumping into either the snow or ice-cold water following a hot sauna bath.

The native Mexicans also use a hot-air bath (sauna). They confine themselves in a brick house that is heated by a furnace located on the outside. They seem to have implicit confidence in the efficiency of the sauna bath to destroy disease, using it with much success when ill.

Water is one of the most powerful and yet one of the simplest remedies that can be used by an intelligent mother who understands the effects of hot and cold on the body. If you cleanse and nourish your body properly, and leave nature to itself, it will renovate and heal the body.

Lately, people have been led to believe that there are remarkable virtues in certain spring waters (this refers to water from certain hot mineral springs that is used for external treatments). The claim that these waters are possessed of a miraculous healing power is not true. The healing virtue is in the moist heat that is obtained from the water.

THE WHOLE THING IN A NUTSHELL IS THAT THE USE OF WATER, COMBINED WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF FRESH AIR, SUNSHINE, PROPER DIET, EXERCISE, REST, RECREATION AND PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS, EFFECTS A CURE.

Unfortunately, in the early days the reputation of water as a remedy was injured because people such as Vincent Priesnitz used it to extremes. Such practitioners did not understand the human body, the use of hot and cold water, or the useful and powerful reactions that are produced in the body when it is properly used. People were led to believe that it was a cure-all, and that cold water was the only remedy no matter what the condition of the disease might be. Rest, pure air, nourishing and simple food, sunlight, and exercise are of equal importance to water in all cases. Although water is not a specific, it is one of the most valuable remedies. This is true not only of water, but also of all the other natural remedies. There may be a specific remedy for a particular disease, but there is not one and only one remedy for every disease. Several remedial agents must be combined to suit the condition, and not a single one used to the exclusion of all the others. But even so, water is an important agency in the treatment of nearly every disease when it is correctly applied and used with other forms of treatment.

Positive Affirmations: 101 Life-Changing Thoughts To Practice Daily

Positive Affirmations: 101 Life-Changing Thoughts To Practice Daily

Over thirty years ago, I came across the book You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay. The book is about self-healing through the use of positive affirmations that correspond with different illnesses and ailments.
I was intrigued by the book at the time, but also skeptical about Ms. Hay’s claims that our thoughts and lack of self-love contribute to disease and that positive affirmations can help heal us. Although I understood how affirmations could support positive thinking, I didn’t believe they could change the cells and chemistry in my body.

Now I know that science supports the power of positive affirmations. Affirmations are basically a form of auto-suggestion, and when practiced deliberately and repeatedly, they reinforce chemical pathways in the brain, strengthening neural connections.

Says David J. Hellerstein, M.D., a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, “In brief, we have realized that ‘neuroplasticity,’ the ongoing remodeling of brain structure and function, occurs throughout life. It can be affected by life experiences, genes, biological agents, and by behavior, as well as by thought patterns.”



Neuroscience now proves that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains. (If you want to learn more about this fascinating science, check out the book The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science** by Norman Doidge, M.D.)

By practicing positive thought patterns (affirmations) repetitively, we actually create neuroplasticity in the area of the brain that processes what we are thinking about. The key is repetition so you flood your brain with the positive thought.

When practicing affirmations, choose one or two to focus on for several weeks. Say the affirmation out loud in a confident voice several times a day and before you go to bed. To add more power to the affirmation, write it down as you speak it. Be sure your affirmations are in the present tense, as though they are a current reality.

Here are 101 positive affirmations you can practice to rewire your brain and change your life:


Happiness 

1. Happiness is my birthright. I embrace happiness as my set point state of being.

2. I feel joy and contentment in this moment right now.

3. I awaken in the morning feeling happy and enthusiastic about life.

4. I can tap into a wellspring of inner happiness anytime I wish.

5. By allowing myself to be happy, I inspire others to be happy as well.

6. I have fun with all of my endeavors, even the most mundane.

7. I look at the world around me and can’t help but smile and feel joy.

8. I find joy and pleasure in the most simple things in life.

9. I have an active sense of humor and love to share laughter with others.

10. My heart is overflowing with joy.

11. I rest in happiness when I go to sleep, knowing all is well in my world.

Love Relationship

12. My partner and I share a deep and powerful love for each other.

13. I respect and admire my partner and see the best in him/her.

14. I love my partner exactly how he/she is and enjoy his/her unique qualities.

15. My partner and I share emotional intimacy daily through talking and touch.

16. I have healthy boundaries with my partner.

17. My partner and I have fun together and find new ways to enjoy our time together.

18. My partner and I communicate openly and resolve conflict peacefully and respectfully.

19. I am able to be fully myself and completely authentic in my love relationship.

20.  I communicate my desires and needs clearly and confidently with my partner.

21. I want the best for my partner and easily go out of my way to support him/her.

Success

22. I expect to be successful in all of my endeavors. Success is my natural state.

23. I easily find solutions to challenges and roadblocks and move past them quickly.

24. Mistakes and setbacks are stepping stones to my success because I learn from them.

25. Every day in every way, I am becoming more and more successful.

26. I feel successful with my life right now, even as I work toward future success.

27. I know exactly what I need to do to achieve success.

28. I see fear as the fuel for my success and take bold action in spite of fear.

29. I feel powerful, capable, confident, energetic, and on top of the world.

30. I have an intention for success and know it is a reality awaiting my arrival.

31. I have now reached my goal of _______ and feel the excitement of my achievement.

32. Today I am successful. Tomorrow I will be successful. Every day I am successful.

Confidence

33. When I breath, I inhale confidence and exhale timidity.

34. I love meeting strangers and approach them with boldness and enthusiasm.

35. I live in the present and am confident of the future.

36. My personality exudes confidence. I am bold and outgoing.

37. I am self-reliant, creative and persistent in whatever I do.

38. I am energetic and enthusiastic. Confidence is my second nature.

39. I always attract only the best of circumstances and the best positive people in my life.

40. I am a problem solver. I focus on solutions and always find the best solution.

41. I love change and easily adjust myself to new situations.

42. I am well groomed, healthy and full of confidence. My outer self is matched by my inner well being.

43. Self confidence is what I thrive on. Nothing is impossible and life is great.

45. I always see only the good in others. I attract only positive confident people.

confidence affirmations

Self-Esteem

46. I approve of myself and love myself deeply and completely.

47. I am unique. I feel good about being alive and being me.

48. I trust myself and know my inner wisdom is my best guide.

49. I have integrity. I am totally reliable. I do what I say.

50. I act from a place of personal security.

51. I fully accept myself and know that I am worthy of great things in life.

52. I choose to be proud of myself.

53. I find deep inner peace within myself as I am.

54. I fill my mind with positive and nourishing thoughts.

55. My confidence, self esteem, and inner wisdom are increasing with each day.

56. My immune system is very strong and can deal with any kind of bacteria, germs and viruses.

Health

57. Every cell in my body vibrates with energy and health.

58. I am completely pain free, and my body is full of energy.

59. I nourish my body with healthy food.

60. All of my body systems are functioning perfectly..

61. My body is healing, and I feel better and better every day.

62. I enjoy exercising my body and strengthening my muscles.

63. With every breath out, I release stress in my body.

64. I send love and healing to every organ of my body.

65. I breathe deeply, exercise regularly and feed only good nutritious food to my body.

66. I pay attention and listen to what my body needs for health and vitality.

67. I sleep soundly and peacefully, and awaken feeling rested and energetic.

68. I am surrounded by people who encourage and support healthy choices.

Peace

69. My world is a peaceful, loving, and joy-filled place to live.

70. I sow the seeds of peace wherever I go.

71. I surround myself with peaceful people.

72. My work environment is calm and peaceful.

73. I breath in peace, I breath out chaos and disorder.

74. My home is a peaceful sanctuary where I feel safe and happy.

75. In all that I say and do, I choose peace.

76. I release past anger and hurts and fill myself with serenity and peaceful thoughts.

77. Peace descends all around me now and always.

78. I send peace from myself into the world.

79. I respond peacefully in all situations.

Mindfulness

80. I am grounded in the experience of the present moment.


81. I am focus and engaged in the task at hand.

82. All is well right now.

83. I am grateful for this moment and find joy in it.

84. I gently and easily return to the present moment.

85. I observe my thoughts and actions without judging them.

86. I am fully present in all of my relationships.

87. Life is happening in this moment.

88. I accept and embrace all experiences, even unpleasant ones.

89. I observe my emotions without getting attached to them.

90. I meditate easily without resistance or anxiety.

91. I release the past and live fully in the present moment.

Inner calm

92. Calmness washes over me with every deep breath I take.

93. Every day I am more and more at ease.

94. Being calm and relaxed energizes my whole being.

95. All the muscles in my body are releasing and relaxing.

96. All negativity and stress are evaporating from my body and my mind.

97. I breath in relaxation. I breath out stress.

98. Even when there is chaos around me, I remain calm and centered.

99. I transcend stress of any kind. I live in peace.

100. I am free of anxiety, and a calm inner peace fills my mind and body.

101. All is well in my world. I am calm, happy, and content.


Have you used positive affirmations in your life? If so, how have they impacted you? What are some of your favorite affirmations? Please share

(**The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science** by Norman Doidge, M.D.)

This book is about the revolutionary discovery that the human brain can change itself, as told through the stories of the scientists, doctors, and patients who have together brought about these astonishing transformations. Without operations or medications, they have made use of the brain’s hitherto unknown ability to change. Some were patients who had what were thought to be incurable brain problems; others were people without specific problems who simply wanted to improve the functioning of their brains or preserve them as they aged. For four hundred years this venture would have been inconceivable because mainstream medicine and science believed that brain anatomy was fixed. The common wisdom was that after childhood the brain changed only when it began the long process of decline; that when brain cells failed to develop properly, or were injured, or died, they could not be replaced. Nor could the brain ever alter its structure and find a new way to function if part of it was damaged. The theory of the unchanging brain decreed that people who were born with brain or mental limitations, or who sustained brain damage, would be limited or damaged for life. Scientists who wondered if the healthy brain might be improved or preserved through activity or mental exercise were told not to waste their time.

A neurological nihilism—a sense that treatment for many brain problems was ineffective or even unwarranted—had taken hold, and it spread through our culture, even stunting our overall view of human nature. Since the brain could not change, human nature, which emerges from it, seemed necessarily fixed and unalterable as well.

The belief that the brain could not change had three major sources: the fact that brain-damaged patients could so rarely make full recoveries; our inability to observe the living brain’s microscopic activities; and the idea—dating back to the beginnings of modern science—that the brain is like a glorious machine. And while machines do many extraordinary things, they don’t change and grow.

I became interested in the idea of a changing brain because of my work as a research psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. When patients did not progress psychologically as much as hoped, often the conventional medical wisdom was that their problems were deeply “hardwired” into an unchangeable brain. “Hardwiring” was another machine metaphor coming from the idea of the brain as computer hardware, with permanently connected circuits, each designed to perform a specific, unchangeable function.

When I first heard news that the human brain might not be hardwired, I had to investigate and weigh the evidence for myself. These investigations took me far from my consulting room.

I began a series of travels, and in the process I met a band of brilliant scientists, at the frontiers of brain science, who had, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, made a series of unexpected discoveries. They showed that the brain changed its very structure with each different activity it performed, perfecting its circuits so it was better suited to the task at hand. If certain “parts” failed, then other parts could sometimes take over. The machine metaphor, of the brain as an organ with specialized parts, could not fully account for changes the scientists were seeing. They began to call this fundamental brain property “neuroplasticity.”

Neuro is for “neuron,” the nerve cells in our brains and nervous systems. Plastic is for “changeable, malleable, modifiable.” At first many of the scientists didn’t dare use the word “neuroplasticity” in their publications, and their peers belittled them for promoting a fanciful notion. Yet they persisted, slowly overturning the doctrine of the unchanging brain. They showed that children are not always stuck with the mental abilities they are born with; that the damaged brain can often reorganize itself so that when one part fails, another can often substitute; that if brain cells die, they can at times be replaced; that many “circuits” and even basic reflexes that we think are hardwired are not. One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior—surely one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century.

In the course of my travels I met a scientist who enabled people who had been blind since birth to begin to see, another who enabled the deaf to hear; I spoke with people who had had strokes decades before and had been declared incurable, who were helped to recover with neuroplastic treatments; I met people whose learning disorders were cured and whose IQs were raised; I saw evidence that it is possible for eighty-year-olds to sharpen their memories to function the way they did when they were fifty-five. I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and traumas. I spoke with Nobel laureates who were hotly debating how we must rethink our model of the brain now that we know it is ever changing.

The idea that the brain can change its own structure and function through thought and activity is, I believe, the most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first sketched out its basic anatomy and the workings of its basic component, the neuron. Like all revolutions, this one will have profound effects, and this book, I hope, will begin to show some of them. The neuroplastic revolution has implications for, among other things, our understanding of how love, sex, grief, relationships, learning, addictions, culture, technology, and psychotherapies change our brains. All of the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences, insofar as they deal with human nature, are affected, as are all forms of training. All of these disciplines will have to come to terms with the fact of the self-changing brain and with the realization that the architecture of the brain differs from one person to the next and that it changes in the course of our individual lives.

While the human brain has apparently underestimated itself, neuroplasticity isn’t all good news; it renders our brains not only more resourceful but also more vulnerable to outside influences. Neuroplasticity has the power to produce more flexible but also more rigid behaviors—a phenomenon I call “the plastic paradox.” Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity. Once a particular plastic change occurs in the brain and becomes well established, it can prevent other changes from occurring. It is by understanding both the positive and negative effects of plasticity that we can truly understand the extent of human possibilities.

Because a new word is useful for those who do a new thing, I call the practitioners of this new science of changing brains “neuroplasticians.” What follows is the story of my encounters with them and the patients they have transformed.

"The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff...with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history."

− THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Fascinating. Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain."

− OLIVER SACKS, MD

"Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental."

− THE LONDON TIMES

"Superb. Brilliant. I devoured it."

− V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, MD, PHD

"Doidge... is a master ... at explaining science to the rest of us. Doidge is the best possible guide. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to read it, just curious about your brain. Buy this book. Your brain will thank you."

− THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"Lucid and absolutely fascinating. It satisfies in equal measure the mind and heart."

− THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Doidge turns everything we thought we knew about the brain upside down."

− PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

"Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental."

− THE LONDON TIMES

"Superb. Brilliant. I devoured it."

− V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, MD, PHD

"Doidge... is a master ... at explaining science to the rest of us. Doidge is the best possible guide. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to read it, just curious about your brain. Buy this book. Your brain will thank you."

− THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"Lucid and absolutely fascinating. It satisfies in equal measure the mind and heart."

− THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Doidge turns everything we thought we knew about the brain upside dowto be explained in layperson’s terms, no easy task 

“Doidge leads the field in an extraordinary era for 

popular-science books about the brain…. This has 

to be explained in layperson’s terms, no easy task, 

but there’s a host of neurologists, psychologists, 

cognitive scientists and journalists explaining and 

interpreting the latest research….Two years ago, 

when the journal Cerebrum at the Dana Foundation 

in the US updated its list of great books about the 

brain for the general reader, it found there were 

already 30,000 brain-related books in English (and 

the total would no doubt be higher now). Aided by 

scientific advisers and readers, it produced a new list 

– with The Brain That Changes Itself at No. 1.”

- The Melbourne Age, March 31, 2012 

“Only a few decades ago, scientists considered the

brain to be fixed or ‘hardwired’ and considered most 

forms of brain damage, therefore, to be incurable. 

Dr. Doidge, an eminent psychiatrist and researcher, 

was struck by how his patients’ own transformations 

belied this and set out to explore the new science of 

neuro plasticity by interviewing both scientific 

pioneers in neuroscience, and patients who have 

benefited from neuro rehabilitation. Here he 

describes in fascinating personal narratives how the 

brain, far from being fixed, has remarkable powers 

of changing its own structure and compensating for 

even the most challenging neurological conditions. 

Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait 

of the endless adaptability of the human brain.” — 

Oliver Sacks, M.D. Author of The Man Who 

Mistook His Wife For a Hat.

“Brilliant…Doidge has identified a tidal shift in 

basic science and a potential one in medicine. 

The implications are monumental.”

— London Times

“Superb. Brilliant. I devoured it.”

— V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., 

Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition,

 University of California, San Diego 

Author of Phantoms in The Brain

“One of the best books of 2008.”

—The Guardian

“In bookstores, the science aisle generally lies well 

away from the self-help section, with hard reality 

on one set of shelves and wishful thinking on the 

other. But Norman Doidge’s fascinating synopsis of 

the current revolution in neuroscience straddles this 

gap: the age-old distinction between the brain and 

the mind is crumbling fast as the power of positive 

thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-

bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff…a 

kind of word-made flesh outcome far more 

characteristic of Lourdes than the National Institutes 

of Health… with implications for all human beings, 

not to mention human culture, human learning and 

human history.”

— The New York Times, Science Times

“Lucid and absolutely fascinating…engaging,

 educational and riveting. It satisfies, in equal 

measure, the mind and the heart. Doidge is able to 

explain current research in neuroscience with 

clarity and thoroughness. He presents the ordeals 

of the patients about whom he writes—people born 

with parts of their brains missing, people with 

learning disabilities, people recovering from strokes

—with grace and vividness. In the best medical

 narratives—and the works of Doidge… join that 

fraternity—the narrow bridge between body and 

soul is traversed with courage and eloquence.”

— Chicago Tribune

“Doidge tells one spell-binding story after another as 

he travels the globe interviewing the scientists and 

their subjects who are on the cutting edge of a new 

age. Each story is interwoven with the latest in brain 

science, told in a manner that is both simple and 

compelling. It may be hard to imagine that a book so 

rich in science can also be a page-turner, but this one 

is hard to set down.”

— Jeff Zimman, Posit Science, e-newsletter

“Doidge… slowly turns everything we thought we 

knew about the brain upside down.”

— Publisher’s Weekly

“A rich banquet of brain-mind plasticity, 

communicated in a brilliantly clear writing style.”

—Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D., 

Bailey Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being 

Science, Washington State University; 

Head, Affective Neuroscience Research, 

Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, 

Northwestern University; 

Distinguished Research Professor of Psychobiology, 

Emeritus, Bowling Green State

”This book is like discovering 

that the earth isn’t flat.”

—Gretel Killeen, Sun Herald, 

“The Books That Changed Me”

“The Brain That Changes Itself…is without 

question the most important book of the year, 

and maybe the most important book 

we have ever read.”

— Kiril Sokoloff, 13D Research Inc.

“Brilliant…This book is a wonderful and engaging 

way or re-imagining what kind of creatures we are.”

—Jeanette Winterson, novelist, 

OBE, Order of the  British Empire, 

Guardian, Best Book of 2008

“In the intrepid tradition of Oliver Sacks, 

Norman Doidge embarks on a fantastic voyage 

through the labyrinth of the human brain.”

—Simon Hughes, AFR, 

Australia Financial Review Magazine

“A masterfully guided tour through the burgeoning 

field of neuroplasticity research.”

— Discover Magazine

“A riveting, essential book. Doidge covers an 

impressive amount of ground and is an expert guide, 

a sense of wonder always enriching his skill as an 

explicator of subject matter that in less able hands 

could be daunting or even impenetrable. These 

stories are most emotionally satisfying. Doidge 

addresses how cultural influences literally “shape” 

our brain. [And] it becomes clear that our response 

to the world around us is not only a social or 

psychological phenomenon, but often a lasting 

neurological process.”

— Montreal Gazette, Liam Durcan, M.D.,

  Neurologist & Novelist

“Doidge provides a history of the research in this 

growing field, highlighting scientists at the edge 

of groundbreaking discoveries and telling 

fascinating stories of people who have benefited.”

— Psychology Today

“With example after fascinating example, 

Dr. Norman Doidge shows how patients have 

overcome deficits caused by trauma, strokes, 

prenatal problems, and disease. The stories are as 

instructive as they are inspiring.”

— Barnes & Noble: From Our Editors

“It takes a rare talent to explain science to the rest of 

us. Oliver Sacks is a master at this. So was the late 
Stephen Jay Gould. And now there is Norman 
Doidge. A terrific book. You don’t have to be a brain 

surgeon to read it—just a person with a curious mind. 

Doidge is the best possible guide. He has a fluent and 

unassuming style, and is able to explain difficult 

concepts without talking down to his readers. The 

case study is the psychiatric literary genre par 

excellence, and Doidge does not disappoint. What 

makes neuroplasticity so exciting is that it completely 

upends how we look at the brain. It says that the 

brain, far from being a collection of specialized parts, 

each fixed in its location and function, is in fact a 

dynamic organ, one that can rewire and rearrange 

itself as the need arises. It is an insight from which 

all of us can benefit. People with severe afflictions 

— strokes, cerebral palsy, schizophrenia, learning 

disabilities, obsessive compulsive disorders and the 

like — are the most obvious candidates, but who 

among us would not like to tack on a few IQ points 

or improve our memories? Buy this book. Your brain 

will thank you.”

— Jessica Warner, Ph.D., Globe and Mail

“Readers will want to read entire sections aloud and 

pass the book on to someone who can benefit from it. 

[Doidge] links scientific experimentation with 

personal triumph in a way that inspires awe for the 

brain, and for these scientists’ faith in its capacity.”

— Washington Post

“A hymn to life.”

— Panorama Italy

“The most readable and best general treatment of 

this subject to date.”

— Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D., 

Francis Sooy Professor, 

Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

University of California at San Francisco

“Perfect for fans of Oliver Sacks”

—Quill & Quire


“Norman Doidge’s book is beautifully written and brings life and clarity to a variety of neuropsychiatric problems that affect children and adults. With case histories that read like excellent short stories to illustrate each syndrome… 
It reads a bit like a science detective story and is fun
…and manages to humanize an often baffling area of 
science and controversy. It is aimed at the well-
educated lay reader-you do not need a Ph.D. to 
benefit from the wisdom imparted here.”

— Barbara Milrod, M.D. Psychiatry, 
Weill Medical College, 
Cornell University, New York

“A panoramic examination of plasticity’s profound 
implications. Injured or dysfunctional cells and 
circuits can indeed be regenerated and rewired; the 
location of a given function can, astonishingly, 
move from one place to another. The body’s lifespan 
may not have to outpace its mental lifespan…
Everything that you can see happen in a young brain 
can happen in an older brain. Deterioration can be 
reversed by 20 to 30 years.”

— Toronto Daily Star


“An eloquently written book about the boundless 
potential of the human brain. In addition to being a 
fascinating, informative and emotionally powerful 
read, it has the potential to enlighten parents about 
the incredible learning-enhancing opportunities now 
available to them and their children. Addresses 
learning disabilities in a unique way and could 
revolutionize the way educational issues are 
addressed.”

— The Jewish Week

“Why isn’t this book on the top of the bestseller list 

of all time? In my mind the recognition that the brain 

in plastic and can actually change itself with exercise 

and understanding is a huge leap in the history or 

mankind, far greater than landing on the moon. Clear, 

fascinating, and gripping. Dr. Doidge gives new hope 

to everyone from the youngest to the oldest among us.”

— Jane S. Hall, International Psychoanalysis

“For years, the conventional wisdom has been that 

the human brain remains fixed after early childhood, 

subject only to deterioration. Children with mental 

limitations or adults suffering from brain injury can 

never hope to attain brain normality. Not so, says 

Doidge. He outlines the brain’s ability to reorganize 

itself by forming new neural connections throughout 

life. Through numerous case studies, he describes 

stroke victims who have learned to move and speak 

again, senior citizens who have sharpened their 

memories, and children who have raised their IQs 

and overcome learning disabilities, among others. 

The science, he predicts, will have ramifications for 

professionals in many fields, but especially for 

teachers of all types.”— Education Week

“Astonishing. This book will inevitably draw 

comparisons to the work of Oliver Sacks. Doidge 

has a prodigious gift for rendering the highly 

technical highly readable. It’s hard to imagine a 

more exciting topic–or a better introduction to it.”

— Kitchener Waterloo Record

“Norman Doidge has written a fascinating, 

highly readable account of the new brain science.”

 —John Cornwell, Literary Review, England

“You really should read this book…this remarkable 

work will lead us to see ourselves in a new light.”

—Mail on Sunday, England

“An owner’s manual for the brain, giving advice on 

how to maintain intellect and reasoning functions as 

we grow older, Doidge's book gives the reader hope 

for the future. I highly recommend this book to 

anyone who enjoys stories of triumph against all 

odds. Extremely engrossing, and always informative.”

— Curled Up With a Good Book

“An ‘essential primer’ for anyone who wants to 

better understand their own brains and the 

considerable advances in neuroscience of the past 

two decades.”

—Gordon Farrer, Melbourne Age

“A fascinating glimpse into a new field … The Brain 

That Changes Itself could signal an important 

medical shift we’re in the midst of right now.

—Drew Turney, Sun Herald

“Anyone who has read Norman Doidge’s brilliant 

The Brain That Changes Itself, in which the author 

makes a convincing case for our brains being far more 

“plastic” and malleable than previously supposed, 

will suspect that our predispositions can be changed 

through experience”

—Andrew Smith, The Sunday Times, UK

“Doidge has a knack for translating scientific jargon 

into plain English … This is an enjoyable read, an 

impressive translation of neuroscience for a lay 

audience. It will interest anyone who wants to know 

more about how the brain works.”

—Winnipeg Free Press

"The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge 

provides a fascinating overview of the emerging 

science of neuro-plasticity—the study of the capacity 

of the brain to alter and reorganize itself under the 

influence of learning and experience. Through a rich 

tapestry of narratives about patients with some of the 

most intractable neurological and psychological 

disorders, and scientists with their inspiring, some-

times paradoxical cures, Doidge has accomplished a 

rare feat. He has written a book that accurately 

conveys cutting-edge scientific discoveries while 

simultaneously engaging both scientific and popular 

audiences.This book is in the same league as other 

popular and influential neuroscience books such as 

Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error, Oliver Sacks’s 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and 
Joseph LeDoux’s The Emotional Brain.”

—Douglas Watt and Eric A. Fertuck, 

in Neuro-Psychoanalysis 

“A remarkable book … a highly readable 

exploration of a branch of science that has the 

potential to change all our lives.”

—Hobart Mercury

“Fascinating synopsis of the revolution in neuro-

science shows that the age-old distinction between 

the brain and the mind is crumbling fast as the 

power of positive thinking finally gains scientific 

credibility.”

—National Post holiday book guide

“This is a fascinating book which alters the way we 

look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.”

—Suzy Wilson, South East Advertiser

“A book that everybody should read… 

it is nothing short of miraculous. Get it!”

—Yoko Ono, Yoko Reads Book Recommendations

“The Brain That Changes Itself  by Norman Doidge 

shows us that at last neuroscience has caught up with

what mystics and meditation have taught for centuries

 — the brain is infinitely changeable. Forget 

mechanics: the brain is not a machine, nor is it a 

computer made of meat. This book is a wonderful 

and engaging way of re-imagining what kind of 

creatures we are.”

—Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, 

Best Books of 2008