A new book to help you change your brain's response to anger, fear, pain, and desire.

What is Neural Path Therapy?

Whether you’re more stressed by politics, the environment, your relationships, your job, major life changes, or simply the daily task of keeping food on the table, it’s easy to let life knock you down and hard to get back up again. This book offers you a chance at a different way of life. It shows you how to accept life as it is, regard the events of each day with nonjudgmental awareness, and stop obsessive thoughts from compounding your feelings of helplessness and frustration.

Portable Therapy?

The first part of the book introduces you to the basics of neural network learning theory. The basic idea is that neural pathways—the chains of brain cells, or neurons, that generate our every thought, word, action, and emotion—strengthen with use and weaken with disuse. While certain events are likely to provoke a hardwired neural response in us, we are capable of creating new neural paths with no more than a thought. Instead of letting automatic triggers dictate our responses to painful events, we can use this characteristic of our nervous systems to short-circuit the responses that lead to painful thoughts and emotions.

The second part teaches you five easy-to learn skills for dealing with stress—breath counting, thought watching, compassionate awareness, softening to pain, and wise mind. Together, they make up a set of skills that you can take anywhere, a kind of portable therapy.