Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Sep 2013 · Baker Books

About this ebook

Over 900,000 copies sold!

According to researchers, the vast majority--a whopping 75-98 percent--of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty different hormones! Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illnesses.

Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr. Caroline Leaf gives readers a prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology. She shares with readers the "switch" in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives where we achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent. She shows us how to choose life, get our minds under control, and reap the benefits of a detoxed thought life.

Ratings and reviews

I was very excited about this book. It is good in many ways explaining the science of our brains and the power of thoughts. It is a lot of wind-up to the actual program which really isn't much of a program at all asking the reader to jump back and forth from chapter to chapter to put together their own plan and worse, "buy my DVD 📀 for details." I am not looking for a research project. Very disappointing. Like watching a great movie without a conclusion. Is this meant to be a cliffhanger or a trilogy? 😎

Just note that some in the field of epigenetics would consider this book pseudoscience. However, it's never bad to have right thinking so enjoy the read, if you can get past the poor formatting. Words are bunched together with no space, missing punctuation. As for editing of a professional book this rates as one of the worst I've seen.

I dont like it . It does not explain properly such big words and sentences at least explain it properly . And spelling errors spaces between words are missing gets a bit frustrating when you read it

About the author

Dr. Caroline Leaf holds a PhD in communication pathology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Since 1981 she has researched the science of thought as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Dr. Leaf is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance, such as stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, thinking and learning, controlling our thought lives, wisdom, and how to identify and use one's natural gifts. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show starting in 2013. Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Texas.