Mindsight

The New Science of Personal Transformation

By: Daniel J. Siegel M.D., Daniel Goleman - introduction

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel M.D., Darren Joel

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.

Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can't shake?
• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?
• Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?
• Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?

What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.

Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients. And now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. Showing us mindsight in action, Dr. Siegel describes

• a sixteen-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who uses meditation and other techniques instead of drugs to calm the emotional storms that made him suicidal
• a woman paralyzed by anxiety, who uses mindsight to discover, in an unconscious memory of a childhood accident, the source of her dread
• a physician–the author himself–who pays attention to his intuition, which he experiences as a "vague, uneasy feeling in my belly, a gnawing restlessness in my heart and my gut," and tracks down a patient who could have gone deaf because of an inaccurately written prescription for an ear infection
• a twelve-year-old girl with OCD who learns a meditation that is "like watching myself from outside myself" and, using a form of internal dialogue, is able to stop the compulsive behaviors that have been tormenting her

These and many other extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help us master our emotions, heal our relationships, and reach our fullest potential.

This is what therapy should teach you

I'm not done with it yet but the stuff I'm hearing I just wish I could share with the people I know that suffer so much. knowing they will go to therapy and learn nothing like they've done for decades and like I did for decades. I think it's malpractice how much therapists fight against me saying the same things as is in books like this and also the stuff I learned working in occupational and physical therapy. Read, or listen, to this if your want help understanding what's actually going on inside so you can do something about it. not just cruelly making you guess and never telling you anything like therapists do, unless it's too tell you you're wrong even when it's a well established scientific fact.

i like it

I’ve read the book and this audiobook is perfect to illuminate even more all the wisdom the book is offering.

The downside though the narrator’s pacing is a bit slow but nothing a 1.5x speed can fix. :)

Awesome.

These concepts are fundamental to dissolving the constraints of the mind. Seeing how our mind is our most valuable tool, learning how it works and simple practices that assist in optimizing it's functionality would be beneficial if it were to be taught in educational systems as mandatory curriculum.