The Healthy Brain Kit: Clinically Proven Tools to Boost Your Memory, Sharpen Your Mind, & Keep Your Brain Young [With 35 Brain-Training Cards and 2 Au

by Andrew Weil

Book Overview

You exercise your body to keep it at peak performance--but what about your brain? At UCLA, Dr. Gary Small is proving that you can boost memory, sharpen concentration, enhance verbal fluency, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591795303
• ISBN13: 9781591795308
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.9" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Most consise, complete and fun sources on healing

Dr. Weil's kits include complete coverage of each disease they are about. You get a book that is about 50 pages long that has everything you need to know about your condition and all the cures you need. These are prefect for busy people or for those that just don't want to read a large book. They really include everything you need, the complete program to prevent or counter your illness. What's really nice is that one CD includes Dr. Weil and experts presenting all the information verbally in the case you don't want to read. Also the second CD includes meditation and guided imagery healing specifically modified for the particular disease...that's the integrative part. Dr. Weil's meditations has been real power for me to heal. He gives you all the diet and nutrition information and he shows you how to get your mind right, so you CAN heal. Most people are stressed about illness and that stress will stop you from healing. Here is a man that heals your body and gets your mind right so you can really heal and prevent the disease over the long run. The best.

Mental Aerobics

Dr. Andrew Weil introduces Dr. Gary Small's course in mental aerobics. He discusses the importance of an anti-inflammatory diet, why it might not be a good idea to sleep next to an alarm radio and why lifestyle strategies may have a great influence on brain health as we age. Should you take up learning a new language or learn to play a musical instrument? What will a daily walk five times a week do for your brain? Dr. Andrew Weil explains the problems of oxidative stress, trauma, toxic chemicals and stress hormones and how they affect long-term aging. Dr. Gary Small presents ideas for developing memory skills. His fun brainteasers will help you remember "to do" lists and names as well as giving you the empowering feeling when you remember things you used to forget. Through visualizations he guides you through a number of lessons to enhance memory and it makes remembering things a breeze. Since the brain does have some regenerative capacity and we are capable of learning throughout the entire span of our lifetime, all it takes is some effort in the area of learning, reading or doing something challenging like learning dance steps. 2 CDs, a 52-page study guide booklet and a set of 35 brain-tuning cards to remind you to do the exercises presented. The cards include information on learning to relax, learning basic memory tricks to train the brain to remember facts and a few cards for advanced memory training. ~The Rebecca Review