Attention Therapies for Total Self-Renewal: With 50 Bits–All We Have Attention

By Joel Dames

Joel Dames wrote this book for therapists to share with their clients. He writes to them that he is 79 and his life has been one of incredible suffering and incredible self-renewal through a mix of attention therapies.We live in a world teaming with sensory information that our brain compresses. Our brain offers our conscious mind but a sliver of this sensory information. The body receives 11 million bits of sensory feedback, but we consciously process only 50 bits max. An unrelenting, ruminating Narrator hijacks our 50 bits of conscious attention bringing anxiety, stress, depression, and mental and physical illness.We do have some say though, as to what data survives the brain's compression.We are always paying attention to something. We can spend our attention ruminating on the Narrator's BS or we can focus on a process of self-renewal. Joel Dames holds a BA in Psychology from Rutgers University and MS in Educational Psychology from Indiana University. He was enrolled in the PhD School Psychology program at Indiana University, but left without completing a dissertation due to severe mental illness involving a lifetime of therapy including a series of electroconvulsive (ETC) therapy.Joel Dames has worked as school psychologist, counselor, and teacher of grades elementary through university. He has published in professional journals including Contemporary Issues in Reading, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. While overseas working with Department of Overseas Dependent Schools(DoDDs), he coauthered "Scripting the Mind with REST, Rational-Emotive Self-Talk," (in Japanese with English Introduction by world-reknown American psychologist Albert Ellis) Mikasa Shobo Publishing Co., Tokyo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549519964
• ISBN13: 9781549519963
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"