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Heard about an intersting book on the Diane Rhem show, yesterday.

Train Your Mind Change Your Brain
Not a how-to book as the title might suggest, but rather an overview of the concept of Nueroplasticity.

( review/summation from Publishers Weekly )

Sounds fascinating! Will have to make a book store trip soon, as i've got a few B&N gift cards to use...

It makes sense to me, if the brain affects how we think, then how we think affects the brain...

*G* Down with Cartsiean Dualisim! The meat is the message!
I've always personally felt that the physical structure of the brain is indivisible from what we call "conciousness". Thought is a *physical* process.

A quote I loved out of one of the reviews of the book:

"If we place all our hopes and fears in the outside world, we have quite a challenge, because our control of the outside world is weak, temporary, and even illusory. It is more within the scope of our faculties to change the way we translate the outside world into inner experience."

Barbara Rose, Ph.D.

Sounds a bit like all the inner/outer validation work i've been thinking about over the last couple of years. *G*

off to do my walkies...