Your Brain on Ink

A Workbook on Neuroplasticity and the Journal Ladder

By (author) Kathleen Adams, Deborah Ross

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Publication date:

12 April 2016

Length of book:

150 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475814262

A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.

Foreword
Preface
Dear Reader: An Introduction to the Workbook

Section 1: A User-Friendly Guide to Your Brain and Your Journal

1. Prelude
2. Welcome to Neuroplasticity
3. The Art and Science of Expressive Writing
4. The Journal Ladder
5. Brain Maps
6. The Reflection Write

Section 2: The Write Way to Positive Brain Change

7. The Brain as Velcro® and Teflon®
8. Your Limbic System
9. The Brain Takes the Shape the Mind Rests Upon
10. Neural Darwinism
11. Neurons that Fire Together, Wire Together
12. For Your Olfactory Delight
13. The Masking of a Negative is Not a Positive
14. From Positive State to Positive Trait
15. Building Neural Circuitry
16. Series of Three
17. And Now for Something Completely Different
18. Anticipate a Blossoming of Creative Delight
19. Short Bursts of Radiance
20. A Radical Departure
21. Overwriting the Negative

Section 3: Our Last Collective Firings

22. Reprise: Your Brain Takes the Shape Your Mind Rests Upon
23. Bridging Into the Future

References
Literature Review: Evidence-Based Research on Expressive Writing
Acknowledgments
About the Authors

Ross and Adams have woven a unique workbook for self-awareness, mindfulness, healing, and growth, all in the context of modern brain science. Simple, guided exercises are distilled from decades of scholarly research, making neuroplasticity available to all who seek self-directed change. Fresh writing and carefully constructed prompts invite readers to join the dance and observe their own brains in real time. This book provides fascinating and ready access to passion, clarity, and purpose.