Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee

Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee

Your body has a mind of its own. You know it's true. You can sense it, even though it may be hard to articulate. You know that your body is more than a vehicle for your brain to cruise around in, but how deeply are mind and body truly interwoven?

Answers can be found in the emerging science of body maps. Just as road maps represent interconnections across the landscape, your many body maps represent all aspects of your bodily self. Your self doesn't begin and end with your physical body but extends into the space around you. When you drive a car, your personal body space grows to envelop it. When you play a video game, your body maps automatically track and emulate the actions of your character onscreen. If your body maps fall out of sync, you may have an out-of-body experience or see auras around other people.

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own explains how you can tap into the power of body maps to do almost anything better: play tennis, strum a guitar, ride a horse, dance a waltz, empathize with a friend, raise children, cope with stress. Filled with illustrations, wonderful anecdotes, and even parlor tricks that you can use to reconfigure your body sense, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own will change the way you think about what it takes to have a conscious mind inside a feeling body.

Praise for The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOK WORLD

You'll never think about your body-or your mind-in the same way again.
-Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence

A fascinating exploration of senses we didn't even know we had.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses

A delightfully original, understandable, and mind-stretching work.
-William Safire, columnist, The New York Times Magazine

A marvelous book.
-V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

An] accessible, practical overview of an important scientific story.
-Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error

Judith S. Wallerstein is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Family in Transition. She is senior lecturer emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has taught for twenty-six years. She has spoken with more divorced families than anyone in the nation, and lectured to thousands of family court judges, attorneys, mental health professionals, mediators, and educators. She has appeared on Oprah, the Today show, and Good Morning America, among others. She is the author, with Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts and Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce; with Blakeslee and Julia M. Lewis of the bestseller The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study; and, with Dr. Joan Berlin Kelly, of Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce. She lives in Belvedere, California.

Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science writer who contributes regularly to the New York Times. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9781400064694
ISBN 10	1400064694
Title	Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Author	Sandra Blakeslee
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-09-11
Number of pages	228
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.