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D.C.-area psychotherapist Dr. Helen McKibben has devised a highly pragmatic technique that uses neuroscience to help with personal growth, addictive behaviors and even falling asleep faster.
McKibben stresses throughout this thought-invoking guide the need to handle difficult situations by what she has styled as “dropping to the blank screen” of one’s consciousness --- allowing scope for one’s genuine feelings and goals to come to the surface. DROP draws from the experiences of those she has met through her profession, revealing her neuroscientific explorations as she plays various roles with her clients.
"McKibben...is a proponent of neuroscience, which allows her to impart to her clients and readers an interdisciplinary methodology that combines emotion, intellect, and personal desire and determination."
McKibben begins by showing different ways that children may be treated by their parents --- encouraging them as intelligent, talented equals, or denigrating them as inferior. One counselor/client encounter concerns a man who successfully graduated from college with many positives on his record, yet he still felt the sense of inferiority that had been engrained in his early life. In their meetings, McKibben plays the role of someone attempting to encourage or discourage him, and she has him play the role of his better, stronger self or to express the failure-laden aspect of his personality. By taking on these personas, he gradually becomes aware of her methodology, dropping mentally and emotionally to a blank, relaxed “place” as he overcomes his self-abnegating tendencies and rises to a firm state of strength and determination.
The situations covered in this manual include such ordinary yet potentially damaging ones as, for women, gaining the strength to refuse sexual advances; for men, trying to establish intimacy at a distance through various means of contact; and, for all, dealing with difficult personalities found in the workplace. In each scenario, readers will be encouraged to relax the body and open the mind. Once one learns to “drop” --- to speak and act from the blank screen --- one’s voice will become effective and persuasive, reflecting one’s deeper sense of conviction.
McKibben, a counselor and doctor of psychology, is a proponent of neuroscience, which allows her to impart to her clients and readers an interdisciplinary methodology that combines emotion, intellect, and personal desire and determination. Her deft staging of multiple roles in her consultation is perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this work, revealing her as someone who understands and can convey the problematic situations that her clients must face. This, in turn, opens the way for them to assume roles that provide greater insight into their challenges.
This ability on McKibben’s part underpins the stance she hopes to inculcate in those who need her help and will give her written words broad scope, opening opportunities for discussion, contemplation and a fresh following.
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Use neuroscience to retrain your brain and make better life choices. Dr. Helen McKibben's approach combines the study of the body, the brain, and the interaction between emotion and memory. She enables us to tap into the biomechanics of emotions, resolve triggered feelings and make better life choices. DROP is filled with interviews that illustrate how real people have applied this method to their lives. Dr. McKibben guides us through her revolutionary and innovative self-help technique of dropping to the blank screen to learn how to manage triggered feelings and to understand why we feel the way we do. By monitoring neuromuscular signals that indicate unconscious triggered emotions, we can work with the brain rather than against it. She teaches us a practical, self-reliant method to retrain our brains and change our responses to life's stressors.
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Use neuroscience to retrain your brain and make better life choices. Dr. Helen McKibben's approach combines the study of the body, the brain, and the interaction between emotion and memory. She enables us to tap into the biomechanics of emotions, resolve triggered feelings and make better life choices. DROP is filled with interviews that illustrate how real people have applied this method to their lives. Dr. McKibben guides us through her revolutionary and innovative self-help technique of dropping to the blank screen to learn how to manage triggered feelings and to understand why we feel the way we do. By monitoring neuromuscular signals that indicate unconscious triggered emotions, we can work with the brain rather than against it. She teaches us a practical, self-reliant method to retrain our brains and change our responses to life's stressors.
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Use neuroscience to retrain your brain and make better life choices.
Dr. Helen McKibben's approach combines the study of the body, the brain, and the interaction between emotion and memory. She enables us to tap into the biomechanics of emotions, resolve triggered feelings and make better life choices.
DROP: Making Great Decisions is filled with interviews that illustrate how real people have applied this method to their lives. This book can help if you've ever asked yourself:
- How do I manage my emotions and reduce my stress?
- Why do I have so much self-doubt and anxiety?
- Can I silence my critical inner voice?
- How can I cultivate positive self-esteem?
- How can I stop feeling emotionally disrupted?
- How do I manage my addiction and stop abusing substances?
- How do I overcome my eating disorder?
- What are the secrets to getting better sleep?
- How can I deal with difficult, disruptive and toxic people?
- How do I model high self-esteem and healthy emotional regulation for my child?
- Why do I keep attracting toxic or manipulative partners?
- What is the best way to achieve optimal, mental athletic performance?
Dr. McKibben guides us through her revolutionary and innovative self-help technique of dropping to the blank screen to learn how to manage triggered feelings and to understand why we feel the way we do. By monitoring neuromuscular signals that indicate unconscious triggered emotions, we can work with the brain rather than against it. She teaches us a practical, self-reliant method to retrain our brains and change our responses to life's stressors.
Learn to use neuroscience to activate the brain in the way it is designed to work emotionally, and to change your brain's response to yourself and other people.
You can use your emotional instincts to make great decisions. Trust your brain and set yourself up for self-reliance.
Audiobook available, read by Dr. Helen McKibben
