Brain Retraining Resources
These are some of the brain retraining courses out there, but there are a lot more available. Message me for information on a Facebook group that discusses all of them.
The nervous system is an important part of retraining, and Irene Lyon has a 21 day somatic program, as well as a 12 week nervous system rewire called Smart Body, Smart Mind that I have heard amazing reviews on and have learned from her teachings myself.
Books
I read both of Norman Doidge's books to understand the research on neuroplasticity when I first started with brain retraining.
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Norman Doidge, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. For thirty years he was on faculty at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, in New York. Currently, he is a Training and Supervising Analyst (a trainer of psychoanalysts) at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers living in Toronto.
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In his first book, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge introduced readers to the most important change in our understanding of the brain since the beginning of modern science: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience—the phenomenon of neuroplasticity.
His next book, The Brain’s Way of Healing shows for the first time, how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works.
Documentaries
CBC Nature of Things Documentary - The brain can not only change itself, but it can also heal itself in ways we never thought were possible. Dr. Norman Doidge looks at how energy - light, sound, electricity, and motion - awaken the brain's own capacity to heal and reverse irreversible brain damage.
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CBC The Nature Of Things: The Brain That Changes - another documentary using the research by Dr. Norman Doidge.