The Mindful Brain: The Neurobiology of Well-Being

Dan Siegel's audio book, The Mindful Brain, is informative and inspiring. I recommend it to anyone who's interested in continuing to grow as a person.

Great information for my counseling practice and personally.

Excellent resource for understanding the brain and how The techniques of mindfulness are so important in our day to day lives.

Great book. Love this author.

I've been a fan of Siegel's work for years (see my review of The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are) and again, he has done a brilliant job highlighting not only brain science and mirror-neuron theory but offering a practical way to make use of this neurological information in our personal lives. I listened to the CD first, then bought the book, and they are both excellent. The CD is an abridgment of the book, which means that a lot of the detailed neuroscience is left out, but this has benefits for those who prefer to shy away from the intricacies of medial prefrontal circuits and the like. In the CD, Siegel explains how meditation practices can be used to make our brain, and thus our personality, function better by enhancing cognition, social awareness, empathy, intuition, and emotional control. Siegel also shares personal stories of his week-long silent meditation retreat. By the time you finish listening to the CD, you'll want to add meditation to your lifestyle - not to improve your spiritual well-being, but to keep your social brain tuned up. (Interestingly, Siegel came to nearly the same conclusions that Andy Newberg and I independently arrived at by analyzing the vast data concerning the effects of meditation on the brain, something that rarely happens in the fields of neuroscience and psychology; we report our findings in our forthcoming book, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings by a Leading Neuroscientist)

I got this CD to listen to while i drive around and i really enjoyed it. It brings clarity from the book though does not go into the depth of the book by any means. Get it for a relative who doesn't have the time or the openness to wrap their minds around the book. Get it for yourself

Fascinating and leads you do understand something of the state of understanding ofhow we seem to operate.

The content of the CD itself is good although some sections involve meditation which cannot be done when driving which has delayed my getting through it. Separate note; I was really looking forward to receiving this audio and when I did the case was broken in numerous places and so the CDs do not stay put which is difficult to deal with in the car! I was however offered a discount or return option for this by seller . overall good product