Understanding Us

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: TempleHouse P/L
Publisher Place: Hartwell
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 323 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout, the only exception is some printers ink on back cover.

Publishers Description: How do you feel when stressed? Muscles tense? Palms sweaty? Heart racing? Don't worry it's all part of being human. All we Homo sapiens have such sensations. Why? Because we still have our old mammalian brain. Its red-alert system is primed to react immediately to protect us from any perceived threat. But we also have our new human brain. It has a vivid imagination, which invents irrational psychological threats. These needlessly activate the old primitive fight or flight mechanism. Result? Uncontrolled, chronic stress. Understanding Us simplifies the complexity of our brains' evolution. It also shows how we can harness and harmonise the strengths of both old and new brains to modify our body's over-active stress response and so take control of our lives.

ISBN: 9781877059155