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Summary: The study of the structure of health and healing
Review: "Why should I read this book?" a person wrote to me. "What does this have to do with energy psychology?" Sorry, but as one of the authors, I just had to give it five stars (and I honestly believe it warrants this high of a rating.)"The Neurophysics of Human Behavior" is about cognitive neurophysics, a branch of science that seamlessly integrates humans with nature and her physical laws. What this means is that we have grounded psychology and psychotherapy in the physical sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience. When I studied with Callahan, this was always an interest of his. He wanted to explain Thought Field Therapy in terms of quantum theory. But I don't think that this aspiration has been adequately achieved until now. In this book, we lay out the Standard Theory of Pattern-Entropy Dynamics, a unified field theory based on the notion that pattern and entropy are fundamental aspects of nature, which hold the keystone to "change" in humans and the physical world, that psychological problems can be understood in these terms, and that effective psychotherapeutic approaches absolutely must take into account how patterns are formed and how they can be caused to entropy. This is the first unified theory to successfully explain how brain, mind, behavior, information, matter and energy all fit together and affect each other as one undivided unity. Here we offer a tour through the sciences. Showing how we as humans, operate according to the same fundamental principles as the entire universe. We are not separate from nature, really. And Mind and Matter are actually made from the same stuff. This is clearly presented within the context of science, and not simple philosophical musings. Then we show how neurocognitive functioning can be mapped out (modeled) in order to understand an individual's functioning, health and pathology. It's all about uncovering the structure of the condition and about revealing the various states through which we must systemically transition in order for the problem to persist. We can map it, resulting in a systemic "view" of the neurocognitive system as an undivided whole, and systematically reorganize its energy patterns by causing unwanted trajectories and attractors (thought fields, states, etc.) to become entropic (destabilize), while forming the desired attractor and attractor landscapes in their place, etc. EMDR, NLP, and many energy psychology techniques are categorized according to pattern-entropy dynamics and there effect on the neurocognitive/biophysical system. This categorization helps the practitioner determine what tool or system of intervention is most appropriate given the unique structure of the presenting problem. Armed with this knowledge, The reader will be able to understand the physical laws that govern the effective design of new intervention procedures for an individual no matter how unique or resistant the problem might appear to be. Once the mapping process, NeuroPrint, is understood the practitioner will be able to precisely measure the effectiveness of any selected intervention. In my opinion, in order for energy psychology to go forward and offer the leadership for the field of psychology and therapy that it is capable and worthy of offering, grounding in the natural sciences is an absolute necessity. Here we offer a true paradigm theory and its practical applicability. Maybe I'm a little prejudiced, but I think this is going to cause the truly scientifically minded, and the establishment of science as a whole, to take a good, long, hard look, and to be turned on.
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Summary: Filling a Missing Link
Review: For anyone interested in the application of the quantum physics, complexity theory, and study of self-organizing systems to everyday life, this book fills an important missing link. Furman and Gallo clearly know their physics and also much of modern psychology. Their contribution is that they apply the one to the other, and they do this in a very understandable, practical, and useable way. Their NeuroPrint is a tool that is both finite, and intuitive. As one who has studied many "tools" to improve my understanding of myself and others, I have found NeuroPrint an excellent diagnostic tool and a simple "minds-on" device for designing interventions that help me build bridges from negative to positive personal states and behaviors, both for myself and my clients. This should be a standard text in psychology, human behavior, and counseling study programs, both at universities in professional development seminars. Not only is it intellectually satisfying, but also an important contribution to the study of human behavior. It is certainly worth it's $80 price. I am now reading it for the second time, and discovering further insights that I can add to those I found the first time. And, as a professional counselor, it is a text that I will keep at the ready, front and center on my bookshelf.
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Summary: Human Behavior Exploration
Review: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior is a must read and resource text for anyone in the profession of personal change artistry. Vital work which was done years previous and had stagnated have been given new life by a whole new approach to the working of the human brain. Read it once and you will have to read it again. It is a text book, treated as such, it provides many an hour of thought provoking ideas and new insights. I gave it a 5 star rating, because there was not a ten star rating. It is a wonderful text that I look forward to using throughout my practice and in working with people. A job well done and I look forward to the follow-up text.
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Summary: Human Behavior Exploration
Review: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior is a must read and resource text for anyone in the profession of personal change artistry. Vital work which was done years previous and had stagnated have been given new life by a whole new approach to the working of the human brain. Read it once and you will have to read it again. It is a text book, treated as such, it provides many an hour of thought provoking ideas and new insights. I gave it a 5 star rating, because there was not a ten star rating. It is a wonderful text that I look forward to using throughout my practice and in working with people. A job well done and I look forward to the follow-up text.
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Summary: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior.
Review: This is un unavoidable text for every practitioner of energy psychologies, NLP, psychotherapy in general and excellence performance modelers. Its 355 pages are not ligth reading, becuse every paragraph is packed with information, scientific terminology and rigorous logical reasoning. Our team of physicians and RN's have studied (not readed)"Neurophysics" several times, because it speaks our own language.No occult energies or spiritual jargon here, just plain reasoning based in hard facts of natural sciences. Its three sections and nineteen chapters aim at establishing scientific basis to justify the use of a given intervention tool. In my opinion, this is the only way by which established science can start to consider accepting energy psychologies as legitimate intervention tools. Chapter 1 provides a rational discussion of NLP. This discussion continues in other chapters, looking for the scientific basis of modeling, eye movements, metaphors, submodalities and anchoring.This is the most lucid discussion of neurolinguistic interventions that we have found in all NLP bibliography. The rest of Section II establishes the basis and makes a detailed description of the Theory of Pattern-Entropy Interaction. Section II is the most important part of the book, because guides the reader, step by step, in the design and operation of Neuroprint, a very useful clinical tool that graphically models neurocognitive patterns of information and leads the clinician to use the most appropriate tool for the patient. The authors don't limit their writing to theraputic applications but use 5 chapters to describe Human Performance Modeling and Engineering. A glossary of scientific terminology and more than 500 references (textbooks and scientific references)completes the book Furman, a neuroscientist and NLP Practitioner is the author of 18 scientific papers, and Gallo, a Ph.D. psychologist, founder of EDxTM is the author of several seminal books on energy psychology. We look ahead to future books by these authors.
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Summary: Destined To Become A Classic
Review: Too many books about human behavior and thought simply aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Most are like celery at dinner, an apetizer with more fiber than taste or nutrition. In contrast, this book is like dining at Maxim's of Paris every Saturday night for a year and only having sumptuous dishes galore. If you are interested to know what memetics, evolution, entropy, chaos theory, biology, neuroscience, psychology, information theory, brain function, thought field theory, state theory, cybernetics, and persuasion have in commmon -- without any psychobabble -- then buy a copy. This book offers the reader a deep, thoughtful, well-documented exploration of numerous subjects as they relate to human behavior. It is a challenging read. You won't be able to read it in one sitting, nor will only one reading be enough to probe the surprising depth of the material. You will however be rewarded with a provocative tour of the fundamenttals of thought and human behavior. I know of no other book that succeeds in tying so many disparate fields of inquiry together. It even provides a way of mapping the nuerocognitive system called NeuroPrint that will help you determine effective interventions with others. Beware: the ramifications of the material are profound and will reverberate through your current beliefs. On a side note, I wish the book were shorter and less expensive. But I am at a loss as to what could be cut that would not damage ther overall presentation. I am grateful the book is so well bound -- my copy is now filled with yellow highlighter and marginal notes, and is and will be referred to regularly. Those issues aside, I strongly recommend that every professor, parent, spouse, therapist, salesman, or individual who interacts with others buy and read a copy as soon as you can. In the future no one will be able to consider themselves knowledgeable in the field of human thought and behavior that has not read and carefully considered the material in this book. It should become a classic.
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Summary: Destined To Become A Classic
Review: Too many books about human behavior and thought simply aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Most are like celery at dinner, an apetizer with more fiber than taste or nutrition. In contrast, this book is like dining at Maxim's of Paris every Saturday night for a year and only having sumptuous dishes galore. If you are interested to know what memetics, evolution, entropy, chaos theory, biology, neuroscience, psychology, information theory, brain function, thought field theory, state theory, cybernetics, and persuasion have in commmon -- without any psychobabble -- then buy a copy. This book offers the reader a deep, thoughtful, well-documented exploration of numerous subjects as they relate to human behavior. It is a challenging read. You won't be able to read it in one sitting, nor will only one reading be enough to probe the surprising depth of the material. You will however be rewarded with a provocative tour of the fundamenttals of thought and human behavior. I know of no other book that succeeds in tying so many disparate fields of inquiry together. It even provides a way of mapping the nuerocognitive system called NeuroPrint that will help you determine effective interventions with others. Beware: the ramifications of the material are profound and will reverberate through your current beliefs. On a side note, I wish the book were shorter and less expensive. But I am at a loss as to what could be cut that would not damage ther overall presentation. I am grateful the book is so well bound -- my copy is now filled with yellow highlighter and marginal notes, and is and will be referred to regularly. Those issues aside, I strongly recommend that every professor, parent, spouse, therapist, salesman, or individual who interacts with others buy and read a copy as soon as you can. In the future no one will be able to consider themselves knowledgeable in the field of human thought and behavior that has not read and carefully considered the material in this book. It should become a classic.
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