In her thoroughly researched, engaging and elegant book, Dr. Tracey Shors has created a seminal guide for those who suffer from stress and trauma and the clinicians who are in training to treat them, by explaining the benefits of — and likely mechanisms behind — the profound relief and focus that can come from simply practicing meditation followed by aerobic activity. This is Dr. Shors’s specialized yet accessible version of mental and physical brain training (aka “MAP Training”) that has been shown to produce long-lasting results in as little as one session per week for six weeks.
Throughout her book, Dr. Shors is indefatigable with her inspirational message that, especially because the brain is always changing and because of her discovery that learning keeps new neurons alive to encode memories, anyone can (and should) take advantage of the brain’s ability to grow and change in order to provide themselves with relief from stress and trauma as well as renewed life-focus.
First, Dr. Shors covers the complicated and interdependent relationship among stress, trauma, fear, reflex, self-talk, rumination, operative learning, breathing, exercise, and the formation and retention of neurons and neural connections. Then she explains the mechanisms behind the most common methods for treating stress and trauma—such as prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapies, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. Then, after highlighting that current treatments are inaccessible to many trauma and stress sufferers due to costs and personal circumstances, Dr. Shors describes a brain fitness program that anyone can do and that provides relief from stress along with renewed life-focus. Finally, Dr. Shors explains the likely mechanism as to why meditation followed by aerobics is so effective at reducing ruminating and depressive thoughts while enhancing overall well-being.
The protocol that Dr. Shors has developed for doing meditation-then-aerobic exercise is so simple and well thought-out, and the evidence for its benefit is so persuasive, that after reading the book the benefits of her program seem obvious in hindsight—making this a work of true genius and a must-read for all who suffer from stress and trauma and for those who treat them.
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