Neuroaffective meditation - Marianne Bentzen

Neuroaffective meditation - Marianne Bentzen

A practical guide to emotional growth, brain development, and trauma recovery

Drawing on 25 years of research on brain development and decades of meditation practice, psychotherapist Marianne Bentzen demonstrates how we can use neuroaffective meditation—a form of meditation that combines meditation, neuroscience, and psychology—for personal growth and conscious maturation. Using a detailed description of the stages of emotional maturation, she reveals the developmental processes the brain undergoes during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Neuroaffective meditation can help us further the process of emotional maturation, enabling new experiences and new ways of functioning. However, because every path to deepening and maturation inevitably opens the door to our deepest pain and greatest fear, considerable attention is also paid to trauma and the contribution meditation can make to the healing process.

The sixteen guided meditations for neuroaffective brain development offered in this book (also available online) work deeply into the unconscious layers of the brain. They help us reconnect with ourselves and the people around us. Each meditation explores a different theme, such as compassion, positive and negative experiences, breathing to "be in your body," and balancing energy.

This book explains the science behind neuroaffective meditation and offers a step-by-step approach to spiritual growth, emotional maturation, and brain development.

About the author:
Marianne Bentzen is a psychotherapist and lecturer in neuroaffective developmental psychology. She has authored and co-authored several articles and books and has lectured in seventeen countries and presented at more than thirty (inter)national conferences. Marianne lives in Denmark.

Dutch | 9789460152146 | 288 pages