Access Your Brain's Joy Center: The Free Soul Method

First of all, this is not just another self-help book. In the first 40 pages, the author uses very simple, straight-forward instructions to teach you how to stimulate the pleasure and mood-elevating responses (through the Septum Pellucidum) in your brain easily, naturally, and AT WILL. Out of 214 pages, those first 40 pages alone earn the book 5 stars! In fact, he specifically wrote the book so that you could just read those 40 pages, containing the deceptively simple instructions, and walk away with an incredible new ability for life! That's the good part. Here's the not so good part - after those first 40 pages, the book seems to lose it's focus and wander aimlessly all over the field of self-help and new age fluff. The author seems intent on describing how to apply the technique to every conceivable ailment known to humanity. Unfortunately, he never stays on any one topic long enough to really discuss anything in depth, including the technique itself. So, for me personally, the value of the book dropped dramatically just after the first chapter. On the bright side, knowing what I know now, I would have happily paid five times the price for that one chapter alone. I just think this book and it's author, missed an opportunity to discuss in laymen's terms, the hard science and biofeedback theory behind the actual technique itself. After all, there's more than enough new-age self-help methods going around, but this one is actually rooted in physiology. It's a chance to appeal to a larger audience through simple scientific fact. Regardless, my advice is whether you're an avid new ager, an agnostic explorer, or even a hard core skeptic, find a copy of this book, read to page 40, and just follow the simple instructions. Because this isn't about believing in a new age self-help method, it's about feeling an ability that you already have, but may not be aware of - the ability to trigger your brain's reward system and feel really, REALLY GOOD, INSTANTLY, AT WILL! This is not the kind of thing you read about and then never get around to using in real life. Once you learn how to do it, it simply feels so good, you'll probably find yourself doing it all the time, without even thinking about it. All those other benefits, like pain reduction and mood-enhancement just seem to happen as a by-product. The amazing thing is, triggering this effect just becomes a habit, because the more you do it the better it feels and the better it feels, the more you'll find yourself doing it! And if that's not self-help, I don't know what is.

This book help me discover a really easy technique to make life just a little more bearable especially when things just don't seem to be going your way. Would definitely recommend this book to anybody.The time invested is well worth while.

If you are an MIT graduate I'm sure this is an easy read. I am not and for me it was very hard to get into. I went to a seminar by the Author, Pete Sanders, and got some of information that way, which made it much easier for me to absorb. I lent the book to a friend indefinitely. Perhaps some day I will dare to pick it up again!I gave the book 4 stars, maybe because the person behind the book is so genuine and good and I know his message is worth receiving! However, if you are like me and have a hard time reading scientific mumbo-jumbo and technical terms, you might be better served to pick up his 10 week course on CD or go to one of his seminars! His website is [...]

The book is in good one diction and is signed by the author!

If you think YOU and YOUR FEELINGS are The Center of The Universe, you will LOVE this book. I began reading it with an open mind and a willingness to accept the theories of this Guru of Self-Love. But as I reached the end of it, I realized there is not a single page about our own flaws and guilts and what WE owe to others. It is all about “ The Self.” ME, ME, ME...MY HURTS, MY PAIN, WHAT UNKIND OTHERS HAVE DONE TO MEEEE!We live in a self-centered world...perhaps made worse by the Covid 19 Universe we now live in. And this book is the perfect fit! As a prime member, I am entities to return this THING and get my money back. I am not doing that— I am throwing it in the trash—something I cannot ever remember doing before.

A great book with all the required information to access your joy center. No special teacher or guide is necessary.

My sister insisted I find this book and read it. So glad I did.

Still trying to find joy, maybe it is gratitude

Pete Sanders writes so you can understand high. Congratulations to MIT for for larger definition of science education!

Great book