I read it in 2 days and it's now in my top 3 most valued books EVER – STEVEN BARTLETT:DIARY OF A CEO HOST & Dragons Den "20+ years in professional football, you get to meet some incredible people!! I was lucky enough to spend time with Prof Peters with England. If you've not read 'A Path through the Jungle' I'd highly recommend it!" BEN FOSTER: EX ENGLAND GOALKEEPER Ever wanted to succeed but not sacrifice your health, relationships and values to get there? This is possibly the most important book you will ever read!!! Professor Michael Coleman, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge Professor Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist and author of the bestselling self-help book, The Chimp Paradox. He has years of experience as a clinician, an educator and has worked with some of the world’s most successful athletes. His new book 'Path through the Jungle' will help you to become robust and resilient. Professor Peters explains complex neuroscience in straightforward terms with his Chimp Management Mind Model. Robust: Becoming robust means having plans in place to manage your own mind and whatever situations you meet in life. Resilient: is being able to bounce back and manage the challenges of life. Resilience is a skill. A Path through the Jungle offers a structured programme with exercises and practical real-life examples. This book will help you to improve in areas such as: Managing stress and anxiety Improved relationships Emotional management Grief and loss Self-confidence Peace of mind Happiness Managing stress

Table of Contents:
Stage 1 – Understanding your mind:Explanations will be given of the neuroscience of brain structure and functioning, the rules of the mind and how information enters and is processed by the mind. An explanation and application of the Chimp model will be introduced with an emphasis on the development of self. Unit 1. The mind and Chimp model introduced Unit 2. The rules of the mind Unit 3. Developing yourself Stage 2 – Emotional management: This stage will help you to understand and manage the emotionally based system within your mind. It will explain how all emotions can be helpful and protective. Unit 4. Managing emotional reactions Unit 5. Your mind in harmony Unit 6. How to nurture your Chimp Unit 7. Managing your drives Stage 3 – Working with emotions: When emotions are understood, we can then appreciate how to use and work with all emotions to effect positive changes. Panic attacks, emotional scars and ghost emotions will be looked at in detail and how to manage them. Unit 8. Emotion – learning an internal language Unit 9. Disguised emotional messages explained Unit 10. Expressing emotion with insight and change Stage 4 – Changing habits and managing life events: The science of habit formation is explained and how we can change habits, beliefs and behaviours, including resistant habits. The grief reaction and loss are used as examples to demonstrate how we come to terms with life events. Unit 11. Changing habits beliefs and behaviours Unit 12. Processing and managing life events Unit 13. Managing significant life events Stage 5 – The two main stabilisers of the mind: By using the two main stabilisers of the mind we can establish a basis for happiness and peace of mind. How to find and implement your values along with perspective is reviewed and how to create a rigorous support system. Unit 14. Working with reality and truths Unit 15. Establishing peace of mind and happiness Unit 16. Keeping events in perspective Unit 17. External support Stage 6 – Creating a stress-free lifestyle: This stage explains the neuroscience of stress and how to work with the stress reaction. We look at how to prevent stress from occurring and how managing our environment can help with this. Lifestyle choices and recuperation, including the neuroscience of sleep and its applications, are addressed. Unit 18. Managing stress Unit 19. Preventing stress from occurring Unit 20. Managing your environment and lifestyle Unit 21. Recuperation Stage 7 – Optimising interactions with others: We will consider how to get the best out of someone and review some common problem scenarios involving people interactions. We will then look at how to optimise relationships and how to manage past experiences and relationships. Unit 22. Getting the best out of someone Unit 23. A basis for relationships Unit 24. Optimising relationships Unit 25. Communication Stage 8 – Pulling it all together: The final stage will pull the previous stages together to explain how robustness and resilience can be attained. Some common blockers to attaining this will be addressed in the troubleshooting section. Unit 26. Robustness and resilience Unit 27. Trouble shooting