Hack Your Brain The Yogic Way: 15 Secret Ancient Indian Techniques to Enhance Cognitive Fitness, Promote Neurogrowth, Improve Your Focus and Unleash ... Boundless Potential (Yogic Brain Mastery) Paperback – 13 Mar. 2020

Hard to take something like this seriously when the author overuses exclamation points. It makes everything read like hyperbole. And then there’s the links he keeps providing to his other books, to complete your understanding. On the positive side, there are plenty of photos to help the reader visualize the instructions.PS - words in blocks caps are not how you emphasize a word - it just comes across as SHOUTING!!!!

Great, as usual. Eazy to read, quick book for morning or night time read. Always enjoy reading you ! Thanks.

Concise interpretation of yoga, pranayama, mudras in a nutshell. For people like me who are time pressed , very good book.

Note: As per any book discussing techniques that might involve some aspect of spirituality or claim some sort of benefit that can’t be explained through non-scientific means, I always assume that the author’s primary premise—in this case, the health and well-being benefits of yoga poses known as Mudras—is true for the purposes of my review. After all, if you don’t believe that, then you’re not going to read the book and so reviewing it from that perspective is a waste of time.An interesting book teaching yogic techniques as a way to strengthen physical and psychological well-being. It goes through many techniques and shows you how to do them. Also explains how you’ll feel when you do them and how you’ll benefit from them.What I Liked:-The explanations were straightforward enough. A brief description of the position, the activity (e.g., breathing, motion), and a picture of the pose.-The introduction had enough scientific detail to explain why these activities are good for you and even had a link to a scientific study that showed it grow gray matter in the brain.Nitpicks:-I’m not a fan of being sold other books basically in every chapter, which makes it feel like this book is a frame for selling other books, but I know that’s not the author’s intent—rather, just a reference to more information than he’s going through on the topic. It just seems a little too convenient that every chapter has an associated book on sale that’s linked to in this one.-I’m a “why” and “how” fan—i.e., I like to know why something is the way it is and how it works. That’s not covered in here for the techniques, so either it’s been lost to history or is just not covered here. I’m not taking off anything since most people don’t need to know that, but I like that sort of thing.-You’ll finish the book a lot earlier than expected due to many pages being ads for other books and an excerpt from another book. Just an FYI if you wonder why the book’s over at ~66%.-A little short. As long as the price is right for the content, that isn’t a big enough issue to affect the score. Judge for yourself based on the price it is when you decide whether to buy it.Other Thoughts/Notes:Author’s Notes: I think there’s a typo here: “...than the mice that underwent complex movements like finding food in a maze, walking on ropes to get their food etc. that too in a much open environment.” Not sure what “that too in” means...is it supposed to be “took”? In technique #5, it should be “hold in your breath” instead of “breathe”.

If your only experience with yogo is traditional western yoga classes it would be best to read a Raja yoga book along with it like Vivivikananda's book or William Walker Atkinson's book or even a commentary on the yoga sutras. These practices could be good in their own but to really appreciate then it helps to have the philosophy.

Provides a good introduction to yoga. It a small book but contains some valuable information for beginners into yoga practice