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"Calm Clarity is not just a powerful story of transformation, it is an enthralling tour of the latest research on brain science, complete with actionable takeaways to radically transform the way you think, feel, and live."
—PsychCentral
We often don't realize how much control we have over our thoughts, feelings, and actions. On some days, the most minor irritation can upset us, but on others, we are in our best form and can rise to challenges with grace. These fluctuations depend on the neural networks firing in our brains, and we have the power to consciously break hardwired thought patterns. Due Quach developed an intimate understanding of the brain during her personal journey of healing from post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to Quach, people function in three primary emotional states: Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, and Brain 3.0. In Brain 1.0, people act out of fear and self-preservation. Brain 2.0 involves instant gratification and chasing short-term rewards at the expense of long-term well-being. Brain 3.0 is a state of mind that Quach calls "Calm Clarity," in which people's actions are aligned with their core values. As Quach confronted PTSD and successfully weaned herself off medication, she learned how to activate, exercise, and strengthen Brain 3.0 like a muscle. In Calm Clarity, she draws on the latest scientific research and ancient spiritual traditions to show us how we too can take ownership of our thoughts, feelings, and actions in order to be our best selves.
Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain
for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy
What is Mind-hacking?
We define it as using science to enhance the best qualities of being human by proactively steering brain development in a way that physiologically supports greater physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being, alignment, and integration.
High-Level Outline
Part 1
My Journey through Brain 1.0 and Brain 2.0 to Brain 3.0
Due brings the key principles of the Calm Clarity Program to life, sharing how she learned them by using neuroscience to navigate through many hardships and challenges. By honestly telling her moving and inspiring story, she demonstrates that trauma doesn't have to be a life sentence, and that pain can be transformed rather than transmitted. Her transformation shows that a person can be a refugee from a war-torn country, grow up in poverty, be surrounded by violence, and suffer PTSD, yet she can heal her brain, change her trajectory, and make a positive impact on the world.
This is also the story of how one person's quest to use insights from science to achieve self-actualization led her to discover that mystical experiences can happen, even to a secular skeptic.
Part 2
A Mind-Hacker's Guide to Shifting into Brain 3.0
Due builds on the concepts shared in Part 1 to help readers make the shift into Brain 3.0 in a manner that is grounded in experience, science, and inner wisdom. She begins by providing an overview of the journey that takes a deeper dive into the underlying neural mechanisms. She helps readers appreciate the critical functions of Brain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 and the importance of integrating and aligning these structures.
She also presents a series of practical and effective neuroscience-based meditations and exercises that enable readers to strengthen the neural networks of Brain 3.0, and break free of self-limiting patterns and behaviors. By doing these contemplative practices on a regular, consistent basis, people can rewire their brains to naturally experience more wisdom, fulfillment, and joy. They can learn to embody more and more of their Higher Selves—the highest expression of who they are.
Editorial Reviews
"Calm Clarity tells Due Quach’s story of transformation, weaving her rich life experience with in-depth scientific insights from across diverse fields. Due has created practical and accessible tools for readers to not just be inspired by her transformation, but to set off and experience their own profound changes as well."
Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author of Real Love and Real Happiness
"Calm Clarity is refreshingly readable, easily accessible, and understandable, a very valuable addition to contemporary books on transforming our minds and creating the foundation of a happy life."
Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job
"Calm Clarity provides a powerful, practical, science-based approach to healing and transforming our pain and cultivating compassion to enable others to do so also. The compelling story of Due Quach's personal modern-day metamorphosis from a skeptic into a mystic will touch the hearts and minds of seekers everywhere, and her ongoing efforts to bring these tools to low-income communities to end the transmission of toxic stress and trauma is inspiring."
Richard Rohr, bestselling author of Falling Upward
"This is an extraordinary work by an extraordinary woman."
Allan Lokos, author of Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
"Due’s rich personal narrative is interwoven with deep research into the way our brains work, offering lessons and tools that all of us should embrace for our own good and for the good of the world we live in."
Philip W. Lovejoy, Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association
"One of the best books I have ever read. Yes, this book is about rewiring your brain for greater wisdom and joy, but it also shares Due's compelling story of resilience and grit, a very personal account of shifting from entanglement to enlightenment."
Rick Bellingham, EdD, CEO of iobility
“Accessible yet deep, Calm Clarity helps readers achieve inner transformation, untangle emotional knots, and find clarity. This book is a revelatory and inspiring guide on the spiritual path that also helps people develop the leader inside them.”
Patricio Barriga, CEO and President of Fagor America Inc.