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Brain Gym and the upcoming workshop was featured on Bronxmet TV this week!
http://www.bronxnet.org/tv/viewvideo/6364/open--featured-interviews/brain-gym-learning-center
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Research continues to show that your brain stays younger the more you move your body!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151023084456.htm?utm_source=feedburner I was sitting with a friend this morning, waiting for an event to begin.
She was on her phone and I started doing a short sequence of brain gym movements called PACE. I do this short sequence at least once a day to wake up all my senses and prepare my brain and body for new learning. She got curious and put her phone down and decided to join me. She asked me what the last move, a posture called "hookups", was good for, and I said, "It is good for having a clearer sense of boundaries, feeling grounded in the moment and positive about whatever you need to get done" ---to which she replied, "I need to do this all the time!......Maybe that's why you are always so g-d d*mned happy all the time". This made me chuckle, and also was interesting to hear, because I am not happy all the time, but when I think about it, happy IS my predominant state of being. If not exuberantly so, then certainly with a overall sense that life is generally good. However, this was NOT always the case. There are times I remember wen I was younger, crying in the car driving to work because I was so sad over a breakup, or feeling totally stuck and helpless around my work and life purpose. I had been doing all sorts of bodywork and talk therapy at that time, but it didn't really feel like it got to the source of why I felt the way I did. It really only started to shift in a noticeable and consistent way when I started doing brain gym. Among many things we just accept as our way of being in the world, I always had difficulty organizing my schedule, managing my time, getting rid of clutter and communicating my feelings when I was feeling triggered or emotional. There was a distinct tipping point moment about a year into doing brain gym, when I saw myself still speaking my mind clearly in the midst of a "heated discussion" with my boyfriend. It has been over 10 years of self exploration and practice doing these movements to shift my brain out of stress states into integration states. The more I do them the faster I get back to feeling good. Each time I get back to my center, there is a inner sense of resilience that builds. This resilience has built a kind of faith in myself over the years--because I know that no matter what happens or what I am faced with, I have this consistent method of tapping into my inner resources and getting back to feeling good. This faith also makes me feel less scared of going into uncomfortable situations. Life is really about taking the necessary risks required to learn and grow, and I realizing more and more that uncomfortable situations are pretty much the only place where growth happens. One of my teachers says, "People come to change through inspiration or desperation". In my experience with clients it is mostly the latter that drives people to take control of their brain. I know from personal experience if you do it intentionally (before life does it for you) it creates amazing changes and opportunities and you feel like you're working in alignment with your life rather than being beaten down by it. I am living better and happier than I imagined was possible for me back then. I am grateful every day for the ability and opportunity to do what I do. If you want to feel happier and more in control and on purpose in your life, let's set up a time to talk to see if this work is right for you. Here is an interesting article about the brain and logic and how we are not that reasonable in the face of facts.
http://www.alternet.org/media/most-depressing-discovery-about-brain-ever Here is an interesting article on how important crawling is for laying down the foundation for learning.
Enjoy! http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/parenting/how-creeping-and-crawling-influence-children-s-first-step-in-education-1.2225493 Here is an interesting article on how motor activity improves working memory in ADHD kids.
Working memory is a subset of executive functioning, where you are able to hold all the necessary bits of information required to complete a complex task without losing the pieces or forgetting them, etc. When I think of this skill I think of someone juggling and each ball signifying something that needs to be remembered. When working memory is going well, you are keeping all the balls up in the air effortlessly. When it is not, you are having a hard time keeping the balls in the air. Enjoy! https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201504/motor-activity-improves-working-memory-in-children-adhd There is a commonly spouted Brain Myth out there, that we use only 10% of our brain. Having worked with Brain Gym for many years, I know that this is not the case, but I didn't have the reason why or where they even came up with a number like 10%! Well, Dr. Bruce Lipton debunks this myth, and introduces us to the lovely glial cells! Bonus!!! He also mentions Brain Gym as a way to increase whole brain functioning as a way to get you using 100% of your brain! Book a session today and optimize your brain and life! On February 4, 2015, I lost my mom to breast cancer.
She was one of the most beautiful and selfless people I knew. She was passionate, dynamic, and full of ideas and thing she was learning and wanted to create in the world. She had come back to working with soil and agriculture after many years in the healing field, and had worked on many campaigns to help farming become cleaner and less full of chemicals so that our food supply could be cleaner and healthier. She had her first bout with cancer over 10 years ago, but it came back and spread with a vengance in August and it was a long process of waiting for the inevitable that as terrifying, sad, bittersweet, and unbearably loving and tender. There were many frank conversations that were had about what it means to live life, how much we meant to each other, and how hard it is to come to terms with what was unfinished. It was the most painful thing for me to witness, her slow letting go of the things she was passionate about and the regret. The regret of lack of focus, the taking on of too much, not putting enough attention on her health, and what she still wanted to do that she never would be able to. She became less of the person she was, and at the same time, she began slowly to let go and drop into herself and what seems eternal. The eternal that is bigger than any one desire we have as a single being, which swallows up all of you, your hopes, your fears, your dreams. When life is ending, you let these things go, and it becomes the work of others that follow. One of these dreams is her desire to create a homeopathic poison ivy cream that she was in the process of creating, but did not get to finish. The formula is already made, but there still needs to be some work done to finish creating the packaging, get the FDA approval, insurance, and then finally the distribution. When she first got sick, she furiously gave me instructions and information about what still needed to be done, and I have been slowly chipping away at the steps. I need some help in having the funds to complete the task. I have created an indiegogo campaign to finish raising the funds. There is only a short time left. If you are able to help in any way, it is greatly appreciated in helping make my mom's dream a reality. Thank you in advance for your help. This video of a man who has focal dystonia and has started to regain control over his body through dance is quite inspiring. He says, "Sometimes to get to the brain you have to go through the body." Much is true in what we do in Brain Gym. Enjoy! I gave some brain gym tips for an article on quick health tips in Cosmo online!
"20 Ways to Improve Your Health in 1 Minute (Or Less!)" Enjoy! |
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