Brain Gym
What is Brain Gym®?
Brain Gym® is a form of complementary therapy, utilizing simple and enjoyable movements and activities, to enhance the experience of whole brain learning. These activities make all types of learning easier and they are especially effective in improving academic skills. It is suggested that the movements are used for a matter of weeks or months to help reinforce new learning. Brain Gym® is a registered trade mark and the official Brain Gym® website can be accessed at www.braingym.org.
How simple and how safe is it?
Brain Gym® is a simple, non-intrusive technique, which assists in the learning and development of new skills. It involves simple body movements to enhance learning and is safe to use.
What does Brain Gym® actually do?
• Brain Gym® can assist adults and children with learning difficulties.
• It can assist with developing skills and strategies to reduce stress.
• Brain Gym® can also assist in developing better vision.
• Brain Gym® can help with relaxation and in clearing tension.
How does Brain Gym work?
Our body feels and works best when it is tuned up and refreshed, so does our brain! Stress in the neurological system, due to a variety of reasons beginning at gestation to adulthood can be reduced or eliminated. Brain Gym® helps "switch on" the mind and body using simple natural techniques with proven excellent results.
How do Brain Gym activities differ from other interventions?
The 26 Brain Gym activities were studied and developed over a 35 year period. These movements are developmentally based and relate to specific and well established reflexes that children normally complete on their own if given enough early freedom of physical movement, and if they incur no injury or stress to inhibit these natural movement experiences. The Brain Gym® activities are effective because they address specific movements on which auditory, visual, and tactile skills depend. Academic success depends on having these auditory and other skills in place. These skills could be called the physical skills (rather than the mental skills) of learning.
Who developed this program?
Brain Gym®, a learning readiness program, used in schools, homes and businesses in more than 70 countries around the world was founded on the research of educator Paul E. Dennison Ph.D. and his wife Gail Dennison. Brain Gym® has been honored by the National Learning Foundation in Washington DC as educational strategies that prepare learners for the challenges faced by all learners in the 21st Century.
Is Brain Gym comparable with other interventions?
Yes, Brain Gym® will enhance other interventions offered, connecting with, not encroaching on services resulting in more efficient use of all resources and at considerable savings.
What does a balance do?
A balance focuses on a specific goal offers movement to allow the mind/body system to reorganize neurologically for new and more effective choices in relation to this goal. A large part of the balance process involves the release of visual (eyes), auditory (ears) and kinesthetic (movement) stress patterns. Wherever there is stress, as a result of trauma at any age, from gestation to adulthood, we tend to use only a portion of what we really know. As mental, physical or emotional stress is released, we are able to hear, see, move and improve behavior. As a result we are able to think and respond more clearly. When under stress, a person becomes frightened and irrational as the mid-brain has broken its circuit with the cerebral cortex where logical decision making takes place and this makes it difficult to think and process language.
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