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Many people struggle with
learning and emotions because they have learned to use their
brain in pieces and parts instead of as a single unit.
These habits can come about because of early childhood
development or emotional trauma, sickness, physical injury, or
emotional make up. Of course they can also be genetic.
When your brain functions
in this fractured way it is kind of like trying to
drive your car fast when the engine has not been properly
tuned. If the car is not firing on all cylinders then
even a Ferrari can't break the speed limit. The result
is frustration and limited success when one puts the peddle
to the metal. A properly tuned car will be able to
live up to high expectations. In a similar fashion
when people learn to use all parts of the brain together,
remembering, reading, hearing, writing and organizing become
much easier and faster.
Research and experience show
that Transformations Brain Integration Therapy, a specific
pattern of physical activity which also uses the eyes to
trigger the brain in a specific way, can teach all parts of
the brain to work together more efficiently and effectively.
The therapy requires 7 to 10 weekly sessions with an
educational consultant and exercises done at home.
Physician and Author Richard Restak believes that
research shows that the modern world is rewiring our brains:
"We have learned so much about the human brain during the
past two decades that it's fair to speak of a revolutionary
change in our understanding of it. The era of the Old
Brain is giving way to that of the New Brain...One pivotal
concept underlies our understanding of the New Brain:
"Plasticity." This refers to the brain's capacity for
change. As recently as only a few years ago, most
neuroscientists believed that brain plasticity largely
ceased by adolescence or by early adulthood at the latest.
As this point they believed the brain became fixed in it's
structure and function---at least that was the prevailing
assumption. But this assumption has turn out to be
wrong."
"We now recognize that your brain isn't limited by
considerations that are applicable to machines.
Thoughts, feelings and actions, rather than mechanical laws,
determine the health of our brain. Furthermore, we now
know that the brain never loses the power to transform
itself on the basis of experience, and this transformation
can occur over very short intervals. For instance,
your brain is different today that it was yesterday.
This difference results from the effect on your brain of
yesterday's and today's experiences, as well as thoughts and
feeling you have entertained over the past 24 hours.
Think, therefore, of the human brain as a lifetime work in
progress that retains plasticity---the capacity for
change---as long as the "owner" is still alive."
---The New Brain: How the Modern Age is
Rewiring Your Mind pg. 7-8
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We are pleased to announce
a BIT Practicum in July 0f 2008
