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Reflexes… So amazing so I thought I might share again…

Posted on May 13, 2013 Posted in Learning with Ease Leave a comment

Why are we stuck in survival and over reacting to stress? Reflexes may be the problem. So I thought I might re-post this useful info on reflexes over the next few days. Perhaps it will give you something to think about in relation to you and the life you are creating…

All the best…

What are reflexes and why are they so important? We have many types of reflexes, for example when the doctor knocks our knees with his little hammer he is looking for a jerk of the knee. Primitive reflexes are the first reflexes that emerge, either in utero or in early infant-hood. An example of this is the Moro reflex, our early survival reaction to a loud noise. Watch most babies around 6 weeks old react to a loud noise and you will see wide eyes, a quick intake of breath and arms and legs springing open, usually followed by a loud cry.

These early reflexes are a fundamental part of our development and have emergence and inhibition stages. They need to be fully integrated by about a year old to make room for what is known as the postural reflexes, the ones that help us to stand upright and start walking and become able to cross our midlines.

As these reflexes emerge and inhibit we learn to respond, instead of react to the world. Our ability to move, our perception of the world, our language and how we make sense of the world is built upon these reflexes. Only after the successful integration of them can higher functioning, for example, relationships or academic learning, become natural and stress free.

If these reflexes are not fully integrated we can be stuck in survival mode. We stay wired from the brain stem to react rather than respond to everyday situations. Consider our earlier example of the Moro Reflex: this reflex emerges 9 weeks in utero and should be fully inhibited by 2 – 4 months of life. Once this is inhibited the infantile startle response of jumping and crying is replaced by the mature startle response, which is to look in the direction of the noise and wonder what it is.

If it has not become integrated then it will display itself as an over-reaction to stressful noise situations. This means this person is continually being put into fight or flight survival mode by every loud noise experienced. Often the body will learn compensation – which creates a baseline of stress in itself – but will come undone during times of stress and once again there is an over-reaction to noise.

More to come in the next few days….

Brain Gym Refresh and Demonstration Night- Learning and Sharing together… Create the Life You Want to Live

Neuroplasticity is advocating that the brain is capable of change even after childhood, on into maturity, and even old age. This discovery has big implications for teaching as well as for psychology, psychiatry and rehabilitative medicine. To know that mental illness can be helped by rewiring the brain of a dyslexic student or a child with ADHD can be life changing.

The theory in short is that changes can be made to the brain by strengthening the neural pathways. This can be achieved through new experiences gained by doing certain activities and, it is within our control.

At Create Clinic we are providing a demonstration and sharing evening where you can learn about Brain Gym® can provide you with powerful tools for rewiring your brain.

At Create Clinic we believe that each and every person is a powerful creator of their own reality. You strive to offer support so that you can… Create the Life You Want to Live.

Check my website or facebook events page for more information.

First Community Evening is Tuesday 30th of April at 7:30pm.

$10 cover charge . Light refreshments provided.

Please rsvp to secure your space.

Feeling Stuck and Disconnected? Try these Strategies for Whole-Hearted Living

Posted on May 1, 2011 Posted in Gay Landeta, Learning with Ease Leave a comment

May 1st, 2011

The clinic has been so busy lately, I once again have been a little remiss in keeping this up to date…..

Here is my aticle from this months ezine, i hope you enjoy it.

Feeling Stuck and Disconnected? Try these Strategies for Whole-Hearted Living

by Gay Landeta

The human brain has long mystified science by defying all the usual medical mechanical understandings. Finally, now, after years of observation and experimentation we are beginning to unearth its workings.

Early work identified the brain as consisting of two sides, the right and left brain, with the creative processes attributed to the right and the more logical and rational processes delegated to the left lobes. The right and left brain theory is one that most of us have heard however the model now emerging, as a result of the latest research, is of a much more complex and holographic brain.

The latest findings in the field of neural plasticity show a multi-faceted construction that is capable of growing and changing during our entire lifetime. This ability to grow and change gives enormous hope to anyone suffering from brain injury of any type or, more importantly, for anyone who just wants to use their brain more effectively. However, this ability to change is also our undoing because it appears our brain records new learning, quite indiscriminately, indelibly into our neural links.

It really does seem that the old adage use it or lose it is absolutely true, in every way! So how can we develop a better ability to use the skills our brain offers us? And how can we lose that which we no longer want or need? Continue reading →

Learning to Learn: what can stop us from being able to learn and remember easily

Posted on August 25, 2010 Posted in Learning with Ease Leave a comment

Hope you enjoy this article on learning – just in time for the semester exams!

cheers, Gay

Many people have heard of the 4 stages of learning – if you haven’t here’s a precis from Wikkipedia:

1. Unconscious Incompetence : The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it. (We don’t know what we don’t know).

2. Conscious Incompetence : Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, he or she does recognize the deficit, without yet addressing it. (We know we don’t know but we aren’t ready to address it yet).

3. Conscious Competence : The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires a great deal of consciousness or concentration. (You are beginning to be able to do it but it is not yet easy).

4. Unconscious Competence : The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it becomes “second nature” and can be performed easily (often without concentrating too deeply). He or she may or may not be able teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned. (It is now easy and maybe you can even teach others).

I invite you to think about anything you have learnt in your life you will see you went through each of these stages. For example remember learning to drive: At first you thought once you turned 17 it would be easy – jump in, release the brake and go. You didn’t know what you didn’t know.

Then you turned 17 and tried to do just that – you then realised that it took a little more skill than you expected. You then knew that you didn’t know how to drive and started to think about how you would learn.

Next you started to learn how to do it. Put the keys in the ignition, look in the mirror, take off the clutch….. it was hard work until finally it became such second nature that these days you sometimes wonder how you got home – Right?

(If you don’t drive I am sure you can relate this model to something else you once had no idea how to do but now do with ease.)

So this is all very well if (a) you want to learn that skill and (b) you feel reasonably confident about being able to learn it.

But what happens when you are stressed or have a history of difficulty learning something new – or just plain old hate new things?

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