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@John
thanks for the link
@Jyera
It looks to me as though the Braingym exercises was developed from AK principles and while it is not the same thing, it does seem to share some of it's characteristics.
I'm glad you shared your experience, it gave me a lot of insight to braingym and together with the other comments I am able to make a more informed decision on what Braingym can and can't do.
thanks for the link
@Jyera
It looks to me as though the Braingym exercises was developed from AK principles and while it is not the same thing, it does seem to share some of it's characteristics.
I'm glad you shared your experience, it gave me a lot of insight to braingym and together with the other comments I am able to make a more informed decision on what Braingym can and can't do.
Here's a reply to clarsct's response.
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Originally posted by Jyera
-What is special is the person doing the exercises.
-What is special is the person who is unable to do the exercises.
-What is special is the moment the person who is unable to do the exercise finally able to do it.
-What is special are the people who were trained about the exercises.
-What is special are the reasons why you do an exercise.
-What is special is the the person who find it uncomfortable doing a certain exercise/action.
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Point 1 and 2 are not contradictory.
Point 1 refers to BrainGym's philosophy of honouring the individual who needed help.
Point 2: A person who is unable to do a certain exercise in the brainGym menu is an indication to the BrainGym instructor to their physical mind body condition. Eg. if they have a problem in "crossing the midline". A normal person who do not have such difficulties will find it hard to appreciate.
Point 3: The moment of achievement, is a moment of joy and celebration. And BrainGym "celebrates" at the end of each "BrainGym Balance". A BrainGym is a 5 step learning process. It is important for a person the "balancee", who has special learning needs to celebrate the baby step. And it is the resposibility of the BrainGym "Balancer" to celebrate it without making the person feels demoralised because it might be still a long way before the person is able to do the exercise as comptently as a Karate expert.
If you are a normal competence person, you probably don't celebrate doing an exercise. But everyone has some hidden mental inhibition or choice, we do not realize that is limiting our potential. "Movement of the body" help unlease these self-awareness.
Point 4: to the untrained eyes, the exercises seems normal and laughable to be considered to have any positive effect. The Trained BrainGym instructor on the other hand, have the responisibility to know if an exercise is relevant to the needs of the person.
Point 5: Different reason means different objective and different expected result. The reason or objective also is important it determining which exercise are relevant to do.
Point 6: The level of being uncomfortable is an important indicator. Especially for "normal" "adult". BrainGym assert that mind/brain and the body are closely related. Do you feel uncomfortable physically when seeing a bowl of live worms beside your lunch?
In this case, there is fear, there is disgust, there is uncontrollable urge to walk away. BrainGym uses a method generically called named a "Balance" to remove these uncomfortable feeling.
And to anchor new learning into the brain+body as a whole unit.
Humans are not perfect.
Some will tell you "It is typical of me to be impatient".
"It is typical of me to be temparamental".
"I'm just a nice person" (Who gets trampled but more assertive people). Do you realise that if you are an impatient person, you might have learned to be uncomfortable with people who take a long time.
Are you feeling impatient with this post already???
Can you change it? Do you want and need to change it?
In Summary
So you see.
BrainGym is a tool.
(which is more than just the individual exercises)
The BrainGym instructor is trained on how to facilitate the use of the tool. And if they are proficient and know their stuff, they should expect it to be effective.
quote:
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Originally posted by Jyera
-What is special is the person doing the exercises.
-What is special is the person who is unable to do the exercises.
-What is special is the moment the person who is unable to do the exercise finally able to do it.
-What is special are the people who were trained about the exercises.
-What is special are the reasons why you do an exercise.
-What is special is the the person who find it uncomfortable doing a certain exercise/action.
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Point 1 and 2 are not contradictory.
Point 1 refers to BrainGym's philosophy of honouring the individual who needed help.
Point 2: A person who is unable to do a certain exercise in the brainGym menu is an indication to the BrainGym instructor to their physical mind body condition. Eg. if they have a problem in "crossing the midline". A normal person who do not have such difficulties will find it hard to appreciate.
Point 3: The moment of achievement, is a moment of joy and celebration. And BrainGym "celebrates" at the end of each "BrainGym Balance". A BrainGym is a 5 step learning process. It is important for a person the "balancee", who has special learning needs to celebrate the baby step. And it is the resposibility of the BrainGym "Balancer" to celebrate it without making the person feels demoralised because it might be still a long way before the person is able to do the exercise as comptently as a Karate expert.
If you are a normal competence person, you probably don't celebrate doing an exercise. But everyone has some hidden mental inhibition or choice, we do not realize that is limiting our potential. "Movement of the body" help unlease these self-awareness.
Point 4: to the untrained eyes, the exercises seems normal and laughable to be considered to have any positive effect. The Trained BrainGym instructor on the other hand, have the responisibility to know if an exercise is relevant to the needs of the person.
Point 5: Different reason means different objective and different expected result. The reason or objective also is important it determining which exercise are relevant to do.
Point 6: The level of being uncomfortable is an important indicator. Especially for "normal" "adult". BrainGym assert that mind/brain and the body are closely related. Do you feel uncomfortable physically when seeing a bowl of live worms beside your lunch?
In this case, there is fear, there is disgust, there is uncontrollable urge to walk away. BrainGym uses a method generically called named a "Balance" to remove these uncomfortable feeling.
And to anchor new learning into the brain+body as a whole unit.
Humans are not perfect.
Some will tell you "It is typical of me to be impatient".
"It is typical of me to be temparamental".
"I'm just a nice person" (Who gets trampled but more assertive people). Do you realise that if you are an impatient person, you might have learned to be uncomfortable with people who take a long time.
Are you feeling impatient with this post already???
Can you change it? Do you want and need to change it?
In Summary
So you see.
BrainGym is a tool.
(which is more than just the individual exercises)
The BrainGym instructor is trained on how to facilitate the use of the tool. And if they are proficient and know their stuff, they should expect it to be effective.
Be aware how "looks" can mislead.bluegray said:@John
thanks for the link
@Jyera
It looks to me as though the Braingym exercises was developed from AK principles and while it is not the same thing, it does seem to share some of it's characteristics.
I'm glad you shared your experience, it gave me a lot of insight to braingym and together with the other comments I am able to make a more informed decision on what Braingym can and can't do.
Human and wild ape may share similar features but they might be subtly differently.
I have hardly shared much.