Sharon Promislow - Making the Brain Body Connection: A Playful Guide to Releasing Mental, Physical & Emotional Blocks to Success

Sharon has been a pioneer in the exciting, exploding new paradigm area of energy psychology. As I wrote in Molecules of Emotion, early on I came to see disease-related stress in terms of information overload. When the mind-body system is overly taxed by unprocessed sensory input, in the form of suppressed trauma or undigested emotions, it becomes bogged down and cannot flow freely. When stress prevents the molecules of emotion from flowing freely where needed, the largely autonomic processes that are regulated by peptide flow, such as breathing, blood flow, immunity, digestion and elimination, collapse down to a few simple feedback loops and upset the normal healing response. Making the Brain/Body Connection offers a simple laymans understanding of stress, emotion and sensory processing, along with concrete ways to get those peptides flowing again, returning the body and emotions to healthful balance. I enthusiastically recommend Sharons clear, practical and delightfully simple introduction to the new physiology, the interface between our emotions, body, mind and spirit.

..a fun and informative collection of philosophy, attitude tips and stressbusting infoThe book approaches the impact of modern life on our functioning, and gives ways to better cope. Vancouver Province

As advertised by the subtitle, this book provides a playful guide to releasing mental, physical and emotional blocks to success. You may need several copies since the simple but powerful techniques that are described will benefit the entire family. There are tips for rapid learning, help for reading problems, techniques for getting rid of headaches, exercises to remove mild dyslexia, stress reducers and techniques that will make you more effective in challenging situations. They all work! Excellent indexes make it easy to find what you need. Cross-referencing is unusually well done. An extensive bibliography and contact addresses are provided. -K.Ann Kerr , Synchronicity Magazine, Toronto, Canada

This book is a good choice for people of any age who are exploring the power of movement to enhance learning. Making the Brain/Body Connection beautifully expresses, in laymans terms, many of the key concepts from the Brain Gymprogram, such as the profound benefits of movement in the release of stress and the acquisition of academic skills. Sharon is a dynamic writer and presenter with a clear grasp of the relationship between specific physical action and the development of the intellect. In our hurried times, she points the way to rediscovering joy and ease in living. Paul and Gail Dennison , authors, Brain

the writing is admirably clear, light touch and understandable to the lay readeryou should wind up knowing more about the grey stuff between your ear than the top brain surgeons knew just a short decade or two ago.

This is a unique book that makes recent knowledge from brain studies and kinesiology so accessible to anyone with interest in this area. The illustrations and text complement each other in providing a basic understanding of our brain/body communication, stress and our electric body.... This is an essential book for all parents and teachers. Future education can no longer neglect the brain/body connection. Fr. George Zee, S.J., Hong Kong

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Making the Brain/Body Connection has been translated into many foreign languages. Other editions of Making the Brain/Body Connection are available through our international publishers. Contact information and links to those publishers are available on the web at www.enhancedlearning.com. Publishers interested in translation rights, contact Enhanced Learning & Integration at info@enhancedlearning.com.

Brain Gym, the Three Dimensions of Learning, Hook-Ups, Positive Points, The Rocker, The Energizer, The Owl, The Thinking Cap, Alphabet 8s, The Cloverleaf, Brain Organization Profiles, the brain bug graphic, and the concept of the visual midfield are all registered trademarks and copyrights of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, and are used here with permission. For information write 1575 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 204B, (805) 658-7942, web: www.braingym.org

1. Mind and body. 2. Health. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology). 4. Mind and body therapies.
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QP3 88.p76 1998 613 C-98-901126-4
1998 First Edition
2005 Revised Edition Sharon Promislow

No part of this material may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic or electronic process, or in any form of a recording. Nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private use without the written permission of the author.

The procedures and techniques described in these materials are solely for educational purposes. The author, Enhanced Learning & Integration Inc. and Kinetic Publishing Corp. are not directly or indirectly presenting any part of this work as a diagnosis or prescription for any condition of any reader, nor making representation concerning the psychological or physical effects for any of the ideas reported. Persons using these tests and correction procedures do so entirely at their own risk.

All my love to my family: Barry for his patience and support; Sean for his constant inspiration and computer smarts; Elana for her light-hearted cartoon style upon which we expanded for this book; Eric, Aimee, Daniel and their wonderful families for enriching my life.

I gratefully acknowledge my colleagues who helped turn this book into a reality: Michael Delory for the draft edition format; Cathrine Levan, whose unfailing optimism, computer kicking and editing skills, helped push this project to the finish line. In addition, she unveiled yet another of her many talents by creating the terrific cartoons and illustrations. Marilee Boitson, who could be hired by the Department of Natural Resources after all the time she spent pulling me out of the trees so I could see the forest. Without her vision, gentle guidance and editing, this book would be longer yet, and half as clear; Blair McDonald for the wonderful format, and to my friend and colleague, Joy Ridenour, for her support and hot fax line.

Although synthesized from a variety of Educational and Specialized Kinesiology disciplines, the concepts and activities in this book owe a particular debt to Educational Kinesiology and the work of Gail Dennison & Paul Dennison, PhD. Their insights into learning through movement, the learning process itself, improved sensory processing, noticing, and the true meaning of education, provide a major inspiration for this work. The Dennisons constant willingness to fine tune my understanding of Brain Gymconcepts was, and is, exceptional.