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Brain Balance and Integration
It is important to anchor and integrate new Realities into your brain and neurological system your brain needs the same movement that it used as a child to program the brain. Here is one movement that will work.
Here is the Process:
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A. Read the Reality Statement. This is the concept that you want as foundation and or outcome.
B. Cross Crawl....March in place crossing the meridian of your body, left hand to right knee and right hand to left knee. As you Cross Crawl, keep your face forward and move your eyes as if they are paintbrushes that you are using to paint the wall in front of you. C. Puppet. March in place lifting right hand and right leg at the same time and then left han and left leg at the same time. As you do the puppet, move your eyes like paintbrushes as in step B. D. Visualize the Reality Statement as if you were in the experience. E. Hold both hands out to the side at shoulder height. Each hand symbolizes one hemisphere of your brain. Gently, lift your hands above your head and interlace fingers. Then bring the linked hands down to through the chakras and draw energy into your hands from the earth. F. Place one hand on your Solar Plexus power center and the other on your Heart power center. G. While holding those spots, let yourself imagine the qualities that result from your new Statement, i.e. joy, peace, strength, etc. Breathe those feelings and expand them through your body. H. Cross crawl to anchor the reality into the body. |
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Here is a Brain Balance option:
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A shortened version of a Brain Balance, called Cooks Hook-up that can be done in bed, at your desk, in a bus, etc.
A. Cross your legs at the ankles. B. Cross your wrists and interlace your fingers. C. Roll your laced hands up to your chest. D. Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. E. Think through your Realty Statement. F. Roll your eyes clockwise 10 x - then Roll your eyes counter clockwise 10 times. |
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Also, any movement or dance will work as a way to anchor the new information into the brain and neurological system.
Creating a Daily Practice will help you develop new habits.
Higher Brain Shift
Your Reaction to Pain Indicates Your Brain Function
The predominant experiences that humanity has had on this planet is survival. We know what it takes to survive. Survival is the goal of our lower brain function, our lower consciousness, and a good thing to have.
When a situation arises that is outside of one’s tribal mind, family constructs or beyond the contexts of what has been safe there is a discomfort, a signal that something might be threatening “life” as the individual has become to think of “life.” When faced with change, something new or unfamiliar the lower brain’s automatic responses are to freeze, fight or flee.
In a survival state, we are not taught how to look at the discomfort as a signal that there may be an invitation to expand, explore. Survival kicks in with obedience to freeze, fight and flee. But, change will not be stopped and the invitation of discomfort will come again and again. The pain escalates until what began as a subtle message to re-examine becomes stronger and stronger pain. Eventually it feels like a 2X4 smacking you at the side of your head. Something bad happening to a good person.
It is not uncommon for individuals to loop in chronic pain, mental, emotional, physical, psychological pain because they do not understand the process. That is how “no growth without great pain” came to be accepted as true and necessary.
It is in letting go of tribal mind, family constructs and breaking out of boxes of our dogmas that we find a new, expansive version of ourselves and our lives. The stories, concepts, dogmas we have been taught to accept as absolutes will always be challenged. That is the nature of growth.
As a species we are being asked to move from the lower brain survival function of freeze, fight and flee into the higher brain functions of presence, curiosity, reframe to solve, explore and embrace. In the higher consciousness of the frontal cortex, the unknown is seen and faced with clarity and adventure. There is no fear, freeze and escalating pain. The new is named for what it is, a possibility. The next step is curiosity:
When one becomes aware that pain/discomfort is simply a message saying that something needs to change or be released, then one can move quickly into a higher brain response. It begins with awareness, a choice and the processes to activate and cultivate the frontal lobe. And an integrated healing path will transform old patterns of fear as new consciousness is cultivated.
Several years ago, I was at a workshop for those wanting to work as political leaders. One young woman wondered how she could stay motivated to take action. Her mother’s motivation in the 60’s had been anger, which had moved her to fight through protests and sit-ins, the survival mode. It was necessary then and not a fit for her daughter.
The daughter was reaping benefits from the fight and felt no need to be angry. Therefore, what motivation?
I suggested that the next step for her would be to move from the lower brain of survival into the higher consciousness of clarity for common good. Seeing what is still missing, what could be and then ask:
“How can I help my community get there?
“Who do I know that would work with curiosity and excitement to accomplish new things?”
We are living in times when one can begin to look for new invitations and work through our higher brain to achieve them.
After that happens, one begins to look for symbols and signs all around coming from a benevolent world, a safe and loving world. Invitations to explore, to stretch, to walk life with a deep sense of generosity, love and adventure.
By then one has recognized that at our core, human nature is good and the world reflects all aspects of good back to us.
Pain becomes a message about expansion, not about death. We can embrace the pain, thank it for alerting us. Then, we move from struggling with the concept that pain means danger to pain telling us to look forward to new solutions and living.
Blessings
The predominant experiences that humanity has had on this planet is survival. We know what it takes to survive. Survival is the goal of our lower brain function, our lower consciousness, and a good thing to have.
When a situation arises that is outside of one’s tribal mind, family constructs or beyond the contexts of what has been safe there is a discomfort, a signal that something might be threatening “life” as the individual has become to think of “life.” When faced with change, something new or unfamiliar the lower brain’s automatic responses are to freeze, fight or flee.
In a survival state, we are not taught how to look at the discomfort as a signal that there may be an invitation to expand, explore. Survival kicks in with obedience to freeze, fight and flee. But, change will not be stopped and the invitation of discomfort will come again and again. The pain escalates until what began as a subtle message to re-examine becomes stronger and stronger pain. Eventually it feels like a 2X4 smacking you at the side of your head. Something bad happening to a good person.
It is not uncommon for individuals to loop in chronic pain, mental, emotional, physical, psychological pain because they do not understand the process. That is how “no growth without great pain” came to be accepted as true and necessary.
It is in letting go of tribal mind, family constructs and breaking out of boxes of our dogmas that we find a new, expansive version of ourselves and our lives. The stories, concepts, dogmas we have been taught to accept as absolutes will always be challenged. That is the nature of growth.
As a species we are being asked to move from the lower brain survival function of freeze, fight and flee into the higher brain functions of presence, curiosity, reframe to solve, explore and embrace. In the higher consciousness of the frontal cortex, the unknown is seen and faced with clarity and adventure. There is no fear, freeze and escalating pain. The new is named for what it is, a possibility. The next step is curiosity:
- what was the old,
- is it still valuable
- what is the new possibility
- where would it lead
- wonder what and who might come into my life to move me to the new with excitement to work for solution.
When one becomes aware that pain/discomfort is simply a message saying that something needs to change or be released, then one can move quickly into a higher brain response. It begins with awareness, a choice and the processes to activate and cultivate the frontal lobe. And an integrated healing path will transform old patterns of fear as new consciousness is cultivated.
Several years ago, I was at a workshop for those wanting to work as political leaders. One young woman wondered how she could stay motivated to take action. Her mother’s motivation in the 60’s had been anger, which had moved her to fight through protests and sit-ins, the survival mode. It was necessary then and not a fit for her daughter.
The daughter was reaping benefits from the fight and felt no need to be angry. Therefore, what motivation?
I suggested that the next step for her would be to move from the lower brain of survival into the higher consciousness of clarity for common good. Seeing what is still missing, what could be and then ask:
“How can I help my community get there?
“Who do I know that would work with curiosity and excitement to accomplish new things?”
We are living in times when one can begin to look for new invitations and work through our higher brain to achieve them.
After that happens, one begins to look for symbols and signs all around coming from a benevolent world, a safe and loving world. Invitations to explore, to stretch, to walk life with a deep sense of generosity, love and adventure.
By then one has recognized that at our core, human nature is good and the world reflects all aspects of good back to us.
Pain becomes a message about expansion, not about death. We can embrace the pain, thank it for alerting us. Then, we move from struggling with the concept that pain means danger to pain telling us to look forward to new solutions and living.
Blessings
