Making the Brain Body Connection

by Sharon Promislow

Book Overview

Based on the latest neuroscience, "Making the Brain/Body Connection" explains how the brain, body, and senses interrelate to create unseen blocks to learning and performance, and provides techniques... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0968106625
• ISBN13: 9780968106624
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Kinetic Publishing Corporation
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

This is the book I have been looking for for a long time. We had private BrainGym classes with a BrainGym instructor to help my son's social skills and attention. It worked fine. But it is just too expensive($85/hour). What she did to my son is just what the book describes about ten step change process. In brainGym it is called repatterning/balance. It is very powerful. I would like to learn. So I can do it for my son. But none of BrainGym books give you complete description/steps to do it. Instead they recommend you to take their classes/workshop for several hundred dollars to learn it. It is like a secret. And you need to pay several hundred dollars in order to get the secret. This book is so good and it gives comprehensive instructions. And it tells the secret. And it is easy to follow and implement. I recommend everybody get it and try it. It will work on many areas.

Fun for the whole family

I bought this book for myself, but once I started reading it, I realized that it was the answer to some problems my children were having. The exercises are simple enough for children to do and soon my kids were using lazy 8s in class to help them with their exams. I didn't realize that it would help their grades as much as it did. Thanks!

Essential for integration

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. They also help us to master very practical exercises (many borrowed from Brain Gym) for balancing and integration. This is an essential book for all parents and teachers. Future education can no longer neglect the brain/body connection. [The name of the illustrator has been changed from Laura Loucks in the 1998 Canadian edition to Catherine Levans in the 1999 US edition. They are the same person. There are also very minor changes in the US edition.]

saved my eyes & boosted my energy!

As an artist, I deal often with eyestrain, stiffness... and of course, procrastination. The brilliance of this book is that it provides physical activities one can perform to make you feel better. I love the eye exercises; when I start to get a little fuzzy I take a few minutes to do them, and I instantly experience sharper vision. The emotional balancers are really great when you're feeling tense, or just as a relaxer before you go to bed. I appreciate the overviews for each section, and the notes pages so I can keep track of my favorite activities, or which ones work best for me. NB: The section 4 activities on "recharging your battery" are great for getting you out of your rut when you don't feel like doing anything. You should definitely try these instead of coffee!Ms. Promislow explains why her activities work in a simple and fun way. All in all, a very helpful book. I think everybody with a brain should have it... and keep it somewhere you can use it every day. PS I LOVE the cartoons!

Don't be put off by the illustrations

This book is a real hands-on resource. It does a great job of describing a lot of information that I haven't seen anywhere else and then presents you with a large number of exercises to try out the information!I learned a LOT about my neurophysiology from doing the exercises in this bookMy only objection to this book is that the illustrations make the book seem juvenile... but it's not.