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Cross Crawl: Increase your Mind Power

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Cross Crawl: Increase your Mind Power

Cross Crawl is a powerful exercise and easy to do.

Did you know.. that the cross-crawl technique is one of the easiest ways to activate your brain development and nervous system. It gives the proper motor and sensory stimuli it needs to take control of your bodily functions thereby preventing or rehabilitating health problems. Often known as ”supercise” it’s simple and easy to do.

It is essentially an exaggerated walk which facilitates the crossover of energy between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The brain is bathed in Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (or C.S.F). Stimulating the flow of the vital C.S.F yields great benefits. You’ll find a list of some of the real advantages of using this exercise below.

Use it regularly to both discharge and recharge your attention and energy. It’s a great break from over focusing and it works just as well to bring body and mind online.

Signs that your cross-pattern movements could use some sharpening include:

  • Lack of coordination and balance
  • Difficulty reading
  • Exhibiting learning disabilities, such as dyslexia
  • Clumsiness
  • Saying things backwards

Fortunately, you can reprogram nervous system and strengthen the connection between the right and left sides of your brain using cross-crawl exercises. Remember, nerves are very much alive and willing to learn new things.

How Do You Cross Crawl?

When you watch someone do their first Cross Crawl the first thing you will notice is the person will begin to smile!

Stand with your feet apart and your arms open parallel to the ground. Shift your weight to your right foot, lift your left knee and touch it with your right hand.  Then step back to both feet and immediately shift weight to on your left foot as you lift your right knee and touch it with your left hand. Then continue to repeat this several times in a comfortable, upbeat, rhythmic way. And breathe fully and enjoy.

To get the most out of Cross Crawl you should perform the movements very slowly. And when the exercise is done slowly, it requires more fine motor involvement and balance, consciously activating the vestibular system and the frontal lobes.

So anyone who wants to find out even more about the potentially life changing techniques may like to consider investing in our workshops.

Check out when our next dates for the “Balanced Health” Course are taking place.  You will learn this and lots of other techniques to improve health.  We also run Taster Events for anyone who wants to find out more before they commit.

Dates and Locations can be found here:  www.Kinesiologyzone.com/booknow

Health Show Episode #12 – Helping anxious children

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Helping Anxious children and teenagers at School

If you are a parent, aunt, uncle, teacher or carer of kids, this month’s Health Show is a must watch.

Going back to school can be stressful at the best of times. But with anxiety, and learning difficulties on the rise (up to a third of students), it can be a very tough time for kids and for parents doing their best to get them out the door.  One of our KinesiologyZone Diploma graduates, Paula Phillips, helped four kids who wanted to improve their exam results, as part of her research study that she undertook during her Systematic Kinesiology training.  Anxious kidsAs exam results are measurable, she was able to see how Kinesiology’s holistic interventions made a difference.  Listen to Paula tell you about the results these kids and the one adult who also benefitted!

Children are faced with lots of stresses in life today and often children are unable to express their true emotions and feelings. Communicating how they are feeling is sometimes also difficult. They do however have the ability to accept change and move with this fairly easily. It is this reason that Systematic Kinesiology has such wonderful and powerful effects on children.

Watch and learn how children have gone from being unable to complete maths homework or reading to being happy children, much more confident and even motivated students.  And who doesn’t want that!

Paula really believes ‘‘ Transform your beliefs = Transform your life”

You can learn the techniques and approaches to help kids that Paula used in her research can be learned on our Balanced Health programme.  They are simple and powerful to use on yourself and to help kids struggling with reading, writing, and comprehension.

If you want to make an appointment with Paula you can email her on pp99phillips@yahoo.co.uk

To make an appointment with another Systematic Kinesiologist you can find a list on the Association’s website here –  https://kinesiology.ie/practitioners/

Anxious kids helped with Systematic Kinesiology

Next month’s live recording of the KinesiologyZone Health Show will be on 18th October at 12.30 as usual.  We will be covering ”Thyroid Issues” and how Systematic Kinesiology can help you.

If you have any comments or want to share the success you have had using these techniques please post below.

Kinesiology – Switch the brain back on with Lazy Eights

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Kinesiology helps Switch the Brain Back On with Lazy Eights.

Lazy Eights Brain Improvement

Everyone can do with a little help to make the brain work better and Lazy Eights are easy for everyone to do!

Regardless of age, job or position in the world everyone wants to use their brain as efficiently as they can. If the two sides of the brain are not communicating as well as they might, this can adversely affect everything we do. But have you tried the lazy eights technique?

We are inviting you to try a simple exercise to switch the brain back on and get it working in an integrated way again. Drawing ‘lazy eights’ will help integrate the two sides of the brain. head-1230669_1280

This activity is especially useful and beneficial for children with Dyslexia, ADD, Dyspraxia, Developmental Delay or a Sensory Processing disorders. The “Lazy Eight” are designed to relax the eyes and develop coordination between the left and right sides of the brain and body while preparing to write.

You are basically writing the number 8 on it’s side. That’s why it’s lazy.

SO LETS START….

STEP 1: Start with a large sheet of white paper (A3 would be best) or a white board in a landscape position.

Place it in front of you so that the middle of your page is parallel to the middle of your body, your belly button. (You want to be crossing over your belly button to get to to the left and right of your page as you draw).

Step 2: Then ask them to write something like:

”This paper is white and the writing is black” (or blue if you have a blue pen!) For better results use a neutral statement that is true for anyone.

Step 3: Do the Lazy Eights – see steps below:

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The aim is to keep your hand steady and let your eyes follow what you are doing.

Start with your pen in the middle of your page.

 

 

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Move your marker up through the centre and around to make a “c” like shape. Now keep tracing around your shape, without taking your marker from the page.

Remember to stand in the centre as you draw.

 

 

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Continue until there is about a dozen swirls (20 secs) of the ”lazy eight” exercise.

 

 

 

Step 4: Have them re write the same statement as before. There is almost always a change for the better in writing.

If you are doing it with your child you can always draw a Lazy 8 for your child to trace over if they find it difficult. Just make sure that they start from the middle and draw upwards and continue in the correct direction.

You will see Lazy 8’s have lots of benefits for your child. It is a very useful to do this activity before starting homework. It calms, and focuses the mind. how to perform written tasks by training their bodies and eyes using large movements so that they will eventually be able to do the same using smaller movements on paper.

This exercise can help children, adults and seniors to improve:

  • Concentration and Focus
  • Memory
  • Academics: reading, writing, math, test taking

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  • Physical coordination
  • Relationships
  • Self-responsibility
  • Organization skills
  • Attitude

This simple exercise, can and will help all who do it regularly to write and think better.

Check out our video demonstration and if you try this we would love to hear about it in the comments below.

  1. Write a neutral statement, such as “the writing is black and the paper is white”.
  2. Then do the “lazy eights”, going up through the centre.
  3. And re-write it.  There should be a flow, and ease to the new writing.

If you’re able to do muscle testing, the first sentence will often make the strong muscle go weak, and the second sentence the muscle test will remain strong.

If you’d like to learn more ways to improve brain and body health, then check out our Balanced Health Course – look at all you can learn