TOUCH FOR LEARNING

Many students struggle with learning. Touch for Learning is a safe, natural, alternative therapy that helps identify and resolve nervous system blocks to learning.

The ability to learn is dependent upon the training of the nervous system. The environment influences the body’s activities which in turn programs the brain and nervous system. The brain is divided into right and left hemispheres. Connecting these two hemispheres is a bridge known as the corpus callosum. When you are under stress, communication between these two hemispheres can be blocked. Once the integration is blocked, it is easy for learning difficulties to arise.

The left hemisphere is analytical, conscious about time, critical, judgmental, observes detail, controls consciously, speech and understanding. Whereas the right hemisphere is creative, artistic, has automatic reactions, subconscious and with no limits.

If you use the left brain too much, you may experience difficulty in focusing on the ‘big picture’ and suppress your creativeness. Meanwhile if you use the right brain too much, you may experience difficulty in concentrating and processing information rationally.

The brain is also divided horizontally into the ‘back brain’ and ‘forebrain’. The back brain is where your survival instincts are controlled, along with containing long-term memory functions, where you store past information. The forebrain is the area of rational logical thinking due to the present situation and only operates in a mode of present time while the back brain stores the past experiences, belief systems and emotions for future reference.

When the brain is in full integration, the forebrain is in charge allowing a creative, rational and stress free performance. However when the brain is not integrated, the back brain is in charge creating emotional stress, language difficulty and co-ordination difficulty.

It is not always easy to predict improvement in a specific area, as the brain is extremely complex. The aim of Touch for Learning is to identify the common forms of stress of learning in order to restore body/mind communication.