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Hi Reader!
Welcome to the this of NeuroNotes! I'm so excited to be sharing this with you. For those of you reading this for the first time, here's what you can expect. Each week I will share with you some avenues for reflection, neuroscience news, and some tips, tricks and neurosomatic practices to feed your brain 🧠.
Musings
This week, I've been thinking a lot about the process of healing. We all talk about it, we all aspire to it, but... what does it really mean? Is it to repair something, like a wound? To live with or without something, like a trauma or a missing limb? To remove something, like our pain, or a toxic relationship? Or maybe to restore something, like mobility or brain function? Is it to go from the state of "un-wellness" to a better state of wellness? Is it all of the above? and importantly, how do we know we're doing it and when we're done?
What does it mean for you specifically?
I think healing is a process of making small changes, until your inner state is completely different, and you cannot go back to your previous state of unwellness. It's a learning process - learning to be ourselves, differently (better!). When we see things this way, a few things happen: One, we know we can learn, because we have learned. Two, we know it's not linear or immediate - we can be flexible about it. Three, it can be a source of true wonder and joy - do you remember that feeling when all of a sudden, you "knew" something, like that time when you first figured out how to assemble letters into words? and finally, it's ok to be stuck on that learning path sometimes.
When we're having a hard time learning something, we find better ways of learning. We become creative, change things up, rehearse a bit, and most of the time, learning occurs more naturally. This is the real work of healing: making small changes that enable our brains to change, leading to more and more learning. You can learn anything.
On a lighter note, shouldn't the word be "in-perience"? I mean, after all, everything we know, everything we've ever felt, our entire experience of life, it all happens inside... no? Who's with me? Should I call the Merriam-Webster people? 😜
NeuroSomatic Practice of the Week
To help you along in your healing or thinking process, this week's NeuroSomatic practice is a bit of a silly one that is intended to disrupt your brain patterns, challenge your habits, and activate learning. See if you can have fun with it, and let me know what you learned!
Brainy news...
Those of you who have experienced recovered memories during sessions will know it intimately, but science shows a clear link between memory and movement. In fact, brain zones traditionally associated to memory of events and spatial organization (e.g., the hippocampus) are found to play a key role in refined movement patterns. Neat, yes? You can read an article about this 👉🏼here .
Did you know...
...that neurosomatic therapy and Neuromovement® intensives work for adults as well as for children? During an intensive, your brain experiences massive change, thousands of new connections are made, inefficient ones are pruned, and the pace of change is quick. Each day you build on what you learned the day before, instead of going back to your old patterns in between sessions. The results can be astounding. Intensives have the potential of completely redirecting your life, from your mobility to your attention, memory and emotional health, and some aspects of your physiology too!
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PS: You have an amazing brain ❤️ 🧠.
PPS: I'd love to hear from you. If we haven't spoken in a while, drop me a line and let me know how you're doing! and if you feel you need a boost, why not book a refresher session?
Warmly,
Joana