| What is the value of the following article? The | | | | 2. Cross your left leg over your right leg so that the |
| re-patterning exercises and information can change | | | | ankle is over your right knee. |
| your life, your feelings or your fears, and your | | | | 3. You grasp your left ankle with your right hand. |
| attitude if you are willing. Be willing is the key to your | | | | 4. You put your left hand around the ball of your left |
| success. How do I know, because this is how I | | | | foot. |
| overcame many challenges in my life. Overcoming | | | | 5. You sit in this position, taking 3 deep into your belly |
| challenges is how you can raise your self-esteem. | | | | breaths. You put your tongue against the roof of |
| WHAT IS EDU-K? | | | | your mouth on inhalation. Relax the tongue as you |
| Educational Kinesiology teaches specific movements | | | | exhale. |
| of the body that can improve mind function. It uses | | | | 6. After 3 minutes uncross your legs |
| techniques such as re-patterning, which is the | | | | 7. You can let the finger tips of your hands touch |
| integration of the left and right hemispheres of the | | | | together. |
| brain through specific movements; stress release | | | | 8. You can continue to breathe deeply and exhale |
| techniques; and balancing the energy/meridian system | | | | twice as long as you inhale. |
| of the body. | | | | 9. If you are more comfortable to begin put your |
| The two brain gym exercises I want to share are | | | | right leg over left leg and so on- |
| renamed from emotional stress release points from | | | | This was invented by Wayne Cook, an expert in |
| Touch for Health to Dr. Paul Dennison's Positive Points | | | | electromagnetic energy and enables you to activate |
| & Cook's Hook Up, and now I will rename them | | | | all the Chinese acupuncture meridians into a more |
| "Change Your Feelings Points" and "Connect Your | | | | balance and harmonized state. As Dr. Paul Dennison |
| Energy Circuits". | | | | wrote "Excessive energy to the receptive (right or |
| "Change Your Feelings Points" | | | | back) brain can manifest as depression, pain, fatigue, |
| 1. Take a break for 3 minutes and go where it is | | | | or hyperactivity." This figure eight pattern that the |
| quiet. | | | | body makes when doing this exercise; is a benefit to |
| 2. Close your eyes and look upward at a point | | | | transform the emotional stress and help learning |
| between your eyebrows and tell yourself to relax. | | | | difficulties. |
| 3. Lightly hold the points about an inch above your | | | | Personally, I have consistently used these exercises |
| eyebrows for 1-3 minutes. | | | | after attending one of the original seminars in the |
| These points bring gentle energy to your frontal | | | | early 80's. I have had amazing breakthroughs myself |
| lobes where rational thought is available without | | | | and so have my daughters along with many others |
| emotional distractions. These are the neurovascular | | | | that I have helped in my clinical private practice. Thus, |
| balance spots for the stomach meridian in Chinese | | | | I urge you to do them and do them consistently |
| Medicine. Thus the tension you experience is eased | | | | each day. You can look at it adopting an attitude that |
| and decreases a nervous stomach. | | | | it is like playing. So have some fun with these two |
| "Connect Your Energy Circuits" | | | | life changing exercises. |
| 1. Sit in a chair. | | | | |