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Dear Readers,
From expanding our neural network through MindScape, to balancing our Cortices in the school system, BodyTalk and the IBA Life Sciences promote growth and new learning across the globe daily. This edition of the IBA newsletter includes a number of articles featuring the integration of our modalities in everyday life. Thank you Andrea, Michaela, Jenna and Rose for your submissions!
Also this week…
Your hosts, (Felix, Claudia, John and Steffi) would like to invite you to Munich this October to attend the first European IBA Members’ Meeting. This meeting is open to all IBA members and there will be simultaneous translation from English into German and Italian! We will have a team of two translators for each language. Hmm Germany in October…. sounds festive! For registration info, click here.
We also would like to welcome our new readers to the newsletter this week. We hope you all enjoy this edition.
Happy Tapping,
Cass
p.s Have you tapped out your Cortices today?
MindScape Expands Your Neural Network
Submitted by Andrea Carter, Certified MindScape & BodyTalk Instructor, Calgary, Canda
Your brain is a thinking organ that learns and grows by interacting with the world through perception and action. Mental stimulation improves brain function and actually protects against cognitive decline, as does physical exercise.
The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself. Even in old age, it can grow new neurons. Severe mental decline is usually caused by…
disease, whereas most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and stimulation. In other words, use it or lose it.
Throughout life, your neural networks reorganize and reinforce themselves in response to new stimuli and learning experiences. This body-mind interaction is what stimulates brain cells to grow and connect with each other in complex ways. They do so by extending branches of intricate nerve fibers called dendrites (from the Latin word for “tree”). These are the antennas through which neurons receive communication from each other.
A healthy, well-functioning neuron can be directly linked to tens of thousands of other neurons, creating a totality of more than a hundred trillion connections – each capable of performing 200 calculations per second! This is the structural basis of your brain’s memory capacity and thinking ability.
As a product of its environment, your “three pound universe” is essentially an internal map that reflects your external world.
When we are young the world seems filled with curious wonders, delightful discoveries, and daunting challenges. Our brains are taking in countless bits of information and we are developing lifetime skills. This burst of learning is like the brain Olympics of our human journey. Yet unlike the Olympic athletes who have a limited time to demonstrate their peak performance, the human brain can continue to grow and improve with exercise.
Research on the physical results of thinking has shown that just using the brain actually increases the number of dendritic branches that interconnect brain cells. The more we think, the better our brains function – regardless of age. The renowned brain researcher Dr. Marian Diamond says, “The nervous system possesses not just a ‘morning’ of plasticity, but an ‘afternoon’ and an ‘evening’ as well.”
Dr. Diamond found that whether we are young or old, we can continue to learn. The brain can change at any age. A dendrite grows much like a tree – from trunk to limbs to branches to twigs – in an array of ever finer complexity.
In fact, older brains may have an advantage. She discovered that more highly developed neurons respond even better to intellectual enrichment than less developed ones do. The greatest increase in dendritic length occurred in the outermost dendritic branches, as a reaction to new information.
As she poetically describes it: “We began with a nerve cell, which starts in the embryo as just a sort of sphere. It sends its first branch out to overcome ignorance. As it reaches out, it is gathering knowledge and it is becoming creative. Then we become a little more idealistic, generous, and altruistic; but it is our six-sided dendrites which give us wisdom.”
Contrary to popular myth, you do not lose mass quantities of brains cells as you get older. “There isn’t much difference between a 25-year old brain and a 75-year old brain,” says Dr. Monte S. Buchsbaum, who has scanned a lot of brains as director of the Neuroscience PET Laboratory at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Cognitive decline is not inevitable. When 6,000 older people were given mental tests throughout a ten-year period, almost 70% continued to maintain their brain power as they aged.
MindScape is a course that teaches individuals through experiences to engage the mind, while engaging all senses. The experience of learning how to engage your mind and brain simultaneously is a key element in decreasing the amount of cognitive decline experienced in today’s society. The course will teach you how to engage mental activities, enable you to access areas that have not been exercised effectively, as well as teach you how vast your mind can be. The average person uses only 5% of their brain’s capacity, what do you think you could do if you learned how to engage more? Learning the techniques is the first step, then you have the rest of your life to improve upon it!
For more information or details on courses please click on the links below. Get your mind engaged and see what you can change – health, direction in life, an easier way of thinking – all are possible once you learn how to engage your brain!
Andrea Carter, Certified MindScape Instructor, continues to research the newest scientific evidence and adds it to her classes. Andrea also has monthly telecalls for all her students to participate in and stay engaged in the MindScape energy. Calls are typically 45 minutes in length and have approximately 200-250 participants on the line. They are incredible to experience as the energy of the call is amplified by all of the participants. Contact Andrea to be able to access these calls, audit the course with Andrea or take the MindScape initially with her!
Tapping Away at School
Submitted by Michaela Ellen Kain, CBP, BAT, Seewalchen/Attersee, Austria
This this autumn I started to teach in primary school for 8 hours a week after three years absence from teaching. I am really very happy to be back teaching for a few hours every week. In my absence from teaching, I became an Access Trainer and on our first day at school we did the Cortices in teams. Children like this funny thing, and each class begins with tapping out our cortices. They also love tapping out MY cortices and we have so much fun!
Last week we wrote poems, children worked very hard and concentrated well. Suddenly a girl called Silvia screamed “Oh my, my brain is totally stressed, now it is time to tap my cortices!” ” She started tapping and all the other students started tapping simultaneously. It was such a nice scene to observe.–They did their cortices in the zone.– My heart was jumping with joy.
Sarah, a nine year old girl wrote a wonderful story about Cortices in airplanes illustrated with pictures drawn by herself.
Today I had the pleasure to teach in tandem one of my colleagues. During the
break she told me of her stress symptoms, every day after school she cries
because she is in a state of burnout. I told her about stress-releasing with
the Cortices technique. She asked me to show the technique to her and to all the pupils in her class. They were all very happy, they had fun and my
colleague was astonished about the significant results after tapping. She
will from now on tap everyday with her class.
I am looking forward to the new BodyTalk Access Book to be translated into German to present it to as many teachers as possible. It will be a great achievement to teach BodyTalk Access in schools.
"I’m proud to be a BodyTalker."
Rose Caplette. 28 year old adult with Down Syndrome
Submitted by Jenna Caplette, CBP, Bozeman, MT, USA
When I brought BodyTalk Access home, my daughter Rose just got it. Within twenty four hours she’d started using Cortices and other techniques on herself. I never expected that. Rose is an adult with Down Syndrome. Now 28, Rose just took Module 3 with Katharina Hirsch. Here’s what she has to say about her experience:
Doing BodyTalk is amazing. It’s changed everything about me. My mom taught me about BodyTalk. She decided to be a practitioner and I’m happy for her. I’m excited to do it on my mom and she taught me cool things about it.
I’m proud of myself for doing Module 3. I like doing Pathological Consciousness. It’s fun to see what it’s linked to: the brain or the heart. It’s fun to learn about all those details, going with the flow, just to see what’s out there.
I also enjoy the five senses — it was like, wow! It felt amazing to think about about those, you need those! To hear better and see better, its moving.
I feel alive inside when I tap out. I breathe when I’m tapping, I get in to it because it’s fun. Tapping the other person changes how they feel — sometimes they get really tired. I like watching their response. When I’m working, it just feels natural to be me. I notice that in my hands and in my heart. I listen in to everything in my body to know how this works, how everything relates.
To know when I’m done, I listen to my heart. My hands just stop and I know I’m done.
When I do BodyTalk, I feel like a better person. I just feel comfortable. It releases my stress, because I feel really stressed a lot, my whole life. It just feels awesome, then to be out there and help other people out there in their challenges from stress and painfulness.
One of these days, I’ll be a practitioner. I don’t want to be a full time practitioner though. Just part time.
BodyTalk feels more awake to me, almost like awakening. It connects me with my inner self. I just feel like a whole new person inside of me.
I’m going to frame my certificate, put it in my room so I can see it and so if anyone comes over, they can take a look at it and say, “Wow! I’m so proud of you. Good job. I’m excited.”
Next, I want to know about the Chinese Clock, the Elements. I’m curious about metal, earth, fire and water.
All the people who teach the classes, they do a fantastic job of helping me to know about new stuff that I never got before. And the new friends I make, they’re excellent to explore BodyTalk with. I’m proud to be a BodyTalker.
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