![]() This does not include things like taking drugs or anything else which is known to be harmful to self or others. So I thought it worth a mention in a post, and readers can take or leave it as they choose (as with every article.) I also have the belief that you don’t really know whether something will work unless you give it a proper go. However, brain gym can’t possibly do any harm, and I have seen some results of brain gym in action. ![]() Well, there appears to be no hard scientific evidence to support brain gym having positive effects on learning, and thus it is considered a pseudoscience. And blocking these communication pathways means we don’t function as well. It seems that we sometimes “switch off” communication pathways in the brain – not intentionally. ![]() However, there are some things we do or which happen to us which have the opposite effect. And this, of course, is a Very Good Thing, because it leads to increased abilities in many areas of life. It all looks as if everything we do stimulates the brain in some way and leads to increasing neural pathways. The articles learning, Part 2 and neuroplasticity talk about the effects of stimulation – movement, sensory, emotional etc – on the brain. “Kinesiology” is from the Greek root kinesis, which means “motion” and is the study of the movement of the human body.Ī previous post on movement and learning discusses the role of movement in learning, unsurprisingly. The word “education” comes from the Latin educare, which means “to draw out”. An alternative term is “educational kinesiology”. WHAT IS BRAIN GYM?īrain gym is a series of movements which claim to enhance whole-brain learning.
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