I feel such urgency to help parents and professionals understand how much the experience of the body, as generated from within, from deep primitive drives to wholeness, creates the brain.
In our NeuroDevelopmental Movement® programs, we are working with the very most basic ways that the body – the knowing, brilliant infant body – creates growth in the central nervous system. I do not want to spend time compensating for the issues that are neurodevelopmentally based, rather I want to get underneath them to let the body do the organizing of the brain.
We are not a body and a brain, we are a self organizing body/brain, a whole system that grows itself, and which can be inhibited in infancy by not allowing the motor and sensory experiences that are required for full realization of our social, emotional, physical and academic wholeness.
I don’t know why we keep breaking up our children’s challenges into: academic gaps, social skills gaps, and coordination gaps, when there is one central source, the brain itself.
When science catches up with the brilliance of a self programming system far more brilliant than any computer and unlike any computer (please stop using that analogy), and looks at the process of normal neurological development, we will go a long way towards truly addressing the tsunami of childhood mental health concerns that are overwhelming our schools and mental health facilities.
Symptom-based treatments serve the purpose of suggesting to a child what is possible, but it is not until we get to the original source of the issues that we find the deepest healing. So, rather than starting treatment with symptom-based activities, such as behavior programs, rewards systems, or specific treatment for visual or auditory processing problems, NDM programs will trigger development by offering your child the original plan for growth.