Movement is important to maintaining integration. The right hemisphere of the brain controls the left (feminine) side, the left hemisphere controls the right (masculine) side of the body. Movement that integrates both sides of the body helps to keep the brain integrated. From birth, one hemisphere of the brain can begin to dominate. Cross-lateral or two-sided integrated movement can keep us balanced. Homo-lateral or one-sided movement can interfere with our ability to learn & can affect co-ordination.
To observe if a person is uni or homo-lateral, ask them to march on the spot. If they have to think about it, or the leg & arm on the same side move forward together, they are homo-lateral. If opposite arm & leg come forward, but incorrectly, they may still be homo-lateral. Observe the shoulder & hip movement, they should turn at the waist, not the hip & the shoulders should move forward with the leading arm. The eyes should be looking straight ahead.
Ask the person to march on the spot with opposite arm & leg swinging together i.e., left arm & shoulder, right leg & hip forward, right arm & shoulder back & left leg & hip to the rear, with the eyes looking straight ahead. Repeat this exercise for 2-3 minutes 3 times a day.
The rotation of the shoulder is important to involve all the back muscles in the activity. Many people do not rotate their upper body in the way we are designed to move. The back is designed to twist when moving i.e. the left shoulder twists opposite to the right hip. This naturally stretches all the back muscles improving CSF function, toxin removal, muscle relaxation & clearer thinking.
This exercise can affect the cloacals, a primitive system which centres the pelvis (sacral activity) with the neck reflexes (cranials) and keeps the body orientated in time and space. The gait mechanism is also involved and is integrated with the nerve perceptors in the our eyes and ears. About sixteen basic body reflex circuits integrate cranial/sacral activity. Imbalances include digestive conditioned, elimination problems, chronic illness and sexual problems.
The more I work with Integrated Movement the more potential I see for it, from helping a child or adult to learn, to breaking addictions and negative behaviours. Recently I recognised the importance of using it with clients who are blocked or struggling with goal setting or changing life patterns. It may even be a powerful to overriding old unwillingness patterns.
It is a form of rewiring the body/mind connections and realigning our energy to the positive. Whether it is assisting to make us more flexible, realigning posture, reconnecting both hemispheres of the brain, reconnecting heart and brain Integrated movement is a valuable tool for your own self growth and health.
When Integrated Movement is applied with the corrections for hearing/listening and vision, old pattern can be rewritten with the newer more beneficial programmes/ personalities.
Integrated movement is taught in the Motivational Kinesiology Level One course.
Thank you for your well informed article and all the further connections within us that the x crawl actions inspire and support.
My query is how, within this Integrated Movement, do you address the instinctual survival system of this homo lateralism that has occurred ie as I see it this is the way survival is programmed from within :- split the two brains as thinking is not required, simply survival by doing….. rightly or wrongly survival happened and happens because of it.
In my observation this body survival instinct that has been alerted seems to need a ‘thank you’ for helping sustain this life and if not it can re occur or place stress upon the system… and have found that gentleness and slowness is more often than not needed with this wonderful Integrated Movement to enable the system to move through and into the cross movement. So addressing that first by beginning with a homo (same side) movement and a ‘thank you and there is no longer a need for this’ during that to then follow with the cross movement and to alternate back and forth again, after all repetitions always ending with the cross over movement, to be easier for the body to adapt.
As you say forward movement is then enabled in self growth and health.
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