Adult male

From Brain Gym Instructor: Gillian Hindshaw

Report supplied by a 63 year old disabled man (name and address supplied):

“I have been using Brain Gym for several years. Although sceptical at first, largely because I’m a mechanical engineer and want to know how things work, I came to understand that if I will just ‘listen’ to my body, I can actually feel the differences Brain Gym exercises make. My physical disability has always caused difficulties but the exercises I use enable me, firstly to maximise my abilities despite my limitations, and, secondly to vastly improve my psychological coping with them thereby making them easier to live with. I believe they also make me easier to live with too!

I have had treatments – ‘balances’ – from a number of different Educational Kinesiologists and their skill in identifying issues in me that would benefit from improvement has been staggeringly accurate. And their treatments have, almost invariably, been amazingly beneficial, at home, in leisure activities, and at work..

It’s not necessarily easy to understand Brain Gym – it looks too simple and only experience will tell you that it’s not. But I don’t need proof that it works. I experience it working everyday.”

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Adult female

From Brain Gym Instructor: Buffy McClelland

In December 2006 I taught the first part of the Foundation Level 4-day Brain Gym course. One of the participants was an adult female called D. She was a successful student learning support advisor in a prestigious UK University.

When I asked for someone with any sort of visual processing problem to volunteer for me to demonstrate the "Seeing" balance, D volunteered, although she said she was very sceptical that I could help her with her problem. I said I was happy to have a go and see what happened.

She described a problem with her peripheral visual field on the left hand side which had occurred following cataract surgery a few years ago. She described having very limited vision in the left peripheral field, and constantly experiencing a lot of movement and “flashing” effects in her left peripheral vision.  D found this constant interference tiring and irritating.  Medical advice had confirmed that the surgery had been entirely successful and no advice had been offered in connection with these problems.

I first asked her to describe what she saw. The wall to her left had a number of  large bold patches of colour, and D said that the most obvious panel of red which she knew was right out to her left-hand side appeared to be considerably ahead of her to the left, and that it was flashing unpleasantly.

 I then led her through the 5 exercises which make up a typical Seeing balance (including Brain Buttons, Earth Buttons and Space Buttons).

Afterwards, I asked D to review what she saw when sitting in the same position as she had the first time. This time, she described that the large red panel appeared to be in the correct place, and that it was hardly flashing at all! She was amazed, as she had been very sceptical about the benefits of Brain Gym.

When I saw her again two months later in February 2007 for the second half of the course, D reported that she had practised the Brain Gym movements regularly for 3 weeks, and that the problem was almost completely fixed, there was perhaps 5% of the original disturbance left. D was most impressed by this dramatic improvement in an issue which had been a major problem for her. Now, in April 2008, she reports that her vision is still almost completely clear of these problems.

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Adult female

From Gail Dennison, co-founder of Educational Kinesiology

Report supplied by Daphne Duckworth, April 2008:

"I had MS. Twenty years ago, I had optic neuritis in the right eye (among other things). I saw things, I just could not figure out what they were!  I recognised letters, but I could not remember whether I was to read from left to right or right to left.  When I figured that out (after months) I could not remember one word to the next so it took me hours to read a sentence.

I could not follow a conversation, I never figured out if I couldn't remember or I could not stay focussed long enough to concentrate on what they were saying as I would "drift off" .... Stress for me became the phone ringing and the kettle boiling!

I had 3 little kids at this time under 4 years of age.  My neurologist told me not to bother doing anything ... I had to.

Brain Gym and I became a team 13 years ago and Brain Gym gave me my life back. I am totally indebted."

JOY.