From Dr Angus Armstrong MA, MB, B.Chir.(Cantab), LRCP, MRCS, DCH, FRCGP

 Brain Gym® has been part of my life for over 15 years.  As a Medical GP I was initially very sceptical but could not fail to be intrigued by the amazing results I saw from its use.  I have subsequently completed the 4 day Foundation course in Brain Gym®, Stress Release with Wayne Topping and several courses with Brendan O’Hara all of which stem from and use Educational Kinesiology.

I use Brain Gym® balances regularly finding that they clear my mind, focus my attention and increase my concentration and am amazed at how little I have to do to achieve hugely beneficial results.

From the beginning I dismissed the scientific explanation of how it worked but, having witnessed such changes in myself and others, I have simply used it for the multiple benefits it brings.

Some examples of the situations in which I use Brain Gym® regularly include:

• Preparing for potentially difficult telephone conversations
• Chairing challenging meetings
• Writing articles
• Giving public addresses
• Shooting
• Defusing anxiety 

all of which leads to increased confidence.

I would recommend Brain Gym® to everyone as a turbo-charge of energy for 21st century living!

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Adult male

From Educational Kinesiology Consultant: Caroline Campbell

 I have a client who has recently retired (he is 65) and he had decided to take up flying again. He had his pilot’s licence about 30 years ago but hasn’t flown since then.

He was having trouble understanding the people on the radio and flying at the same time so he came to see me for a couple of sessions. We did a Listening Balance and he was sent home with PACE, The Thinking Cap and The Elephant to do [Brain Gym activities]. The next session he reported that he was able to ignore the unnecessary chatter on the radio and tune into the relevant details that he needed as well as listen to his instructor. He was very pleased and has now set the date to take his final exams!

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Adult female

From Brain Gym Instructor: Buffy McClelland

M came to me for Brain Gym sessions in 2002 with a number of aims. She was a lay preacher and felt that she needed to improve her singing as part of her preacher’s role. M listed her aims as singing in tune, reducing a sense of being strangled when singing, and overcoming self-consciousness and shyness.

We carried out 5 Brain Gym balances over 4 months, and M practised the movements at home in between. She reported that her ability to reach the high notes had improved, that she had more confidence and pleasure in singing, and most importantly had found that she was much more confident when preaching and that her voice was louder and had more projection when preaching.

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Adult female

From Brain Gym Instructor: Buffy McClelland

I saw C in 2002 for help with her memory for an upcoming exam. She was a successful chiropractor, with a thriving business, and had almost completed training in a new practical technique, which had a compulsory theory exam paper to pass. C described how difficult she had found her school years when she had to work very hard to keep up. Her memory and recall of written information was usually problematic, although her memory for practical material was always excellent. Her previous experiences of written exams had been uncomfortable, to say the least, always having a "gippy tummy" beforehand and her mind going blank in the exam itself. She said that she expected to "go to pieces" in the upcoming exam, for her memory to fail and for her mind to go blank. We did two Brain Gym balances on this issue.

After the exam, C reported that she felt fully in control of both her emotional and physical self before the exam, and that during the exam the knowledge flowed out of her so fast that she had trouble writing quickly enough to keep up! She finished the exam in half the allotted time, and gained 95%! She was so pleased with this outcome that she regularly refers people to me for Brain Gym, as she has had such good and lasting results.

 

Adult Male

From Brain Gym Instructor: Buffy McClelland

P came to see me in August 2007 for help with his upcoming exams. P works as an accountant, and was working towards professional accountancy status. During his revision for previous exams, P had struggled with his poor memory, and had scraped through one exam at a time, usually failing one when he had to take two at once. He described himself as having a memory like a sieve, with only a limited capacity for retaining information. He had reached a level in his training when it was essential to pass three exams in one sitting, and he was very concerned that he would not able to remember this much information, and would fail. We did 5 Brain Gym balances over a period of 4 months.

After two sessions, P reported that he was much better at remembering what he had been revising, and that everything was beginning to fall into place. After session 4, before the main exams, he felt confident that he had revised well and that he could easily cope with memorising and recalling information for all three exams at once. After the exams, he reported that he felt very calm during the exams, and that the information flowed out effectively.

P passed all three exams and was delighted! Now, in April 2008, he reports that he used the same Brain Gym movements in the build-up to his recent final exam, which he passed with flying colours (with a mark of 69%, well above the pass mark of 50%). A real success story!

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Adult female

From Brain Gym Instructor: Buffy McClelland

C came to me in 2001 for help with her organisational skills. She was a successful self-employed businesswoman with 15 years of experience behind her, but she had always struggled to keep her accounts up to date. She had an urgent need to complete last year's accounts, but was prevaricating big time. She felt that the paperwork was always lurking at the back of her mind in a worrying fashion.

We did two Brain Gym balances on this issue. As a result of this, she completed her accounts on time, and most importantly, has been much more efficient with her financial paperwork ever since. She reported that her accountant was shocked to receive her accounts well ahead of schedule the next year, and that she has managed to keep up this new, more organised approach consistently over the last 6 years!

C now reports, in 2008, that before the Brain Gym sessions she worried constantly about not getting her accounts done, since the sessions she doesn't and she still gets them out on time, even now.

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