Making the Brain Body Connection: A Playful Guide to Releasing Mental, Physical and Emotional Blocks to Success

A newly revised edition of the International Best-Seller, Making the Brain/Body Connection hit the book stores in June. This book has people raving about its user friendly approach and its solid research based information. Explore and experience how your brain, body and senses interrelate. Sharon Promislow's approach makes the brain research almost fun. Learn about your body's defence mechanism for stress and how you can adapt them to defuse stress instead of allowing it to accumulate into a full blown stress attack. In her lively and entertaining book, Sharon blends cutting edge stress and brain research with practical exercises and techniques that have you moving beyond your current limitations and into a life you only imagined you could have. Her Quick Six stress buster techniques can be used on the street, in the board room, wherever you are when stress hits.Follow along with this step-by-step guide as she leads you through a model for change that unlocks hidden "stress circuits." Clear away mental, emotional and physical blocks to success with simple movements from the 10 Step Change Process, that make change fun. Illustrated with humorus new cartoon characters by Cathrine Levan.

Be more effective, learn more easily and feel better
This accessible book is a bridge between today’s cutting edge learning and brain research and a powerful introduction to specialized kinesiology. It is clear and playful, even though the content is serious. It has implications for the average individual, and also those with a specific learning challenge or Attention Deficit Disorder. Indeed, a major component of Sharon Promislow's personal practise is leading professional development workshops for school districts and Special Education departments. It is Sharon's thesis that when our bodies are impacted by the physiological effects of stress, we lose our brain body integration, and to all intents and purposes, we become "living and learning disabled". We then need the very same activities that would also help a learning challenged child, to develop the proper neural circuitry and an optimumlearning state for effective, easeful learning and living.

Making the Brain Body Connection clearly explains the impact of the classic stress reaction on your brain and body and what you can do to stop the wear and tear now. Step-by-step you will also explore and experience how your brain, body and senses interrelate and learn how they can work better for you, clearing away mental, emotional and physical blocks in the process. The theory is well supported by personal processes and specific techniques drawn from Specialized Kinesiology. Discover how you can: * Handle stress effectively * Improve memory and concentration * Change self-sabotaging behaviors * Experience better reading, writing, vision & hearing * Feel better physically and mentally

Book Reviews:

K.Ann Kerr, Synchronicity Magazine: Nov 1998. "As advertised by the subtitle, this book provides "a playful guide to releasing mental, physical and emotional blocks to success." You may need several copies since the simple but powerful techniques that are described will benefit the entire family. There are tips for rapid learning, help for reading problems, techniques for getting rid of headaches, exercises to remove mild dyslexia, stress reducers and techniques that will make you more effective in challenging situations. They all work! Excellent indexes make it easy to find what you need. Cross-referencing is unusually well done. An extensive bibliography and contact addresses are provided."

Noel Wright, North Shore News, Sept 9, 1998. "First a word on the author, for 12 years a practising specialized kinesiologist -- a profession that sent me groping for my Oxford Dictionary (it defines kinesiology as "the study of the mechanics of body movements")...Forget about that traditional "mind over matter" stuff. As the above dictionary definition indicates, Sharon starts with the body. Or, to put it a little more accurately, she regards body and brain as a single, closely interlocked unit, neither part being "superior" to the other and each equally capable of affecting the working of the other. So improved mental performance can be brought about, and "stuck circuits" unblocked, by all kinds of purely physical stimuli. ... Detailed descriptions of those often unorthodox exercises, together with detailed analyses of exactly why and how they affect the brain cells make up much of the book. Given the complexity of the subject, the writing is admirably clear, light touch and understandable to the lay reader. It’s also copiously illustrated on virtually every page with delightful explanatory cartoons by Laura Loucks. Some 70% of current knowledge of the brain having reportedly been discovered during the 1990’s, you should wind up knowing more about the grey stuff between your ears than the top brain surgeons knew just a short decade or two ago."

The Vancouver Province, Oct. 5, 1988. "..a fun and informative collection of philosophy, attitude tips and stressbusting info....The book approaches the impact of modern life on our functioning, and gives ways to better cope."

Maclean’s Magazine, Feb 8, 1999. "Stressed out after a bad day at the office? Vanouver kinesiologist Sharon Promislow offers effective strategies for relieving stress, boosting attention and optimizing performance in Making theBrain/Body Connection"

Wayne Topping, PhD, Author, Success Over Distress. "Sharon Promislow has drawn together a wonderful combination of delightfully simple yet powerfully effective strategies for people of all ages to optimize performance. Anyone wishing to reduce stress, regain the joy of learning and increase empowerment in challenging situations must have this book."

Raleigh Philp, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University. "This book is very readable and will serve as a good introduction to applied brain discoveries for many people who would never pick up a Gazzaniga, a Le Doux or a Damasio. Perhaps one of the best contributions is the enticement for lay readers to go further because the book is so easy to read and chocked full of good applications."

Dr. John Thie, Founder of Touch For Health. "A clear and fun introduction to the basic principles of holistic wellbeing. You will gain insight into how the brain, body and emotions interact, and classic tools for immediate improvement in how you feel and perform."