A quick post. Tonight is Yolanda and Roger’s introduction to Brain Integration Technique in Santa Fe. This morning I’m thinking about what I want to share about my experience. In a nutshell, the two greatest gifts I’ve received are: the tremendous slowing of mental chatter, and no longer needing to fill my life with activities that stimulate my brain. Basically, I’ve gained tremendous freedom and a nice ease in hearing my intuition and following its flow.
Yolanda and I had a phone conversation this evening. She and Roger will be heading out to Santa Fe in the next few days to introduce people to the work and to do some Brain Integration Technique sessions. If you’re going to be in Santa Fe, or have a friend or loved one in the area who might be interested in the work, I’ll be hosting introductory events on April 7th and 8th. You can read about the events here, then contact me at sol dot lederman at gmail dot com for directions.
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Dr. Shelese Pratt, Brain Integration Technique practitioner and trainer, was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule this morning - she’s a naturopathic doctor - to talk with me about BIT.
Dr. Pratt just returned from Chicago where she and Susan McCrossin delivered the training that is a prerequisite to BIT. Twenty two people were in that training. The work is growing. The work is spreading. Given that there are currently only fourteen Crossinology practitioners (plus Susan), twenty two is a huge number of potential new practitioners.
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Believing that ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, and other brain challenges can be permanently corrected with one set of non-invasive Brain Integration Technique treatments is difficult for many. I understand. It’s not what we’re taught to believe in our culture, and that’s the case for most illnesses and imbalances. There’s no money for certain industries in cures.
Anyway, for those on the fence about the value of Brain Integration Technique, reading testimonials might help. So, I’ve rounded up some web-sites that provide them. Here’s my list. If you know of other sources, please let me know and I’ll update this post.
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I’m noticing that my path is taking a new and all-important direction. Many old feelings have been frozen in time. A very nice result of being brain-integrated is that these feelings are starting to thaw. I attribute this to the fact that I’m now able to bring my attention to my body and to hold it there when the old feelings surface. Surfacing and releasing of old grief is every bit as important to me as the cognitive healing gifts I’ve received.
What I’ve been noticing is that I frequently feel heaviness in my chest and shallow breathing, which is old sadness. Yesterday, I was able to focus on the feeling and breathe deeply into it. And, I cried a little bit yesterday.
This morning I felt relief. I continue to take deep breaths every time I notice that I’m breathing shallowly and I will likely have some massage to help move those feelings.
A Google search of the quoted phrase “brain integration technique” only yields 348 results. This blog, less than a month old, is on page 1 of Google’s results, at #9. The blog has 12 subscribers. Do a Google search for “Ritalin” and you get 5,040,000 results. We’ve got a ways to go before the world finds out about Brain Integration Technique.
Brain Integration Technique changed my life and I’m committed to spreading the word big time. I’ve studied a little bit of search engine optimization (how to write for the web so that your pages show up at or near the top of Google results.) I’m going to start using these techniques to get Brain Integration Technique more widely known as a healthy alternative to treating ADHD. Yes, I know that Brain Integration Technique permanently corrects ADHD but I want to sprinkle some words and phrases into articles so that people looking for ways to treat ADHD will be led here by Google.
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I received a comment on the One answer to ADD post on my Math blog. Dawn raised the excellent point that ADD is a cluster of symptoms, not one “thing” and that there are many possible causes. Here is the reply I posted to her comment.
Dawn,
Thanks for commenting.
I don’t believe that there’s one cause. I agree that ADD describes a set of symptoms, and I imagine that there are hundreds of causes of ADD-like symptoms. I’m also not so arrogant to believe that Brain Integration Technique is the magic bullet that fixes everything for everyone.
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[ Editor’s note: I’m delighted to post an update from Brad. Brad is on his way to becoming a Brain Integration Technique (BIT) practitioner. He shared his family’s experience with BIT in his first post. ]
This is chapter two of my story on the path to a new and integrated life through Crossinology. When I last wrote I was ready to head out to Boulder Colorado for my first class in Brain Integration. The official title of the course is B.I.T. pre-requisite training. I arrived in Boulder with much anticipation and some apprehension, as I had no ideal what to expect. The first day was great, we came together in Susan McCrossin’s loft office. As we all introduced ourselves I found I was surrounded by people who like me had found their way there after seeing the results of this therapy, either first hand or through the integration of a family member. Unlike me most had a background in the medical profession, some were RNs, a massage therapist and a physical therapist rounded out the group. The one thing we all had in common was an excitement for learning this new technique and sharing it with others.
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I recently wrote about the clearing of my ADD in my Math blog. A conversation ensued over a comment by Terry that “ADD can be a blessing at times.” I asked when that was the case. Later in the comment thread Terry made this interesting statement: “It could be the case that without ADD some people would have no drive…”
Terry’s comment got me to thinking. I’ve had many experiences in my life that were driven by the excitement of learning new things, of living a full life, of healing from my painful upbringing. Had I not been ADD would I not have had those experiences? Would I have been a depressed lump? I don’t know. I certainly don’t believe that people need to be ADD to have a large number of diverse interests. What I do know from my personal experience is that needing stimulation to keep my brain functioning led me to have many shallow experiences. What I miss about my childhood and most of my adulthood, looking back, is that while I developed a very keen sense of the gestalt (big picture) I did that largely at the expense of not going deep. I wonder if I had not needed the stimulation if I would have learned to play a musical instrument, learned to do home repairs, become an accomplished ballroom dancer, or have learned any of dozens of things that I could only have learned with a sustained level of focus. Yes, I can learn these things now, but I feel the loss of not having been able to then.
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I’ve been spreading the word about this blog and I’m starting to see some social networking traffic and visitors from other places. I welcome all of you who come from StumbleUpon, WildAboutMath, CastingOutNines, Curezone, HowHealthWorks, and other places. Thank you for visiting.
If you’re new to this blog I recommend that, after reading this post you read the Welcome post and then the About page.
I greatly appreciate Robert’s post about this blog on his Casting Out Nines blog.
If others of you feel inspired to blog about this blog I will be delighted to acknowledge you on this blog. And, I’d be happy to write guest posts on any of your blogs about Brain Integration. The potential for curing ADD and other learning challenges is a hot and controversial topic that your readers will probably enjoy.
I’ve been logging brain changes that I’ve noticed during the five weeks since I was integrated. You may enjoy reading some items from my list.
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