The stimulation of specific nerve endings through Body Brushing is a powerful technique for helping children and adults overcome learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD and much more. The treatment is not new but it is different because it advances development from a neuro-physiological perspective rather than an academic one.
Brushing works because it helps reflexes complete their natural cycle. Over a short period, children and adults evolve and for the first time ever begin to perform to the best of their ability with apparent ease, gaining in self-confidence and generally enhancing a quality of life.
Learning difficulties or developmental delay has nothing to do with lack of intelligence or ability. In fact these individuals are usually very bright. It’s more a question of performance and whether our reflexes are working to optimum capacity.
We start to develop essential ‘primitive’ reflexes in the womb. Gradually, as we mature they fade away naturally (an example is the Moro reflex) and at around 14-15 months we begin to develop postural reflexes, the ones we need for the rest of our lives. The connection between learning difficulties (or as we prefer to call it developmental delay) and the retention of reflexes is not widely understood. If primitive reflexes are retained, our eyes are prevented from tracking smoothly across words or sentences making reading no pleasure at all – a very dyslexic trait. Our limbs are prevented from moving fluidly and our coordination is poor making writing or sport much harder than it should be (dyspraxia). We are over-active and impulsive because we produce too much adrenalin, disturbing our concentration, memory and sleep patterns as well as intensifying any anxiety; these are common symptoms of ADHD.
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