Last week, we explored six of the Nine Pathways of Neural Integration offered up by Bonnie Badenoch in her well-crafted guidebook, Being a Brain-wise Therapist. This week let’s explore two of the last three pathways and find out why they might be important for purposeful living.
Interpersonal Integration
Your brain and mine are relational organs constantly trying [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Brain Integration Redux
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonnie Badenoch, Brain Integration, Einstein, Gene Knudsen, Martin Buber, Right Action, Transpiration on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They Laughed When I Set About to Integrate my Brain …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dan Siegel, Bonnie Badenoch, Exo-Awareness, Endo-Awareness, Neural Integration on September 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »
… but when I lost weight, my 401K actually increased in value, and I began joyfully walking through the world as if living a Zen Story, they began to sit up and take notice. But first of all they wanted to know, “What the heck does ‘integrate your brain’ actually mean?”
Well, it turns out integration [...]
Pillow Talk – A Positive Neural Integrator?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Don Valentine, Prosody, The Unthought Known on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When my daughter was small, I had a fail-proof way of getting her attention sometimes. I use the same method to get the attention of a room full of high-spirited students when it’s time to begin class. And I trained the family dog to respond to a similar method as well. What I do is [...]
The Making of a Social Retard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brain Gym, Peter Levine, Smart Moves on September 4, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Somewhere between birth and roughly age three, I suffered a substantial decline in social intelligence. My earliest memory of one significant incident was being left in the care of total strangers in St. Raphael’s hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. I went to sleep only to wake up in great pain – the result of having [...]
