The more we understand–the more we feel in control!
Understand How Your Brain Works
Evidence based Treatments
Our brain should be part of our health care!
We watch what we eat, try to get exercise and adequate rest. We know to use sunscreen and hesitate to take risks.
But sometimes we lack motivation or direction and don’t do what we intend.
Neuro testing can identify the potential sources of poor connectivity in the brain. Poor sleep, foggy thinking, irritability, changing mood, anxiety, depression, can be inproved by addressing this connectivity.
Once we understand the problem, it becomes easier to make change.
Here is a story about Compensation. Have you ever broken your arm? This can be traumatic, especially if the break is serious, a complete break, a compound fracture, for instance. You were likely rushed to have an x-ray and then a cast was affixed. It all stopped hurting, but it may have been quite an ordeal. So then what? You’ve lost mobility and function, but you had to keep going, work, kids, dishes, all kept happening. This event was a quick lesson in how to make the other arm do all of things that the broken arm did, and all of the things that you needed both arms to do. This is a clear case of how we must compensate when we cannot function normally. And after the cast was removed you could not just pick up where you left off, you may have needed physical therapy, maybe lifted some weights to put the arm back in action. If you did not take care during all of this, your arm probably didn’t rebound the way you wanted it to. The lack of mobility may have lasted, at least a little. Some people end up having reduced function for the rest of their life.
Our brain also compensates like this. It is affected by our environment, by the difficulties we encounter with family, at work, and in trying to do more and more to achieve our goals. Our brain compensates for the problems we encounter and adjusts by functioning to protect us and keep us moving. But when there is an injury, and insult, difficult emotional issues, traumatic experience, sometimes actual physical injury, our brain attempts to keep us going. However, like a broken arm, our brain might struggle, and we feel the difference in how we are performing.
Our brain is tracking everything around us, especially if there is any potential for conflict or harm. Its job is to protect us against threats, large or small, physical or emotional. Sometimes we experience threats that don’t easily recede and can linger for days or even years. This floods our brain with energy that the brain is meant to use for being ready, on guard. But there is often more than we can handle. The energy can bounce around, providing little useful connectivity. We become tired and anxious, unable to think as clearly.