Brain integration - leap
Many clients utilize the Brain Integration work for issues ranging from eliminating mental blocks, which hinder the achievement of their career goals, to transforming negative patterns and beliefs that impact their personal relationships. Others focus upon releasing past traumas and painful memories that inhibit them from participating fully in life to individuals who simply desire to grow and evolve. Whatever it is that you would like to address, the Brain Integration protocols are excellent tools for integrating your life experiences giving you greater access to your potentiality and full expression of your unique self.
We have all experienced times when our knowledge seems to become inaccessible to us. This can feel frustrating since we either know the information or have the ability to perform the certain activity, but in these moments we observe being blank or just plain blocked. Performance anxieties are a great example of this interference. What we often fail to realize is we are actually experiencing loss of Brain Integration due to activation of our Fight/Flight survival system; most likely we’ve been “triggered.”
In order for integration to be maintained effectively, the Brain must perform three operations: First, access specific regions and functions within the brain. Second, have the ability to integrate these brain functions. Third, maintain integration during the performance of these functions. This synthesis can easily be disrupted or overridden if our subconscious associates and /or deems the current situation stressful enough. At this point, compensatory survival patterns can be activated in order to cope or survive. From the Brain’s perspective, the current situation is no longer current, but rather the re-creation of a past traumatic event. From the perspective of another, your behavior may seem avoidant, erratic, confrontational, anxious or just plain confusing. Often what is needed to change the reaction is the discharging of the original stressor.
LEAP (Learning Enhancement Acupressure Program) or more commonly referred to as “Brain Integration,” is a series of protocols developed by Dr. Charles Krebs that is designed to address and discharge the underlying roots of neurological stress. The first protocol focuses upon the Amygdalae because these Limbic nuclei are responsible for initiating the Fight/Flight/Freeze response. However, the Amygdalae receive only a crude perception of the external world and these coarse neural signals are not used to understand or comprehend the objects or events within our environment, but rather these signals act as an early warning system for potential threats and danger. The Amygdalae will then lay down memory of these threatening perceptions and create “Charged Emotional Memory."
Many survival compensations can be formed from these “Charged Emotional Memories” and many become the basis for effective coping strategies unnoticeable to ourselves and others. However the stronger the threat and duration, the greater the potential for unintended alterations to the psychological, physiological and neurological systems of the individual often expressing as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), General Anxieties and/or Depression. While the Brain Integration procedures can help reduce and in some cases curtail these maladies, you do not need a diagnosed or a labeled disorder to benefit from the Integration protocols.
