Behavior Modification In Conjunction with Neuro-Development

Neuro-Development is often used in conjunction with behavior modification techniques. At BrainTrackers we use a highly individualized approach called Left-Right Brain learning which teaches you to identify and change bad habits into appropriate ones to help you achieve your peak performance goals.

Left-Right Brain Behavior Modification

Left-Right Brain Behavior Modification uses subconscious conditioning and mental imagery techniques in addition to music to teach the client an awareness of positive and negative contingencies in their life and helps the client learn to focus on the use of positive contingencies in order to change behavior. Through mental imagery, you’ll learn how to enter a relaxed state, narrow your focus, and hold the desired imagery in your mind’s eye. It’s whole mind-whole body retraining at its very best.

The Left-Right Brain Process – Why It’s Different

First of all, it’s a highly personalized approach to alter behavior (and thereby change habits) by fitting the process to your unique type of suggestibility.

How many people read self-help and motivation books and become stimulated to take action?

Motivation is certainly a good start. Imagine you’re back in high school and you want to become a successful runner. You buy the shoes and shorts and off you go. But there’s a whole lot of things missing on the road to your success. How about a nutrient rich diet? What about proper physical training? How about proper mental conditioning? Maybe you’re running on the wrong track — maybe you’d be a better sprinter rather than a long-distance runner. All of that knowledge combined is what’s going to help get you to the finish line.

The Left-Right Brain Learning Process is an important tool to add to your arsenal. It puts you on the right path to take the right positive action to change bad habits into good ones in order to succeed. It’s all based on your particular way of learning — your particular type of suggestibility.

Where Behavior Comes From

Coming from the point of view that we are all sponges with feet from the time we are born through childhood, it’s important to understand that old “learned” belief systems (habits) can hamper our lives today in myriad ways, from crushing our creativity to destroying our self-esteem, limiting our ability to learn and be productive or to modify behavior.

Remember, it’s not your conscious mind that is the most powerful. We use only 10% of it. It’s your subconscious mind (90%) that really controls much of how we do things. And if you don’t learn to communicate effectively with it, you won’t be the one in control.

Important Subconscious Communication

When you learn your type of suggestibility, you will learn how to communicate with your inner-mind (the fearful, unproductive or stressed mind within). That skill allows you to affect behavior to achieve growth, artistic, sports and job performance, personal independence and control.

The Left-Right Brain Learning process also works in a business environment. It helps foster good teamwork through effective communication and enhanced learning skills in all team members.

How Your Brain Functions

The human brain is made of three main parts: forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The forebrain is where the cerebrum resides. The cerebrum or cortex is the largest part of the brain, about two-thirds of it, and is associated with our higher brain functions such as thought and action. It’s divided into two hemispheres, right and left. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa.

The two hemispheres look symmetrical yet it’s been shown that each sphere functions slightly different from the other.

Left – Brain Functions

• Responsible for awareness of time, sequence, details, order
• Responsible for auditory receptive and verbal expression
• Responsible for boundaries; knowing right from wrong
• Specializes in words, logic, analytical thinking, reading, writing
• Processes information from parts to whole
  Understands and respects rules and deadlines
  

Right – Brain Functions

• Responsible for intuitive and emotional responses
• Specializes in understanding the whole picture
• Specializes in music, art, visual-spatial and/or visual-motor activities
• Helps us form mental images when reading and/or conversing
• Helps us to form and maintain relationships

Sometimes the left hemisphere is associated with logic abilities while the right is associated with artistic. The corpus collosum is what connects these two hemispheres and disseminates information from the cerebral cortex on one side of the brain to the same region on the other side. Deep within the cerebrum is the limbic system, also referred to as the “emotional brain” of which two parts, the amygdala, and the hippocampus, are concerned with emotions and learning.

That’s what Left-Right Brain Learning aims to achieve by tapping into a person’s unique processing mechanism (either their left or right brain – whichever they happen to favor) in order to better communicate with a client and therefore achieve optimum self-improvement results.

What Happens During a Session?

The first step in the process is your taking a simple written test that will reveal your Left or Right Brain learning preference. You’ll then be guided into a relaxed state and asked to respond to customized suggestions for changes in thought, behavior, emotion and even for subjective experiences such as pain. With our Left-Right Brain Learning process, you’ll discover how you learn (your learning suggestibility type) and how to make that knowledge work for you. You’ll also be taught a form of self-hypnosis, which is the act of administering suggestions to oneself while in a relaxed state.

The process has been demonstrated to be effective with a variety of disorders, such as:

• Habit Disorders
• Anxiety and Depression
• Stress and Pain

Stress Management and Relaxation Therapy

Relaxation therapy involves learning skills to use the power of the mind and body to achieve a sense of relaxation through deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation and visual imagery. Practicing these skills during and in between therapy sessions aids in decreasing stress, anger, anxiety and depression, all the things that can interfere with peak performance.

Sometimes peripheral biofeedback is included as an additional relaxation technique. By providing the client with immediate feedback related to breathing and heart rate, the individual learns to decrease physical signs of stress.