Sensory Processing Disorder, Learning Difficulties, Attention Deficit Disorder, and TBI symptoms, all result from our inability to access specific brain functions or our inability to effectively integrate brain functions.
This work balances the flow of energy and information in the brain optimizing brain function. When the natural flow is reestablished in the brain, symptoms resolve and new capacities are expressed. By rewiring the brain our innate intelligence and abilities are revealed.
For the Highly Sensitive Child or Adult Information is not flowing or being processed in a way that brings ease to the person. It is like a conveyor belt on an assembly line running to fast for the workers to do their job. This results in overwhelm and frenzy in the system. Even the slightest increase can bring the person to a crashing halt resulting in outbursts of frustration. By rerouting the flow of information to the most efficient parts and restoring the brains ability to integrate experience, harmony is restored and strength and resilience becomes the norm.
Sensory Processing Disorder is a neurological condition that causes some children to be overly seeking or overly sensitive to touch, sounds, tastes, smells, movement, and/or visual stimuli. Sensory Processing Disorder affects 1 in 20 children. Sensory Integration Therapy helps children with Sensory Processing Disorder, ADD/ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other learning and behavioral challenges. Sensory Integration Therapy helps children live their lives purposely, functionally, and successfully.
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We noticed a difference in our son soon after we started seeing Dr. Arin. Everything we had been doing: OT therapy, heavy work, sensory diet, food changes, alternative holistic doctors, school psychologists and groups all started making greater impacts on his progress in all areas. We had always heard of windows of opportunity during children’s development and now the windows were opening and he was growing: Academically, socially, and spiritually. Thank you Dr. Arin for making the connections happen!
My son received Therapy from Dr. Arin. Afterward, I noticed a remarkable difference. One of the first things I noticed is that he began to look me straight in the eye (he had extreme difficulties with this beforehand). He had previously been kicked out of his high level math class due to inability to focus. After the treatments he not only was placed back in the high level math class, the teacher was amazed that he had the highest math score she had ever seen for that grade level. I also was surprised that the teachers noticed a difference in him even though I did not tell them he was receiving any new kind of treatment. Those who participate in this treatment will not be sorry in my opinion.
My son was diagnosed with autism at 26 months old. Between then and the age of 5 1/2 we tried a wide variety of behavioral, biomedical and sensory integration therapies to address his autistic behaviors. Then my friend, who had been down the same path with her own son, told me about the Therapy and the life changing impact it had on her son and her family. I could tell from her demeanor that she was speaking the truth and decided to give it a try. Within hours of my son's first sessions we noticed significant changes. He became more present and regulated. In the time between each round of sessions there have been infinite subtle and many dramatic improvements in my son's sense of well being and independence. He is more affectionate, more flexible, more physically capable and confident and more socially aware and adept. He continues to make great improvements as a person each time we do a session. Since doing this work we have given up on any other type of therapies as there is little need. Finally I have my time back and I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. At first I was skeptical that my son would be able to lay on a table calmly for an hour at a time and let someone that he does not know touch him. But Dr. Balbinder has a very calm, sensitive and gentle approach and so this was not an issue. He was very flexible with my son, allowing him breaks when needed and not pressuring him when he became agitated. My son thinks the world of Dr. Balbinder now and looks forward to the sessions with him.
First, wanted to let you know that my daughter has been doing really well. She's been making big improvements in the past week -- a friend asked me for your name after we went there the other night and she saw "a completely different child. My family members commented on the same on -- my sister even jokingly asked whether I was sure that I hadn't stepped out of the room long enough for you to perform some sort of lobotomy. She still loses it on occasion -- but she lives in a household where her buttons are pushed a lot. Overall, she's seeming a lot more mature and in control of her emotions. When she found out a picture she had been working on for a friend got spilled on, she had a quick flash of angry eyes and then recomposed and said, "It's OK. When I explain what happened, she'll understand." Grandma was here too and thank goodness she does not have a heart condition or I think she would have been a goner right then and there. She also made a poster for a PTA-sponsored contest IN ONE SITTING. She sat down, tried out a few different ideas, and worked really hard for a couple of hours.
What is Brain Integration Therapy? Brain Integration Technique, BIT is a therapy designed to enhance and coordinate the flow of energy and information in the brain in 8 to 10 hours. BIT produces three levels of integration, temporal, vertical, and horizontal. Temporal integration is the ability to experience events in their appropriate time context. Temporal integration is classically lost with trauma. A loss of temporal integration allows past experiences or future possibilities to override current decision making processes and action steps. If you or your child have difficulty letting go of past events or worry too much about the future, that is a loss of temporal integration. Vertical integration coordinates the exchange of information from lower brain centers with higher brain centers. When you or you child gets highly emotional over a situation and can't recover quickly, that is a loss of vertical integration. Horizontal integration coordinates right and left brain enabling one to fully express their abilities that require coordinated access to both sides of the brain. These functions include planning, reading comprehension, communication, task management, relational skills, correction of learning challenges and ADD, reduced impulsiveness and improved self-esteem. A difficulty in any of these areas is a loss of horizontal integration.
Learning difficulties, attention deficit disorder,sensory integration challenges, and TBI symptoms, all result from our inability to access specific brain functions or our inability to effectively integrate brain functions.
Basic brain anatomy and function to better understand Attention Deficit Disorder, specific learning difficulties, and TBI:
The brainstem is the location of our animal reactions. This instinctive brain function activates our fight, flight or freeze response in response to perceived threats. This is our protector that is able to release lots of energy to keep us safe.
The limbic brain is the center of our emotions. It answers the question “Does this feel good, or does this feel bad?” The limbic brain area allows us to form relationships and become attached emotionally. It controls the degree of stress we experience. The limbic area plays a key role in creating memories. People, places and events that have strong emotions connected to them remain strong in our memory.
The cortex gives us the power of reason and allows us to respond beyond our bodily reactions and emotions. It enables us to think, to imagine, to socialize and create. The cortex allows us to develop self reflection and self awareness.
Right Brain functions (Gestalt Brain): The right brain is more directly connected to our brainstem (instinctual urges) and the limbic brain (emotional needs). It develops early in life and enables us to communicate non-verbally. It is the realm of imagery, creativity, holistic thinking, emotions, social self, physical sensations, attachments, survival reactions, sense of whole body awareness, relational patterns and images of our own mind and others.
Left Brain (Logic Brain): The left brain develops latter in life is primarily focused on logic, spoken and written language, linearity, lists and literal thinking. The logic brain is the ivory tower of thought, concerned with ideas rationality, facts and analysis.
A functional model of Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD results when the right brain functions dominate processing and there is low coordination with left brain functions.
Common symptoms and their causes
- Impulsivity, acting without thinking. Acting on impulse occurs when right brain functions are dominate since they are more directly connected to lower brain areas which drive instinctual and emotional urges. Without the counter balance of left brain functions of logic and rationality behavior is more impulsive.
- Little understanding of cause and effect. Left brain functions are where we derive our logic and analysis. When access is low to left brain functions it is difficult to use deductive thought processes and one will rely on inductive reasoning, intuition, gut reaction and be perceived as circular/chaotic thinker instead of linear and rational in ones thoughts.
- Difficulty budgeting time, completing projects, or low organizational skills. The left brain is how we create linear structures which allow us to operate within a schedule, complete projects in a step wise fashion and create organizational structures in our lives. People in which these things are apparently lacking simply are right brain dominant and have little access to the left brain functions that support these behaviors.
- Difficulty concentrating. Right brain awareness is diffuse and left brain awareness is focused. People with right brain dominance will say they are acutely aware of their environment to the point of distraction. Their focus is diffuse taking in all that is about them without an ability to have sustained single point focus, a left brain function. The left brain also structures awareness through time. When access to this left brain function is low, focus is a series of “right now moments” on whatever is of the most interest instinctively. A left brain focus would strategically filter concentration to focus on rational goals over time.
- Difficulty spelling or reading words that don’t sound the way they are spelled. In order to do this one needs to be able to visualize letter sequences of words, a left brain function.
- Difficulty with reading comprehension while at the same time being a fluid reader. The ability to recognize word patterns is a right brain function enabling one to be a fluid reader. To give meaning and have comprehension to what was read is a left brain function.
- Good physical coordination The right brain governs whole body awareness, balance, and body orientation in space. This enables a right brain dominant individual to achieve high physical coordination.
Hyperactivity and the emotions of Attention Deficit Disorder
The right brain is more directly connected to the brain stem and the limbic portion of the brain. In right brain dominant, attention deficit disorder, the right brain is hyper stimulated and is not being properly modulated by the left brain functions. This causes the brain stem, the center of our fight, flight, and freeze response to become over activated and easily stimulated. The same holds true for limbic centers that govern our emotional reactions. ADD sufferers are then prone to chronic states of hyper arousal and emotional reactivity.
Why Brain Integration Works
Brain integration works based on the principal of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the capacity for creating new neural connections and growing new neurons in response to stimulus. Brain function is strengthened by horizontal integration, balancing right and left brain function, and by vertical integration the balancing of higher cortical functions with lower brain functions of the brain stem and limbic centers.
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