NeuroDevelopmental Movement

Our Neurological Foundation.

There are many things that affect our early development. Another VERY important early developmental experience is the activities we do as kids. Particularly in utero through infancy.

Did you know that when you are an infant and can do nothing for yourself, the innate wisdom within you knows exactly what to do to build the capacity to be able to focus, have impulse control, have good attention, and have healthy emotional regulation, good sensory integration and learn about the world?

As we lie on our bellies, we hear things or see things out of the corner of our eye, and our curiosity pulls us to discover what that is. We attempt to lift our heads to see but there is no tone in our muscles yet, so we are unable to do so. But our curiosity keeps pulling us to discover what that sound or sight is. We keep efforting to lift our heads over and over until we have built enough tone in our muscles where we can actually lift our head and see what captured our curiosity.

And then something else catches our eye, or we hear something, and try to see but can’t because we have to push up to see more and we don’t yet have tone in our arm muscles. But our curiosity pulls us to effort, effort until we are able to push up and discover what that is.

This curiosity keeps pulling us through different developmental stages, crawling (on our bellies), creeping (on hands and knees), sitting up and eventually walking.

The thing is that each of these activities also build neuropathways in our brain for doing these activities. The early work of crawling and creeping are particularly important for building neuropathways for focus, impulse control, attention, math, reading, sensory integration and emotional regulation. Just to name a few.

Isn’t our innate wisdom just stunning!

Here are some symptoms that will tell you if you have some neurological damage or delay: difficulty naming sensations or emotions, difficulty with attention, poor impulse control, unable to stay focused (ADD, ADHD); difficulty with math or reading skills (Dyslexia), clumsiness, difficulty with reading social cues, Autism, Asperger’s, lack of empathy, sensory overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, behavioral problems.

In some cases, we may have had good early developmental activity completion but have had some experience that has damaged our neuropathways. For instance, really high fever, head injury, or even a small bump on the head, chemical exposure, mold exposure.

If we are not allowed to do our developmental activities that our innate wisdom takes us through, we will have lifelong issues.

Unfortunately, we have several generations that have neurodevelopmental deficits. Why? It became really popular to put kids in swings, walkers, jumpy seats or seats that prop them on their back. What?

You see when an infant is in one of these contraptions, they are not doing their developmental activities to build neuropathways in their brains. There has been an explosion of ADD, ADHD, Autism, Asperger’s, learning disabilities, sensory-motor problems, and behavioral problems. It has become an epidemic. Almost the norm (Normal just means everyone is doing or has the same thing. That does not mean it is healthy.)

There is a way to repair this.