08/03/2026
🤯 Do you have particular scenarios in your life where your brain seems to let you down, even though you know (or hope) that you're not stupid?
Examples could be public speaking, recall under exam conditions, being put on the spot to calculate the change owing, remembering verbal instructions, remembering where your car is (okay, that's me)....You get the picture, it could be any number of things.
Although, naturally, we all have different cognitive strengths and areas of challenge, often there is a hefty stress component involved.
The survival-oriented parts of our brain (the amygdala etc.) often file things under 'dangerous' 🔥 even when there is little (or no) physical threat. Once this has occurred, our resources go into survival (fight/flight/freeze) rather than rational thought or creative problem solving, and, as a bonus we will default to this stress response every time we're presented with the same (or similar) scenario. Yay.
Often these responses are linked to events from childhood...we may not even remember them!
Luckily, there are ways to connect with the subconscious patterns running the show and rewire them, with kinesiology being just one of these ways :)
Do you ever feel like your brain simply abandons you and goes ‘offline’ in certain situations? Or perhaps you ask your child a question they should be able to answer, but they stare at you blankly...