1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,280 Hi and welcome to the In The Cortex podcast. 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:10,280 We are your hosts. 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:11,600 I'm Paloma Garcia. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,640 And I am Dani Perrecone. 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,240 And we're the founders of In The Cortex, an online community with programs that show 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:21,480 people the tools that they need to change their lives, their brain reorganization, no 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,880 medication, just movement. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,080 When you get your brain out of survival mode and regulate your nervous system, you start 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,200 to live in the fun, logical part of the brain, the cortex. 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,520 Subscribe today and learn how to live your best in the cortex life. 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:41,200 And now on to today's episode. 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:47,000 Hello and welcome everybody to episode two of season two of our podcast. 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,960 Today is an interesting episode because we actually asked a lot of our Instagram followers 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,680 what they wanted us to talk about. 15 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,480 And this is one of the themes that came up. 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:03,440 So today we're going to be talking about our sensory systems, our senses and the brain 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,720 because we share a lot about the sensory systems on our Instagram and on our TikTok 18 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,160 and in our program. 19 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,320 But I think that sometimes it's cool to like kind of dig a little bit deeper and really 20 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:19,120 look at the link between the way that we are processing the world and what behaviors can 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,120 come up, right? 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,400 And what that means about our brain as well. 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:22,400 Right. 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,680 I love this because we talk about primitive reflexes. 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,800 We all know our automatic instinctuals mechanisms that keep us alive basically in the first 26 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:31,960 year of life. 27 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:33,920 And they're all done through movement. 28 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,080 And so we share that a lot. 29 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,400 Like that's the premise of in the cortex is everything is movement based because if you 30 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,160 watch in utero, if you watch newborn, if you watch babies, everything is done through movement. 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,560 That is how they communicate to us what's going on. 32 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,680 And then we talk about also the lower centers of the brain, the pons and the mid brain. 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,920 When you do the reflex integration, which is so huge right now all over our social media 34 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,040 channels, everyone's understanding this. 35 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:05,320 OTs are talking about the importance of integrating your primitive reflexes because as an adult, 36 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:10,000 if you have a moral reflex that is still on an active, that means that your survival brain 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,880 is constantly turning on. 38 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,680 If someone cuts you off when you're driving, it gets personal. 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,440 You flare out, you get the adrenaline, the cortisol, you're turning red, you're racing 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,440 them back. 41 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,680 You're doing other gestures that are letting them know you're not happy with them. 42 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,760 And that is interrupting your day to day living of just peace and harmony. 43 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,720 So it's also flooding your body with chemicals, with the stress chemicals flooding your body, 44 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,560 the cortisol and adrenaline that you don't, you don't have nowhere to take it. 45 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,400 You don't have nowhere to release it. 46 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,240 And so that also sets you into kind of like a constant state of dysregulation. 47 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,640 You know, 100%. 48 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:49,440 And this is why we're so big at talking about our program is done for any age at any stage 49 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:55,440 in your life because everybody has, I would say we have, we have met a couple of people 50 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,080 in the world and actually have developed brains. 51 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:03,760 We haven't met anybody who has a completely lineup of every reflex developed and a developed 52 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:04,760 brain. 53 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,760 We should actually look for that. 54 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,760 If you feel like that's you, maybe you should shoot us an email and be like, Hey, we'll 55 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,120 actually be able to assess you and be like, Yeah, you're right. 56 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,120 That is you. 57 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:19,280 No wonder your life is so peaceful and you're probably not actually listening to his podcast. 58 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,800 We're going to talk about how the sensory systems are connected to the primitive reflexes 59 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,280 are connected to the creeping and the crawling. 60 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,040 And you can't just do one and expect that, Oh, everything's lined up. 61 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,680 And even after you do our program, there's still more that we weave in that's even deeper. 62 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,880 And that's the subconscious and how much that takes hold of your life, but you can't do 63 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,520 the subconscious work and you can't think your way through it without doing the foundational 64 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,120 work of the reflex integration and the lower centers of the brain. 65 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,400 So let's get into it. 66 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,560 Let's talk about the first sensory system. 67 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:52,640 Yes. 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,080 So we want to let's go one by one. 69 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,920 Let's start with vestibular because also that's kind of one that we recently shared about 70 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,240 in our program. 71 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,000 Your vestibular system is your relationship with gravity. 72 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,520 And so it's really the sense of what am I doing in space to keep my balance? 73 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,360 So if I'm sitting, I'm going to adjust my posture. 74 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,840 If I'm standing, I'm going to adjust it. 75 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,080 If I'm at a tilted angle, I'm going to adjust my posture. 76 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,280 If I'm on a boat, I have to continue continuously adjusted, right? 77 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:24,920 And that's where we start to see some challenges. 78 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,120 So some people, they get C sickness or they get car sickness because their vestibular system 79 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,680 isn't fully developed. 80 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,920 And so it's not fully able to kind of evolve with our gravity, the way that our gravity 81 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:37,920 is evolving, right? 82 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,600 So if we're going super fast in a car or if we're on a boat or any sort of like different 83 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,720 kind of thing, lots of times these people will also be afraid of heights or they don't 84 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,560 want to do like roller coasters and all that stuff because it's so challenging to their 85 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,560 vestibular system. 86 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,160 And if you feel like you don't have balance, everything else is off, right? 87 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,440 I mean, it's kind of like one of our most important things. 88 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,480 Think about when you're walking, you feel like you're going to like miss a step or something. 89 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,680 You're like, whoa, like you do go into that like survival response. 90 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:02,680 You're like, yeah. 91 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,840 And so imagine feeling that all the time, right? 92 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:09,840 And so that's what's happening with a lot of people whose vestibular system isn't like 93 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,160 fully calibrated, so to speak. 94 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:20,280 You're constantly having to actively think, how am I going to avoid feeling bad, right? 95 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:23,720 Or losing my balance or losing the sense that I have. 96 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,040 And we have two types of kind of dysregulation with the vestibular system. 97 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,480 It can be hypoactive, which means that the little hairs that the vestibular system is 98 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,560 like a little pretzel shape in our inner ear. 99 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,920 And it has these little hairs that are what the sensors that are picking up all this information 100 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:45,000 about our gravity, our position, where our head is in relation to our body, et cetera. 101 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,040 And that's how it adjusts, right? 102 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,280 And so if we have a hypo vestibular system, then the hairs are moving really, really slow. 103 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:58,800 And so any, these are people that need to seek out movement actively because they feel like 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,280 if they're sitting, if they're just sitting and having a conversation or sitting in a 105 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,720 class, we talk about this of course a lot with kids right in the classroom, they're 106 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,120 going to just like fall asleep. 107 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,400 Right? Or they're just going to totally like lose track. 108 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,960 These are people that sometimes even if they're reading something because they're not moving, 109 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,040 they're like, I can't, I'm going to fall asleep too, right? 110 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,880 Or they feel like really inactive. 111 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,240 So they're always moving all the time. 112 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,560 So they might be like going like this, they might be these people that are super, super 113 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,280 expressive and like constantly moving like their body in general, right? 114 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:31,880 Or they might find excuses to get up every so often, right? 115 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:33,280 Like, oh, let me go get a glass of water. 116 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:34,280 Oh, you know what? 117 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:35,280 I forgot this thing in the other room. 118 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,280 I'll be right back. 119 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:37,280 I want to show you this thing over here. 120 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:39,040 I'm going to stand up and show you, right? 121 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,360 Because their body knows their system knows they need that movement. 122 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:47,760 And this small parentheses, that's why asking kids to sit for eight hours a day in school 123 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,760 or however many hours they go is bunkers because it's just not fair to their system. 124 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,680 It's just regulated, you know? 125 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,320 And what we say to the teachers, it sits still or pay attention. 126 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,080 Their brain cannot do both when this system is not doing its job. 127 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,080 And this is so key. 128 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,120 The underlying thing here is movement. 129 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,240 When you know you have a hypo vestibular system, you need movement. 130 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,360 And so in a kid, this could be really disruptive, right? 131 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,280 You're the child that's constantly moving in your seat, spinning in your chair. 132 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,280 You cannot sit still. 133 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,000 And when you ask that kid to sit still, they're like paralyzed because they're like, well, 134 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,280 then how do I literally function? 135 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,320 Because the vestibular system is the boss of the brain. 136 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,160 Lots of the primitive reflexes are connected to this system. 137 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:39,160 And if the Moro, the TLR, the ATNR, the STNR, the HRR, and the land out, those are all abbreviated 138 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,400 of the different primitive reflexes. 139 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,040 So it's really important that we address the primitive reflex and then we connect it back 140 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,080 to, okay, that is why the vestibular system does what it does. 141 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:56,440 And this is why there's so many modalities out there that focus on just getting you to 142 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,040 balance or focus on just balancing. 143 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,280 But it's not getting to the root of what's going on with that vestibular system. 144 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,320 And an adult, so a kid's really disruptive, right? 145 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,000 And if you're that disruptive kid, you know, constantly being told to sit still, then as 146 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,240 an adult, you're like, I got to learn how to compensate. 147 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,080 So this is an interfering with my life. 148 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,200 But like Paloma said, you're thinking about it constantly. 149 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,600 So then you're the adult that's like, I got to take meetings while I'm walking. 150 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,160 I love a walking desk because then I can still get my brain to do what it's doing and I'm 151 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,320 giving it what it needs because I cannot do both. 152 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,000 I can't sit still and stay focused. 153 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 So it's constantly there. 154 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And there's also, yeah. 155 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,880 And there's also nothing wrong with finding those things that are going to work for your 156 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,000 brain because at the end of the day, you do what you got to do, what you got to do, right? 157 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,440 But you're compensating and working harder. 158 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Yeah. 159 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,440 Exactly. 160 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:45,440 It's still a compensation. 161 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:46,440 And your brain's just working harder. 162 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,440 And the only thing that it, that means is that there's less bandwidth for you to do 163 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,240 the things that you want to do in your life for you to pay attention to that meeting that 164 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,840 you're taking walking for you to be able to, you know, understand yourself and your desire 165 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,960 and your true, you know, core values of who you are as a person. 166 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,840 This is just one tiny little thing that's getting in the way. 167 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,920 And usually if you have that going on with these retained primitive reflexes, this is 168 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,520 one of many different things that you're having to compensate for every single day, right? 169 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,320 And then you have the other type of... 170 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Wait, hold on. 171 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:23,320 And before you go into that, I wanted to say that when you understand that this is your 172 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,680 brain profile, so if we just resonated deeply with you, you're the person who has to move 173 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:30,960 or you have a child that has to move, this isn't to shame you. 174 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:36,400 This is to give you that compassion and understanding that, oh, wait, that's just not who you are. 175 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,000 You're not trying to be disruptive. 176 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,120 You're not trying to be that person who has to constantly move. 177 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,320 It's just how your brain's wired. 178 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,440 And there's something you can do about it. 179 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:48,040 So when you listen to the rest of this information, please take that in and know that we're not 180 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,440 trying to create any shame or guilt or anything. 181 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,680 And it's actually really exciting because now you're like, oh, there's something I can 182 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:55,680 do about it. 183 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:58,040 That's what we want to make sure that the podcast explains. 184 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,040 Yeah. 185 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,040 And it helps you have compassion. 186 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,200 We've said this in other episodes, compassion for yourself or compassion for other people 187 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,680 who you see that have this going on, right? 188 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,040 You're like, oh, that's why they're always doing that. 189 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,240 It's not because they don't care about other people. 190 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,080 It's not because they don't want to listen to instructions. 191 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,200 It's just because their brain needs that extra movement, right? 192 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,960 And then you have the opposite, which was me, which is like, and I still struggle with this 193 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,400 to this day, honestly, avoiding movement, right? 194 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,080 So it's the hyper vestibular system. 195 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,440 So your vestibular system, or mine in this case, naturally is just going way faster, 196 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,440 faster, faster. 197 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:34,440 The hairs are going like this. 198 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,240 So any added movement to that is like way too much. 199 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,920 So these are people who are going to avoid movement at all costs. 200 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,440 Like when I was little, I would avoid any, like I would see like a crack in the floor, 201 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,120 like on the sidewalk, then I'd be like, pick me up, pick me up. 202 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,840 Because for me, just going up that tiny little crack as a little two or three year old was 203 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:54,080 like no way, bro. 204 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,560 I cannot deal with this. 205 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:57,320 That's way too high for me, right? 206 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:02,000 Because my vestibular system just wasn't able to understand that that relationship with 207 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 gravity, right? 208 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,280 And so I became the person who was avoiding movement more than seeking it out. 209 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,280 And so that's another compensation though, right? 210 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:14,280 Because then you have to find out, what do I do for my system if I have to avoid movement 211 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,280 all the time? 212 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,360 Do I get out of having to do things in school or with friends or whatever? 213 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,000 We were just talking about how some people will just not go in cars. 214 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 They're just not going to go on a road trip with their friends, right? 215 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,720 Or they're not going to go on a boat or they're not going to go on whatever. 216 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,160 Not that everybody's going on a boat every day, okay? 217 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:36,560 But I'm just saying this is like something that you have to think of extra and any extra 218 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:40,560 movement is going to put that extra kind of stress on your system. 219 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:41,560 Right. 220 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:42,840 And here's something interesting. 221 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,720 I did not have any challenges with my vestibular system. 222 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,960 I was somebody who loved movement and equally could sit still. 223 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,720 I had a very regulated vestibular system. 224 00:11:53,720 --> 00:12:00,040 However, I did not have a regulated or integrated, I should say, moral reflex, which was my fight 225 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,560 or flight reflex. 226 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:06,200 So this is also important because when you're learning about primitive reflex integration, 227 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,600 when you're learning about lower centers of the brain and needing to develop them, you're 228 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,080 not going to hit every single symptom or behavior that's showing up. 229 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,360 You're going to have some things that are more apparent than others. 230 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:24,720 And Paloma just talked about like, as a child, she didn't want to go up a step because it 231 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,280 was too much for her. 232 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:31,080 But there's also probably some underlying of like the ponds, which is the lower center 233 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,640 of the brain that's developing between zero to five months of life when you're on your 234 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,640 belly and you're creeping. 235 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,720 So there's probably some distortion there. 236 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:38,720 Absolutely. 237 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,200 And it's not just like one clear cut, black and white. 238 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:47,840 There's multiple layers happening because I didn't have the sickness or car sickness. 239 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,880 I wasn't the person who, and there's a lot of people, this will probably resonate with 240 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,880 a lot of people when they're in the car. 241 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,440 The further back you are in the car, the more challenging it is for your vestibular system. 242 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,400 So you tend to be the person who likes to drive because then you can predict movements, 243 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,520 you're in control of the movements. 244 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,640 As you move to the passenger seat, okay, now you saw the view of the front, but then the 245 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,480 further back you move, you start to lose that ability to regulate. 246 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:17,080 So this is important because we want to share with you that it's not just a black and white. 247 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,240 There's so many different nuances to this. 248 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,600 This is why we would say to our program because we help walk you through this. 249 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,680 We help you make sense of this because that's a really big part for us is the education 250 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,000 in why do I do what I do? 251 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Exactly. 252 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,600 So if your vestibular system is either hypo or hyper, you could have moments where you're 253 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,080 experiencing the hyper part where you're like, I don't want any movement. 254 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,160 What other stressors are going on in your life? 255 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,360 Or you could be the person who has the hypo and you're like, I need to move, I need to 256 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:46,360 move. 257 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,520 Well, what else is going on in your life? 258 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,960 There's the primitive reflexes, the lower centers of the brain and that subconscious. 259 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:58,640 What's happening underneath the surface to drive you to do certain things? 260 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,760 Once you go back and do these movements, here's the best part, here's the benefit of doing 261 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,840 our program is you can go integrate your morrow, you can go integrate your tonic labyrinth and 262 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,680 reflex, you can integrate the asymmetrical tonic and neck reflex, the symmetrical tonic 263 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,040 neck reflex, the land that we're going to be. 264 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:16,200 Labyrinth and neck reflex, yeah. 265 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,600 Yeah, I missed that one. 266 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:23,720 And integrate all of those and creep because now you're integrating the reflexes and then 267 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:29,320 you get on your belly and start creeping and all of a sudden, whoa, my vestibular system 268 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,960 doesn't have to work harder anymore. 269 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,000 I actually caught myself just sitting. 270 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,840 I don't need to sit in my chair and spin. 271 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,040 I don't need to get up and move. 272 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:43,200 I can sit for longer periods of time and we're never here to say that we're curing anything. 273 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,440 We're just giving your brain what it needs and then amazing things start to happen because 274 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,040 your brain and body want to be in alignment. 275 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,920 They want to have the ease of tackling the day. 276 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:58,400 So the main benefit is you might be coming to us because you're like, oh, my morrow reflex 277 00:14:58,400 --> 00:14:59,400 is on. 278 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,760 I can tell because I'm always in the state of fight or flight. 279 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,120 I can't take feedback. 280 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,400 I always want to control everything. 281 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,200 Then we're like, oh, go do exploiting rocks. 282 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,920 I'm sure how to do that. 283 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,920 And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, but my vestibular system just benefited too. 284 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,080 I'm noticing it here too. 285 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,000 So there's always the overlap there. 286 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Yeah. 287 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,600 And what I was going to say is a lot of people ask us like, what do I do about it? 288 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,680 Like, okay, you shared about the vestibular system. 289 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,440 What should I do about this? 290 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,520 And it's like, I know, I think usually what people are expecting nowadays is like an OT 291 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,720 kind of thing where you're like spinning and you're doing these exercises that are like 292 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,640 to challenge and to kind of exercise the vestibular system. 293 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,800 And those are great. 294 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:39,800 Don't get us wrong. 295 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:40,800 We do them all the time. 296 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,840 Danny has this like little egg that you get in you spin or jumping on the trampoline. 297 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,800 Like there's so many things you can do for the vestibular system. 298 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,200 Also to kind of stimulate it, I would say, maybe not as much development, but in order 299 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,080 to get to the root, you have to integrate the primitive reflexes. 300 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,760 So that's the thing that we always end up sharing. 301 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,880 And I know we always keep coming back to the same thing, but that's because this truly is 302 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:06,520 the foundation for the rest of the brain to be able to process all those extra like vestibular 303 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:07,800 stimulation things. 304 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,480 Because that's when your brain is actually prepared to do it is when the reflexes aren't 305 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:13,480 getting in the way. 306 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,480 The reflex is always going to win is what we're trying to say. 307 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,080 Yeah, the reflex is on. 308 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,480 That's always going to win because that's its job. 309 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,920 And so it's always going to take over everything else. 310 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:25,920 That's what reflexes do. 311 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,280 That's that's it's reflexive, right? 312 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,480 And that's all for all the reflexes, not just the primitive ones, right? 313 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,240 And so that's why we need to you can't or you can try really, really hard to override 314 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,240 it. 315 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,240 And that's the compensations. 316 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,840 And that's a lot of the top down approaches, right? 317 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,280 And so once you get rid of that resistance from the reflex being like, I have to do this. 318 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,560 This is when like just things just get so much easier and you really are able to process 319 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,360 all these other modalities so much better, right? 320 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,360 Yeah. 321 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,160 And you're only as good as your compensation. 322 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:57,840 So if you are somebody who, okay, I know myself, I can feel my nervous system getting 323 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:58,840 dysregulated. 324 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,120 I pop on the social media. 325 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:01,840 Oh, this person has this great technique. 326 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:02,960 I can take deep breaths. 327 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,840 I can go shake out my body and do something somatic or whatever. 328 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,240 It'll work for a bit until you have too many stressors. 329 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,600 And that's what our program is designed to do is to take you further beyond that because 330 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,760 if you have a developed vestibular system, which we can tell immediately if you do or 331 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,080 not, by the way, if you want to know more about that, let us know. 332 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,880 And if you have your reflexes that aren't developed and if you have the lower centers 333 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:29,720 of the brain that aren't doing or sorry, primitive reflexes that are not integrated and the lower 334 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,200 centers of the brain that are not developed, then you will get to a point if you have too 335 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,880 many stressors at once, it'll explode. 336 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,760 Yes, I can speak to this so well because I know that once we started doing our program 337 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:50,200 regularly for 20 minutes a day, I was like, Oh my gosh, my overstimulation has totally 338 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,200 chilled out. 339 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,120 My son does not trigger me like he used to. 340 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,560 I actually can hold regulation and show my kids what that looks like without having to 341 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:58,720 effort. 342 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,720 That's the key part. 343 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,720 There you go. 344 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:01,720 That's it. 345 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:06,720 And here's the main thing is you'll have life experiences that these reflexes, you'll 346 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,920 have life experiences that these lower centers of the brain are designed like Paloma said 347 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,200 to do a job to keep you alive. 348 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,800 That's their job, right? 349 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,640 So you can integrate, you can develop and they all lie dormant. 350 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,960 And then maybe you have a really big environment, a big experience of a car accident, a big 351 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,920 move and multiple stressors happening at once. 352 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,400 Some PTSD stuff we hear about all the time. 353 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,680 The reflexes come back on. 354 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,760 The development of the lower brain goes, Oh, it's time to do my job survival mode engaged. 355 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,360 And then you're back to acting like that. 356 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,720 And so we share you have to keep doing this. 357 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,000 This is a lifestyle. 358 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,120 You're going to have stressors in today's world. 359 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:49,600 We no longer live nearly enough time in our parasympathetic system, which is the rest 360 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:50,600 of the jazz. 361 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,520 We are constantly in the sympathetic state of fight, flight, freeze, things are coming 362 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,000 at us constantly because of technology, because life is just so much faster than it's ever 363 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 been. 364 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Absolutely. 365 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:09,400 And so we have to regulate it is like a human right to get on the floor and your system. 366 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,600 It's why we were designed to do it in the first place, right? 367 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,240 Like no one ever taught a baby to crawl. 368 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,960 Maybe just know to do it, right? 369 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:17,920 So we need to go back to that. 370 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,360 And that's just our belief system anyways. 371 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:21,840 So yeah, 100%. 372 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:28,040 And then that's when, when people truly start to see the life change, their life change 373 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,640 is when they truly commit to just being like, this is another thing that I do. 374 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,600 It's just the thing that I do for my nervous system. 375 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:35,920 And each person is going to be different, right? 376 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,600 Like you do, you have to do it every day. 377 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,000 I don't have to do it every day, right? 378 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,200 You have way more stuff is out going on in your day to day life with your family and 379 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,200 everything. 380 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,840 And I'm, you know, not, I don't. 381 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,160 So, you know, it also depends on each person's brain. 382 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,040 And like you said, you're more wired for movement from the beginning. 383 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,960 Like that's just your brain and I'm not. 384 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,280 So it's also different. 385 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,960 And so I think that's the cool part. 386 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,640 And a lot of people will come, come to us. 387 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,520 I wanted to say that earlier when they're like, Oh, I used to have like car sickness and a 388 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,840 lot of vestibular challenges when I was little. 389 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,800 And then they went away because I did this thing. 390 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:06,800 And now they're back. 391 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,880 And I'm like, okay, so what's going on in your life? 392 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,880 Big move to be huge breakup, just had a kid, you know, whatever it might be new job, whatever 393 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,280 it is and all these things. 394 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,080 And that's a sign of your compensations wearing away. 395 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Yeah. 396 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,360 We should even do a whole episode on that because compensations, like we get, we just get so 397 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:28,520 used to them that when they start to go away, cause there's so much going on our plate that 398 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,360 our bandwidth gets really small. 399 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:31,720 That's when we're like, what's going on? 400 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,280 Like why am I feeling this way again? 401 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,320 Because we do think sometimes I think we all as humans have a tendency to think that a 402 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,800 lot of these things that we do for our life and for our brain for our wellbeing are kind 403 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,280 of like a one and done, right? 404 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,280 Check it off the list. 405 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,280 Okay, I'm good. 406 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,280 Never going to have that again. 407 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,040 And that's just not the way that the body works, especially when it comes to these things. 408 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040 And we say this all the time. 409 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,240 It's like going to the gym. 410 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,520 If you're expecting to do five pushups and then you have that muscle forever, that's 411 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,520 not going to happen. 412 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,520 Right? 413 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,560 And you have to continually keep going. 414 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,960 And yeah, that's the cool part about the, about the program. 415 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:04,960 And you know what? 416 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,920 If you have a job, so there's a lot, we work with vets too, who've been in combat, they've 417 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:15,040 done tours a lot of times when you come back from that, the adjustment period is huge. 418 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,960 And so needing to integrate your reflexes again and develop the brain again is really 419 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,080 critical. 420 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,000 Or if you have a job, if you're a police officer, I was just talking to my friend who her husband 421 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,440 is a police officer. 422 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,720 And if you think about that job, that is literally everyday survival. 423 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,440 You're walking into something you have unknowns every single second. 424 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,840 And we, we back the blue here by the side. 425 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,080 Because society needs that, right? 426 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,760 It's society needs some sort of coherence going on and like, okay, we understand where 427 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,760 we have accountability. 428 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:50,240 Anyways, but the police officers, every single day you're walking into something where you 429 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,960 just don't know what's going on. 430 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,280 Teenagers, hormonal teenagers. 431 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,920 Oh my gosh, the pruning process of the brain that's happening at that stage of life is 432 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:00,920 so insanely. 433 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,920 So much. 434 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,520 It, yeah, it's just so much is happening. 435 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,000 You're literally preparing yourself to walk out into the world on your own. 436 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,560 So that's why these risk behaviors we're seeing in teenagers, there's no actual, like there's 437 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,720 no remorse, I'm saying no remorse happening. 438 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,520 And then we're also seeing that they just have no insight that like, there's actually 439 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,000 like consequences, right? 440 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,200 And then once the consequences hit, they're still just like, meh, whatever. 441 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,520 It's because that's what the brain is supposed to be doing right now. 442 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,520 It's a bit to do then. 443 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,520 Yeah. 444 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,840 Be fearless and like, okay, it's my turn to go like, leave the world and go beyond my 445 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,880 own and be not, and be fearless, right? 446 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,760 And so we're seeing so much of that. 447 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,440 And then now we couple it with the even a screen time our kids are on. 448 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,280 I mean, it's a lot. 449 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,040 And it's not saying that we should be fearful of all these things. 450 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,760 It's just saying, we need to have a strategy in place. 451 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:51,760 We need to have. 452 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,760 What are we going to do about it? 453 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:53,760 Help. 454 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:54,760 Yeah. 455 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:55,760 Absolutely. 456 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,760 How do we help? 457 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,760 And so this is why we say our program can go into any facility, any organization, and 458 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,080 we are in schools right now, which is so cool. 459 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,920 And really help kids learn how to regulate. 460 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,320 On that note, the next major sensory system is the proprioceptive system. 461 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,920 And this one is so subtle yet so huge. 462 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,560 It's your innate sense of where you are in space. 463 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,840 It is literally knowing where are my feet without having to think where are my feet? 464 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,200 It's just right going. 465 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:28,240 And so a good way to know if you have a proprioceptive challenge is just if you have to tap your 466 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,240 feet a lot. 467 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,760 If you're someone who has to tap a pen, if you're someone who just leans on things, 468 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,760 if you're a space invader, you're constantly so close in people's faces, you'll always 469 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:43,360 know when you're walking constantly crashing into walls. 470 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:50,160 If you're working with kids, they pet the dog or cat too hard, pull its tail, they chew 471 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:56,920 on things, oh my gosh, the chewing on the chewing chewing on the strings, the nail biting, because 472 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,400 the proprioceptive system is throughout the entire body. 473 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,560 It's in every joint, tendon and muscle. 474 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,920 And so anytime you activate it chewing, that's in the jaw, right? 475 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,440 So anytime you chew on it, you're activating the proprioceptors in the jaw. 476 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,720 That's why a lot of people clench their jaws, right? 477 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,320 They have TMJ because they're so stressed out. 478 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,120 And then they're also giving that brain like, okay, there's some feedback input because 479 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:23,640 anytime you give the input, it gives the brain like a, okay, there you are, I got it. 480 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,800 And this is a very unconscious system that should be working automatically. 481 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,840 You don't want to have to think about where are my feet because if you think about how 482 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,120 unnerving that would be to be like, I can't feel my feet automatically and I have to tap 483 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:42,840 them to keep track of where they are, then your mind is constantly preoccupied with where's 484 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,960 my body, right? 485 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,240 Can we see this with kids all the time because they're so, they don't have the compensations 486 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,680 as well worked out. 487 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:51,680 They're crashing it. 488 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,440 We have the overt kiddos who are crashing into walls and exactly. 489 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,960 Or you have the really subtle ones that are just like, you know, wearing sweatshirts to 490 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,200 like help give themselves that proprioception, even though it's a million degrees outside, 491 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,880 they're like, I got to wear a sweatshirt because it gives me that safety of for the super tight 492 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,360 shoelaces where parents are like, why are you doing, you know what I mean? 493 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:14,360 Like, why are you doing that? 494 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:15,360 You're too so tight. 495 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:16,360 Yeah. 496 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:22,720 And so this is where the proprioceptive system, again, it's back to primitive reflexes, lower 497 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:27,880 centers of the brain, certain reflexes like the morrow, the rooting, the suck, the palm 498 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,880 or the planter and the gallant reflex are all connected to that proprioceptive system. 499 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,320 So if any of those reflexes are not integrated, then that means that proprioceptive system 500 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,600 has to work harder. 501 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,000 It's not automatically functioning how it's intended to. 502 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,960 And so you also have different ways of of of seeing the proprioceptive challenges where 503 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,120 it's either over or underactive, right? 504 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:54,640 So some people will crave kind of like the tight shoelaces, the tight hugs, the tight 505 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,800 shirt, like clothes in general, right? 506 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,200 They just want like that kind of stuff and they really seek out that extra strong or 507 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,680 like what like massage is like super deep tissue, right? 508 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,880 And some people are the opposite where they're just avoidant. 509 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,520 So like any even the lightest touch, they're like, oh, get away from me, right? 510 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,400 Or tags, that's what that's where tags come in. 511 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,480 I used to be a big tag person. 512 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,480 Yeah. 513 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,680 Anything with like hair or socks, like the seams on what you're wearing. 514 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,960 We talk a lot about clothes because that's what's in closest contact with our with our 515 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:24,960 skin, right? 516 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,960 Obviously. 517 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,400 But that's also another way of noticing like which one am I, right? 518 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,480 But once again, the way to address it, you can do all the brushing therapies you want. 519 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,040 You can do all the stimulation that you want. 520 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,160 But the one thing that's truly going to get you to be able to process those and stimulate 521 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,160 the proprioceptive is integrating these reflexes that we just talked about. 522 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,120 And that's once again part of the program, but it really is the same thing with all of 523 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,120 these, right? 524 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:52,440 It's you got to get to the root of it first. 525 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,440 Every time. 526 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,640 And I can tell you with my daughter who's four years old, she's doing her brain work 527 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,640 daily. 528 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,640 I can brush her hair. 529 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,840 And it's not like, oh mom, you're pulling my hair out. 530 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,760 When she stops doing her brain work because she's in a little bit of a phase right now 531 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,480 and I'm really working on myself. 532 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,680 I'm working on the regulations. 533 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,120 So there's, you got it. 534 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,400 Mommy's got to do mommy first. 535 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,640 I can tell she hasn't done it for a minute. 536 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,840 And all of a sudden it's so painful to brush her hair and it's always connected. 537 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,960 And so, you know, and you think about kids like think about how much a child learns a 538 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,280 day and think about how much information we take on a day. 539 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,480 It's overwhelming for our systems. 540 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:34,560 So it's so quick that our brains can pop out of that regulated state. 541 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,960 And that's why nervous system regulation should be like as important as brushing your teeth, 542 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:40,960 you know, every day. 543 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:41,960 Wow. 544 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Yeah. 545 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,960 100%. 546 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,960 I love that. 547 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:45,960 Yeah. 548 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:46,960 For real. 549 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,960 And what other things? 550 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,240 So the proprioceptive and the vestibular system, we see massive changes. 551 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:56,360 We can actually, a really fun exercise we do when we have sessions, we ask the kids to 552 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:00,920 close their eyes and we walk you through an exercise so the parents can actually see how 553 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,440 they're processing their proprioceptive system and we call out body parts and the kids have 554 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,920 to touch their body parts and there'll be times when we'll say, okay, touch your shoulders. 555 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,840 And then they'll like have this like confused look on their face and we encourage like, 556 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:14,840 you're doing great. 557 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:15,840 You're doing great. 558 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,200 And if you're curious on doing this with your kid, we have a whole process to walk you 559 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,880 through in our program. 560 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,160 And then they'll touch like their hips and you're doing awesome. 561 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,720 And the parents faces are just like, oh my gosh, they have no idea where their body is. 562 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,640 And they're like, no wonder they're constantly needing hugs and clinging on to me because 563 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,640 they have no grounding. 564 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,840 They have no sense of where they are in space. 565 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,640 And it's such a unnerving feeling to not be grounded. 566 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,640 Totally. 567 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:43,640 It's so disorienting. 568 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,240 I mean, where am I? 569 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,240 How am I supposed to operate? 570 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,800 Do anything if I don't know where I am in space? 571 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,800 That's horrible. 572 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:50,800 Yeah, it's crazy. 573 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,800 Yeah. 574 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,680 So another main sensory system is our auditory processing, right? 575 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,040 That's all of listening. 576 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:03,440 And again, all the cues that come in how many times have you seen an adult or a little different, 577 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,840 they can handle it differently. 578 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,520 But nowadays, I don't know if you notice how many people are walking around with air buds. 579 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,720 Like is that what they're called? 580 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,720 Air pods? 581 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:11,720 I don't even know. 582 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,720 Constantly. 583 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,600 They're just always in their ears. 584 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,000 Like anything they're doing. 585 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,080 And it's like that white noise. 586 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,080 Yes. 587 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,640 Because my son does this too. 588 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,680 He makes his own white noise where he always has to have something going because every other 589 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,440 sound is overwhelming. 590 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,480 I see people cover their ears when they, like especially kids in bathrooms when like the 591 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,240 flushing of the toilet goes on, they like are terrified. 592 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,760 They cover their ears or the sound of a blender or a vacuum is too much for them. 593 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,040 It's because that input is coming in louder than it should. 594 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,520 And from a survival standpoint, that's great to be able to hear what's happening around 595 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,520 you. 596 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,520 You can hear everything. 597 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,520 Exactly. 598 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,520 It'll help keep you alive. 599 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,600 But think about how overwhelming that is when you don't need to be in survival mode. 600 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:53,600 Exactly. 601 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,160 It's coming in way too loud. 602 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,160 So the auditory processing. 603 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,160 And it's similar. 604 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,160 Yeah. 605 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,160 Yeah. 606 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,000 And it's in the auditory is the morrow, the TLR, the galant and the ATNR. 607 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:10,480 And the visual is very similar in the sense that if you're, if you want to survive, right? 608 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,160 If you are in a survival situation, you want your eyes to be able to like focus in on whatever 609 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:20,320 is going on and be hyper aware of everything that you can do to survive. 610 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,720 But if you're not, and this is very, very common with the morrow, I see this, we've seen 611 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:31,800 this millions of times at the morrow is you become more sensitive to certain visual inputs, 612 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,440 especially light. 613 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,680 And so this is an example that I had for my dad and he's okay with me sharing this. 614 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,560 He, before he did the program, he always wanted everything to be very dim light. 615 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:43,560 Right? 616 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,040 I mean, I'm not a fan of overhead light and I know you aren't either. 617 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,680 Like we all like a nice little like moody lighting, but he literally like his room was 618 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,840 super dark, his apartment was super dark, like the kitchen, everything. 619 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,200 And I remember when I would go in there and be like, can you see anything? 620 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,200 Like, are you here? 621 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,200 And he's like, yeah, I'm fine. 622 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,200 What are you talking about? 623 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,840 Like, okay, whatever, no big deal. 624 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:03,840 He did the program. 625 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,800 And then one day he put it in our accountability chat. 626 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,320 He was like, I'm noticing that I'm like opening the windows more. 627 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,600 I changed the light bulb so I can see, see more things. 628 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,760 And I'm not like avoiding light as much. 629 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,400 And that also goes hand in hand with him wanting to even like go places more often and like 630 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000 do more things because there's light everywhere, right? 631 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000 And it's always unpredictable. 632 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,840 Like we always talk about the, the horrible fluorescent lights and like target and all 633 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,640 these big stores. 634 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,240 That's the kind of stuff that he had trained himself to avoid. 635 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,720 And now he's like, I don't care anymore. 636 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,040 Like I can have as much light as, you know, I need and I'm okay with that. 637 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:41,280 So that's one of those little things where it comes, you don't notice how much you've 638 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,120 been avoiding something until it changes. 639 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,680 And you're like, oh, that's very interesting. 640 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,680 Oh my gosh. 641 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,720 I love when we get to see people go through our program and the changes they experience 642 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,000 because oftentimes it's so subtle. 643 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,800 And again, we're not looking for the positive. 644 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,800 That's why so many people have a hard time talking about the positive benefits because 645 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,280 they're like, I'm still focused on the negative thing that's still disrupting my life. 646 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,280 Right. 647 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,920 But there's so many positive, one of our members in the cortex accountability group just said, 648 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,760 I can play video games with my children better because I can actually stay on. 649 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,520 I don't feel overwhelmed by all the visual things happening on the video. 650 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,600 Like at me call my system down to blank super Mario and I was like, look at you. 651 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,120 I mean, that's rad that you can actually see those changes. 652 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,480 But a hundred percent there's people who don't understand why they don't like going into 653 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,440 big box stores because the overheld fluorescent. 654 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,880 But get this, what do all schools put into their? 655 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,680 I know, I know, they're all fluorescent lights, right? 656 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,320 There are some teachers who are awesome and they like drape covers over their lights to 657 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,920 help dim it and change the coloring. 658 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:46,360 But also not only is that it's the nervous system is the reflexes being triggered. 659 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:53,240 And then also it's shifting like our circadian rhythms to exactly all the new like few energy 660 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,980 efficient lights are the wrong color. 661 00:32:55,980 --> 00:33:00,680 And so then it's tricking right up and away because it's a blue light. 662 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:01,680 And so that's yeah. 663 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,680 And that's yeah. 664 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,200 And that's why people have to seek out these like natural light lamps and stuff. 665 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,240 You know, like what are they called? 666 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,880 I think they're even called like circadian rhythm lamps or something like that. 667 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,800 Where I'm not getting that from my regular day to day environment. 668 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,840 So I have to seek it out somewhere else. 669 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,800 And that's part of what we're talking about. 670 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,440 That's one of the things it's adding and adding and adding to our overwhelm and our over stimulation 671 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,000 in our day to day lives. 672 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,720 And I mean, I think we've talked about a lot of stuff today. 673 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,200 I hope it wasn't overwhelming speaking of overwhelm. 674 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,120 But you know, this is this is really the core of what we're what we're doing in our program 675 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,920 is helping those senses work with your brain instead of against it, right? 676 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,320 And it's it's at the end of the day. 677 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,400 That's what we all want is to be able to just, you know, have a peaceful like what we were 678 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,160 saying earlier, like people that have a more organized brain just have more peaceful life. 679 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,160 They can flow more easily. 680 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,680 And that's what we all want. 681 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:56,680 It is. 682 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,680 And yeah. 683 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,000 And honestly, if you can learn about the sensory systems and how big of a role they have and 684 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,720 then knowing that you have movements that can help them integrate and do what they're 685 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,360 supposed to do automatically. 686 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,680 Just to keep automatically. 687 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,560 You then cannot you don't have to work as hard. 688 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:12,560 You don't have to compensate. 689 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,760 You don't have to avoid so much in life and you can actually live your more authentic 690 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,760 version. 691 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:22,600 So that's the big part here is we just want to educate and share more and help you understand 692 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,040 why you do what you do. 693 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,440 And then there's something you can do about it. 694 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,400 And then all the amazing, the cool changes that people talk about in our program when 695 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,200 they share all the things you're shifting for them. 696 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,400 It's just like, yes, it's so true. 697 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,720 You can live an easier life. 698 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:37,520 Is it going to be easy? 699 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,800 No, but easier is the key. 700 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,760 So thank you for being here today and listening to us and plum is going to end it with her 701 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,760 amazing. 702 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:44,760 Thanks. 703 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,920 2024, you will do it. 704 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,400 Okay, you're going to do the thing. 705 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,400 Okay. 706 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:50,400 I read. 707 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,400 Here's El Spillo. 708 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:56,920 Um, tick tock in underscore the underscore cortex Instagram in the cortex underscore 709 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:57,920 us. 710 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,840 Instagram and Spanish into the cortex underscore ESP. 711 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,400 We're still working on that one by the way. 712 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,400 Let's get it up there. 713 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,840 Facebook in the cortex us, um, YouTube in the cortex us. 714 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,600 We already know it now. 715 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,800 And our email is hello it in the cortex.com. 716 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,080 Our website is in the cortex.com. 717 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,080 Okay. 718 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,080 It's a lot. 719 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:23,360 Um, and yeah, Paloma did just translate the entire program into Spanish. 720 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,360 So we're going to be like rolling that out really soon. 721 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,880 We're rolling out very soon. 722 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:27,880 We're very excited. 723 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,880 I'm in Mexico. 724 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,160 I'm going to start getting some in person stuff going. 725 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,920 It's going to be amazing. 726 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:38,120 And we, remember if you sign up today, you can use well today or tomorrow or, you know, 727 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:43,400 in the near future, hopefully, um, you can use promo code brainiac to get 10 bucks off 728 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,440 your first, uh, payment of our program. 729 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,280 And remember you pay for 12 months and then you have lifetime access. 730 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,600 It's not a members you have to sign back up for. 731 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,600 It's just a super long payment plan. 732 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:54,840 That's it. 733 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,440 Because we want you here for life. 734 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:57,440 All right. 735 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,440 Time access for everybody. 736 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,200 Thank you so much. 737 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:05,640 Have an amazing rest of your day and don't forget to subscribe and give us a good rating 738 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,280 if you like this podcast because it means a lot to us. 739 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,280 Thank you. 740 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:11,280 Spreading the word. 741 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,280 All right. 742 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,280 We'll see you next time. 743 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:41,380 Hey, next time.