sabato 31 gennaio 2009

what's new with...brain-body language?

LANGUAGE is the first thing we meet in our BRAIN


LANGUAGE is the first thing we meet in our BRAIN, when we are still unborn, incomplete, and defenceless in mother’s womb.

As soon as the basic neuronal cellules gather in “active unities” they do as our computer does when it is not well connected with internet which means they “try to access” the outer world by their own means.

The “ENTITY” brain-body is a bundle of nerves, of high-voltage contacts, that has a unique aim: get as many information as possible of the environmental situation in order to develop best possibilities of contact-feedback, to improve its positive growth, and to reach the highest “scores” of survival mission.

Why do we love music and rhythm? Of course because it reminds our mother’s voice and heartbeat.

Mother’s voice vibrates in foetus ear, and reaches its brain with a strong solicitation of other neurons related to senses and feelings: when mum’s happy she sings, and releases relaxing chemical particles, that reach the baby… singing, therefore, is good.

When she is angry and shouts, adrenaline is high, and tenses the nerves, which is not good.
“Singing is good feeling and attitude, shouting is bad feeling and attitude. Got it.”

Other sounds, all sorts of sounds, come to us from inside the womb, and the forming-baby listens to them during all its “in-life” long, until it will be born.

However, the brain feels the difference: mother’s voice and her body-sounds are stronger and nearer to the ear for inner vibrations, the outside sounds and voices are feeble and less clear because they vibrate less sharply…
“That’s strange… there must be a reason for that difference…I’ll check out later”

There’s the predisposition of the brain to a new program: check the difference.
It’ll lead the brain, months later the birth to investigate between the separation of this now still unique ENTITY “mother-me-world

As soon as the brain reaches a stationary level of physical development, it is almost complete to reach upper levels such as: comprehension and communication.

The baby’s brain tries to “UNDERSTAND” what the sounds mean, because they often are ASSOCIATED with same situations… thus association might be the first intentional brain development action.

The next step of association will be … IMITATION which is to: “ associate my behaviour to yours”.
So the baby is now “prepared” to IMITATE , but it cannot do it there, all alone in that mild low-lighted atmosphere of the womb.

The real game will be outside the womb: communicate with OTHER.
(“other” means everything that is not ME, even light, air, people and objects, everything).

Of course, before the “entity brain-body” MEETS language, it will meet other challenges, but meeting implies the ABILITY of ACCEPTING and face the OTHER.
Later even mother will be other!

So when the brain WANTS to understand, it’s of course, a natural route towards self-acceptance… there’s the first moment of LIFE (as feeling alive).

Danielle Grand-Homme.

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