Mid Brain Activation
Mr. Makoto Shichida was the founder of Mid Brain Activation. He was a professor in Japan. He spent more than 40yrs to derive the method of MID Brain Activation. He received noble price for peace in 1998. Mid brain is situated below the cerebral cortex and above the hindbrain between left brain and right brain. It balances the function of left brain and right brain. Mid Brain controls important functions of the body like vision, hearing, auditory and motor skills.
Mid Brain Activation allows whole brain to be utilized instead of one part of the brain. Whole utilization of brain helps children to develop imagination and visualization power. It makes him emotionally strong. After activation child can identify colors, numbers, pictures etc. With closed eyes by using his/her other senses.
How Mid Brain Activation works, its benefits and needs :
- Mid Brain is activated by performing various kinds of body movements which is called Brain gym exercise. This exercise stimulates the mid brain neurons. After stimulation brain becomes sharper and thinking ability becomes quicker.
- Apart from that pineal gland is stimulated by brain activation music. Activated gland secrets hormones like serotonin and melatonin. Melatonin increases in the dark and decreases in the bright. So, child can see in the dark. Serotonin enhances the capacity of right brain. So, Imagination and creativity of child increase.
- During the age between 6 to 14 years child is in learning stage. If Midbrain is activated during this stage it helps child in unlocking his/her hidden potentialities. Mid Bran Activation removes the communication gap between left and right brain which leads to more efficiency in learning and absorbing information.
- With the activation of Mid Brain, right brain becomes more functional and enhances EQ and CQ of child. After going through Mid Brain Activation program child will definitely feel tremendous changes in his inner and outer personality. Mid Brain Activation retrieve other senses of child and make them efficient.
Procedure for Mid Brain Activation :
Mind Brain Activation is conducted in two full day workshop. Content is parted in two days. Different kind of interesting activities like dance, puzzles, brain gym, eye ball, and blindfold are done in two days workshop. Session starts with prayer and introduction and concluded with blindfold activity in the last. Brain gym exercise is very important in the session. It is followed two times in each session. It plays a major role in mid brain activation.
There are various slide of dance, puzzles, math questions and spot difference which are run to increase energy level of child and to improve observation power. To energize children after break games like musical chair, dumps raj etc are played. Any game can be played.
- At the end of the first day session blindfold activity is performed to observe improvement in child. In blindfold activity child�s eyes are covered with blindfold and different kind of cards is shown to child. She/he identifies color, pictures, numbers, and words etc. present on the cards.
- Child follows the nine steps of identification and identifies the cards. She/he uses his other senses such as olfactory, touch, hearing in nine steps. After these children who perform well are trained for the next level and who don�t get activated are motivated to repeat the same tasks.
- In next day session we repeat brain gym, eye ball and blindfold activities. No of puzzles and mathematical questions are included in next day session to measure IQ and AQ level of child.
- After the end of next day session we meet the parents of child and discuss about two day workshop. We counsel them about the importance of brain activation.
- Parents are advised to regularly follow the activities being performed in two day work shop for steady growth of children. Regular follow up of parents should be maintained.
Benefits of midbrain activation training: 1) Improves creativity and imagination. 2) Enhance concentration. 3) Improves Memory. 4) Enhance self-confidence. 5) Enhance absorption capabilities. 6) Emotional stability. 7) Left and right brain balancing. 8) Children are able to read anything with closed eyes like color of card & color identify read newspaper, hurdle crossing, balancing the use of conscious and sub-conscious mind.