Kids Beyond Limits: The Anat Baniel Method for Awakening the Brain and Transforming the Life of Your Child With Special Needs

by Anat Baniel

The child’s ability to notice differences in what she sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels in her moving body is at the heart of the brain’s capacity for creating new neuroconnections and pathways.

Research shows that movement done automatically creates little or no new connections in the brain. What it does do is reinforce or groove in the existing patterns more deeply—including the patterns we want to change. On the other hand, when attention is brought to movement, the brain creates new connections and possibilities at an incredibly rapid rate.