By Dennis Bartram In ancient times, technological advances were not supported by science. The evidence of these skills were in the hands of the doers, craftsmen and artisans. Many skills were honed to high levels of expertise without the formal education that is emphasized today. This was achieved through using whole brain pattern recognition more than biased left-brain analytic methods. Logic brain thinking dominates modern society as we live in a world of computers and monitoring of information. The left hemisphere of the brain processes logic thought and is linear and organized in its thinking mode. The right hemisphere is credited with being spatial, imaginative and intuitive. When the two hemispheres integrate we become well organized both in thought and movement. Our earliest brain was the limbic brain formerly known as the Rhin Encephalon or nose brain. This ancient brain functioned out of instincts and unlearned behavioural patterns. Pre-learned and instinctual behaviors would elicit physiological body patterns as a protective survival strategy. Physiology elicits chemical change and this obviously stimulates body functions and specific areas of the brain. When people become stressed or use either hemisphere of the brain dominantly, the brain desynchronizes and becomes imbalanced. This results in a lack of integration in the brain producing energy and co ordination disturbances which can produce symptoms of lack of concentration and lowered energy states. Most exercise forms are ipsilateral or use only one side of the body with a bias of muscle activity. Golf, tennis and snooker are examples of a one sided activity. Even more one-sided forms of exercise emphasize muscle activity to the point of specialization or bias leading to strain. Dr. Hatsumis training in Tai Jutsu (natural movement) integrates the brains neural pathways to work as a triune brain. This produces a natural physiology and a balanced chemistry.. With a triune brain mentality, our physiology is coupled with instincts intelligence and logic. Hatsumi describes this body feeling as SHIN SHIN SHIN GATA. To see with the eyes and heart of God (Nature). In ancient times, the instinctual brain would elicit natural movement behaviour in keeping with the ecology of the environment and the need for survival. Ancient man needed to be a predator but all the time aware he could be predated on. SHIN SHIN SHIN GATA
(Seeing with the eyes and Heart of Nature) The very essence of Dr Hatsumis budo training is Tai Jutsu. It is more than body movement applied to a task. Its feeling becomes a synesthesia of the senses expressed through the body as a FEEL experience. Shin Gi Tai Ichi is an ancient concept of forging together your technique, spirit and heart into your movement behaviour. This think, act and do process connects the human mind and nature. Discovery is a connection between the human mind and nature Soto p49, (When teaching becomes learning). Hatsumi teaches in a multi dimensional style expressing that knowledge is absorbed and you should become like a child and discover new things with curiosity. Seeing, walking and acting are all interconnected in one proprioreceptive feel. Children act predominantly with a right brain mentality and include speech and actions into one complex physiological function, directed towards the solution of the problem at hand. Children also exhibit a rise in Alpha brain wave production, which is associated with relaxation. A childs imagination plays a big part in linking ideas and memory. This childlike curiosity and involvement of a task with play is also thought to be linked to our limbic system to connect instinctual behaviour to rational thought. A Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget made a study of childrens intellectual development. His findings show that up until the age of ten or eleven a large proportion of European children believed that the mind extended into the spatial world around them. Dr Hatsumi describes this spatial extended sense as Saaki and the natural movement principles he teaches develop this sense. As adults we often need to reconnect with this innate and natural sense. Natural movement is how the body forms itself. As we grow, develop and explore we are constantly organising and re organising ourselves motorically and cognitively to keep in form. Our cognitive and spatial awareness has to extend beyond the body. In this way the eyes, ears and nose act as extero-receptors. Information coming to our sense organs allows us to interpret or translate vibrations of sound, sight and smell into a sense with feeling. Children naturally express this primitive trait up to the age of eleven when their conditioning adapted to what Piaget described as the correct view where images and thoughts are believed to be situated in the head. Physiologists now believe that most learning also involves an interaction between our old and new brains in the limbic system. Because of its link to emotions, many scientists have increasingly come to the conclusion that the key to more effective learning may lie in the limbic system. Imagination and emotion are the most effective way to elicit retention, attention and memory of an experience. When the five representational systems namely: sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch are integrated the body-mind can animate, activate and associate with an experience, on all levels of intelligence. This synesthesia of the senses develops the proprioceptive feel in the body that Dr Hatsumi talks about. Westerners tend to bias towards left-brain involvement to learn sequentially and problem solve with logic. This mode of thought can cause a desychronisation of the brains cerebral hemispheres. In the 1970s a psychiatrist called Dr John Diamond researched the effects of stress factors on the brain and the physiology. He used kinesiological muscle testing as the method of communication for the body to express its response to environmental factors. The basis of the study showed that the brains response to a stress factor was a shift in its balance. This response is known as desychronisation and affects both the body and the mind. His research demonstrates that when desychronisation occurs as a response to a stress a previously intact muscle when pressure tested becomes weak. The study of kinesiology shows that a muscle weakness can indicate the presence of a pathological process in its corresponding organ. This is corroborated by diagnosis through acupuncture and physical or laboratory examination. (Hawkins, D. Power vs. Force p57, 2002). In isolation, the left-brain is a TRY brain and lacks the holistic or imaginative view of the right brain. When people TRY too hard to learn this has the opposite effect and imbalances the synchronisation of the force flow of energy needed for the minds functioning. Learning should incorporate both the left and right hemispheres together with the involvement of the senses. This approach makes a greater impression in the mind, which results in a better ability for recall. In the study of long term memory and recall visualisation has proved to be a powerful method for recall. A picture has been demonstrated to have an impact of more than sixty times a spoken word. This fact is exploited widely in the advertising of products in magazines or on television. We need to understand the learning process as a skill in itself. The brain has an infinite capacity to learn and expand. Using the brain stimulates growth in the same way as a muscle. Every time we visualise the ability to visualise expands. Bernice McCarthy an educational researcher is of the opinion that the majority of students start off right brain dominant, yet the majority of teachers direct teaching to left-brain assimilation. How do we gain a better method for learning? We need to understand that people have preferred learning styles based on brain bias and dominant representational systems. Intelligence is measured via the I.Q. system. This evaluative method was devised to bring a parity of opportunity between the rich and poor in France. Entrance to learning establishments was based on the ability of a child to demonstrate competence with mathematics and language comprehension instead of wealth being the deciding factor for selection into schools. The human has multiple intelligences that include linguistic, musical, logical mathematical, spatial, kinaesthetic and personal. Utilising these intelligences allows a person to function on a multi level awareness of problem solving or discovery. The creative brain is described by Thomas G. West, (In the Minds Eye p 27,) as linking an image to visual imagination. This is a non-verbal process and incorporates primarily visual and spatial elements as a manifestation of a single mode of thought. It also includes pattern recognition and creative problem solving. Curiously enough, these traits are often associated with Dyslexia. This approach to mental awareness sorts information differently to a left-brain approach. Its predominant consideration is to concentrate primarily on similarities and only secondarily with the differences. December 2005 --- Copyright Dennis Bartram --- Page 6 of 30 --- Working in the Space --- He granted them full teaching rights of the ancient school of Hi Chi Bu Ku Goshin Jutsu. Throughout its 2000 year old history its principles and secrets were handed down from Master to pupil. After decades of preparation studying the martial art aspects, the oriental medicine philosophy and osteopathic principles, under his guidance they were acknowledged as MASTERS OF THIS UNIQUE SYSTEM
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