THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE LEARNING BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM
The Learning Breakthrough Program is unique.
A remarkable thing happens, if you stand precisely centered and balanced on the Belgau Balance Board and throw and catch a beanbag in various ways for ten to fifteen minutes. In most instances, you will read from ten to twenty percent faster, your mouth and lips will move more flexibly, your eyes will scan the page more efficiently, and you will comprehend what you read better. You will experience a marked improvement in your visual acuity and the binocular teaming of your two eyes. You will also probably increase the span of your auditory memory. An individual with an attention deficit will be able to attend to his or her work for a longer period after doing the activity. If you do activities on the Belgau Balance Board consistently over a twelve to twenty-four week period, you will observe a marked improvement in your reading efficiency and other academic activities, as well as an improvement in the abilities needed to perform in sports and to accomplish other physical tasks. All of these processes will improve because with these activities, you will have increased the efficiency of the neural networks of your brain. You will also have improved the neural networks that connect the various brain structures and facilitate the integration of and communication between the many different parts of your brain.
Your brain is made up of many neural network systems. Successfully completing different activities involves enlisting and coordinating these systems in various configurations. For example, eye-hand coordination involves the visual and the motor neural networks as well as the neural networks involved in balancing and focusing your body on the task. Timing is critical to integrating and coordinating the various systems. The acceleration of gravity is the fundamental reference for your brain to use as a baseline in developing your standards for measuring time, space, and energy. The acceleration of gravity and the unchanging direction of the force of gravity also is important in allowing your brain to develop a three dimensional sense of direction in space. Your brain is constantly recalibrating and reorganizing in order to operate more efficiently. The acceleration of gravity serves as the standard reference for all time, space, and energy calibrations and is the common denominator for the integration of all of the various sensory and motor processes. The resolution of this three dimensional structure is a key factor in determining the limits of your intelligence. The level of your ability to measure and relate to gravity can be visually measured by observing your sense of balance. Thus, it makes sense that you can work in the opposite direction – improve your ability to relate to that fundamental reference point through balance stimulation activities.
When observing the positive effects of balance stimulation, you can see the effect which balance has on brain timing. This is especially obvious in individuals with attention deficits. Classically, most individuals with attention deficit disorders have a slow reaction time. The drugs doctors prescribe to treat attention deficits speed up reaction times, which somewhat alleviates the attention problem, but the long term side effects are as yet unknown. Reaction time is relative to the level of the balance demands being made on the brain and met by the brain. The higher the balance demands (such as when you are standing on the Belgau Balance Board), the faster the system must and does react to maintain balance. Balance stimulation is able to achieve observably similar results to those achieved by medication in most individuals with attention difficulties, but with no side effects (except improvement in other areas as well). When you perform the reading experiment in which you read, do fifteen minutes of activity on the Belgau Balance Board, and then read again, the improved reading speed demonstrates that balance stimulation speeds up brain processing. It speeds up your reaction time.
In order to understand these effects fully, one must understand the vestibular sense, or the sense of balance. The vestibular sense is the first to develop as a child grows in the womb, and it serves as an organizational tool for other brain processes. Stimulating and refining the resolution of the vestibular sense has a direct and noticeable positive impact on all those processes.
The vestibular sense is calibrated and referenced to the acceleration of gravity. The acceleration of gravity is the standard reference for all of the brain’s time, space, and energy measures and is the common denominator that makes it possible for all of the sensory and motor processes to be integrated. The vestibular sense gets its raw information from the vestibular organs, which consist of three semicircular canals and the otolith organ. The three semicircular canals are oriented along the x, y. and z axis, and define motion in each of the three dimensions of space. When the head moves, hair cells in the canals detect motion, or the inertial change, of the fluids inside each canal. The brain uses this information to calculate changes in inertia, in much the same way that the inertial navigation system on an airliner senses changes in position and velocity. The otolith organ, part of the vestibular sense, uses a pendulum-like appendage, the utricle, to orient the sense to the vertical force of gravity. There are two vestibular organs, one on each side of the head. Just as two eyes add depth perception to our vision, the bilateral vestibular organs interact with gravity and each other and enable us to project an external spatial structure with consistent directionality. According to Bernard Cohen, the mechanical arrangement of the three canals greatly simplifies the brain’s task of initially defining the three dimensions of space.
The precise eye movements which enable us to read, the eye-hand coordination which helps a baseball player to hit a home run, and the integration of tempo and body which allows a ballerina to coordinate her movements to the music of Swan Lake are all dependent on this fundamental integration of the senses into a space-time framework. Because this structure is so fundamental, inefficiencies at this level of brain processing will make all of our brain processes less efficient, and doing activities that improve efficiency at this level, will improve the efficiency of all our brain processes, including our visual system.
As a child continues to develop in the womb, the other major brain systems – motor, tactile, visual, and auditory – also develop, but they develop in relation to the vestibular system. All of these senses have a three dimensional space-time component involved in their sensory activity.
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