How to Train your Brain #hsreviews @LearningBreak

You may have seen the title and are now filled with confusion, or are just curious as to what I am talking about.  Success for me!  You see, I’ve recently read a book(through a review from the TOS Crew) called A Life in Balance from the Learning Breakthrough Program.  I received a PDF file of the book which is not available for sale, but the physical version is available for $16.94.  

The book A Life in Balance is geared towards being read by adults who are looking for ways to help connect the dots and help their children learn.  Specifically those children who suffer from some sort of learning disability.  The two primary disabilities they mention are ADHD and Dsylexia.  It can also be read independently or as a study by older teenage children who are still struggling and might benefit from the knowledge.  

With the use of medicines on even very young children to help treat ADHD(please don’t get me started on that) when most likely they are just being rambunctious boys and even the over medication of adults for this, I was intrigued of course by a book saying it could teach them how to train your brain to help instead of use medicines. 

I’m an anti medicine type woman which is odd considering I’m an RN, BSN.  Thus why the book of Frank Belgau stood out to me.  It is told through the voice of Eric Belgau as he chronicles his father’s life work of creating The Learning Breakthrough Program.  The book tells of the trials of creating the program, tales of its years of infancy through the completion of the program that has been achieved in today’s society.  You are introduced to the research or the why behind the program being created as well as to real people who found success through the program and who helped to test it out when it was first starting.  

I stated above that this book was one I wanted to read because of the subject matter.  It’s true for more than one reason though.  During my years of being a nurse, when I was working I was working as an RN on a mental health floor.  I worked solely with patients who were suffering from mental disorders.  A great number of those men and women(some very young some very old) suffered from ADHD and were on medications for it.  They called to me.  I wanted to help them in some way besides just doling out pills.  Now I have children who could very easily be diagnosed as having ADHD.  I have not taken them to get this diagnosis however as I don’t want such a diagnosis following them through their life.  We are working with a therapist who helps them and I am very excited about what this book might mean for them.

It is very conceivable to me that children and adults with ADHD and other such difficulties can overcome.  But  lets not limit it to just children who have ADHD and dyslexia.  There are others that might be helped.  It could be beneficial to individuals with:

• ADHD/ADD
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia
• Dysgraphia
• Behavior Problems
• Dyscalculia
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder
• Speech and Language Struggles
• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Aspergers Syndrome 
• Brain Injury and Stroke

There are so many ways this can help.  In fact, I’d say any child considered totally “normal” (yes really no such thing as normal but bear with me) can still be helped or glean something from this text.  I am a mother to 9 children and have to say that this book is changing how I teach ALL of my children and not just the ones with some of the listed problems.  

This book doesn’t treat the symptoms of the disorders like modern medicine does with prescribing medications, but rather goes to the root, to the cause and tries to fix it.  If it’s a connection in the brain that is weak, you will learn how to exercise that spot and strengthen it.  Its not just teaching you how to cope with the illness but how to live and flourish with it, to overcome.  The book touches on all this, but on their website they also offer a full program that contains other tools and gadgets to help you along your journey of how to train your brain!

Find out more about the book and Frank Belgau by visiting their social media sites.  You can find them on facebook, twitter, and youtube.  

Wonder about the book?  Want to learn more?  Please check out the other reviews on the Main TOS Crew Blog Post.  You’ll find 80 total reviews so I’m sure you can find someone to align yourself with in your views on life and learning.