- Irene Dunn
- 7 hours ago
- 3 min read
Learning is a complex process that involves more than just absorbing information. It requires the brain and body to work together efficiently. The 9 Essentials of ABM® NeuroMovement® offers a unique approach to enhance this connection, helping individuals improve their learning abilities through movement and awareness. This post explores what the ABM® NeuroMovement® Essentials are and how they can unlock the brain’s potential and support optimal learning.
What are the 9 ABM® NeuroMovement® Essentials?
ABM® NeuroMovement® Essentials offers practical ways to enhance learning. The essentials support focus, memory, coordination, and emotional regulation, all of which contribute to better learning outcomes. By incorporating these essentials into daily life, anyone can unlock their brain’s potential and build stronger learning skills.
1 – Movement with Attention
Move often and bring attention to what you feel as you move. When you move with attention, your brain begins to build billions of connections, creating new possibilities and transformation.
Movement becomes powerful when the brain is paying attention to it. Mindless repetition doesn’t drive real change; attentive movement does.
2 – Slow
Slow way down to learn new skills and overcome limitations. Fast you can only do
what you already know. Slow helps form rich new neural patterns.
Slowing down allows the nervous system to sense details and make distinctions that are invisible at speed.
3 – Variation
Introduce variation (call it play, mistakes, exploration) into everything you do. The brain learns by comparing differences. Exploring many gentle variations helps it discover better, more efficient options.
4 – Subtlety
Reduce the force with which you move, think, and act. Very small, light movements give the brain clearer information than big, forceful ones. Developing greater sensitivity will enhance your brain’s ability to perceive the finest of differences and, therefore, learn.
Less effort = more learning!
5 – Enthusiasm
Practice enthusiasm in your daily life. It amplifies what is important to you and grooves in new learning in your brain. Positive emotional engagement turns learning on. Curiosity and interest literally make the brain more plastic.
*NOTE* Excitement and Enthusiasm are NOT the same. More to come on this later.....
6 – Flexible Goals
If you knew how to reach your goal, you’d already be there.
Be sure to embrace unexpected steps and mistakes along the way. Having a direction without forcing an outcome keeps the learning switch on!
Rigid goals create pressure; flexibility supports learning.
7 – The Learning Switch
The brain is either in a learning mode or not. Try to eliminate urgency; when urgency, stress, or “trying hard” is present, learning shuts down. Turning the learning switch on means prioritizing ease and exploration.
When you expect that you will do, think, or learn something NEW in each situation, even familiar ones, your learning switch turns ON.
8 – Imagination & Dreams
Imagined movement activates many of the same brain pathways as physical movement, expanding learning without strain. Imagine and dream! With imagination, you can create what has never been there before.
9 – Awareness
Become aware of what you are doing, sensing, thinking, and experiencing at any
moment. Awareness is an action. When you are aware, you are fully alive and present.
'Bonus Essential' - REST
Rest is when the brain integrates new information. Pauses are not breaks from learning — they’re part of it.
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