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500 Hour Program Class Outline Form Class Title: 54a Brain and Autonomic Nervous System I Course(s) and Hours: Class Description Learning Objectives This class and 56a on Autonomic Nervous System will cover the following: Lecture/discussion on Evolution, Structure & Function of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System & Special Senses Experiential & Conceptual Intro to the autonomic nervous system Lecture/discussion on massage and the nervous system Beginning to understand self-image (and experience of your changing), nervous system overall, autonomic nervous system, massage' effects on nervous system Instructional Objectives Students will learn to observe and effect (thru experiential exercises - breathing, movement, meditation, if time - massage) their energy and structure through the nervous system. . They will be able to relate that to their growing understanding of the nervous system as observed in discussion and through their answers to questions on the final. Students will, on the final exam, be able to answer questions on the nervous system and massage's effects on it. Class Outline Time Description 9:00 Attendance - Opening meditation Assignment/Resources MT: 610-632 Pa II: 45-49 April 29, 2017 this class covers the first 46 plates of the power point. 9:05-9:15 Lecture/discussion on Nervous System Review and Overview Materialism - we are fabulously wealthy in terms of things. How can we create similar levels of understanding and richness in terms of Spirit? Relaxation - deeply experience - is inner peace. KEEP IT SIMPLE> GO SLOW - THE POINT IS FOR THEM TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. TO MAXIMIZE THE EVOLUTIONARY LEVERAGE IT GIVES US. LET THEM KNOW THIS. How does it work? The nervous system is a cord with wires attached to it and a bulb at the top for more complex processing. The central cord and the bulb are the “central nervous system”. The wires outside of the center are called peripheral or “peripheral nervous system.” How did this evolve? In a multicellular organism, the organism must respond as a whole, in a multicellular way. So the organism evolved a special cell to communicate what's happening to the cells and coordinate all their responses to changes in the inner and outer environment. The cells which do that we call neurons. The system which includes all the neurons and their groupings together we call nervous system. Ultimately, it creates a map of our inner and outer world (what’s out there/in here) which is continually revised on the basis of new experiences. And it stimulates responses to inner and outer changes. April 29, 2017 We are touched by gravity, pressure, light, sound, chemicals (taste, smell, etc), pain, tension. We orient to these touches. The brain then creates a map of the inner and outer world: inner = self-image; experience of self. outer = “knowledge of the world”. In any case our map is a map, not the territory. The closer it is to the territory the more effective and useful are our actions. We are the authors of our lives; we make it up as we go along. possible example: So what happens when I, for instance, yell. The air vibrations trigger neurons in the ear sensitive to changes in air pressure that impulse is conveyed to the temporal lobe of the brain which produces the sensation of hearing. The sensation is quickly routed as well through the limbic system to check our memory of sounds like that and, to if appropriate, inititate neurological (and endocrine response). by motor nerves affecting visceral organs and muscles in our body and, if appropriate, we may also rout the emotions and sensation to the cerebrum for cognitive processing if it represents a difference from what we expected, it may actually change our map of reality to some extent Review of components 9:15-10:00 talk about functions first and show where they are on a kind worm diagram; the give the name e.g. stored movement programs cerebellum Peripheral Nervous System Peripheral nerves/Special senses Spinal and Cranial nerves April 29, 2017 (dermatomes) Central Nervous System Spinal cord – see handouts re ascending and descending tracts White matter = myelinated axon bundles on the outside Gray matter = cell bodies & unmyelinated axons. In H shape inside. Ends around L2 but continues as cauda equina to S5 Anterior “root” is motor neurons Posterior sensory “ Brain - medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain diencephalon - hypothalamus, thalamus cerebellum cerebrum - r. and l. hemispheres, corpus callosum Continue lecture on nervous system "Looks like it's dancing to the Rolling Stones" Cerebro-spinal fluid/ventricles Rest of this below will be covered in 56a Intro to Autonomic Nervous System Learned reactions – Activating – relaxing Learned and innate Spectrum of how we react to inner and outer world. How we react. What is activating? What is relaxing? We have a sense organ that is designed to sense the emotions of other animals. Opening - autonomic n.s./relieving April 29, 2017 stress - muscles don’t relax, the nervous system relaxes motor system coordinating most vital visceral functions according to organism's sense of relative emergency or safety of inner/outer environment go over chart in their packet How our autonomic system works – We sense something from within or without. We remember what it like or what it is close to compared to past similar experience. We react on the basis of what our memory tells us. We rather automatically have a feeling and an impulse. We can choose if we become conscious of our feeling and impulse - how to act. We as therapists help clients Let go of the past by giving them a strong experience of the present. We overall help them be more relaxed (more parasympathetic tone). Give them new autonomic options by helping them let go of the rush to re-action. Bring more circulation into viscera, digestion, assimilation, re-building. Help take old tensions (autonomic inclinations) out thus freeing them to relax more or to mobilize more of self and more quickly. We give them an experience of being in balance – neither too parasympathetic or sympathetic – in body, mind (letting go of compulsive, reactive thoughts and confusion), emotion (more balanced, more tolerant of full range of feeling (e.g. feel angry and relaxed), and spirit (it’s easy to be equals when you’re not,.e.g. blaming yourself or someone else.) April 29, 2017 also more production of endorphins. Pleasure-stimulated hormones that help you – anti-depressants. “Touch also increases serotonin during massage and decreases pain levels, improves sleep patterns, decreases fatigue, anxiety, depression and cortisol levels in fibromyalgia patients, according to the International Journal of Neurology.” Neither asleep nor awake. Help conscious and unconscious have a more active and productive Interaction. explain how we are looking for touch to 1) expand the client’s autonomic range of motion. So that they can inhabit the whole spectrum and each place along the spectrum of from deepest sleep to hyper alertness. 2) To facilitate the experience of autonomic balance (appropriately within a given context) To, in advanced work, see the specific challenges an individual may have with their feeling habits, their habitual patterns of thinking and believing, the way these are manifest in chronic body tensions, misalignments, movement imbalances and find ways to help these things change. e.g. through massage and in life to facilitate a coordination of the diencephalon and the cerebrum. Massage is a communication. What message are you sending? Hands-on communications - exchange chair April 29, 2017 massage. Massage' effect on the nervous system Closing remarks Assignments MT: 610-632 Pa II: 45-49 Erector spinae, rhomboids? April 29, 2017