To begin to understand how brain training works, we first
need to understand where the ideas developed.
Let’s say that we have a family member who was involved in an
accident. As a result of that accident,
he/she no longer remembers how to read. Before the accident he/she was a college
professor and reading is not just important part of their life, but imperative
to their livelihood.
So, once the physical wounds have healed, your family begins
the arduous task of re-teaching the person to read. Your employ occupational therapists, physical
therapists, speech and language therapists.
You research and begin to find ways to help with the task. It is a long and tedious process, made all
that much more maddening because you don’t totally understand how a person who
could once read at a higher level than you could, can’t tell an ‘f’ from a ‘j’.
In their mind, what has happened is that the initial path;
the easiest one for learning to read has sustained permanent damage. The person however, knows that they want to
learn to read and is trying very hard with all the people to learn to read. Everyone is dedicated to the task at hand,
including the brain of the person who was injured. Eventually, over time and with much patience,
a new path is forged and the skill of reading is slowly re-learned. In the brain, the damaged area is not being
repaired, but a new path is being forged.
Slowly and with much patience, that new path will gain strength and the
task will become easier.
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