Update on Jewel, and all that is happening after our ABM (Anat Baniel Method) intensive. ABM is a very gentle and powerful learning approach to help children keep moving and thriving. We move in three areas; physical, emotionally and cognitively. It is a whole learning system approach. Families with special needs do intensive or a cluster of lessons. Sort of like going to music camp. You learn throughout the year with your weekly lessons and then you go to music camp, if you are lucky and then your learning curve accelerates and you play better. Most of us families do not live near an ABM practitioner to get weekly lessons, so we fly to California to the ABM center or as I did, figure out a way how to get one to come to your community. This is why I am in the training, to help Jewel and to give back to my community. Jewel got to have two lessons, every day for five days. This is what I am seeing now; Jewel is wanting to talk about her past and her self. As she becomes more aware of herself, she is wanting to share. ABM is a learning method that works with the nervous system and it helps organize this system and the information it receives to and from the brain. Jewel is aware that her vision is improving and she is sharing this with me. I am noticing that her ability to get through her reading lessons has dramatically improved, both with patience and cognition, there are no tears and hardly any frustration. We have had to put away the reading and math in the past, due to constant meltdowns. Her meltdowns were due to the fact that her body could not support reading lessons. As my teacher Anat says, she would if she could. She is aware of her pain, part of which are her nightmares. She is sharing her hospital memories with me, with greater debth and I am here to listen, validate and support her. Jewel is growing into herself and I am growing to receive her exactly as she is in this moment. I have shifted from the anxiety of fix her and missed milestones teary Mc weepy mother, to being present with her and meeting her where she is, as she is. My training is helping me interact with Jewel and understand her better. I am learning the power of touch and the responsibility that comes with it. Just like a careless word can injure or empower a childs self esteem and understanding of themselves, so does your touch. As we touch the nervous system is engaged or overpowered, we move the skeletal system and impact the brain, inviting it to participate in learning or shutting it down with outside force interpreted as noise and danger. Jewel is interacting with her doll, more than ever before. She plays using her imagination but more and more she reaches to get the toilet paper or the doll. I leave toilet paper close by, because it is something she can grab successfully, and we all need that feeling that comes with achievement. Her physical movements are looking softer and more fluid, less jerky and spastic. They are still gross and will need more play and ABM lessons to get refinement. I am learning to see the subtle differences and appreciate them for the important changes they are. There was a time not to long ago when we all cried out of frustration, I because I could not understand Jewel or help her, and she because I could not understand her. She had so much pain at night and such extreme scissoring and hip dislocation that I could not even carry her on my hip. Now I carry her on my hip. She screamed off and on through out the night, not much anymore. My prayers were, Mercy and now we both say, Thank you God. Thank you @Verena for coming to Hawaii to give ABM lessons. Thank you for all the Helpers who have worked with Jewel in her life. Thank you for those who encourage and support us on our journey to help Jewel reach her full potential. Thank you for those who believe in miracles. Thank you to the individuals and families who have financed Jewels ABM lessons and my schooling. Thank you for purchasing the Awareness JEWELry to spread awareness. We are truly blessed. -Mahalo, Ivana (Jewels mom)
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:43:22 +0000
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