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One Brain - An Alternative Therapy for Stress

The following is excerpted from an article from a Northern California Periodical authored by Lauren Bergland.

The phrase, "I'm stressed out" is the 21st Century equivalent to "Let's go for a Sunday drive."

With technology allowing us to take our work "to go," it is little wonder people are complaining about stress infiltrating this lives and a lack of leisure time. As technology reaches in new directions, alternative medicine has been testing the limits as well, suggesting that as our bodies adapt to more stress, we need alternative ways to combat that stress .

The One Brain system, developed by Three In One Concepts, may be the answer. Their website states, "One Brain is a new and unique approach to locate and correct stressors that may be causing dyslexia, fears, or anything that is limiting you from creating what you want for yourself." According to the system, by locating the experience that created the emotional "issue" and defusing it, you can rid your body of the limitations that stand in the way of many life goals.

Gordon Stokes is President of Three In One Concepts, an educational corporation that trains individuals to correct learning disabilities and to enhance performance through stress reduction skills. Stokes has been on the forefront of the self-help movement, and in the last 20 years has taught his beliefs to more than a quarter of a million people.. When Stokes received his Behavioral Genetics Certification in 1963, he also began a partnership with associate Daniel Whiteside. One of Stokes and Whiteside's books, TOOLS OF THE TRADE, states that "Stress equals diminished awareness. We humans make the mistake in believing we are in conscious control simply because we are conscious." The One Brain system acknowledges the idea that if stress occurs when learning something new, it can become an essential part of that action and, in response, interfere with one's ability to perform.

Stokes and Whiteside's book also says, "Under stress, we're into knee-jerk duplication of learned reaction based on negative emotion. Under stress, our limitations increase drastically. The worst way to handle stress is to deny it exists." Through a system of muscle testing, the method works to identify and release the blockage that is limiting one's aptitude. The philosophy emphasizes choice, making the individual the source of information, identification of the problem and ultimately the solution.

One Brain suggests that people having trouble with reading or writing skills may not be dyslexic, but rather showing dyslexis-like traits as symptoms of stress. According to the US Department of Justice, nearly 80% of people with learning disabilities have dyslexia. With no cure, and research suggesting the cause is scrambled signals to the brain, One Brain serves as an alternative therapy.

"The right and left brain are not communicating - that's why it's called One Brain," said Kerry Lee of Santa Cruz , CA who teaches the techniques in Santa Cruz County and parts of the Bay Area. Ms. Lee discovered One Brain through her own battles with dyslexia. "I didn't realize the disease comes from stress. I didn't think of it as stress, I thought of it as a learning issue," she said.

One Brain methods have been introduced in school systems all over the world. Three In One Concepts boasts over 3,000 Facilitators in 22 countries, and as school systems around the world begin to adopt the One Brain system to help dyslexic and learning-disabled students, the company motto, "Changing the World One Brain at a Time," rings particularly clear.