Spread the Sunshine! (Music Video)

Bring Me Fun! Sunshine! Love!

Join the Jive Aces; swing your day towards happiness with a lively song sung by Ian Clarkson, with spirited dancers and musicians expressing their flair for wellness.  Stand up, click your fingers, tap your toes, and catch the body-brain boosting beat throughout the day.

Essence of Wellness Put to Movement (fun video)

Jeff Haebig, BBBP

Mimic the Wellness Gestures

Capture the spirit of Wellness Promotion led by Jeff Haebig, BBBP, Body Brain Boogie Person, and the participants at the International Wellness Coordinators conference.  Feel the passion… follow along!

Foursquare for Exercising

Fun applications inspire fitness

Alan Danzis has developed Foursquare, a mobile application people can use to inspire themselves to live healthy.  Fitness made ‘fun’ moves people painlessly.  Here’s a Body-Brain-Boogie badge for Alan, finding creative ways of keeping people on their toes!  Jeff

Build the Body Brain with Robust Play

Adaptive Indoor Physical Activities for Young Children are Fantastic Fun!

Toolbox Parenting, tips for tough kids… provides hundreds of helpful ways to develop your children’s mental and physical well-being. Jodee Kulp and her team offer sensory-motor developmental activities for kids indoors.

Rather than sitting in front of the TV or computer, actively playing creates new body and brain cell connections needed to live and learn vibrantly. Want your children to be robust… vigorous, full-bodied play is key.

Wishing You a White Christmas -- Song

Happy Holidays to you and your family

http://aroundmd.com/whitechristmas/ Click, turn up the sound, sit back and enjoy!

Jeff

http://bongobells.blogspot.com/2006/12/santa-and-his-reindeer-sing-white.html more holiday fun!

Accelerated Learning is Music to Our Ears

Sound Learning Involves Music

Chris Brewer founder of LifeSounds provides a Brief History of Music related to Learning http://www.musicandlearning.com/articles_ltssl.cfm. Focusing first on Accelerated Learning, based on Georgi Lozanov's work, Chris cites many benefits for using music to enhance learning. It creates positive learning states, builds anticipation, increases attention, enhances imagination, develops rapport, build motivation, releases tension, improves memory, and is fun. Chris provides an Annotated Music Bibliography in her article. Long considered a leader in the field of Music and Learning, Chris Brewer is one of the most qualified experts to sing its praises.

Jeff Haebig

Upcoming BOOGIE Posts

Here is what you can look forward to during the upcoming week!

12/19 Move and Learn with Exercise -- video with Dr. John Ratey's SPARK!
12/20 Drink Water -- Top Stress Buster -- Sharon Promislow
12/21 Read Naturally -- Shows Its Stuff with Early Readers
12/22 Autism Issues and Effective Sensory Therapies -- Temple Grandin
12/23 Overcoming Dyslexia -- reading expert Dr. Sally Shaywitz
12/24 Accelerated Learning is Music to Our Ears -- Chris Brewer
12/25 Obesity video -- Learn to Cut Your Calories -- Dr. Hans Diehl

Visit Wellness Quest for free DAILY Health Care-toons, wellness challenges, health benefits, inspirational quotes and health jokes -- ENJOY!

Are Big or Small Movements Best?

Which actions boost attention best – large or small?

That is an excellent question. There are many variables that we will soon address; for example, does the child prefer angular, twisting and rotating actions to stimulate their hypo-slow vestibular system, or linear forward and backward movements to calm their over-sensitive hyper vestibular system? Play catchy music and encourage people to move freely – watch how their body brain seeks the most satisfying movements.

You might offer a follow-along movement sequence that combines fine (small) and gross (large) motor movements, with age appropriate complexity that challenges the mind. Physcally connecting gestures to words or lyrics engages the auditory, visual and kinesthetic systems boosting attention. Crossing the body’s vertical mid-line stimulates both sides (hemispheres) of the brain.

In their own way, (moving big or small) encourage people to mimic gestures and echo the words shown on http://www.wellnessquest.com/videos.html. This Vibrant Learning Sequence engages the basal ganglia (brain’s transmission) connecting thinking, feelings and motion. This demands more attention-boosting dopamine (transmission fluid) to aid mindbody shifting. It's also the pleasure/reward chemical raising motivation. Memorizing the gesture sequence recruits the cerebellum, further boosting attentional centers.

Above all, encourage people to move freely in fun, safe and satisfying ways.

Jeff Haebig

How Smart is Your Right Foot?

Take this quick hand and foot test.

You have to try this please, it takes 2 seconds. This will boggle your mind and it will keep you trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't. It's pre-programmed in your brain!

1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are GOOFY) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

I told you so! And there's nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.

Source of this fun article is unknown.