What is the mind?

“You have to reach the unconscious mind of the client to produce changes that last” Milton Trager

The brain needs to see and feel safe before it will engage and enrich itself. The unconscious mind is every cell of the body. Every movement is built upon our past patterns. Our body is our unconscious mind. This part of our mind processes information more quickly, so we have less control over it.

The conscious mind is the cerebral cortex. It processes slowly. That is why we need to slow down when change is desired. We retrain the muscle memory slowly, with repetition and novelty.

Daniel Segal, neuroscientist says “ the mind is the embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of information”. The Trager Approach allows new neuropathways to come into existence, laying tracks over old, unusable patterns. Gently and slowly, we change. With repetition, with ease, we reach the unconscious mind, and change occurs.

Movement is the key to sustaining change. Movement is the language of relati to our world. Movement is a way to begin again.