Access Bars In Schools
Posted by Julie D. Mayo
Hyperactivity, behavioral difficulties and deficiency in concentration are only a few issues where incredible improvement was seen after adding Access Bars® to the weekly school routine. Access Bars were also found to create an environment of self-regulation.
Video: Access Bars In Schools
Dr. Terrie Hope, shares incredible results on the positive effects of Access Bars® sessions for children, teachers and parents in a stressful school environment.
Children often find that moving from a time of curiosity and playfulness into a school environment can be really stressful. Some adapt well, and then there are others who find that transition can keep them from being focused and have concentration, which is where they need it, when they go to school.
Also, it can keep them from a place of where they are used to being highly active, which shows up in a classroom environment as hyperactivity and can also show up as so-called behavioral abnormalities.
Some of the stressors that children deal with are pressure to perform, not only for their parents, for their teachers, but also peer pressure, so that they look like they're smart so they fit in. And these days, its social media as well, where there's a lot of pressure to show up as being something where they want to fit in. This can create an enormous amount of stress for children.
One of the things that I've discovered in the 12 years of doing research on this unique process called Access Bars, is that it allows people to adapt to their environments with less stress.
Access Bars is this remarkable and unique process where a practitioner lightly touches 32 points on the head. It allows a bar of energy to be created, and a new sphere of energy. And in that process, it releases stressors, calms brainwave patterns and creates deep relaxation.
We found in scientific research that Access Bars slows down brainwave patterns, and can take people from very stressed environments, which could be as high as beta waves, down to as low as alpha or theta waves. That means that people can think more clearly.
On top of that, in all the research that we've done, looking at brainwave patterns, we found that there is a change in brain coherence. That means that the brain starts to communicate better between regions.
When you have people who are stressed or have early childhood trauma, there tends to be a level of dysregulation. This increase in brain coherence allows the brain to communicate better, faster and decision-making is easier, and people have a calm sense of focus and concentration.
For children who are hyperactive, have behavioral issues or they tend to be stressed in that environment, it tends to bring them to a sense of more calm, happiness and a sense of being able to have ease in that more confined environment that they're not used to.
What we've seen in studies on children who have had Access Bars in a school environment or educational environment is that they tend to become calmer. Their marks improve, their behavior becomes easier, not only in the classroom but also in a home environment, and they tend to be more self-regulated.
This is one of the things that all the behaviorists are looking for: How do you create an environment of self-regulation? Access Bars seems to bring that easily into an environment for kids.
One of the things that I really love about Access Bars is that it's self-regulated. What I mean by that is that the person who receives the Bars session is the one who dictates what occurs in the session. So the child, if they're receiving a Bars session, is the one who allows the change to occur, not the practitioner who is doing the Access Bars session.
I did a study on youths who were having exams for their final year of school, and the degree of stress was insurmountable for them. What occurred was that they were calmer, they managed to regulate their stress and do better and not be stressed about the exam, but actually be as brilliant as they wanted to be.
How this can be applied and how it's being applied globally is that in schools, is practitioners are coming in and doing sessions, not only for the students, but sometimes for the teachers as well. They are doing the sessions and receiving them as often as it's determined. Then there's also an environment where the children learn how to do Access Bars, and it's really amazing.
The school adds Access Bars as part of the curriculum, and the kids learn how to do Access Bars with each other. They set aside time, maybe even as little as 40 minutes, to add Access Bars to the school curriculum. This way the kids can have self-regulation. It is also a very cost-effective way to improve wellbeing in a school environment.
To learn Access Bars, it can take as little as six hours or a day, but in a school environment, it's often introduced in shorter segments, which makes it easier for children to learn. They might learn Access Bars over a six-week period in short increments. However, the effects of Access Bars are not negated by the length of time that it takes them to learn it.
People often ask, if Access Bars has the capacity to slow down brainwave patterns, will it slow down their children, the way drugs do when they're given for ADHD or any other kind of challenge?
With Access Bars, because of the differences in terms of increasing brain coherence and slowing down brainwave patterns, collectively that actually makes them faster and more brilliant at what they do or who they are.
Access Bars allows kids to slow down, to be more present, and have focus and concentration that would allow them to be able to manage well in a school environment.
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