Cognomovement was discovered back in 2017 by Bill McKenna who quickly teamed up with Master NLP Practitioner Liz Larsen to create a Cognitive Movement Exercise System they simply named 'Cognomovement'.
Bill's remarkable journey from an adrenaline enthusiast to a spiritual guide, brought a profound understanding of the mind-body connection, while Liz, also known as the "Ideas Generator" and "Mad Scientist," infused the system with groundbreaking techniques for rewiring the brain and nervous system. Together, they represent a powerful alliance, combining Bill's insight and spiritual acumen with Liz's mastery of neuro-linguistic programming and her relentless pursuit of consciousness expansion.
Cognomovement is a simple mind-body exercise which creates a change in our ‘feelings’. For example, if you've been experiencing levels of 'grief' for a while and every time you think of that loved one you may feel that grief literally grabbing your heart, and every time you feel that grab or ache, your automated response is to cry or even worse, try and suck that emotion in!
In a Cognomovement session, your focus is on that 'feeling'
because we are not talking to the mind, we are addressing the feeling first.
You can read more about Bill and Liz on the About page on the Cognomovement website.
Mind + Body Working Together
Most people believe that your brain creates the feeling, the emotion. But in truth, your brain and your nervous system work as one. When your senses experience something familiar, your brain (a logical system) will respond to those feelings accordingly based on past experience. Thus triggering your auto response (fight, flight, freeze or fawn). It's our nervous system (the feeling in your body) that triggers your brain to respond or take action accordingly (reaction).
Cognomovement works on the feeling you have, using the simple Cognitive Movement Exercises whilst using the patented Cognomovement ball (classed by the FDA as a low risk wellness device).
As we move through the session and your nervous system starts to calm, your brain may start to remember past events that you may have forgotten. You may start to recall the event differently without the triggering emotion, and that's okay as talking it through without the old emotion will help you to see a new perspective.
For one of my clients whose mother had passed, a grief session really helped her. It meant she was able to present a talk about her mother, without all the emotion flooding through. Instead, the emotion was of great love for her, rather than the grief from loss. And it's been the same for a number of my clients who were experiencing that deep sense of loss. They all left the session with the weight of loss lifted and a heart full of love returned. Even for those whose beloved pets had passed.
I'm only giving grief as an example, as it can work on all our unwanted emotions...anger, fear, guilt, stress, anxiety, negative feelings and habitual thoughts that cause you to stress; as well as weight issues, cravings, and performance.
As a Cognomovement family of practitioners, we are still discovering new benefits, such as helping with autism and neurological symptoms that impact the bodies' movement.
So, How Does it Work?
The Cognitive Movement Exercise System (Cognomovement) does this by rapidly engaging both parts of the brain. The right brain recognises 3- dimensional objects and the left side of the brain recognises colours and shapes.
As we start to exercise both parts of your brain using the specially designed Cognomovement ball, you focus on the unwanted feeling.
And as you focus on this feeling, often you'll notice the feeling somewhere in your body, such as an ache in your chest or a tightening of the throat. Wherever it is, we use that intensity as a gauge.
We then perform a series of simple movements/exercises with and without the Cognomovement ball, followed by observing your eyes and the changes in your neurology. And as we do this you’ll find that the intensity of your feeling (the gauge) decreases, and with that, a change in your perspective.
When the body is no longer feeling it, the brain no longer needs to react to it (fight, flight, freeze or fawn). Over time, the feeling that triggered the thought process and repeated patterns remains a memory.
Thus, you feel lighter because we've helped you through the mind-body exercise to reset that experience, allowing you to gain back your energy and move forward.
Possible Additional Benefits
- Increase in energy
- Increase in focus
- In some cases our clients can’t even remember that they had a problem
- Relationships improved
- Creativity increases
- Sleep improves
