Brain Button: (to increase blood flow to the brain, helps correct letter and number reversals.) Hold one hand over the navel while the other hand should rub between the ribs just below the collarbone.

Hookup: (Activates each hemisphere of the brain to reduce stress and to be able to refocus on a task) Can be done standing, sitting or lying down. Cross on ankle over the other. Place your hands in front of you with palms facing each other. Move your hands so they are back to back. Turn your hands so your thumbs point down and clasp your fingers together. While holding your fingers together, roll you hands toward the floor, then to your chest, the up toward you chin. Your hands will be clasped together under your chin and your elbows will be pointed down and against your body. Hold this position for about two to 5 minutes as needed.

Cross Crawl: (For fine motor movement with cross brain activity; good to activate full mind/ body function prior to physical activity, writing, listening, understanding) These movements need to be done very slowly. While walking in place, raise up the right knee high enough to touch the elbow of your left arm as you bring out in front of you. Then do the same to the left knee and right elbow.

Lazy 8'S for Eyes: (Good for hand/ eye coordination and for fine motor movement) This exercise also needs to be done slowly and very consciously. Hold either thumb at eye level in the center of your view about an elbow length from your eyes. Holding you head still but relaxed and just moving your eyes, move the thumb counterclockwise, then back to the center and then clockwise. This forms a lazy 8. Continue this for three to 5 cycles then do the same with the other thumb. Then put both hands in front of you and form and X with your thumbs. Follow this X in the same manner as you followed your thumb.

The Elephant: (This will use most of our senses and is very good for balance and coordination. This has been noted to especially help those with balance problems due to frequent ear infections. Speech, understanding sequential memory - math) Hold your left ear to your left shoulder and extend your left arm like an elephant's trunk. With the knees slightly bent and relaxed, draw a lazy 8 pattern in the middle of your vision with your eyes following past the ends of your fingers. This exercise needs to be done SLOWLY three to five times then do the same with the other side.

The Thinking Cap: (This will wake up your hearing and help your memory, listening comprehension, and spelling) Unroll the outer ears from top to bottom several times. Now do one side for three more times and then the other side for three times. Close your eyes after each session to focus on your hearing.

The Energy Yawn: (This is a good relaxing exercise and is also good for those who do not verbalize very well, public speaking, creative writing.) The TM joint lies right in front of the ear opening and is where the upper and lower jaw hinge together. Relax your lower jaw and lightly rub the area over the TM joint.

The Calf Pump: (Due to stress, your tendons and muscles of the leg can tighten and shorten. Strangely, this exercise has been linked to verbal skills and has been known to help the speech impaired.) Keep your body erect. Stepping out with you right foot about one leg length, bending the right knee and keeping the left knee straight while keeping both feet flat on the floor. Shift your torso toward your right leg. You will feel the calf muscle and leg tendon stretching as the back heel comes up. Take a deep breath as you lower the left heel back down and bend the right knee. Do several on one side then switch side and continue. This is similar to a runners stretch.

The Energizer: (This is a good one to get started or restarted) Place you hands on a desk or table. Lowering you chin to your chest to stretch your neck muscles. Relax your shoulder muscles. Take in a deep breath as you push your chin forward and up inhaling as your go. Allow the back to arch a little which expands the rib cage. Then exhale as you bring your chin back down to its original position.

Balance Points: (alertness, concentration, decision making, perception and understanding of concepts) While holding one hand over the naval, touch the indentation at the base of the skull behind your ear. Hold for about one minute and then do the same to the other side.

Rocking: (using a padded floor or mat) Sit down on the floor and make your body into the shape of a "U" by picking up your feet and torso.. Use your hands or forearms to steady yourself. Rock back and forth. For added effect lean to one side rocking forward then the other side rocking back to give a circular effect.

Footflex: (language skills improve listening and reading, creative writing, follows through on and completes assignments) Rest an ankle on the opposite knee. Place your fingers on a point behind the knee and on the back of the ankle (beginning and ending of the big calf muscle). Find the sore or tight feeling spots. Put light pressure on them as you pull your fingers/ thumb away until the get soft. While holding the tight spots, flex the foot as far as it will go toward the knee and away from it.

Space points: (centering, depth perception, relaxing, organization, focus on task, motivation, keeping your place in reading) Touch your upper lip with one hand and your tailbone with the other hand. Take five or six slow deep breaths in and out. Switch and do the other side.

Grounder: (centering, relaxation, organization, comprehension) While keeping your body erect, place your feet apart about one length of your leg. Point your front foot forward and your rear foot points to the side. Breath in slowly as you bend your front knees but still keep the body straight. Exhale as you straighten up your front knee. Always keep the rear knee straight.

Cross Crawl Sit-up: (self-awareness, reading, math, listening) While doing sit-ups, touch you elbow to the knee of the opposite leg.

Positive points: (relaxing, breaking memory blocks, remembering studies) Touch an area right above the eyes between the eyebrows and the hair. Use light pressure while pulling the skin taught.

Neck rolls: (relaxing, speech and language) relax your head, letting it drop to your chest. While relaxed and breathing slowly, roll your head toward one shoulder and then the other shoulder.

Gravity Glider: (balance, centering, energy, visual) While sitting in a chair, cross your ankles and exhale as you reach down for your toes. Inhale as you go back up. Then reach toward the right of your feet and back up. After that, reach toward the left side of your feet and back up. Always being careful to breathe slowly in on the way down and out on the way back up.