Kate Strong | Intuitive Healing
Primal Reflexes

Unintegrated Primitive Reflexes May Be Hindering Your Life!

I came across the subject of Primitive Reflexes a few times in the last year, and really took an interest about a month ago when I decided to do a course online about it. You can check out the site here.

 

Doing anything in my body has always been hard for me, and learning about the unintegrated reflexes made me realise why.

 

It so happened that the only person trained in NZ on the Rhythmic Movement website, lives 8 mins away from me lol I’ve had one session so far with her, she’s a kinesiologist, and she worked getting my body switched on to achieve success integrating the reflexes.

 

These reflexes can be integrated at any age in life.

 

It appears from all my symptoms and the journey in my life, I have an active fear paralysis reflex and actiive moro reflex. It all makes so much sense now. Just even reading the course has me in tears because I relate to it all so much.

 

Reflexes

 

A reflex is an automatic, repetitive movement that is instinctual and aids in development, as well as development of the brain. We have many reflexes, like blinking, but the one’s I want to talk about are primitive reflexes. These are reflexes that are formed in the womb and hopefully become inactive in the toddler stage.

 

Sucking, and grasping of the hands, are primitive reflexes. These reflexes, and others, are designed to transform into more sophisticated movements, and therefore become integrated. They form the foundation, and development of  balance, mobility, hearing, speaking, vision, learning and communicating.

 

Unintegrated Reflexes

 

There are many reasons why these reflexes don’t phase out, ie: lack of movement as a child, stress in the mother in pregnancy, illness, environmental toxins and many more reasons. They can be retriggered any time in life, often due to trauma and stress, and because of this, can cause a whole host of issues ranging from anxiety, ADHD, depression, learning disorders, sensory disorders,  lack of confidence, extreme shyness, vision and hearing problems, addictions, autism and constantly feeling overwhelmed.

 

Reflex movements are the foundation of our nervous system,  they originate in the brain stem, so they really are about survival, and staying unintegrated cause someone to be constantly in fight or flight. Body parts cant move independently and freely, and can cause weak muscle tone, aches and muscle tension, fatigue, and alot of effort to complete tasks.

 

Key Childhood Reflexes

 

Fear Paralysis Reflex

 

This reflex should ideally be integrated before birth and is about freezing, as in a deer in the headlights. Without integration it may cause the Moro reflex to not integrate as well.

 

Some long term effects of an unintegrated Fear Paralysis reflex are:

 

  • Underlying anxiety
  • Insecurity
  • Depression
  • Extreme shyness
  • Fear of groups
  • Fear of separation
  • Phobias
  • Withdrawal from touch
  • Sleep and eating disorders
  • and many more

 

Moro Reflex

 

Sometimes called the infant-startle reflex, this is an automatic reaction to sudden changes in stimuli, ie: bright lights, sounds, temperature, touch, movement. Unintegrated, a person can feel hypersensitive to any incoming stimulation. This can cause a change in blood pressure, cortisol and adrenaline levels, and breathing rate.

 

Some long term effects of an unintegrated Moro reflex are:

 

  • Poor digestion
  • Weak immune system
  • Poor balance and coordination
  • Difficulty adapting to change
  • Difficulty filtering stimuli
  • hyperactivity then fatigue
  • Difficulty with visual perception
  • Hypersensitivity to sound, light, touch, movement, smell
  • Emotional outbursts, easy to anger
  • and many more

 

Other reflexes that can be unintegrated are Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex, Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex, Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex, Spinal Galant Reflex, Oral, Hand and Foot Reflexes.

 

Integrating Reflexes

 

There are different body movements to do daily in order to integrate these reflexes. I’ve read alot of wonderful testimonials about the changes that can happen. I will keep you updated about what happens for me in my sessions and from doing the course online.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate offers Healings and Intuitive Guidance. She offers sessions in the Emotion Code, Body Code, Cord Cutting Past Life Healings, Soul Healings and more. She offers these by email.

Comments

  • Vera

    This reminds me of Moshe Feldenkrais awareness through movement material. The results are amazing and help at any stage of life. Anat Baniel has done a great job bringing it out through her method. The method you found sounds intriguing me because of the Kinesiology aspect to it. I will be checking it out. It makes too much sense. Thank you.

    • Kate

      Thats good to know that its out there in other modalities. Vera, its my issues to a T. The Fear Paralysis is easy to spot in me, but the Moro reflex explains people who find the world abrasive and hard to be in it, also empaths. They can take a while to integrate though, but there’s often immediate results, I suppose they have to anchor in.
      Restrictions as a child have a huge impact, being hospitalised early on. Also we have alot of contraptions these days where we think we are helping kids but they are causing restriction in movements, like bouncers, walkers etc.

  • Karen J

    Blessings, Kate!
    I’m interested in finding out more about the Moro reflex. Please do come tell us what you learn!

    • Kate

      I sure will. I think alot of sensitive people, empaths, have an unintegrated moro reflex. But there is a higher purpose to all this as well. I probably never would be who I am today as far as my work goes, if I wasn’t so sensitive.

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