Fainting goats are an excellent way to see how unhelpful reflexes caused by dysfunctional areas of the brain can interfere with normal day to day functioning.
Fainting goats are native to Central America, and have a genetic change which means that their muscles stiffen as a reflex action when they are startled. This is a reflex which is generally not helpful to them (poor things!) as everything stiffens up and they fall over.
In a very similar way, some people have survival and developmental reflexes which were once useful in infancthood, but which still continue to be exhibited as adults. These should have gone dormant in infanthood as they passed through the usual gambit of developmental milestones. However, when they fail to go dormant, these abherent reflexes will often interfere with day to day life.
These are called retained reflexes and typically indicate that an area of the brain is not fully mature yet, or sometimes that there has been some injury or trauma experienced by the brain which has caused it to re-emerge. Signs of retained reflexes include:
➡️ walking pigeon-toed, or duck-footed
➡️ walking on tip toes
➡️ startling too easily
➡️ having an immature pencil grip
➡️ being uncoordinated
➡️ Being overly ticklish
➡️ Fidgety
➡️ Not liking the sensation of labels in clothes
➡️ and so many more
Anytime the brain is not functioning to its optimum, anxiety is likely to be an accompanying symptom on top of any of signs of retained reflexes.
The good news is that retained reflexes can be tested for, and then neuroplasticity therapies provided to mature the relevant areas of the brain, so that the infanthood reflexes disappear (go dormant)…unlike the poor fainting goats (I’m not kidding – haha!).
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