The senses

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Our 5 physical senses send messages from our environment to our brain which will interpret them based on innate and acquired, natural and memorized data, in order to respond in the way that seems most appropriate to it.

A projet to regenerate brain plasticity
thanks to braille

  • Normally, each of our senses is linked to an organ and a function:
    • Sight: eyes to see,
    • Hearing: ears to hear,
    • Smell: nose to smell,
    • Taste: mouth to savor,
    • Touch: hands to come into contact with any surface.
  • But some handicaps at the level of the sense organs show us that we have within us the capacity to overcome the limits that we have given to our senses:
    • The blind use their ears and hands to see,
    • The deaf use their eyes and hands to hear,
    • The deaf, mute, blind develop great sensitivity in their hands to interact with the outside world,
    • People born without arms have developed the agility of their feet or their mouths, they paint with a precision and beauty as great as painters who use their hands…
  • Here are 2 scientific data that make me think that we can create new neural circuits thanks to Braille:
    • There are 2 areas in the brain that are capable of producing stem cells at the origin of neurons. One is located at the level of the olfactory bulb and we know that smells can release emotional blockages. The other at the level of the hippocampus which belongs to the limbic system seat of memory [1].
    • The senses develop in children in the following order: touch, hearing, sight, then reverse when they grow up either sight, hearing, touch [2].

This means that by reading aloud books written in Latin characters and Braille, people activate sight, hearing, touch and memory with the area containing the stem cells that give rise to neurons. We can imagine that with a particular protocol, the brain will be able to re-create neural circuits between the areas of learning, the senses and knowledge to recover functions that it has in memory.

We do not use our abilities and senses to their full potential. I feel that this technique could be used to allow people following a stroke to regain their physical and intellectual capacity because I met a blind person who had 3 strokes in a few months and who walks, speaks, thinks, this weakened her but not in the same way. Perhaps it could also help people with Alzheimer’s, people who have cerebral palsy, … Of course there is additional care to be provided so that Braille can heal and collaborations with specialists in the fields involved in trauma. In the meantime, on this page, you will find information on the technique, Braille and the different Braille supports to develop your touch.

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Develop your sense of touch and your brain plasticity

Musical braille touch

Discover abbreviated musical braille and transcribed melodies.

Braille touch

Discover the Braille code, the one-to-one and contrated transcription, and the books transcribed in dual character and Braille.

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The senses, the sensitivity linked to the human body

The law of change

Life is not a fatality. It is a « becoming » according to our present acts.

The emotional senses

He who looks outside dreams. He who looks inside awakens. Carl Jung

The law of motion

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi

Bibliographic references:
[1] Manipulations olfactives « Enquête sur ces odeurs qui séduisent, guérissent, trahissent » de Catherine BOUVET, Editions Payot 2013 (in french).
[2] Le langage du corps dans le soin aux bébés et aux petits enfants de Inga MOL, Editions De Boeck supérieur 2015 (in french).