MNRI Applied to Real Life

It’s hard to find an area of life that doesn’t involve reflexes. Let me give you an example to show you how interconnected and important they are.

In order for a child or adult to sit without relying on complications, they need to have fully integrated the following reflexes…

• Spinal Perez

• Spinal Galant

• Trunk Extension

• ATNR

• STNR

• Hands supporting

• Head righting 

If a baby cannot integrate one or more of these reflexes, then it will very likely result in a delay of sitting on their own. This delay is what tells you that his/her nervous system is not a healthy as it should be. 

To look at it from another direction, let's take one of those reflexes from above and describe what it all affects. 

Let's look at spinal Perez. Spinal Perez is at least in part responsible for the following…

• Sitting

• Standing

• Eating

• Fine motor skills

• Crawling

• movement/mobility of hips

• Flow of cerebral-spinal fluid

• Detoxification

• Regulation of muscle tone in the core

• Mood swings/hormonal imbalances

• Bed wetting

• And more…

Now keep in mind that there are more than 50 primary reflexes and this would be a VERY long book if we were to break down all of them. But hopefully breaking one example down like this will help you to see where MNRI comes in and how it applies to real life. 

“Reflex is not function. Reflex is the foundation of function” - Pamala Curlee, co-creator of MNRI

Continue on with this blog  - “What If The Problem Isn’t The Problem?” - to dive more into the quote above.