The Right Image

By B.L. Cassidy

This is a how-to book about exercises and comparison activities that you can do, that capture mirror cells attention after a stroke. Mirror cells react when you look at a motor part, and pick up on your thoughts about motor images the same way you did before you were injured, The book focuses on two ways to get around having to view a perfect image, by using the intent theory, and by trying to show the brain that you can identify with these motor parts of the body again, This is done by focusing on having to look at the image, and needing to look at the image a certain way, to show mirror cells that you are in charge of the activity again, and that you want to include this side in the peripheral image, Mirror cells want you to return to the same kind of thought process, or at least appear that you are when looking at these two sides of the body, as you did before, so they believe you can use them the same way. This allows you to be able to compare how these images look, and work to be able to make them look identical in the peripheral image so you can attract mirror cells to your peripheral image more often. This improves your level of functioning on this side of the body.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.L. Cassidy
• Release date: Mar 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463844106

B.L. Cassidy

B.L.Cassidy lives in Massachusetts, not far from Boston, and the downtown district. She gets her inspiration from visiting the historical neighborhoods in Boston, such as Beacon Hill, and exploring the type of people and cultures that live in these districts.

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THE RIGHT IMAGE

Be Yourself Again with Restored Mirror Images After a Stroke

by

B.L. Cassidy

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The Right Image

Be yourself again with restored mirror images after a stroke

Copyright 2019 by B.L. Cassidy

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CONTENTS

Introduction to Mirror-Imaging

Chapter 1: The Mirror Cell Image

Chapter 2: Identify with the Shoulder

Chapter 3: Past and Present Images

Chapter 4: Glimpse the Shoulders

Chapter 5: Reach with a Short Rehearsal

Chapter 6: Rehearse for a Hand Memory

Chapter 7: Reach with a Peripheral Image

Chapter 8: The Hands and Forearms

Chapter 9: The Legs and Feet

References

About the Author

Introduction to Mirror-Imaging

Planning to do an activity requires you to create an image of what you want to do. This is how you go about your activities and the usual way you map out your day. But, what you may not suspect is that another part of the brain is watching you create this plan at the same time you are.

They are mirror cells, and they are more aware of what you need to do, to get things done than you might be.

There are thousands of them, and you wouldn’t suspect that they could assist you the way they do, but they can, and they do this hundreds of times a day.

They pick up on your thoughts, of what you say, and how you look at a motor part of the body, so they can prepare for the activity. And they do this by seeing what you see, and then absorbing the image.

This is when they get to work when they absorb the peripheral image that you see of the front part of the body, that includes the tops of the shoulders, front of the arms and hands, and the lower part of the body, that includes the feet. They see the same image you see of these motor parts and start to sort through it, to be sure that it looks like the last one you absorbed.

Some of the things they check to be sure you can identify with the image, are if you are able to use certain features, such as detecting feelings in the joints and the muscles to be sure you know how the joints are positioned, and if you are holding the arms the right way. For the hands, they expect you to recognize certain features, such as the skin tone, lines on the fingers and knuckles and how you hold the wrist and hand as if these details are all that you need to know.

They expect you to check them often, and make sure that they look and feel the same way they did the last time you created the peripheral image.

The image must stay the same way, because one thing mirror cells aren’t keen on, is if the image changes in some way. If you look at a side of the body, or hand that you don’t recognize, or aren’t able to notice how it is moving, or how the skin tone matches the other hand, then, this makes the image harder to absorb.

Mirror cells won’t absorb this image, because they need one that matches what is stored in the permanent memory in the brain. This image tells them how the peripheral image should look, such as how you hold the arms, and how you are supposed to imagine the shoulders look at a certain angle.

All of this is so you will be able to get motor functions and a memory back of how to perform the task, but also to allow you to think through the task and know how to visualize how the motor parts look while you are using it for an activity.

The cells look for certain types of behavior that signal that you know you are aware of the image, such as planning to look at the motor parts in the mirror and recognizing how the motor parts of the body should look when you look at them from a peripheral image angle.

These actions, of needing to look at the motor parts, believing that they belong to you, are called intentions, or purposeful gestures, that signal that you can have control of these motor parts of the body.

These intentions also tell the mirror cells that you know that you need to absorb the motor parts of the body and that you know that both sides of the body need to look the same way. At least this is what these actions project to the mirror cells.

Absorbing images improves your chances for attracting mirror cells to your image, and returns motor functions, and skills, such as planning, recognition, and perception that restore you to a level of peripheral imaging that will increase your productivity and allow you to be more aware of how you move and when you move.

If you’ve had a stroke or brain injury, the ability to absorb these images is affected, because the images look different now, on both sides of the body. Muscle movement can be difficult because the brain isn’t receiving the messages it needs for the kind of activity you want to do. Trying to recall the image you just looked at is hard because you aren’t using these places in the brain that you need to process an image. Imaging can bring back these motor functions by supplying the brain with the visual image you need of how a motor part looks to you, and allow you feel in charge of these tasks again.

Chapter 1:

The Mirror Cell Image

Mirror cells absorb three kinds of peripheral images: one of the upper body, which includes the shoulders, arms, and hands, the