Does anxiety and worry frequently interrupt your day or keep you up at night?
You’re not alone. Over 40 million adults in the US suffer from anxiety disorders, making it the most common mental illness.
And with the stress of the past few years, rates keep rising.
The standard treatments for anxiety include therapy, medication, meditation, and breathing exercises.
While these can help manage symptoms, they often don’t address the root physiological causes.
What most people don’t realize is that coordination challenges and retained primitive reflexes are huge hidden contributors to anxiety.
Let’s break down the science:
How Motor Skills Are Linked to Anxiety
- The cerebellum coordinates balance, motor control, and cognition. Underdevelopment here impairs all these abilities.
- Poor cerebellum integration prevents developing higher postural reflexes. So lower primitive reflexes persist.
- These primitive reflexes keep the brain stem in a state of heightened arousal and reactivity.
- This fuels excessive anxiety, worry, rumination, and sensitivity to stressors.
- Retained reflexes also contribute to poor balance, coordination, and body awareness.
- We experience the world through our bodies. So awkwardness and disconnect feed anxiety.
- Impaired motor skills lead to avoidance of activities and sensations that trigger fears.
- A vicious cycle results: anxiety inhibits movement critical to development, which in turn worsens anxiety.
The Key Role of the Reticular Activating System
- The reticular activating system filters sensory signals, controlling attention and arousal.
- With underdeveloped motor pathways, it remains overactive as if constantly scanning for danger.
- Trouble filtering stimuli leads to feeling overwhelmed and mentally scattered.
- Anxiety fuels the reticular system’s hypervigilance, further feeding fear responses.
How Movement Retrains Neural Connections
- Motor, sensory, and emotional regulation centers share neural real estate in the brain.
- Precise, coordinated movements stimulate cerebellar and cortico-thalamic pathways.
- This allows primitive reflexes to integrate and postural reflexes to emerge.
- New neural networks forged through movement enhance processing, cognition, and control.
- As coordination improves, so does communication between the mind and body.
- We gain body awareness and feel more centered, focused, and regulated emotionally.
The Feel Good Solution
The Feel Good program uses a progression of sensory-motor exercises to short-circuit anxiety at its physiological source.
The 12 stages are designed to:
- Reduce persistent primitive reflexes
- Develop postural control and stability
- Improve balance, coordination, and skill sequencing
- Increase body awareness and midline crossing
- Regulate sensory processing and emotional control
- Enhance focus, memory, planning, and execution
This strengthens the channels between mind and body.
Participants complete developmentally sequenced movements that rebuild foundational abilities. Proprioceptive input, bilateral motor control, and vestibular processing are targeted.
Over 50,000 people have achieved lower anxiety and greater focus in just weeks with Feel Good exercises. The gains become ingrained over time.
You can’t think your way out of anxiety caused by underdeveloped pathways. But you can move your way to calmer days and restful nights.
If you or a loved one deal with anxiety, coordination struggles, or ADHD, visit [link] to learn more about the Feel Good solution.
Why struggle through another day feeling mentally and physically off-kilter? A more coordinated, focused, confident you is waiting.