The amazing body
I think, this week, we should take a quick tour of human bodily functions. If you haven't yet realized it, your body is quite an amazing piece of machinery. Not only is it amazing in its ability to heal itself, fight off sickness, and adjust itself to any environment you might consciously put it in, it is made up of trillions of cells that are constantly communicating with your brain.
If one person, any person, in the United States got one dollar for every cell function happening in any one second of any one day, that person would pay off our national debt in less then a tenth of a second with trillions of dollars to spare.
The fact is your body is executing trillions of functions every second of every day. Perhaps you learned about cells and their structure in middle school or high school. Did you ever think about the fact that those weeks of instruction on one cell's function was actually multiplied by trillions in each and every person alive?
It's true. While you are fumbling around with Facebook posts or pondering your next career move, trillions of living, functioning cells are alive and communicating with your brain.
The most amazing thing is that you are born with an innate intelligence that allows your brain and cells to communicate without your conscious thought. I implore you to try to stifle that communication from your brain to your cells right now! Did you try it? Odds are that you failed miserably.
This is the body's innate intelligence at work. You don't have to consciously think about any of the trillions of functions your body is performing per second. You don't have to control your heart rate by thinking about it. You don't have to control your breathing by thinking about it. You don't have the thought, "it's time to blink my eyelids now because my eyes are drying out".
You really don't have as much conscious control as you think you do. In fact, there are millions of things that happened in the time you spent reading the word "millions" that you did not control. Even more mind blowing, there were actually trillions of things happening in the cells of your body when you read the word "millions".
The body is a work of art. Seeing as this is a Chiropractic article, I will preface my next point by saying that our conscious activity is a great vandal to that work of art. The things we do to our bodies are not always natural. We do great harm to our machinery, but there is a way to reverse that harm.
That is where chiropractic comes in. Chiropractic celebrates your internal machinery. It is an innate intelligence beyond your control and exists without your direct thought process. It is not, however, invulnerable. It can be harmed and many of the common day stresses we put on it deplete our brains ability to communicate with the cells, organs, and tissues of our body.
We need that communication. It is vitally important. Chiropractic helps restore your brains ability to communicate with the body by eliminating nervous system distresses in the spinal column. What you may harm consciously can be restored so that you trillions of functions per second can be performed at an optimal level. This restoration of brain to body communication is what Chiropractic is all about.
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