Connections to Health - The Key to More Fun and Profit

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CONNECTIONS to HEALTH

The Key to More Fun and Profit

The following quote is by Roger Sperry and refers to a physical body when it is in the Physiological Efficient Posture.

The Key to Abundant Energy

"Better than 90 percent of the energy output of the brain is used in relating the physical body in its gravitational field. The more mechanically distorted a person is, the less energy available for thinking, metabolism and healing."

Roger Sperry, PhD.
Medical Nobel Prize winner for brain research, 1981.
This is the underpinning of just why everyone should be having Ishta Spinal Touch on a regular basis.

What is the Physiological Efficient Posture?

This is a shorthand way for describing a body in which all of its many parts are in the correct relationship to gravity and to all of its other parts. It is in this position that the body works most efficiently. That is, it uses the least amount of resources at its disposal to maintain itself as it should do.

But what does it look like?

Well, if you stood a person in front of a plumb line it would bisect them evenly in two, left to right, and their shoulders and hips would be level and parallel. Side on, the plumb line would fall through the middle of their ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle, and the body would show smooth and regular curves; much like in the diagram below.

Physiolocaly Efficient Posture

The magic 10%

If we look again at the quote from Roger Sperry we can see that just under 10% (let's call it 10% from here on in) of the total output of the brain is used for thinking, metabolism and healing.
Just think about that for a minute. 90% of the total output of the central nervous system is used for keeping our bodies upright in the gravitational field and only 10% for everything else, or for fun and profit, as old adverts for knitting used to say.

Only 10% of the output of our central nervous system is available for digesting our food, making new body parts, composing symphonies, being good at sums, restoring, renewing and repairing ourselves, loving our families and friends, being creative, reading this newsletter, and in fact any other activity you can possibly think about!
Obviously we need to keep that 10% working so that we can reach our full potential in life.

Less than 10%

What happens if we are not in the Physiological Efficient Posture? I'm sure you're ahead of me already. The body will recruit as much of the remaining 10% it needs to offset the increased drain on the system that is incurred when the body needs more resources to stand upright.

That means even less of the magic 10% is available for everything else, or, as Roger Sperry says in the opening quote,

"The more mechanically distorted a person is, the less energy available for thinking, metabolism and healing"

Maybe I can shorten this by saying there is less energy for fun and profit.

For the most Fun and Profit

Obviously for the most fun and profit we need to do two things. We need to keep the body in its physiological efficient posture and we need to make sure that the remaining 10% isn't being reduced in its effectiveness in some other way.
Spinal Touch does both of these things simply and elegantly.

How do we lose the Physiologically Efficient Posture?

The most common cause for losing the Physiological Efficient Posture is that the body's centre of gravity comes out of balance with its centre of support, called the counterweight. If we were a static object, like a bridge for example, we would eventually collapse when the centre of gravity and the counterweight's relationship became deranged enough. However, we are not static objects but rather dynamic ones and we can compensate by chronically contracting our postural muscles. These will hold us up against gravity; but at a cost. We use extra resources to do this, including part of that magic 10%. That means there is less energy available for fun and profit.

What reduces the effectiveness of the remaining 10%?

The main cause is misalignments of the vertebrae. Normally the postural muscles will correct any misalignments of the vertebrae, but if they are too busy holding you up against gravity then they are not flexible enough to do their job. When vertebrae misalign they compromise the nerves going through and around those joints thus reducing the effectiveness of the magic 10%. So there is even less energy available for fun and profit.

What does Ishta Spinal Touch do?

Ishta Spinal Touch, suavely and with great ingenuity, returns the centre of gravity to its correct relationship with the counterweight, and so restores the Physiologically Efficient Posture. The postural muscles, now freed from the task of holding you up against gravity, can get on with the job of correcting those pesky vertebral misalignments allowing as much of the magic 10% as possible for fun and profit.

To attain your maximun Fun and Profit talk to Sue, Allyn or Alaine.