Everything in our body/mind/spirit/soul, is based on cooperation. Everything relies on information from other areas, that it then passes on, responding to. It is a beautiful interactive dance, with a synchronized flow. Our heart depends on the synchronized beating of 10,000 pacemaker cells beating together in cooperation. All the cells in our body work together. All the organs, glands, chakras, meridians, all the processes from digestion to respiration, work in cooperation.When everything is working right, our ‘System’ functions smoothly, much like a relay race, with handoffs occurring without a hitch. Our brain has information moving from one area to another, sending and receiving like an amazing switchboard or like the functioning of a super speed freeway. It flows along at a certain speed and pace.
For the most part, we don’t notice what’s going on until there’s a problem, and even then, there is an amazing neural-plasticity that occurs as the system reroutes its energetic messenger.
When everything is working it works great. But how frustrating is it when the super-speed freeway has a problem? Road construction, an accident, can really
hamper the flow! The same thing can happen in our brain. We count on it and we often aren’t paying attention until something isn’t working right.
But it’s even more subtle than that really. We compensate so that we still get things done, but the compensations take even more energy. As we get older, we become less efficient at compensating. I told people that it wasn’t that my memory was worse, it was that I wasn’t working as hard at it.
We can also slowly lose function over the course of time, and we will adjust to it.