Dominican Trees…

While watching the Dominican Republic slide show or looking at the picture on the Appreciate Innate wall, take a close look at the beach pictures.  I intentionally took these pictures of the palm and coconut trees that grew on the beach.  Look at how they are shaped.  They have a curve.  Why do you think that is? 

 

One thing I know is that there was a very stiff breeze blowing off the Atlantic Ocean while I was there.  The wind on the North Shore of the Dominican Republic attracts Kite Surfing enthusiasts.  They even host an annual pro-kite surfing event every year.  I felt like the two main characters from the movie Titanic while they are standing on the bow of the ship, leaning into the wind with their hand spread wide.  I had to lean into the wind or I would have been blown over.

 

The same is true for the trees, except they spend their entire life fighting that wind.  Think about a little sapling coconut tree or palm tree.  They have very little root structure and are flimsy.  I would have to think they were blown around by the wind.  So much so that they started to lean away from it.  Not from their own doing but just from the mere force of the wind.  But as that tree grew older and stronger it started to bend into the wind.  The same way we would lean or bend into the wind when walking so as not to get blown over.

 

The expression of innate is always 100% correct.  Innate allows us and the trees to adapt to our surroundings.  The same holds true for innate regarding our health.  Innate will always, 100% of the time, produce the most appropriate action for the body to take in any circumstance.  If you eat bad food, you vomit to expel it from the body.  If you sprain your ankle, you have pain to prevent you from walking on it causing further damage.  If you injure your back, you’ll have pain.  If you are stressed you’ll get a headache.  Who are we to argue with and suppress innate?  Chances are we’ll be worse off than before. 

 

Just think of what would happen to the trees if they never grew into the wind.  Sooner or later their palms would be absorbing the wind, like a sail or a kite and eventually blow over.  So they grow into the wind to compensate.  We get adjusted to express innate maximally so you express health.

 

Next week is “Bring a Friend to the Chiropractor Days.”  Who will you be bringing?  Let Jean or Dory know.