Most of our internal systems operate in rhythmic relationships; many of the component parts must be synchronized. There is an electrifying moment in the film The Incredible Machine in which two individual muscle cells from the heart are seen through a microscope. Each is pulsing with its own separate rhythm. Then they move closer together. Even before they touch, there is a suddent shift in the rhythm, and they are pulsing together, perfectly synchronized.
Just as our internal rhythms are locked on "hold" with one another, they are also entrained [atunned] with the outside world. Our physical and mental states change in rhythm with a seasonal swing of the earth and the sun, with the tides, with the day-night cycle, and perhaps with cosmic rhythms that present-day science hasn't yet isolated and defined. When these rhythms are force out of phase, disease is likely, and dis-ease inevitable.
George Leonard, The Silent Pulse. A Search For The Perfect Rhythm That Exist In Each Of Us.
Image by Henri Giovanetti
Just as our internal rhythms are locked on "hold" with one another, they are also entrained [atunned] with the outside world. Our physical and mental states change in rhythm with a seasonal swing of the earth and the sun, with the tides, with the day-night cycle, and perhaps with cosmic rhythms that present-day science hasn't yet isolated and defined. When these rhythms are force out of phase, disease is likely, and dis-ease inevitable.
George Leonard, The Silent Pulse. A Search For The Perfect Rhythm That Exist In Each Of Us.
Image by Henri Giovanetti
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