Biologic plasticity is simply the body’s dynamic relationship and responsiveness
to its internal and external environment. In its most profound sense,
it is the potential to create a more vibrant life as free from dis-ease as possible
...physically, biochemically and cognitively.
Responding to Our World
However, there are three paths that biologic plasticity allows for:
One of homeostasis, which relies on strategies that have evolved through generations of evolution...the body’s ability to maintain a functioning internal environment. In this scenario, a person could be healthy or have intermittent symptomatology, but not ongoing disease.
One of survival, which develops any time from conception of the individual and is at the expense, the health, of systems or biochemical pathways. This is the response that ultimately results in disease, depression, anxiety, etc. It is "robbing Peter to pay Paul" and is its best attempt or choice for survival given the circumstances with which it is faced. Homeostasis is compromised.
The optimal pathway results in increased strength, responsiveness (flexibility) and evolutionary growth. It is working from a place of efficiency and strength, rather than directly addressing deficiencies and weaknesses.
The three aspects of our “being" entails movement and spatial awareness (physical), metabolism and biochemistry (cellular) and our deepening awareness of our “self" and our relationship to all that is not (mind/cognitive) are intimately connected and have an immediate and impactful effect on one another. This connection is experienced through the ease and effort propogated by the tensegrital organization of our being and is intimately entwined from the cellular DNA to our fully organized conscious being. From biomechanics to cell shape, motility and DNA expression, tensegrity is at play.
We humans are more than simply conscious. We are self-aware. Consciousness is the experience of one's existence and with that comes varying degrees of understanding, from merely reflexive to one with profound potential for learning and self-discovery. Human self-awareness is not only understanding that one exists, but an awareness of one's desire for deeper meaning of that existence. At the core of our awareness, what drives it, lies curiosity and a desire for intimacy...wanting to understand and be understood...wanting to love and be loved...and ultimately, the desire for the “illusion" of oneness. For how can there truly be oneness with separation? Oneness is like moving half the distance to a wall, and then half the distance again, and again...and again. You can get very close to the wall, yet you will never quit get there. As we will see, self-awareness is ultimately, not about self-discovery, but the realization of the illusion of self...our illusion that comes from the effort of the wants and needs in our attempt to maintain and define our "self"...who we think we are.
It is a common belief that nutritional deficiencies cause, or are at least partially to blame for general ill health and chronic disease. What if we consider another possibility...that aberrant cell function is a more significant problem than nutritional deficiencies?
The cell always responds appropriately and innately to its environment. If its environment is less than optimum, then its response will be less than optimum for the health and vitality of the individual. In a severely compromised cellular environment, the response is one of survival...of simply trying to maintain homeostasis.
Continually requiring a specific metabolic demand to be addressed not only creates nutritional deficiencies concerning that pathway, but also compromises other metabolic pathways, thus creating additional nutritional demands. A compromised relationship between two metabolic pathways results in symptoms and diseases which are seemingly unrelated, unless the metabolic relationship is considered. Thus, dis-ease is not a singular entity, but an expression of a metabolic “relationship” that is out of balance (i.e., a continuous metabolic push or stress).
This is a new paradigm of exercise and movement in which the primary focus is to create a more efficient and vibrant life as free from effort, apprehension and hesitation as possible. It is working from a place of efficiency and strength, rather than deficiency and weakness. The cornerstone of this approach is the inter-relationship between exercise, diet, various parameters of movement, and what it means to live with clarity of mind, physical strength and power, and the Presence that culminates when these qualities are attained effortlessly.
