The Safety Pin Cycle – Understanding Nerve Transmission

 


Your nervous system is the master controller of your life!  Your brain is not only in charge of the conscious decisions of your daily life, but also helps control and coordinates everything happening in your body in each moment.  Every second of your life, there are over 100,000 chemical reactions that occur in your brain.  Your brain is very complicated, and yet truly defines you as YOU!  A great analogy to how your brain works with your body is that of a SYMPHONY. 
 
The conductor of a symphony directs all the musicians, so that they can play in harmony and in sync.  When the conductor is communicating effectively to all the musicians, there is great potential for beautiful music.  Each band member plays their own role, but if they are not coordinated well with the other musicians, they will stick out like a sore thumb and take away from the experience of beautiful music.  The two basic principles that must be established for a beautiful symphony;  1.  Each musician must have the skills to play their part well.  2.  The musicians must be coordinated to play together.
 

Complete Nerve Transmission Cycle

How does this relate to your nervous system exactly? 
                                                                                             
Imagine all the musicians as each tissue cell (T.C.) in your body.  Each T.C. has a role and purpose it is designed to carry out.  Your T.C.’s interpret your environment (internally and externally), and send information to your brain via the afferent (Af.) nerve pathways.  Your brain acts as the conductor of your body, and makes constant decisions on the best course of action for the T.C.’s throughout your body on how to function best and in harmony with one another.  Messages are sent from the brain cells (B.C.) via the efferent (Ef.) nerve pathways back to your T.C.’s in order to carry out a function.  When this process is occurring without hindrance, your body is able to function at a high level, like the beautiful music of a symphony.  Oh, by the way, the human body has somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 - 90 trillion cells!!  That is a lot of cells for the brain to direct!
 

Chiropractic Safety Pin Model

In summary, there are THREE components that must be in place for proper/ideal functioning of your body. 
#1.  Your BRAIN must work well. 
#2.  The PARTS of your body must work well. 
#3.  The NERVES connecting your brain to your parts must work well.
 
In my next blog I will go into more depth on ways to help #1 above, and help insure that your BRAIN works well. 
 
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