Your Body! The Only One You Get!

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Your Body! The Only One You Get!


The amazing body is such an incredible, masterful design! Think about it. Muscles were created differently to do specific jobs in different places. It is just astonishing how the way the fibers were developed changed the function of the muscles ability.

Bones were formed in different strengths, and sizes and densities and variations....the structure of the bone provided the support or the framework needed for the function it was designed to do. Well, that is just another architectual marvel.

Then, muscles, bones and joints work together to create movement. Together, they gave our bodies power, strength, control, coordination, balance, precision, mobility.

The amazing heart pumps gallons of nourishing blood throughout the body. Other organs were designed to hold fluids, filter fluids, get rid of solids and liquids, and even create and sustain another life.



Then there is the astonishing central command, the brain! The brain controls all of it.
So, there is no doubt about it. The body is amazing! And, it is the only one we get! It has to last us from birth to death.



Together, the entire system is prepared to last an amazingly long time, as long as we care for it, like the amazing machine that it is. We only get one body. It is ours to keep and to care for it as long as we have it.


My Fascination with the Body and the Mind



As a child, I spent many, many hours reading my father's dental, medical and anatomy books from college. I just couldn't get enough of those books. My whole life, I have been fascinated by the body.

• How it worked.


• How there can be so many different looking people, with so many different personalities, yet still have the same inner workings.


• Why and how things mess up the body's natural balance.


• Why seemingly miraculous things happen without explanation.


• Why some people seem to get better due to pure guts, stamina, desire, hard headedness, belief in others, belief in above, belief in something.


• Why other just give up.


• How the body develops.


• How the body heals itself.


• How to rid the body of pain.

I have also been equally fascinated by the human mind.

• How an attitude can affect what we do and how we do it.


• How a belief can provide total clarity or completely muck up (something) You name it.


• How strong the power of personal beliefs are.


• How our brains work, the flexibility we have.


• How much information we use and store in any one second.


• How we can recall information from long ago and forget what we did seconds ago.


• How we use our brains to communicate to ourselves and to others.

Well, this list could go on an on, but you get the idea. The brain has to be the most fascinating structure of any in the body.

Triggering the Power Within

So, as it turned out, my entire career as an occupational therapist focused on how to enable the person's body and mind to work together to achieve their desired outcome, despite whatever challenge happened to them.....

My goals were to enable people to fully participate in their lives again. But, for the longest time, as a new graduate, my first question was, "how am I going to make them improve?

I eventually realized it was never about me. It was always about the person I was working with, and their power within. The major magic, the tweaking point, the value of my therapeutic service was really how would I trigger their power within?

Well, that's it for today's thoughts. Hope you all have a great day. Stay safe and stay healthy.

Dr. Vanessa