Just A Thought In Life

Have you ever been aware of what you are thinking about at any given moment throughout the day? Even though you might not be able to answer that, but your mind is always active. Some thought, regardless of size, is constantly passing through your mind. It may be a memory, a song, or even a picture.

And what exactly is a thought? Usually they are generally short-lived, discrete events of your life. They generally are not the ordinary sounds heard everyday or the sights you are conscious of daily. Do you actually think mentally, or is a thought just a passing reflection without any given pattern? At times you do concentrate on a given theme and something constructive is accomplished. Your thoughts are creative and you become deep in thought, a thing that no other animal can do. But even so, do you actively engage in mental creation or does it come from some other source somewhere?

What are you doing right now, at this very moment? Are you engaging in actual or passing thought, or is it a mental or spiritual reflection having more or less interest? What becomes of each passing thought? Where does it go during sleep or at time of death? On such occasions. the physical body either remains dormant or disintegrates. But what about the mental or spiritual aspect? Is there a logical answer?

What is life anyway? Where does it come from and where does it go? Within the womb of the mother, for instance, a physical creation takes place and at a given time a combined reaction takes place and a baby is born with a mental and physical element all of its own. Mental impulses call for nourishment and physical growth. This takes place for a given period of time until adulthood is reached after which physical growth is arrested. Maintenance and reparation continue all through life maintaining a state of being until "death do us part."

But, what about the processing of maintaining health and function or activities of daily living. What regulates this element? What changes common food, for instance, into flesh, blood, and bones, hair, skin and nails that are then distributed when or where needed? Do you ever give thought to this reaction? Do have any idea as to how this is done in such a unique way? Does the process require pills, drugs, shots, physiotherapy or simply passing thoughts on your part?

There is a logical answer, and that is a qualified no. All functions and activity of the body are directed and controlled through the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. The spinal cord is encased within the spinal column and sends out bundles of trunk nerves through openings provided for that purpose between the vertebrae that form the spinal column.

Through this medium, sensation reaches the brain where the message is interpreted. Responding mental impulses set glands and organs to activity and function, in a process of directed or controlled, a definite activity in a state of health.

However, sometimes there is a disturbance in this process. Illness or disease takes place and various symptoms are present including pain, numbness, fever, headache, indigestion and a myriad of others. Why?

In most cases the symptoms prove as a warning that something is not functioning as it should, a red flag of sorts. Something needs to be done to correct the cause of the problem. Does this require you to take pills, tranquilizers and/or pain killers? This kind of treatment often times produces side effects worse than the original disorder. You must treat the cause!

And this is NOT merely a passing thought.