By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
Not all the water that fall from the sky as rain, hail storm or snow find its way to the ocean. To start with some get absorbed in plants on earth to start another journey of circulation back to the atmosphere and repetitively back to earth. None goes to waste.
Some, the lucky water, is drank by humans and other animals with a percentage of it finding their way back into the huge water circulation system, via on to the atmosphere, to come back again as rain, hail storm and or snow. The other percentage that enters onto living things including people is used for their growth, remaining in their body systems as new material to elongate life and sustain it.
The next time you see water falling from the sky in what ever form know that not all of it find its way to the water systems that usher it back to the big oceans. Yet we always have had big oceans full of water. This is where nature and generally life is interesting as the Creator intended it to be.
The quotes this week are a continuation extraction from a book that when read in full will make you understand some of the questions that as human beings we have about the source of all things. It enables us through knowledge reflect on our purpose in life. I am sure the few selected quotations listed below from this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons, read and enjoy:
THE SOURCE by Dr Tara Swart
“We have these ‘gut feelings’ about one another all the time. Our intuition helps us ‘sense’ the truth of things, tuning into energy that our conscious thoughts may not be aware of. Recently, it has become trendy to talk about the gut as a ‘second brain’, but I think this is misleading and unhelpful. The gut isn’t a second brain; it houses the enteric nervous system which is one of the main divisions of the body’s autonomic nervous system, and it works unconsciously (in much the same way you breathe and your heart beats without any intervention from your conscious brain).”
“While motivation is what keeps us going when it would be easier to give up, resilience matches the drive with the ability to bounce back from adverse situations and adapt to cope better to the future. Having a clear ‘why’ inspires us to look at obstacles flexibly when they stand in the path of our hopes. Defeatism isn’t an option for a motivated person, so if you’re serious about maximising The Source and building a resilient brain it’s important to understand your own motivation.”
“When our brain seeks to apply logic to a situation, it is attempting to tap into what it knows to be the ‘rules’ of cause and effect: the idea that every action has a consequence. The positive side of this is that this should be about taking responsibility for our actions, being forgiving and learning from our mistakes – all of which are healthy states for our brain to be in. The negative side of this is that it can make us risk-averse and overcautious.”
“Strong survival emotions – such as fear, disgust or shame – can often act as powerful motivators themselves. The brain’s strongest drive is for our survival, and this is another way in which we haven’t evolved appropriately from how we functioned when we lived in caves to what we need to do to operate effectively in the modern world. It’s easy to mistake the influence of emotions such as shame or sadness, as the brain will ‘dress it up’ as proactive choice. We may convince ourselves to stay in a bad marriage, for example, because we think it’s the ‘right thing to do’ for a host of reasons. In reality, though, the true motivation may be more fear – or shame – based: we simply don’t want to be alone. The same is true for a career we have outgrown, or friendships that no longer make us feel good.”
