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The magnitude of human potential will never be fully understood. It defies imagination, for imagination itself is but one small expression of the very potential it would seek to envision. Certainly, human potential is multifaceted. To even begin to appreciate it, one would have to consider such manifestations as:
The ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment, agreed by most biologists to be the essence of life itself
The ability to convert food into walking, talking, flesh & blood.
The ability to manufacture & balance, in perfect quantity & quality: insulin, cortizone, adrenalin, & every other hormone, enzyme & chemical needed for normal life.
The ability to reproduce.
The ability to resist & prevent disease.
The ability to recover from disease & to repair injury.
The ability to engage in creative thought & analysis.
The ability to compose music, prose, & poetry.
The ability to draw, paint & sculpt.
The ability to adapt to emotional stress & to develop appropriate emotional responses.
The ability to remember some things while relegating others to the "inactive" file.
The ability to maintain balance & to simultaneously coordinate a multitude of different muscular skills for work or play.
The ability to study & learn.
The ability to add, subtract, multiply & divide.
The ability to solve problems & to organize.
The ability to make decisions.
The ability to love & trust.
The ability to accept & respond to the spoken & unspoken needs of others & to share the responsibility for the shaping of our world.
The ability to shut off conscious thought to relax & meditate or sleep.
These are but a few of the tangible & intangible expressions of human potential. What a tragedy it is for any part of this potential to be unfulfilled.
In a society committed to specialization, we tend to lose sight of the fact that all of these potentials must interact together in harmony if any are to reach their full expression. The human being is not a collection of unrelated parts, but an integrated whole with each facet dependent on every other.
The communication & control system (brain, spinal cord, nerves & chemical messengers) coordinate & run the entire human being. Damage to this control system must inevitably result in failure of the parts, to interact properly. This, in turn, causes a lessening of the ability to express full potential in both tangible & intangible manifestations.
Chiropractors are committed to unleashing full potential by maintaining the integrity of the body's control & communication system.