Osteopathy

Today I had my first experience with Osteopathy. At first it seemed like so much quackery but as I listened to Nigel explain the process and felt the effect of the very gentle pressure that he placed on different points around the base of my skull and spine I changed my mind.

I have long believed in the irrevocable linkages between ones physiology and ones psychology. Everything that happens to the body influences the way we think and act - and every choice we make influences our bodies, health, and looks. We earn the face that we have at 50.

The new wrinkle for me was to consider our biology in an historical sense. If we say that our genes are the tangible building blocks (that we have so far discovered) then we need to consider that as well as coming from our parents they have been developed through thousands of years of internal and external influences on our ancestors and their associates. A kind of extreme view of nature and nurture. We are not just the product of our choices and genetics, but also of the choices and genetics of our history.

By extension then, our progeny and beyond are influenced by our actions and they we we choose to look after ourselves. In many ways care of our - what is the right word here - genus? - is equally important to care of the planet.

I have booked Edmund in for a session tomorrow as there may be benefits for the restoration of his brain.