Importance of Environment
If these internal processes are to be maintained there must also be a certain environmental condition which will enable Innate Intelligence to bring them about. The temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure are all important in their proper relationship. Innate Intelligence is capable of adapting the body to extremes in these different environmental conditions, but the transition from one degree to another, such as temperature, must take place gradually to allow sufficient time for the adaptative changes.
It will be observed that these changes take place more or less gradually in Nature, but man is inclined to pass from one extreme into another without thought of time needed for adaptation. For example he passes from a highly heated room into one with a very low temperature, or comes from compressed air chambers, where the air pressure is greater than the normal, into the normal atmospheric pressure without sufficient precaution to the sudden change. These sudden changes not only draw very heavily upon the adaptative forces of the body, but actually interfere with the normal functional activity of Innate Intelligence and produce subluxations. The more natural the environment, the less energy will be required to bring about adaptation and maintain the equilibrium of the functions. Even though the environment is perfect, there must be a current of mental impulses sufficient to produce adaptative action. When there is an interference with the transmission of mental impulses to such an extent that this adaptation can not take place there will be lack of function.
An environmental condition that will require as little adaptative energy as possible should be maintained. There should, therefore, be some attention given to the sick room, not that the hygienic and sanitary measures will in any sense cure the dis-ease, but that the forces in the body may not be used up and dissipated because of an environment that requires an abundance of force for adaptation.
The patient’s weakness in many incoördinations is purely adaptative on the part of Innate Intelligence to prevent the patient from continuing at work or doing other things that would require an expenditure of the adaptative energies of the body. In other words, it is for the purpose of conserving the energies that are needed in the reparatory and restorative processes necessary to bring about coördination.
For the above reason it is necessary to give attention to the sick room in maintaining a condition to which Innate may easily bring about intellectual adaptation and not draw upon the reserve carrying capacity of the nerves.