Not only must provision be made for supplying the body with the proper amount of food, but attention must be given to a proper supply of oxygen for the lungs. This seems a very simple thing to do, and it is simple under natural conditions, but when we consider the unnatural conditions that have been created by man and under which the human race in civilized countries is living, it becomes a problem that requires great engineering skill. The ventilation of great buildings, streets and subways is no small problem and yet if the processes of metabolism are to be maintained in the body ventilation must be given attention.
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.
Function of the Educated Mind
The expression of Innate Intelligence through the educated brain has functions to perform that are quite as essential and important in their way as are the functions produced by the expression of Innate Intelligence through the innate brain. Here is an illustration of what is meant: Innate Intelligence sends mental impulses to the liver and produces bile independent of educated brain. But if a man is walking across the street and falls to the ground unconscious he will be mutilated by traffic unless some one picks him up and protects him. Innate is still in the body of the unconscious man, but is not being expressed through the educated brain. The Innate is powerless to protect that body from harm—it requires the expression of an Innate Intelligence through the educated brain of some other person to bring about an adaptation to circumstances and protect the unconscious man. In this case the educated mind of one individual is substituted for that of the other and the desired end is accomplished. This educated function could not be expressed in the unconscious man because of the inability of Innate Intelligence to be functioning through the educated brain.
The functions of the educated mind as pertaining to the expression of life in the body have to do mostly with the environment. It is, therefore, within the scope of Chiropractic to study the environmental conditions in order that the best interests of Innate Intelligence in the expression of life in the body be protected.