One of the bad guys on Sarah Conner Chronicles wondered why the human body he was occupying didn’t have a hip joint (ball and socket) where the shoulder is located. The implication is that the body is an inferior design or perhaps an oversight. The differences between shoulder and hip, arms and legs, hands and feet are interesting. The differences are based upon use and need for the user. It would seem the hip joint is all about supporting body weight and locomotion of the body. The shoulder joint can be seen more as a servant of the hand.

Hands and feet are similar in many respects and when people lose their hand function amazing things have been done with the feet as replacements.

Hands have very few muscles within them most of the strength and movement comes from the forearms with the energy transferred through long tendons acting like cables.

The forearms are able to rotate giving the hands very fine motor control all the way into the fingers. The elbow is a hinge joint and once the forearms rotate to a point the rotation is transferred up into the shoulder. The shoulder is enormously complex as compared to the hip. It seems the shoulder is in the business of more flexibility than the hip and yet a ball and socket would seem to provide pretty good mobility, but the deeper the socket the more mobility is limited. The deep socket is much stronger than the complex shoulder joint but would seem to lack flexibility of the shoulder.

Just as the arm is the servant of the hand. Legs are the servants of the feet. Feet are different than hands. The heel provides support for walking. The muscles operating the toes are in the feet as opposed to forearms for the hands. Toes are not as flexible although quite remarkable in their own right.

The knee is a hinge joint but the calf does not rotate so all rotation of the foot goes up into the hip. You can bend your elbow and rotate your hand, you can’t do this with your knee and foot. Again we go back to the needs of the body. Legs and feet are supporting structures, hands and arms are more for manipulation.

If we still ran on all fours, if we ever did, our shoulders would be hips. We would probably loose some of our functionality of our upper body as a biped. Particularly in the hands.

Illness is caused by dis-ease.

Dis-ease is the negation of our natural state of ease.

By the time the body becomes ill we are way beyond the awareness of the cause of the illness, fear, false thinking or wrong thinking.

1. Wrong thinking is expectations or a sense of entitlement.

2. This causes our peace to be disturbed and to judge the situation as wrong.

3. These negative thoughts cause us to create and maintain a grievance perceiving myself as a victim.

4. This comes to the emotional level by verbalizing and reliving the grievance.

5. This brings us to the physical plane and the manifestation of a illness.

Once the process has reached the physical level it is very difficult to turn it around with thoughts and emotions. Often physical medicine is needed.

Interventions before the physical level should be focusing on the return to peace. To not judge the situation. To see the whole universe as the perfect manifestation of God.

The interventions is based upon awareness. Observing the ego in action as the victim. Awareness and witnessing the perfection of the universe is the meaning of life in this form we have taken.

Sometimes I find myself aware when I’m invaded by illness (virus etc) but I am unable to do anything about it because my wrong thinking has already weakened me and I cannot stop the illness or disease.

The earlier the intervention the better. Correcting wrong thinking is simple but not exactly easy. This is, however the goal. Positive thinking, embracing the perfection is the goal.

Groucho Marx said “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” This is now a T shirt at http://www.humoroust-shirts.com. “Fake it until you make it” is used widely in our society from AA to business management. It has also come under the concept to “act as if you are *****. Kurt Vonnegut once said in Mother Night “we are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

Fake it until you make it is a technique of positive thinking. I also like it in the practice of yoga.

“Fake it until you make it so you don’t break it.”

All too often we put off doing something because we are not ready to do it right. The trick sometimes is to get it going and improve, modify or adjust it later. I like to use this in my own practice in conjunction with the “no pain” rule. Pain is a red light and stops the whole process, we never go into pain.

Errors will be made, be mindful and reduce the risk.

Fear slips in through the back door. It jiggles every lock and checks every door of my belief system.
Today it arrived in the form of the electricity, water and sewer bills. The electricity is twice as much as it used to be! Will I be able to afford it. What will I do! This is awful!

Stop! Wait! Running down the road of fear. I need a technique to rejoin me to the perfection and stop this runaway train.
Put it in God’s hands. I think of an old friend who would visualize looking up to the knees and lap of God, with a robe and sandaled feet (really big sandals and robe). She would then take the problem that was too big for her to handle and throw it up into God’s lap and say: “Here God I can’t handle this, please handle it for me” almost immediately I feel the energy shift and the burden of my fear is lifted, the weight is removed.
God’s work? Of course. Placebo, denial, self-fulfilling prophecy? For others not for me. The pragmatist in my says who really cares as long as it works.
For me God is real. If I ask authentically every prayer is answered. If I ask with manipulation God mercifully ignores my plea as if it never happened and doesn’t punish me for it. Rather I seem to become aware of the baseness of the request as if a mirror is given in answer to my small petty ego.