The surroundings

• We are borne into our homelands, nurtured, grown up, living & contact our surroundings
• Due to dynamic temporal, spatial & circumstantial flux, the places where we play, study, live, work, rest & pass would be different - the degree of variation depends on the individual, family or community
• We are basically living between heaven & earth on the ground surface
• Externally, our communities are in constant activity, the earth is spinning about its axis, around the sun & inside the Milky Way as part of nature
• Internally, our bodies are also in constant activity - the brain is the neural centre, thinking, analysing & coordinating; the heart is the life force & circulation source; the blood is the life line; the internal organs biologically functional; the muscles provide fluid motion & control; the skeleton gives stiff support
• With the surroundings around us & we in the surroundings, the entire system is coupled externally & internally in a state of dynamic equilibrium

The influence of surroundings

• Birth:
• According to a medical research report on delivery modes, babies borne into natural environment free from piercing sounds & bright lights grow to be healthier & less aggressive than those borne into the modern hospital surgery room
• The conclusion is that the noises of people, medical tools, bright lights & smells induce babies' defence physio-systems to be active, thus babies are borne in a state of combativeness
• First impressions last, thus it is not surprising these modern babies grow up bearing that feeling of combativeness
• Growing-up:
• The childhood years are often the most memorable ones - whether for good or bad
• Compare urban & rural children; compare having a childhood with a silver spoon & one without one; compare African & American children
• Sanitary, hygiene & healthcare are essential
• Adolescence:
• Due to biological changes & socio-economic factors, teenagers are often baffled & vulnerable; they need the strength of guidance, the nourishment of care & the safety of protection
• Education whether formal or informal is crucial to body & character building - youngsters should be given the chance of choice, to choose for themselves
• Grown-up:
• As the pillar of society, whilst working for a living, also look after the health conditions of self & others
• Adults are generally less adaptive & open to new things than youngsters; this also show in their bodies as flexibility drops, fresh vitality decreases & focus deteriorates
• This leads to habitual complacency as adults tend to believe wrongly that they already know their surroundings - the surroundings are always & will always be in constant flux, changing simultaneously
• By dropping our guard, we risk danger, accident & sickness
• This is akin to the business environment, especially in the new information economy age where the velocity of change is increasingly; any organisation becoming unresponsive & complacent risk being left behind & endangers survival

Perception of the influence of the surroundings

• Perceiving something is like a bio-physical model with input (from the sensory systems), processing (in the neural system with the state of consciousness) & output (into the memorial retention-retrieval system)
• The factual environment is devoid of perceptions
• However, like physical experiments, we only know our surroundings through our senses which we then interpret (arbitrarily or in deferring degrees of thoughtfulness) & retain in neural & physiological forms
• Applying quantum theory observation that the mere act of observation itself would disrupt the natural process being observed, thus the more we concentrate purposely on phenomena, the less we perceive of its factual content & the more we retain of our conscious interpretation
• In other words, our perceptions or feelings or thoughts or relations to our surroundings are different from the factual aspects
• When the perceptions & the reality differ in more widely & deeply, we become less responsive & less adaptive, thus more prone to danger & sickness
• Educated analysis, knowledge & expertise can help to reduce the perceptual-reality gap, but what is crucial back-tracking to our fundamentals, the roots

Our roots with the environment

• I often hear people asking what they should do now, next time & so on
• People are sometimes confused with their life configurations & need guidance & help in times of trouble, fear, danger, pain & sickness
• If there are times of confusion, there must times of growth & prosperity; for without stability, we as perceptionists cannot identify chaos
• Hence, in times of trouble, look back into times of prosperity & stability
• What are the roots for health, well-being & vitality? Where are these roots now? Are they eroded, deteriorated, rotting or taken over?
• A structural collapse occurs due to lack of support &/or overloading, resulting in the structure deforming to reach its stable, equilibrium state (collapsed state)
• As such, we can collapse in on ourselves from our unstable, weak & yielding conditions to find the root conditions of stability, strength & support
• We can carry this out in numerous formats, preferably in constructive, sustainable & comfortable ways
• With thoughtfulness, care, vigilance & adaptability, anyone can reverse perceptually detrimental conditions for a more wholesome well-being