The five (or six?) ideals are the “perfect” ways to 1) eat, 2) exercise mind and body, 3) structure our body like a musical instrument, especially the spine, 4) to think and relate to others in our tribe, and 5) align our tribe with others. Should “cleanliness” be considered one of the absolute ideals when a little dirt is good for us, and germs are inescapable? . . . These five or six “hygienes” would seem to cover all bases to optimize our thriving and the Genius MachineTM and make our best life linear and predictable. Only these five ideals contradict Hesiod’s ancient axiom of “all things in moderation,” and deliver especial weight in prevention, healing and longevity. The five basics are: 1) a plant-based diet where we are always safe raising the percentage of vegetables, fruits and antioxidants in our diet. 2) Placing our body and mind in meditation, mindfulness and prayer at the center of our lives with an exercise program that we see in research on Tai Chi, and less so in Yoga or meditation. 3) Fully realizing and implementing the century’s worth of findings in chiropractic, and even more so in the innovations of chiropractic biophysics (CBP) to precisely analyze and correct deviations from perfect posture/structural tuning, and actually correct them. 4) Our function in our society— how well we reduce our animal instincts to raise one another’s quality of life in our tribe or society. 5) First, within our own tribe, then later, with all tribes.
History, science and the humanities would seem to show that however much our thoughts and actions clash with the superrational ideal sets off the stress cascade. The stress cascade makes our body “grow wrong” and rot from inside out. The only real cure is the return to the ideal. This remarkable ideal is even made better and more liberal, and dare we use the word “loving”?, because of hormetic effect. Hormetic effect appears to be a universal psychosocialbiological property, where if we miss the ideal by some degree, cellular adaptations improve us to a considerable extent. Therefore, we are not fragile, but the fact that at present we have NO idea what the ideal is, and NO insight into what the small collection of true benefits and cures are—we get in trouble and rot half our lives away in mediocrity from accelerated stress and aging.
If this is a credible description of a human ideal, then the function and organization of the unit becomes circular, spherical and impregnable from any force of deformity in scale with itself. Only when forces, influences (stresses) are so sharp or prolonged as to be out of scale with the organizational integrity of the unit do they harm. We appear to have no power to change these innate expectations (because they are perfect) nor does anyone who is sane appear to expect or want to change them. This simple model, with thriving-genius at its center, appears also to be the universal definition for sanity and insanity, rationality irrationality, productive nonproductive.