Article January 15, 2001 Issue

Getting well naturally

It has to do with what you're thinking.

By Nathan A. Talbot

You've probably seen pictures of a swinging bridge suspended high over the waters of a roaring river. The best way to cross such a bridge, especially if there's nothing to take hold of, is to move with its rhythm. Don't fight the motion of the bridge, but let your body move naturally with it.

We have a swinging bridge that extends some 70 feet across a creek near our home. Walking across it one day, I began to feel off balance. For some reason, the bridge and I just weren't together. Moments later I felt the wet nose of our collie Laddie push into my hand. His trotting along to catch up was not in sync with my own movement, and that was disrupting my ability to "walk with the bridge."

Thinking about it later, I realized how often events in life can have a similar effect. We can be thrown off balance if something unnatural is introduced into what might be called the normal cadence of our lives.

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