Finding your way

Keeping Track

I was just reading a book on animal and human navigation ("Incredible journeys" by David Barrie). It is really interesting even though it is not always clear how navigation takes place. One suggestion was that some birds might actually be able to SEE the magnetic lines of the earth. 

One thing that struck me as unusual is the story about a lady who attempted to walk the 1,770 kilometres of the Appalachian trail and got lost on the final leg. She never finished her attempt and her body was found more than 2 years later by a surveyor who came upon her last camp. There were massive search parties looking out for her when she initially got lost but she was not found for more than 2 years even though she was only 3 kilometres off the trail. I was wondering if I would just have stayed in a tent instead of trying to find food, water and some help by just walking on. 

Against that is the fact that we have a part of our brain, called the hippocampus which is responsible for our navigation skills. In the book it says that you have to use it if you do not want to lose it and that taxi drivers in London who have to do "The Knowledge" have a far bigger hippocampus that bus drivers who only have to follow a certain route. The book also says that 85% of women admit to having poor navigation skills. It is about "reading" the signs of navigation, looking out for landmarks, in cities you have never been to, or landscapes. How often do you look up to see what is around you and how often do you take notice of where you turned right or left and how to go about it when you are coming back. It is amazing how different a landscape can look when you just turn around and go back the way you came. Try this on your next walk in the country side and see how well you are doing in finding your way.

If all fails there are actually homoeopathic remedies for getting confused while walking in open air or even for losing your way in well known streets. One of them is, funnily enough, Petroleum  which most of us use to fuel our cars and motorbikes. It is also a well working remedy for car-, train- and seasickness. But as with all homoeopathic remedies, the clue is in the patient. This means that in Homoeopathy we look at the whole person to decide which of the 3500 homoeopathic remedies are the right one. But do not worry if you cannot find your way in well known or not so well known streets or surroundings, just give me a ring on 07813 195468 and we will sort you out.