I have a sense from the comments I’ve read that you all are enjoying this SENSE-ble look at a healthy lifestyle. I’ve enjoyed writing these refracted blogs and learning from them. I hope you’ll be attracted to the fifteenth sense I’m sharing: magnetoreception.
Although not totally understood how sensing magnetic fields work in the animal kingdom, there is much evidence that it’s successful. Magnetoreception can be found in bacteria, insects, and all major groups of vertebrates. The migratory practices of birds, monarch butterflies, and salmon are classic examples of their ability to find the right direction on this earth.
We humans don’t seem to possess a magnetic sense, but I do think I have a magnetic personality. I sense changes around me; however, I have been pulled in many different directions — some right and some wrong.
I’m not afraid to admit that I’m directionally challenged. I get turned around so easily. I get lost even when I have access to maps and a compass.
As on any journey, there is a starting point and the desire of where you want to go. I started my journey on getting healthier late in my life. I can’t explain why I waited so long. It took being over 320 pounds and several health scares to make sense to know I was going in the wrong direction.
There have been many times I didn’t detect the correct magnetic field. I was attracted to the wrong things. Having problems in finding the right way is extremely challenging. Luckily, I’m not afraid to ask for directions.
Discovering TOPS was my best course correction I could ever make. It’s better than any map or compass I was using. TOPS is my GPS, helping me find the right magnetic fields to follow. I have had good success, but the challenges continue.
My journey is ongoing, and it’s comforting now that if I start getting lost, I know what to do. TOPS is my magnetoreceptor.
This is part 15 of the multipart series, “A SENSE-ble Look at Healthy Living.” In my next blog, we’ll look to tension sensors.
Missed the beginning of our journey through the human senses? Check out the rest of A SENSE-ble Look at Healthy Living.
By Nancy Strauss December 25, 2021
Rick I go to visit my sons 2 live in Dallas and 1 in Biloxi and always got lost. I changed my cell phone and there is an app that my sons can always tell where I am. My oldest son got me out of a part of Dallas I had no idea where he came and led me to the interstate that I needed to be on. My sons are awesome they watch out for me ALL THE TIME.
By Sandra Frieday December 25, 2021
Hi Rick,
Thank you for your words of encouragement to get us started in the right direction for 2022. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!
Hugs,
Sandy
By Mary Rismeyer December 24, 2021
Thanks Rick for the article. I am so directionally impaired that I tend to rely a lot on the map quest. When we are on the wrong path we need to turn around to turn it around. Losing weight is a multitude of ups and downs and it is good to have that TOPS support to help though those times.