A few days ago I watched a news report on saving baby sea lions off the coast of California. It was about how these animals were weak and malnourished and had found themselves trapped between rocks and bays with not enough strength to make it out to sea. Various teams of scientists had scoured the various coasts to find these little critters and to save them. Once, the baby sea lions were captured they were fed and taken care of for a certain period of time at a research clinic and taken to out to the shore. What had made an impression on me was to see them run toward the water once they had opened the cages to let them out. Their instinct to the water had captivated and intrigued me.
Their instinct for the ocean had reminded me of the instinct we as human being have. What exactly is this human instinct? The answer: Reason. Whatever we do has to make sense or else it is “non-sense” and it is considered as a waste of time and effort. We seek reason to arrive at a given truth or to get to the “bottom of things” as we like to call it. Searching and arriving to this goal is for us human beings of the highest essential things, because it completes, satisfy and makes our intellectual structure sound and whole, which by the way, has an effect on our whole well-being and health.
We are much at peace when we come understand certain things. However, when we are confronted with illogical conclusions and random computations our heart beat goes up, along with our stress levels and bodily functions which can take over our mind and make matters worse by acting “crazy”. But a reasonable word can come to aid, healing us and bringing us back to our senses, back to a homoeostasis or balance. We are once again mind over body.
A balance mind means that reason is allowed to roam within a person’s head and allowed to arrive at a given truth. We could say that the more reasoning a person does to get to the truth of matters, the healthier and peaceful he or she may become, after all “the truth will set you free” - as the old saying goes.
Just as the baby sea lions have an instinct for the sea because they depend on it, so do we humans have an instinct and need for “reason” to make sense of the world around us. Things that are irrational, such as, war, killing, poverty, self-depreciation, anti-education, etc., etc., are considered enemies to humanity or enemies to reason. Our instinct, therefore, prompts us to remedy and bring back to balance, bring back to a state of peace or homoeostasis the world around us. --- jlf
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