DNA OF HOPE - 2nd EXCERPT FROM ANN L.JOHNSON'S NEW BOOK
Hope
often emigrates itself into our lives through the passageway of unsolicited motivation. This is why the people, places, things and ideas we entertain are so vital as hope and hopelessness are often given to us without our permission. It is, then, motivation that creates capacity to hope when our personal desire to do so has been exhausted. Exhausted from failure, discouragement, or even previously held hopes that were unconsummated.
“Motivation has the power to give you power when you are at your weakest. It is fuel for the eternal engine of hope.”
Unconsummated hope is a consequence of timing rather than truth. For this, look no further than founding fathers of numerous corporations worldwide. Many began their companies in hopes they would become the very companies they are today. Yet, their lives ended prior to realizing this hope. Today, heirs and strangers benefit from hope originated by another person in another time past. This teaches us that hope, like energy, is never lost, only transferred. Motivation has the power to give you power when you are at your weakest. It is fuel for the eternal engine of hope. Those who motivate us cement their positive influence into our lives, and by this, transfer to us a moral debt only satisfied by motivating others for good.
Motivation is magical. Magical because of its extra-logical tendency to strengthen our grip on the tattered rope of unmet expectations. Motivation reveals the equality of fatigue that awakens us to one powerful fact; it will take as much effort to win as it does to lose – so chose the former.
Pain
is our body’s ultimate alert system. Pain is loud. Pain is rude. Pain lets us know something is wrong and places our actions on a path to take corrective actions before whatever is wrong gets worse. Although the process of feeling pain can be an emotional one, the process of our body warning us about this pain is rather technical. When we are physically injured, the injury triggers nociceptors on the tips of our nerve endings. At the moment of injury, a message is sent to our spinal cord, then to the stem of our brains, then to the thalamus which provides our consciousness with the perception of pain which causes us to immediately react. This perception is connected to our sense of touch and emotion. All of this happens in a fraction of a second. The same pathway, the same reactive process happens quietly at the genetic, cellular level. This process at the cellular level is also technical, and it can be managed. Signals at the cellular pathway are open - open to listening for directions. Admittedly, this is a very different form of motivation. This is a different characteristic of hope.
“At the cellular level we are dealing with a characteristic void of emotion and feeling. We’re dealing with a pragmatic operation that predates science itself.”
At the cellular level we are dealing with a characteristic void of emotion and feeling. We’re dealing with a pragmatic operation that predates science itself. The signal pathway of the cell is responsive. It is instantaneous with no bias towards whether you give it positive or negative directions to follow. Until now, we have been limited by our understanding of what makes us who we are at the cellular level. What makes us able to do what we can do under the forceful hand of extreme pressure? Is it simply adrenaline rush or something much deeper? The celebrated exhibitions of man’s ability are perceived anomalies, which is an incorrect analysis. Exhibitions of great courage, strength and performance more accurately represent our true self.
Our true self sending a flare into the sky of our consciousness hoping we will follow its trail down to our cells to find out where all this physical and intellectual power and came from.
Ann L Johnson's works as a Nutrigenomics Practitioner and lives in Pennsylvania, her book the DNA of Hope will be available at the end of 2016
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