Understanding Process

Braces, analogy for understanding the process of success or healing.

The need for braces, its just plane genetic defects. Your jaw structure is so big and your teeth are bigger so it forces them in different directions. There is overlap and what is called crowding. Now you can get all upset that its not the way its suppose to be or you can do something about it and go see someone who is an expert in the field, a dentist who has been trained and has the proper equipment and he will x-ray what you can't see, he will cut out and sacrifice some of the other teeth so there is room, eliminating the crowding. Then he will put the braces in and tighten the screws and you will keep them on for a year or two. You will have to put up with the humility of wearing them because food will get stuck to them, they will be uncomfortable and sometimes painful and after a while you will get used to it and won't even notice. And even though you will not be able to notice the daily changes after a couple of years the dentist will remove the braces and you will have beauty and function where you had neither before. Its a process that in the moment you can not notice the difference but the compounded effect of doing the thing, to keep keeping on will prove itself before to long. The key is to do the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable and continue in the process and you will succeed.