Amazing Facts About Your Hair

By Jordan Miller; 



Many in the Western world are lead to believe that hair style is merely a personal preference. For most, it is simply a matter of fashion or convenience, but for others, it is much more than just cosmetic. We recently read a rather interesting article on the reasons why many Native American people would leave their hair grow long. It basically discussed the uncovering of secret government files that documented several cases of Native American scouts that were recruited for the Vietnam war. Essentially, the documents explained that when the Natives enlisted, they suddenly lost their keen ability to track. As we read on, the article described that several studies were performed in an effort to solve what had happened; it was finally determined that the Natives were losing their ability to scout because they were obligated to cut their hair. As an enlistment measure, each new recruit to the army was obligated to get their “required military haircuts.” In essence, by removing their hair, the scouts could no longer access “a “sixth sense” their ‘intuition’ no longer was reliable, they couldn’t ‘read’ subtle signs or access subtle extrasensory information.” After several studies proving this phenomena time and time again, the Native American scouts that were being enlisted, were later exempt from the obligatory military haircut and as a result, it was required that trackers keep their hair long.

“Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved ‘feelers’ or ‘antennae’ that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.” As we can see, hair is fundamentally essential to our very structure. If we are born with it, then there is no doubt it has a purpose to serve in our life. 

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