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Distractions are all around us, and often they can send our head spinning. But is there a possibility much like when a person gets paroxysmal positional vertigo, that all these distractions could throw us off the pathway leading to Christ? In our inner ear we have two labyrinths First the Static labyrinth, which consists of the utricle and Saccule. Second, we have the dynamic labyrinth which consists of three semicircular canals, in this section of our ear there are little hairs called stereocilia, on top of the hairs we have a liquid called cupola. When the cupola moves across the stereocilia it sends a stimulus down the vestibulocochlear nerve, giving the brain a sense of balance. Occasionally, after brain trauma, a small calcium carbonate

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