HOME ABOUT S2W / About Us / Our Founder & CEO / Our Staff / S2W Philosophy / Testimonials  PROGRAMS / ADHD Solutions / The Nurtured Heart Approach SERVICES / Biofeedback / Family Enrichment / Individual Counseling / Marriage Enrichment / Parenting Classes /  Trainings / CONTACT US   S2W Philosophy The Bee of Possibility The story of the bumble bee resonates with Solutions 2 Wellbeing, and that is why the bumble bee has been incorporated into our logo. Solutions 2 Wellbeing wants to help you conquer the things that might seem impossible in your life. Through our integrative and synergistic approaches we bring you solutions that will make your life more meaningful. We bee-lieve in you and in all of your potential greatness. And, that is exactly what we are going to whisper in your ear! The bumble bee represents possibilities and possibilities are what Solutions 2 Wellbeing                          has for you. Big World...Little Bee The little bumble bee has played a huge role in our world right from the very beginning.  If you ever watch a bumble bee, you will be amazed at what a quick and thorough job they perform. Bumble bees are unique in that they don’t lose their stingers when they sting something, unlike the honey bee.  Also, unlike other bees, bumble bees are active even in cooler weather which enables them to help with pollination very early in the spring.  Consequently, without the bumble bee, many plants on our planet would not be able to reproduce and their specie would become extinct.  Without all of those plants, animals that depend on them would starve and perish.  We depend on many of those animals for our food supply as well as on many of the plants that bumble bees pollinate.  As it turns out, the bumble bee, which was once thought to be a flight phenomenon (according to science), actually has an enormous responsibility in the bigger scheme of things.   The Buzz The buzz is that the bumble bee can in fact fly. It was just the science and accepted theory of the time which claimed it should be impossible.  The theory, based on the mathematical equation by Andre Sainte-Lague, an engineer, was written about in a 1934 book by entomologist Antoine Magnan.   The equation proved that the maximum lift for an aircraft’s wings could not be achieved at equivalent speeds of a bee.  Therefore, an airplane the size of a bumble bee, moving as slowly as a bee, could not fly.  Even though the science behind the theory never prevented the bumble bee from actually being successful in flight, the ideas shared by Sainte- Lague and Magnan, with reference to how bumble bees shouldn’t be able to fly, still spread.  And, the funny thing is, the legend of the flight phenomenon that defies science remains popular even today. The buzz is that the bumble bee is still flying today with the very same efficiency that it’s had right from the beginning.  The dynamics of the bumble bee really do work contrary to the accepted science and theory of the past.   And in the mean time, the determined bumble bee, as illustrated by Dawn Matheson, had the courage to do what seemed impossible at the time, and just kept on flying, believing,  that science would catch up to it sooner or later.   Science Gets The Buzz Now, science better understands the bee and why it can fly.  The bumble bee is not like an airplane; it is more like a helicopter.  Their wings work on the same principle as helicopter blades do, with reverse-pitch semi-rotary blades, to be precise. A moving airfoil, whether it is a helicopter blade or the wing of a bumble bee, can generate a lot more lift than a stationary one. The real challenge for science over time in understanding the flight of the bumble bee has not been in figuring out the aerodynamics of flight, but in figuring out the mechanics of flight.   Today, science now knows that the bumble bee’s wings can move very fast, roughly 200 beats per second, which is 10 or 20 times the firing rate of neurons in the nervous system.  Another discovery is that the wing muscles don’t actually expand and contact; they vibrate like rubber-bands.  A single nerve impulse signals the wing muscle to vibrate the wings up and down a few times until the next impulse occurs.   The Buzz Prevails Despite the early scientific theory that a bumble bee’s body is far too big for its little wings, and shouldn’t be able to fly, bumble bees conquered what seemed impossible at the time and in doing so became a motivational legend. It is just that the bumble bee was ahead of its time, being a flight phenomenon.  The bumble, as described by author Dawn Matheson, knew it could fly because it bee-lieved in the divine engineer that specifically considered the aerodynamics of the bumble bee, even before modern science could understand it. All that was needed was for science to catch up to the bumble bee.   Sometimes, that is all it ever takes with anything, because in time, all things come to light. The bumble bee was truly cutting edge technology right from the beginning. The bumble bee flew when early science stated that aerodynamically it couldn’t.  The bumble bee carried on its place in the world’s system and just kept going despite the science of the time stating that it shouldn’t be able to fly.  The bumble is truly a phenomenon of nature.  In the end, as with so many things in this world, we learn to appreciate and accept more as advancements in science bring those things to light.  The Bee of Possibility The story of the bumble bee resonates with Solutions 2 Wellbeing, and that is why the bumble bee has been incorporated into our logo. Solutions 2 Wellbeing wants to help you conquer the things that might seem impossible in your life. Through our integrative and synergistic approaches we bring you solutions that will make your life more meaningful. We bee- lieve in you and in all of your potential greatness. And, that is exactly what we are going to whisper in your ear! 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