Self-correcting mechanism

In a PDF booklet on mudras (the healing powers inherent in particular postures of the hand, a part of yoga), the author writes that whenever the same kind of trees start occupying the greater part of the forest, a fire starts to engulf and destroy the trees in order to provide a level field for all kinds of trees to grow. Amazing...a self-correcting mechanism in nature, much like the fish that immolate themselves in a mass suicide whenever the prey in the environment dwindles (i read this in the book The Web of Life). Since we are part of nature, the self-correcting mechanism must exist in us also. Like the bird with a broken wing that heals itself by holding the wing to its body until it attaches itself again. Marvelous. This is the kind of intelligence I was thinking about: that intelligence is spread throughout the universe. Every blade of grass and every grain of sand is endowed with it. We exhibit it rarely in art and function and that is when the human glory peaks. In physiology, the yogic exercises are designed to enhance this capacity of the body to heal itself. Intelligence in the body seems to operate best when the mind stops making undue demands of it. For thought in the mind has concomitant effect on the body.