Does the Dr Heal You, or Do You Heal?

As far as I know, the last person who cured anyone was crucified for all his efforts. The rest of humanity has always had to heal. Think about every cut, bruise, broken bone, cold, runny tummy or whatever… they have always healed! You see, we have an innate ability to heal. So, why then do we sometimes not? 

What controls our body; every single cell, every single function, movement, breath, blink, thought, heart beat, digestion, balance and more? When I ask this question I’m often surprised by the answer… the heart is important of course but I hope you said the brain…and the whole nervous system.

This requires complete understanding of our body through our billions of ascending nerves. A process in the brain, and then a descending message down our spinal cord and back to the area. If this functions perfectly, our body is able to deal with almost anything unless it is overwhelmed. When this doesn’t happen well, we function less than optimally. When we don’t function at all this is known as death.

But anything less than optimal means we begin a slow deplete eventually becoming symptomatic… 

How then do we lose this optimal brain coherence?

As we go through our life we have to adapt to multiple stressors. These come through our body physically; through our mouth, nose and skin, chemically, and through our eyes and ears affecting our thoughts. Therefore, stressors are usually a combination of emotional, physical and chemical.

As we adapt to each one of the stressors, little adaptations and compensations creep into our body, and in particular our nervous system and how our brain understands what is going on. This affects how it processes and reacts, and ultimately leads to a lack of ease or “harmony” within our body. This lack of ease or ‘dis-ease’ allows our body to gradually move towards being symptomatic, and we eventually express symptoms such as pain.

Interestingly much of this neurological change manifests as poor function in the spine, and chiropractors are trained and practiced in finding these areas of dysfunction which we call “vertebral subluxations”.

Subluxation; which rhymes with “subway station”, is a chiropractic word unique to our profession. When we remove these subluxations in the cranium, spine, pelvis and extremities we effectively “hack” into the brain and nervous system, taking the nervous system (and naturally the body as it is an expression thereof) from a state of dis-ease back to ease, or as you might prefer disharmony back to harmony.

I’ve never met anyone who does NOT function better when a state of ease is reintroduced to their lives, but I have met people who don’t value it. The great thing about life is we have choices which will reflect our values. If you value a weekly takeaway supper over your health, that is where you will place your energy.

So, if our lives are an expression of how well our nervous system is functioning, is it not possible to go from poor health to good health and vitality to better to best? Here once again, we have choices.I personally consistently aim for best, because that’s where the magic happens.