7. Your body has an
innate healing wisdom
If we look at our lives from the time that we are born until
the time we die, our bodies are in constant motion, even when at rest. The
cells of our bodies are constantly dying and being replaced by new, healthy
cells. Two and one-half million of them will die and be replaced by the time
you finish reading this. It is a completely normal process.
Health can be defined as the ability of the body to replace
the cells and tissue structures normally and consistently. There is an innate
intelligence within each of us that is far superior to our educated brain,
which creates and recreates us on a continual basis. In order for this process
to occur, life force (mental impulse) must be flowing through the body to all
cells and tissues. Its medium is the brain and nervous system. The innate
intelligence directs this life force to every cell and tissue of the body. When
the life force is free of interference, the body is at its maximum health
potential. If the life force is interfered with, however, the body does not
have the ability to recreate itself normally and disease results.
Only the body has the ability to heal. There is no pill, potion,
surgery, or anything else that can heal from the outside in. The body has built
all disease known to man from within and has the capability to heal the same
disease through its own innate power. When life force is interfered with
through a subluxation, the body loses is ability to function normally.
Chiropractors recognize that all healing comes from within through the innate
intelligence and, therefore, do not treat disease or symptoms but subluxations.
In order to maximize the health potential of the body, this innate mental
impulse must not be interfered with.
A symptom only results from abnormal, weak, or damaged
tissue cells. Damaged tissue occurs in two ways: one, from acute trauma, and
two, from the interference of the mental impulse from a subluxation. Cells of
the body are constantly dying and being replaced as a normal life process. The
interference of this normal life process by a subluxation results in the
breakdown of normal tissue cells. A symptom is a warning signal sent to the
brain from the tissue cell level to alert the brain that there has been damage.
The most common symptom is pain; however, symptoms such as burning, tingling
and numbness can also occur. Symptom threshold is different for everyone.
Therefore, some people may not get symptoms until there is massive tissue
destruction. The chiropractor does not treat the symptom. Our main focus is to
treat the subluxation, thus allowing the mental impulse to reach the tissue
cells so the body’s innate intelligence can rebuild them with normal ones. When
a sufficient amount of normal tissues has been built, the symptoms will
disappear and a healthier body will prevail.
Isn’t this approach better than taking drugs to merely mask
the symptom while the body builds and re-builds itself abnormally? I think so,
and I’ve seen the natural functioning of the body perform many “miracles” given
the right conditions (structure) to allow for it.
I encourage you to start to experience the physical and
mental improvements in well-being that will result from incorporating chiropractic
consultation into your life today. I hope you've enjoyed this series of posts on my chiropractic philosophy! Be sure to check back next week as I move on to a new topic.
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