I Don't Want to Help You...

The Core of Chiropractic: 

1- All life is the distribution of energy.

2- Chiropractic manages that energy because your spine is a Fight or Flight Switchboard.  

How do you manage your energy? 

I don't want to help you.  "Help" is temporary.  Help is just for the moment. Help is passive, if you are not really in tune with yourself. 

 Hint #1: Get in tune with yourself

I want to change you. I want you to experience the same sense of personal empowerment I realized is always possible with the understanding of chiropractic's core philosophy, the most basic guiding principles of chiropractic that I discovered on my own before entering chiropractic college.  

Chiropractic is not a problem solver, it is a life enhancer. 

Hint #2: We lost these basic guiding principles early on in life, probably many generations ago.  

 My #1  reason for becoming a chiropractor is empowerment. 

I was previously a mental health therapist and saw no empowerment.  It was depressing.  That's very sad to say. 

We tend to hide behind clinical labels and it robs us of great personal transformation.  Hold this thought in the back of your mind and remind yourself how easy it is to lose sight of your own greatest internal gifts. 

Where does empowerment come from? Think back to times you were influenced by something so profound that  it motivated you to take action in a way you never thought you could.  How were you surprised by an ability you didn't think you had within you?

Yes, you have your own personal success stories.  You have proof in your own life experience.  So why do we forget we possess this talent and fall into the deep path of self doubt?  When is that destructive seed planted?

Back when my grandmother was living with us, I watched her decline.  I saw the mess of her pills. A bag full of plastic disorganization.  I did not want that to be me.  I was motivated by sympathy.  Possibly disgust.  Her quality of life before the stroke wasn't terrible, but she already had a poor outlook of her own existence that is actually embedded in our culture. 

I enjoyed my educational pursuits while studying clinical counseling.  I knew it could make a difference.  The system, however, is mired in negativity.  Sorry, this is my opinion, but I don't want to be treated in a system like this.  That is why I pursued chiropractic. 

But the empowerment is lacking in the current system involving chiropractic.  I should not be surprised. Chiropractic follows the same government authoritative body and is just as problematic unless I am willing to step aside from the rat race of mainstream methods. 

I know I help people, they tell me. But do I change people?

I'm not satisfied with helping.  I want to see people change in a way that transforms their lives, where they have optimism and see results from their actions. 

You have the inborn traits that protect you, replenish your spent tissues and keep you alive.  It is downplayed in the mainstream models of health care. 

You can approach chiropractic as an intervention.  I prefer to approach it as a CELEBRATION.  This completely changes the intent but also it changes the state of your nervous system. 

The early chiropractic trail blazers were a part of this. But, it's so typical, if you're not careful you fall into habits of complacency.  You forget the chiropractors who went to jail for their craft.  You forget the ten year lawsuit that stopped the American Medical Association from conducting illegal activity against chiropractors. 

Let's get back to you.

Where are you today?  How do you view your energy?  How do you view your future?  I'm not talking about back pain and how you rate your pain from 0 - 10.  To me, that is a depersonalized way of categorizing your current state. It doesn't go deep to the deep person that you are. 

The Chiropractic Lifestyle.....yes it is a way of life that remove you from the negativity that we often get too stuck in. 

Stop reading this blog and get in the office.  

That's it. 

See you at the table.

The chiropractic table. 

Check out the book:  CLICK HERE

The Spine is 

a Fight or Flight Switchboard.

Don’t Blow a Fuse.

Get Adjusted. 

Fight or Flight is Essential.

Exaggerated Fight or Flight is a Thief.

Prevent Nervous System Melt-Down.

What the Textbooks Got Wrong

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Reminder: The core of chiropractic:    1- All life is the distribution of energy  &   2- Your spine is a Fight or Flight Switchboard  (I'll go deeper in the health class:  FOF School, Sat. May 9, 10 AM)

So, what did the Textbooks get wrong?

I came from the mental health arena years ago before I switched to the mind-body approach of chiropractic.  (Chiropractic helps the mind, you say?  That's news to me.  Yeah, that's the modern monopoly depriving you of health freedom.)

My mental health clients were falling through the cracks.  Psychiatry and talk therapy weren't working while their primary care physicians couldn't get them out of pain, either. 

What I saw in practice was that no one with illness or disease presentations really followed the textbook examples.  To get around it, the authors would say "the classical presentation is...."  But this is why there is an art, science, and philosophy in the healing arts. 

What is overlooked is how the nervous system wires itself to become hypersensitive.  It is different for each of us.  Which makes you the expert of yourself.  

The problem is, you were never taught how to analyze how your stress perceptions impact your health.  Your health challenges are blamed on irrelevant factors that make you feel worse about the whole situation. 

Let's take a dive into it.

1- Chiropractic re-sets the brain.  It helps you rewire patterns you want to keep and others you want to let go. 

2- Fight or Flight School helps you boost your chiropractic and give you insights to your own unique nervous system so you can influence you positive nervous system activities. 

See you Saturday, May 9th, 10 AM.  Please RSVP.

Can't make it?  Look for more future dates.  

See you at the table.  ----The Chiropractic Table

The Spine is 

a Fight or Flight Switchboard.

Don’t Blow a Fuse.

Get Adjusted. 

Fight or Flight is Essential.

Exaggerated Fight or Flight is a Thief.

Prevent Nervous System Melt-Down.

   

The Wounded Life

 We tend to hide behind clinical labels and it robs you of great personal transformation. 

Time-Sensitive Commercial Here  - Please take advantage of Fight or Flight School. May 9. A Better Way to Explain Your Pain

Where do you feel weighed down in your life?  Where is this stored in your body   CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

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The Wounded Life

We tend to hide behind clinical labels and it robs you of great personal transformation. 

When we're born we are fresh in the world.  A clean slate, so to speak. As we grow, reach milestones and develop our personalities, we slowly get wound up.   Imagine a new string wrapping around you.  

Each new experience wraps a new string, you become an expanding ball of yarn.  But sometimes the experience is tense, unnerving, or traumatic. What if these events tighten the ball of yarn?

As the nervous system responds with fight or flight reactions, the yarn is tightly wound. 

As you discover you have abilities to achieve something, create something, be a part of something that brings you pride or excitement the ball of yarn loosens. 

Life is a repetitious cycle of tightening and loosening.

You can be a soft ball of yarn that is flexible.  Or, you can be so wound up that you bounce hard and end up lost, far away from everything that matters to you. 

So, this is just a simple metaphor that might have meaning to you.  Sometimes all the clinical language in health care bars you from making any progress. 

In the chiropractic world, a compressed spine keeps you in a chronic state of tightness.  When your body has inflexibility your access to the world is limited  Your belief system will also suffer inflexibility because your brain can no longer see options.  Inwardly you lose faith in yourself.  We want to prevent that. 

I became a chiropractor because it brings freedom back to people.  It empowers the nervous system to give you back your energy. This is healing energy that rebuilds you.  

We tend to hide behind clinical labels and it robs you of great personal transformation. Your back pain has inflammation so we are told to fight the inflammation with an ibuprofen, turmeric or a plant based diet.  The tension does not come from inflammation.  So, "fighting" inflammation isn't going to solve the problem.  

Addressing the inflexibility in your life is the deeper, more rewarding approach. 

A life of stress is an energy thief.  It should ebb and flow.  When energy is spent, it is paid back.  

Why get adjusted?  Your body will change when your brain experiences a change.  The adjustment changes the state of the nervous system from fight or flight to strong and confident.   The adjustment changes the state of your mind, giving you the confidence that expands your world, making you powerful participant in the world. 

Here's the book that goes along with this theme: You Don't Have a Disease You Have a Nervous System

What do you do when someone gives you a strange gift?

The Spine is 

a Fight or Flight Switchboard.

Don’t Blow a Fuse.

Get Adjusted. 

Fight or Flight is Essential.

Exaggerated Fight or Flight is a Thief.

Prevent Nervous System Melt-Down.

A Better Way to Explain Your Pain

Where do you feel weighed down in your life?  _?_ And where is it stored in your body?    __?__

People typically speak about back pain, neck pain, headaches, allergies, fatigue, anxiety, dizziness, IBS... and more ....

This is the focus of  Fight or Flight School. 

Fight or Flight School Starts May 9, 2026              In the Office      (10 A.M. - 11 A.M.)   Please R.S.V.P.

I haven't done any in-office classes since last spring.   Life got busy. 

But this is an important topic that I can't  teach during a session on the adjusting table. 

The adjustment is the adjustment. But we need to come to the table with the proper priming.  What is your reason for seeing a chiropractor?  How can you plan for your chiropractic adjustment ahead of time?  

This is why I have a new-member orientation video.  This is why your first visit takes 2 hours.   And for all my regulars, it is important they take a refresher course every so often.   And I also have to refresh my chiropractic mission every so often, which means I will be updating the video in the near future.  I see things I want to improve.

What you bring to the chiropractic table is important: Your BRAIN and your SPINE. Because everyday is different, stress levels are different, we have to approach the adjustment that is about to take place aware of the present, but also inspired about the future. 

Last year I called the class: Body Language Declassified.  I want my folks to take a body language switch away from disease (negative) to vitality (positive).  All body responses are productive.  They are supportive.  They are not mistakes.  I this changes your entire perspective and gives you more resilience. Last year I talked about the contradictions in medical definitions that keep us stuck. 

My chiropractic education is full of these contradictions, and I decided to reframe them.  Also, I feel as if the most important information about our health has been hidden from us -- redacted. 

Chiropractic was founded on liberation & empowerment.  It took away the fear. But fear is still bombarded upon us, everywhere.  

My time in chiropractic college was heavy fear bombardment.  The disease model was emphasized and actually cut-down / insulted the benefits of chirpractic care.  I had such trouble dealing with the two-faced personality.

I don't want to make that part of my life the focus of the class, but it certainly shaped my chiropractic years. (26 years since graduating July 2000 !!)

This class will introduce the Brain Budget Protocol and how it offers you a different way to view your pain, and a different way to take care of yourself, and a different way to live. 

 A different way to live means something different to each of us. I hope to offer you a huge sigh of relief, peeling off years of unecessary stress that has weighed you down. 

Where do you feel weighed down in your life and where is it stored in your body?  People typically speak about back pain, neck pain, headahes, allergies, fatigue, anxiety, dizziness, IBS.  This is the focus of  Fight or Flight School.

Bring your questions.  R.S.V.P.   See you there. 

Here's the BOOK.....BTW.

Retired doctors tell the truth, dead doctors get buried

Doctors who jumped ship

Live Better with a Better Explanation

 

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Give yourself a fresh start. Article Here.

Chiropractic is the Gift - It Matters How the Chiropractor Wraps it and Presents it to You

 

Have you ever opened a gift, looked at it and said, "What am I supposed to with this?"

When I learned about  chiropractic, I felt it was an unbelievable shame that I hadn't heard about it until I was nearly 30 years old. 

Especially as a mental health therapist watching my clients suffer unfairly in a in a system that gaslights its patients. 

If you read my watched my New Member Orientation Video or read my book, You Don't Have a Disease - You Have a Nervous System,  I described feeling helpless watching people "fall through the cracks." 

If mental health counseling couldn't help  my clients, and medical care couldn't help my clients, what was left?  The answer: chiropractic. 

But, it requires you to look at yourself differently.  Your health needs to be defined differently.  The naturally biology run by your innate intelligence needs to be honored properly.  If not, you're using a valuable tool  the wrong way, which leaves you frustrated and demoralized.  Using a can opener like a hammer leaves you frustrated. 

We use chiropractic the wrong way and it is an unappreciated gift.  A misunderstood gift. 

My goal is to be the educator that inspires you.  

My biggest pet-peeve in the culture of health is disease language.  You're never seen as a "well" person.  You're body is treated as if it's an alien pod about to erupt like a volcano.  You're one screening test away from a detrimental diagnosis. 

You are not a broken engine that needs an overhaul. You are a diamond that needs to be polished.  

Which example makes you feel special?  

Because you are special. 

Hopefully I can convey that to you because the body is always self-preserving.  What you're feeling is not a  mistake or malfunction. It is a modification of your body systems supporting your survival. 

 When we're not "feeling right" it does not mean "something is wrong." Yes, we can influence our body by our choices.  But I don't want you to make decisions on a misinterpretation of body responses.   The brain senses a need and delegates commands to each body system.  We want to partner with this process.

I go into more detail with the Brain Budget Protocol.  It is my 4-Step System that enhances your chiropractic care.

Your spine is a Fight or Flight Switchboard.   

We flip the switches on your spine because an over-exaggerated Fight or Flight response is a terrible energy crisis.  And we don't need disease names to get us off track.  Replenishment through chiropractic care and the Brain Budget Protocol provides you the opportunity to maintain your vitality without unnecessary fear. 

Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes.  It is not medical advice.

Retired Doctors Tell the Thruth - Dead Doctors Get Buried (Part 3) Dr. Patrick Kingsley

 Chiro Commercial Here ->  Your Spine is a Fight or Flight Switchboard.  Don't Blow a fuse.  Get adjusted.

The Series Starts HERE

PART 2 Read Here

Dr. Patrick Kingsley, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 78, wrote extensively about his experiences as a medical doctor.  In 25 years of practice he never needed to write a prescription for a drug.  This was most intriguing to me.  But, the disappointment is that finding his written works isn't that easy.  The link to his website is "dead," meaning no one is paying for the domain to continue.  As it will end up, we may lose many great written works from dead doctors. 

I suppose I can look for used books.  This may take time, especially when he was not in the U.S.A. 

We are fortunate however to have access to a large number of low priced E-books on Amazon.   Hopefully they don't get buried.

Lynne McTaggert writes about Dr. Patrick Kingsley

The Audacity of Hope

Cancer Active Blog

More Doctors We Can Learn From: 

Dr. Patrick Kingsley   Read Here

Nicholas Gonzalez  Read Here

William Donald Kelley

Max Gerson

John Beard

Robert O. Becker

Weston A. Price

Francis M. Pottenger

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The Spine is 

a Fight or Flight Switchboard.

Don’t Blow a Fuse.

Get Adjusted. 

Fight or Flight is Essential.

Exaggerated Fight or Flight is a Thief.

Prevent Nervous System Melt-Down.