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. 

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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.