If you are very hungry and you eat some food, will your hunger go
away? The answer is, yes if you eat
enough. However, is getting rid of
hunger the purpose of food? If you eat
food regularly, will it keep you from becoming excessively hungry again? The answer is, yes if you eat enough of it
consistently. However, is preventing
hunger the purpose of food, of course not.
Even though eating food is a very effective strategy for decreasing or
even eliminating hunger temporarily, hunger will always return over time. This is the nature of life. As our bodies use up the nutrients contained
in the food, it requires more food / fuel to continue operating at peak
efficiency, and so we become hungry again.
Even though eating food consistently can be a good way to keep from
getting too hungry, it would be ridiculous to say that the purpose of food is
to eliminate or prevent hunger.
Certainly we are all aware that food serves many more important
functions than simply addressing hunger.
It is our fuel for keeping us alive, helping our bodies coordinate all
functions, adapt to the environment, heal and continue growing throughout our
lives. We all know this is true about
food, but many people do not apply this line of thinking to their chiropractic
care. Why is this?
Do these people perhaps not fully understand that the purpose of
chiropractic care is to maintain the flow of communication freely over the
nerve systems between their brain and all of their trillions of cells, so that
the natural energy of life within the body can actually perform all of the
functions listed above – animating, coordinating, adapting, healing and growing
our bodies from conception until death?
Do they not understand that without total unobstructed neurological
connection, nothing would function as well as intended?
Maybe it’s because chiropractic care in the right amount is so good at
decreasing or even eliminating pain and dis-ease? Or perhaps it is because with consistent
enough care many people can even prevent the recurrence of their health
problems? Even though chiropractic care
is a very effective strategy for helping you regain your natural state of
health and feel better, your level of health and vitality will always vary over
time, due to physical, chemical and mental stresses of every day life. If these stresses are beyond your “internal
resistance,” they break you down and you progressively lose your health and
well-being. Health (normal function and
the ability to adapt to stresses) is the natural result of the free flow and
adequate expression of your health.
When your brain and body are fully connected (because of a well-aligned
spine and functioning nervous system), they communicate effectively and your
natural health abilities are functioning, comprehending and responding to any
changes (stresses) in your daily environment.
The result is your ability to adapt to these changes with effortless
ease. In addition, you are able to heal
and continually grow in every way – physically, mentally and emotionally –
including thinking at a high enough level to make good choices in every area of
your life.
The truth is we are all growing and dying at the same time, but one of
these two processes always predominates over the other everyday. In other words, overall we are either getting
weaker and moving toward dis-ease and death, or we are growing stronger and
moving toward health, wellness and wholeness.
The chiropractic approach to life and the adjustment process allows us
the opportunity to progressively grow stronger than weaker, everyday.
So you see, saying that the purpose of chiropractic care is to eliminate
or prevent pain and illness is as short-sighted as saying the purpose of food
is to eliminate or prevent hunger! The
real purpose of lifelong, family chiropractic care is to continually maximize
the flow and expression of your natural god given health and to help everyone
consistently and progressively demonstrate the highest levels of health,
happiness and the full expression of life! Simply put, Chiropractic is about
life and what makes people live.
If this has made you think of your own life, join us and be part of the
adventure at Chiropractic Today! Visit us online at www.chiropractictoday.com for upcoming
events, to request your next appointment, or send us a question you would like
to have answered.
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