Structure and function go hand in hand, and as humans our ability to adapt and flourish in our environments has a direct correlation to the integrity of our structure.
When the structure becomes overburdened which is often the case in our society our ability to adapt becomes less efficient, we become a lesser version of our best selves, as if there were a dimmer switch attached to us that turns down our potential without our awareness.
As we engage with our worlds our nervous systems do their best to keep us in equilibrium, but there is so much stress in our environment that our nervous systems have difficulty remaining balanced, that is a healthy state of growth, healing and restoring compared to guarding, defense and survival. Also called Sympathetic compared to parasympathetic.
Modern culture has skewed the balance to chronic state of survival mode and dominance of the sympathetic branch off the nervous system, which is considered to the “Fight, Flight” branch. when we have dominance of this state we have trouble healing, restoring, resting, digesting, procreating and anything that resembles clarity, harmony and peace within ourselves.
The results of this societal imbalance speaks for itself, chronic disease is rampant along with pain, infertility , gut issues, depression, anxiety, brain fog and a host of other issues. The cure for this imbalance isn’t more of the things that helped create it in the first place but education on what causes these imbalances, then with that power what we can do to begin to shift our state of being or in other words shift our relationship to our environment.
The combination of knowledge and the physical removal of tension via chiropractic care is a powerful antidote to our chronic imbalance.
We live in a stressful world. Our nervous system is constantly striving to find equilibrium amongst this stress. Guarding or what we call survival instinct creates tension and is the body's response to the stress in our daily lives. This tension if not dealt with builds on itself creating a snowball effect that depletes the vital energy of the body resulting in symptoms and dis-ease. Put enough stress on anything in this world and it will eventually breakdown. Finding and removing this tension is a necessity not a luxury and this is the goal of chiropractic care.
"your body's ability to heal is greater than anyone has permitted you to believe"
“WE CHIROPRACTORS work with the subtle substance of the soul.
We release the prisoned impulse, the tiny rivulet of force that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells and stirs them into life.
We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues the scents to flowers with the glory of the air.
In the dim, dark, distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms.
Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast.
Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all.
With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the forms, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.
And yet you ask, ‘Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?’
Have you bore faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the innate power that animates the internal living world?”- B.J. Palmer