- LIFEFORCE
- If we look at our life from the time that we are
born until the time we die, the body is in constant
motion, even when at rest. The cells for our body
are constantly dying and being replaced by new,
healthy cells. Two and one-half million of them will
die and be replaced every minute of your life. This
is a 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 throughout 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 the body does not have the ability
to recreate itself normally and disease results.
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- SUBLUXATION
- Chiropractors work on primarily one thing - the
vertebral subluxation. A subluxation is a vertebrae
that is out of alignment with the vertebrae above
and below resulting in nerve pressure and
interference of the mental impulse (life force) from
the brain to the tissue cell. This lack of mental
impulse causes a break down of the normal tissue
cells until enough abnormal tissue cells have been
formed to cause dis-ease. The Chiropractor's job is
to remove the subluxation allowing the mental
impulse to get to the tissue cells and replace the
abnormal cells with normal cells. This is healing.
When a subluxation is corrected and maintained and
optimum mental impulse is getting to the tissue
cells the body has a greater potential to heal and
stay healthy.
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- WHAT HEALS
- 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 dis-ease
known to man from within and has the capability to
heal the same dis-ease through its own innate power.
When life force is interfered with through a
subluxation, the body loses its ability to function
normally. Chiropractors recognize that all healing
comes from within through the innate intelligence
and, therefore, do not treat dis-ease or symptoms
but subluxations. In order to maximize the health
potential of the body this innate mental impulse
must not be interfered with.
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- SYMPTOMS
- A Symptom only results from abnormal weak or
damaged tissue cells. Damaged tissue occurs two
ways. One, from acute trauma and two, 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
tissue has been built the symptoms will disappear,
and a healthier body will prevail. Is this not
better than taking drugs to merely mask the symptom
while the body builds itself abnormally?
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- WHAT CAUSES VERTEBRAL
SUBLUXATIONS
- Any physical, chemical, or emotional stress-which
is greater than internal resistance, will cause
subluxations.
Physical Stress can range from
whiplash trauma to sitting at your desk day after day with
your head turned to the same side. Birth itself can exert
40 - 60 lbs. of pressure on the spine.
Chemical Stress is anything from
eating too much sugar and preservatives to breathing
environmental pollutants. This upsets the body's chemistry
which disrupts the muscles' and ligaments' tone resulting
in subluxations.
Mental-Stress is something everyone
has experienced in either tense or emotional situations,
or in everyday living. Mental stress causes the ligaments
and muscles to tighten resulting in subluxations.
- REFERENCES:
- Dennis P. Nikitow Distributing 1990
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