| When I first graduated from chiropractic college, I | | | | So why aren’t we turning up the light in our bodies? |
| moved to New Hampshire to take on an associate | | | | Turning up the health is the answer, not taking out the |
| position. While working under this other doctor, I learned | | | | dark spots; taking out the gallbladder, tonsils, female |
| a lot about how to explain the power of chiropractic | | | | reproductive organs, whatever the surgery du jour or |
| and the miracle of the human body to both patients | | | | surgery trend of the decade is. |
| and prospective patients alike. | | | | Too many people are ignoring the signs their bodies |
| One particular analogy always stuck with me when | | | | are sending them! We are all born with an innate |
| explaining the difference between health and | | | | intelligence. Our bodies all have the ability to heal. |
| sickness. I would be in a room full of people with the | | | | However, we need to provide the environment for |
| door shut. I would tell the people that on the other side | | | | that to occur optimally. If someone breaks their arm, |
| of the door all the lights were out in the hallway and | | | | and decides not visit the ER to get the bone set and |
| the hallway was left in pitch darkness. I would then ask | | | | cast, their arm will heal. However, it will not heal |
| the group what would happen if I opened the door- | | | | optimally. This may be a drastic example. Most people |
| would the light from the room we were in seep into | | | | cannot ignore the fact that their arm is broken, so why |
| the dark hallway and make the hallway brighter, or | | | | are we ignoring all the other signs. Headaches…not a |
| would the darkness from the hallway seep into the lit | | | | deficiency of Excedrine like the commercials want you |
| room and make it dimmer? Every time I would ask this | | | | to believe. Getting a headache is your body’s way |
| question, the answer was always, “Of course | | | | of telling you there is something wrong, something’s |
| the hallway would become brighter.” So I would ask | | | | out of balance and in a state of dis-ease. If your oil |
| “Why?” I would get all kinds of answers about | | | | light in the car came on and you decided to take the |
| the speed of light and so forth. But never once did I | | | | fuse out so the light turned off, does that mean the |
| get the answer I was looking for. I would wonder if | | | | problem is fixed? Or does it make more sense to |
| never getting the right answer was due to our societal | | | | check the oil?!! We need to start treating our bodies at |
| mindset of “healthcare.” I would then go on to | | | | least as well as we treat our vehicles. |
| explain that darkness does not exist but is merely the | | | | Chiropractic, yoga, reiki, massage and a regular |
| absence of light…just like sickness does not exist but | | | | meditation practice are all ways of enhancing the ability |
| is merely the absence of health. In order to make the | | | | to listen to your body and make the appropriate |
| hallway brighter we need to turn up the lights, not go | | | | adjustments your body needs. Stop turning off the |
| into the dark room and pick out the “dark spots”! | | | | lights and start turning up the health. |