Children and Chiropractic

After last month’s discussion on how vaccinations “improve” a child’s immune system, it’s important to look at the body’s own natural healing pathway without the intervention of medication that eventually suppresses it’s own disease fighting abilities. Let’s look at what really works. Alignment of the nervous system in order to fine-tune the connection between the brain and body improves immune function and all its aspects toward a healthy body and mind for newborns and adults. This is Network Chiropractic. When you study human physiology and discover the body’ communication system, you see a network of neurological connections. This system is the pathway to healing, though it is little wonder that parents, as well as Americans, do not endorse the healing powers of the body through the mind. For example, there are 3 to 9 nerve connections for every cell of the body! Parents are not aware of the detrimental effects placed upon their children from their own spinal misalignment.

Children create patterns in their body-mind connection that determine how they react with the world by watching how their parents respond to situations. They learn through conditioning. This is well known within the field of psychology, but what is not well known is the impact the spine and nervous system has on creating this behavior pattern. It is the shape, position, and tension of the nervous system that maintains this altered behavior.

This process of development begins before the child understands language. Innately they feel, at a core level, what their parents fear and love. They observe their learned spinal posture and instantly know their state of being. It is all encoded in the spine. As a result of observing the energy flow and energy blockages in their parents, they learn to redirect their energy and emotions in the same way. They may hold their shoulders tense and head forward when in confrontation or fear, imitating their parents posture. It is very common to observe similar neurological distortions between parent and child.

There are dominant patterns found in the nervous system that determines how one will react to specific stimuli. Whether it is bacteria, a virus, food or an angry person, you are powerless to react spontaneously, without the limitations of your own patterns, until this dominant neurological distortion is cleared. Your ability to trust your inner power is determined by the flexibility and integration of the nervous system. Past events that we have not fully recovered from remain in our nervous system and act as filters in which we interpret life.

Let’s say you own a dog. Observe its posture when you reprimand it. The dog will flex its head downward and tuck it’s tail between the legs. This is a learned behavior rooted from its sense of survival and kept in place by spinal-neural distortions. It is not what the dog wants to do, but by it’s conditioned response, it is powerless to what the dominant neurological distortion demands. This pattern makes a dog a man’s best friend. It is obedient and acquiescent. We fall prey to this same spinal distortion that redirects our neurological flow to suppress the potential to react naturally to any given situation. Think of these distortions as “spinal magnetic tape,” running programs that take you out of the present moment. A common symptom is the sensitivity of the body in its totality. If your awareness isn’t on your body, feeling it’s own impulses, it will pull your attention into the future or the past.

The Network Chiropractic used in our office is a system of classification and adjustment of these distortions or “spinal magnetic tape” to release the patterns inconsistent with growth and development. When you are spinally unrestricted, you are in the “now” moment.

Everyone wants to be healthy. It is our own individual nature that will allow us to take different paths to attain it. The first choice that most people take to correct their health is the medical and pharmaceutical industries. They hope to find a swift cure in a pill or some hopeful quick fix. Most Americans do not believe that our physical health is directly affected by our mental health. So they repress the emotions that are in fact causing, at some level, their illness. They will not find health on this path, but it will buy some time while life experiences show an alternative. So the next step, after cranking through the medical machine, is a more alternative pathway like herbs and natural remedies to relieve symptoms and fight illness. Although you have changed the type of pill you take, safer and with fewer side effects, you still have not changed your way of thinking about health. “Take two pills and call me in the morning” is not good enough. To maintain true health requires an understanding of what health really is. Start thinking in terms of what creates wellness instead of what treats illness. Health, in its perfect form, emanates from within, where the body functions the way it is designed – naturally, without the manipulations by medication. Built into its design are the signals from the body known as symptoms. These indicators aren’t meant to be treated with suppressive medication. Actually, the body’s intention is to feel sick so it can adapt and grow. Actions taken to treat and suppress these symptoms undermine true health and life.

When I utilize Network Chiropractic, my intent is to provide a healthier, flexible spine and nervous system so that the bodies own wisdom can achieve a healthier state on it’s own. It already knows how to heal without the concept of medicine. This is the gift of the body itself. There isn’t any need to seek expensive medical treatment. Albert Schweitzer, M.D. said, “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to work.”

No pill, potion or lotion can ever match the power of the body for creating health. Stop relying on these external promises and start working with your diet, exercise, and reduce neurological interference with network chiropractic. These are choices that will awaken your “doctor within”.