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Philosophy of
Alpine Family Chiropractic
There is no magic pill!
When it comes to health
there is no magic pill, no magic adjustment, no magic
exercise. There is just a sequence of events that are
either healing or destructive. These events can fall
anywhere on the spectrum, from extremely destructive
like a car crash, or mildly destructive like a cup of
coffee. Likewise, healing events can fall anywhere on
the spectrum from something extremely healing, like a
juice feast, to something mildly healing, like a walk in
the park.
Thus we begin to see that health or sickness is made up
of a series of choices and these choices shape our
life. I am not saying that you must make perfect
choices all of the time I am just saying that the good
should outnumber the bad. What percentage of good vs.
bad decisions you need to make in order to heal depends
primarily on the level of your health and the processes
going on in your body.
There are three main areas of insult to your system and
thus there are three main areas of focus when healing
your system. The three areas are Physical,
Chemical and Emotional.
Physical.
A car wreck has severe physical ramifications on your
body, like any injury, tissues are damaged and must be
repaired for the body to be able to function again.
Other areas of physical insult include misalignments of
your spine, not getting proper exercise, and not getting
enough sleep.
Our nervous
system is the master system in the body, it controls
every function of every hormone, organ, gland, and
tissue. Misalignments in the spine cause interference
in the nervous system. This interference causes a
decrease in the nervous systems ability to properly
regulate itself, this leads to the breakdown of the
body. That is the value of chiropractic. Many of you
have sought out chiropractic for pain relief, and it
will do that, but the value of chiropractic is its
ability to help you regulate the master system in the
body.
Chemical.
The chemical side of health is often the hardest one to
reign in, and the one that is focused on the most, but
when it is broken down to an elemental level is quite
simple. Good in good out.
When you put good things in your body, good health comes
out—when
you put bad things in, bad health comes out. You can
not expect to eat processed foods for 20 years and come
away with the same blood chemistry as someone who ate
whole organic foods. It goes back to choices.
Health is a series of good choices over time. The
problem that I see most people running into is that they
want the best of both worlds, they want to put bad
things into their body, take a magic pill or two (maybe
pharmaceutical, or the next miracle vitamin) and then
expect good health in return. That is not how the body
works, if you put in bad things, with a little bit of
the good things, you get slightly above horrible health.
Emotional.
Emotional stress is one that we are not going to touch
on to much, not because it is not important but because
I am less qualified to do so. This much I will say,
take care of the physical and the chemical factors in
your life and the emotional factors will begin to take
care of themselves. I have seen depression and anxiety
totally corrected with nothing more than chiropractic
adjustments.
I have also
seen it corrected with nothing more than taking away the
processed foods and additives. I have seen ADD and ADHD
that is cured without the use of drugs, only by taking
away the physical and chemical stresses in the children.
In conclusion, I would like to remind everyone
that the body is a miracle; that it has in it a power;
that it can heal itself of any infirmity. No disease is
out of its scope for healing. It needs no miracle pill.
It is the miracle.
Simply remove
the things in your life that are keeping the miracle
from fruition. |
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