When you were conceived, two cells came together and a miracle happened. You stared to become you. Cells began to divide very quickly and the first that was formed was your nerve system (brain, spinal chord, nerves, etc.). Then cells changed into organs, muscles, bones, etc. Cells kept changing and dividing and 9 months later when you were born.

Innate Intelligence

When you were born, your body knew exactly what to do to keep you healthy. It knew how fast your heart should beat, how often your lungs should breathe, how you should digest your food, and a million other things about its own functions. Your body knew all this because it (and every other living thing) possesses what chiropractors call Innate Intelligence. This is the knowledge our bodies are born with -- knowledge that no school can teach!

Instructions from your Innate Intelligence are sent to every organ and cell in your body. If the instructions are received and followed properly, your body is able to reach and maintain its optimum level of health. However, if there is any interference with the transmission of those instructions the result is less-than-optimum health. Your body can no longer function normally. It is said to be in a state of "dis-ease."

Subluxations

All messages to and from the brain are electrical impulses traveling along a complex system of nerve fibers called the spinal cord, which extends from the base of the skull down the center of the back. It is protected by the spinal column -- sometimes called the backbone -- which forms a "tunnel" of small interlocking bones called vertebrae. Spaces between the bones allow nerves to branch off to various parts of the body.

This tunnel has to be strong enough to safeguard the nerves from injury, but flexible enough to allow the body to bend and move freely. For the most past, the spinal column does a great job. But sometimes, one or more bones gets out of proper alignment. The spaces between the bones might close up or the bones might rub against and irritate one of the nerves.

A spinal bone which has lost its normal placement or alignment, is said to be "subluxated" [a decreased ability to express life]. The impulses traveling along the nerve…[may become disrupted and altered]. This is what causes interference with the instructions sent by Innate Intelligence to a part of the body.

Subluxation = Interference = Dis-ease [meaning a lack of ease/function]

[1] Above information about Innate Intelligence and Subluxations comes from World Chiropractic Alliance’s website: http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/consumer/basics.htm

Chiropractic

The positive symptomatic results experienced by millions are what has made Chiropractic the largest drugless healing art in the world. As the public has experienced, countless conditions resolved when, through Chiropractic, the healing power of the body is unleashed. Yet there is more to it!

Could it be that Chiropractic is more than providing care for back and neck problems? Is it possible that it is more than assisting the healing process from various aches, pains, symptoms, sickness or diseases? Could we be shortchanging ourselves by utilizing Chiropractic care in those limited ways?

Chiropractic is also about deepening the inner connection to one’s essence. It is not about feeling less by numbing symptoms. To the contrary it is about feeling more and being more aware and alive. It is about experiencing life fully. It is about healing and feeling. Ultimately it is about Quality of Life!

The nervous system is the medium used to transfer Life Force encoded with information, in the form of mental impulses, from the brain cells to the tissue cells.

It is by far the most important system of our body.

The spine houses and protects the spinal cord, which is the information highway of our being. It is not only the “health key board” of our body but also its support structure; just like the “spine” of a building.