More Energy with
Chiropractic
Chiropractic: Bringing Out the Best
in You
Fatigue is a Warning
Fatigue or low energy is a very
common condition. It can range from awakening in the morning with a chronic
tired feeling to a severe physical and psychological depression characterized
by a total lack of pleasure or sense of fulfillment (anhedonia).
Fatigue is a warning: it is one of
the earliest signs that something in our lives, physical or emotional, is not
right.
Boredom
No baby is born bored. If anyone should
be bored, it’s a baby! All a baby has to do is to eat, excrete and sleep. Babies
are full of energy, excitement and vitality; they are full of life. When a
child complains that he or she is tired all the time, or bored, we know that
something is very wrong.
A Big Mistake
What happens to our natural
curiosity, sense of wondrous adventure, and boundless energy as we age? Why
have so many adults lost, or rather, lost touch with, life’s excitement? What
happens to life’s sparkle?When adults exhibit chronic tiredness or fatigue, we don’t get nearly as concerned as when a child does—and that’s a big mistake. Life should be filled with energy, no matter what a person’s age—the biographies of many notable people teach us that well into their seventies, eighties and even nineties they are robust—full of lust for life.
The Causes of Chronic
Fatigue
There can be many causes of chronic
fatigue. They can be organic conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular
disorders and endocrine disorders; or emotional stress such as depression,
anxiety or trauma. Chronic fatigue can be due to sleep deprivation; the adverse
effects of prescribed, over-the-counter or illegal drugs; or an unhealthy
lifestyle that doesn’t permit you to “catch up” with yourself. Others feel that
chronic fatigue may be a nutritional condition that can be corrected with
improved diet.1
Spinal Balance &
Energy
A common cause of fatigue is an
unbalanced spinal column. How? A simple analogy: If you were carrying a bowling
ball, how much more difficult would it be to carry it at a distance from your
body than at your side? Your head weighs about as much as a bowling ball; if
your head is off-center, “carrying” it can exhaust you! Also, your 24 movable
vertebrae, sacrum, hips and pelvis also need proper alignment in order to make
efficient use of energy. A modest unbalance, for example, a “short” leg, could
translate into a considerable amount of wasted energy as the hours, days, weeks
and months add up. Have you ever had your spinal muscles examined? At our
office, we do a Static EMG scan that will measure the amount of contraction
from both sides of the spine for minor to major spasms. You can not feel or see
it but if you get it measured, it will be clear of how your body wastes a large
amount of energy.
”Nerve Energy”
Energy flows over your brain and spinal
cord through your nerves and other tissues, and then flows back to the brain
and spinal cord. A healthy spine and nervous system keeps your flow of energy
balanced, your immune system strong, and your resistance to disease high. An
unhealthy, unbalanced spine can interfere with the natural flow of energy
through your body, creating blockages and imbalances that may cause physical
and emotional fatigue.
Surprisingly, some people who
experience chronic fatigue often have enough energy but the energy is blocked,
locked up, unbalanced and not flowing properly. In Traditional Chinese Medicine,
we talk about a great energy that runs up and down the spine called the Great
Vessel. If that great energy is blocked and causing imbalance in your body,
then we have to look at how much heat is coming off your spine. We can measure
the heat signature from your back with Spinal Thermography. This will tell you
when there is too much, too little, or enough heat is coming out of your spine.
This will tell how much energy is being blocked and wasted in one area.
Chiropractic's Unique
Place
When chiropractors correct a mechanical
distortion in your body with a chiropractic spinal adjustment, nerve system
energy is normalized. In effect, chiropractic care heals a broken bridge
between your “physical body” and your “energy body” so that they may
communicate better with one another and restore harmony to your “body-mind.”
Many chiropractors are aware of the
biomechanical distortion in our body is known as subluxation. There is also
another aspect of the flow of energy that runs along the spine and when
chiropractic restores the biomechanical distortion, chiropractic also restores
the flow of energy.
A New Dawn in Healing
In the same way that classical
physics was superseded by Einstein’s physics when Newton’s laws could no longer
explain newly discovered phenomena, medical science is beginning to accept new
worlds of healing.
In my own practice, several cancer patients have recovered completely,
after being pronounced incurable and given only a few months to live. I didn’t
think they were miracles; I thought they were proof that the mind can go deep
enough to change the very pattern that design the body. It can wipe mistakes
off the blueprint, so to speak, and destroy any disease—cancer, diabetes,
coronary heart disease—that has disturbed the design.2
Anyone who is aware of the recent trends in medicine will realize that
modern physicians—like the physicists before them—have begun to deal with finer
and finer forms of energy both in the diagnosis and treatment of human illness.3
Vitalism—Life Energy
Today the study of the energy quality
of the body is a new frontier of healing. It’s called energy medicine and
Robert Becker, M.D. explains it eloquently:
Today…many physicians are re-examining and applying therapeutic
techniques that were previously discarded as “unscientific” by academic
medicine. The use of foods, herbs, meditation, and acupuncture [represents]
only a few examples… The chemistry of life has been revealed to be based upon
the underlying forces of electricity and magnetism. Our bodies and brains
generate electromagnetic fields within us and around us… Current popular
healing practices use an invisible common source: the body’s innate electrical
systems. 4
Conclusion
All your body systems run on energy
and, when properly working, give you an abundance of the energy and life with
which you are naturally endowed. There is abundant energy within you all the
time. Unfortunately, it can get blocked, unbalanced and congested. If you are
fatigued, bored, tired, depressed or lacking enthusiasm, you should investigate
the natural health approach of chiropractic.
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