Back to Basics...Chiropractic's First Principle-The Basic Premise

Happy New Year! This year, one of our primary goals is to educate our community about the basic Philosophy of the chiropractic profession. Our January Newsletter's theme-Back To Basics contained the first of the 33 Principles. These ideas will help you to understand the simple Truth the chiropractic profession is based upon.

The first principle is our BASIC PREMISE. Let's look at it.

Principle #1: The Major Premise. There is a Universal Intelligence in all matter, continuously giving to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining matter in existence, and giving this Intelligence its

method of expression.

Please note..(It is essential, when learning about a concept that is new to us, to drop attachment to ideas we may be used to holding. After all we can always pick them back up after properly considering the new idea right?
There is considerable confusion about the concept of what health. The reason chiropractic is so contraversial is because it is a new concept that redefines and clarifies what health is and where it comes from). Ready?

Universal Intelligence (UI), is just what it sounds like. It is a BIG IDEA that relates to all of the physical matter in the universe including your body. For this to be true, UI must also be present inside every one of the 50 to 70 trillion cells in your body. In chiropractic we acknowledge this fact by naming the individualized aspect of UI...Innate (inborn) Intelligence (II). In this chiropractic concept of  health, there is nothing else in the universe besides UI. It is an energy and being energy; can and does change states. But this fact doesn't make any of these various states different than or separate from their source energy-UI.

Now please read that paragraph again two more times.
For invisible UI to give or share its properties and actions with visible physical matter is significant oncept of health.

After all, here on Earth, it is because of the physical, that UI can move and without UI the physical cells there wouldn't be anything to express! (Better re-read that one too ;)

So there you have it. The Chiropractic meaning of Health is the full expression of Source Energy through organized matter of its own design. Life is the word we have to describe the special relationship between Intelligence and matter. The full release of Intelligent Being through the human matter is called a Human Being.

Disease is about changes in state caused by incomplete expression. Chiropractic adjustment removes the disturbances to allow for a more complete expression.
Thanks for visiting and see you next month.

How Is The Spine Like A Guitar?

When chiropractic was first explained to me I knew that its principle was sound.
The principle to which I'm referring is LIFE itself.

The first chiropractor said..."Life is the expression of TONE".

What is tone?
Simply put tone is VIBRATION.
So it would be true to extrapolate that 'Life is the expression of vibration.'

To understand this better, think of the guitar mentioned above.
A guitar's strings vibrate when played.
The tone of the vibration is expressed through the wood of the instrument.

As a chiropractor who also plays a guitar, I know that to make music I must adjust
the vibration of the strings by applying pressure along the instrument's neck.

As a guitar player who also practices chiropractic, I know that to assist my patients to make the music of their lives, I must adjust the vibration of their spinal nerves by applying pressure along along the instrument's neck.

"There is a Universal Intelligence (vibrating) in all living things which is constantly and continuously sharing its qualities and actions with the instrument, thereby expressing through it as Life." ...(Chiropractic Premise)

True health and healing relates to this principle of  invisible Intelligence vibrating into visible life expression. What, how or why a human being chooses to believe, think, say, do or eat is entirely secondary to the Truth of this basic principle. (chiropractic's purpose and practice is entirely unique.)

For a human being to experience the true value of their life unique potential ;the fundamental vibration of what they are must be expressed in the key of their authentic TONE.

This is the chiropractic meaning of Life and the individuals journey to know TRUE HEALTH.
When a guitar is abused or ignored, it's music is painful to the ear.
When a spine is abused or ignored, it's music is destructive to the totality of the human instrument and therefore threatens the species as a whole.
"Get the Big Idea and all elso follows."...B.J. Palmer, the developer of the chiropractic profession.
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Both the spine and a guitar are best played when IN TUNE.

Why Chiropractic Adjustment is the Ultimate Tune-up for your nervous system!

Remember this.. health is simple if not easy. It is disease that may become complicated. Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton reminds us that 5% or less of humans are burdened with congenital genetic mutations - which means the vast majority of us are living with the absolute possibility of experiencing true health and wellbeing.
So why don't we? Once again, the answer for this majority of us is not complicated.
The basic forms of care are only three and include: self care, health care and crisis care.
They are self-explanatory really when you think about each type.

Being a chiropractor, my speciality is the optimization of my patient's central nervous system through the detection and reduction of SUBLUXATION. Subluxation is a neural-spinal condition which compromises the body's communication via its central nervous system. The specific adjustment is the unique chiropractic skill used for the sole purpose optimizing neural health in the people who use chiropractic care as a regular component of their 'health care' arsenal.

To more deeply understand how a dysfunctional spinal system can disturb the nerves, think of a stringed instrument like a guitar. The strings run from the body out along a fretboard to connect at the neck. Each one is tuned to a 'tone' or note. A player exerts pressure on the string altering the vibratory tone  of the strings to make music. Your spinal cord is attached at point between the upper spine, skull and the sacrum. Each of us faces daily stressors of three types; physical, chemical and metaphysical (emotional). This repetitive onslaught of challenges results in misalignments of the core structures of the spine,,, affecting the intimate relationship to the delicate nerves as mentioned above in this newsletter. Spinal subluxation is similar to the change in the vibratory rate of a guitar string as it is compressed digitally.  Because our nervous system controls and regulates all the body's functions the health implications of subluxation are massive and significant.

An adjustment is indeed the ultimate 'tune-up' because when performed on an ongoing basis to a health person, unecessary buildup of noxious effects of these contant stressors is defused allowing the body to communicate and function properly. Regular spinal checkups are necessary thoughout life to ensure optimal health in human beings of all ages.

"LET THERE BE LIGHT"

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is and God the Soul.
                                                              Poe

Principles are all good!
Everything in the principled Universe has this attribute of inherent connectedness....
...It's all good.
Scientific inquiry is beginning to awaken to its true role,,,that to be useful it must
ultimately recognize or acknowledge principle as the source of the Cause - effect dance.
Quantum physics innately respects the ordered chaos that is invisible Source Energy
This Force is also referred to as ''Quantum".
Newtonian physics honours the principles of objects in motion...the meaning of mechanics operating... an apple always falling downwards from the branch.
Light always dispells darkness and never is the reverse true. The realm of shadow owes its existence to the radiance of light...
Water flows downward, never up.
The paradox of Time as the one nonrenewable resource in an eternal Universe...
All true healing is simply principle in action.
Anything less complete is inherently iatrogenic...

Summer 2011- Family Health Check

Here's the thing - health is like anything in life... this what we put in determines the value of what we get back out!
I saw an excellent video today. Tony Robbins was speaking on the topic of what it takes to take our lives to the next level. One point was that we don't need a reason to feel and to be happy. The proof of this he offered was this: It isn't uncommon to hear someone say that they're not having the best day and the reason for this is "I woke up this way"...So if its possible to feel bad without any true reason; well then the reverse must also be true, we are desinge so we can feel awesome for no particular reason! Does this seem weird to you? How about the related thought that we are born to feel excited and to be happy and creative...and all for no reason. The behaviours we have learned that have the power to convince us otherwise are no more than bad habits we've adopted for no reason other than we believed something we've been told along the way by our parents, peers, teachers and preachers and anyone else we allowed ourselves to be exposed to.
The purpose of our Summer Family Health Check is to demonstrate to you how your family can enjoy unbelievable health just by not messing up a good thing. Your body comes with all the standard equipment needed to create the like of your dreams. Well, are you creating a life with enough pull to over come the untruths and misinformation you have been sold about your family's health and wellbeing. Doesn't this sound appealing to you. I hope so!
Visit our website and set up your Health Check and I'll show you how it works when you make up your own reason for living. See you next time.

Bob Pike...Unreal DC...Doctor of Cause for your Health and Wellbeing

ps: I know I promised to review how chiropractors help keep children in optimal health as they grow through the various stages of their lives...stay tuned!

What is our first life challenge?

All of us have been born. This would be the first stress of a physical nature for each of us.
The first spinal area to check is the upper neck. My neck wasn't checked until I was 23 years
old!  We know mucn more now than we did fifty years ago about the possibility of trauma during the birth process (TBS). I was pulled into this world with the assistance of high forceps. When studying cranial adjustment the instructor noticed the indentations in my skull that were caused by the foceps decades earlier.
One of the issues around TBS is need to check the newborn to check for the presence of subluxation.
Subluxation is the chiropractic term for disturbance of nerve conmmunication due to spinal stress of one form or another. On of the most common symptoms of this common condition is headache pain, but is can be totally asymptomatic. The reason for this is that our body is designed so well that 90% of our stress adaptation is hidden from us. I think of this as the stress threshold and we each have a unique tolerance for the stressor we must face each day of our lives
You might be wondering if your child may or even you have a subluxation disturbance in your upper spinal area. The upper spine is the area I've been fortunate to receive special training in.
If you'd like to be checked; give us a call to arrange for a free consultation and I'll be able to assess you with my computerized thermograghic scanner and show you exactly what's going on in this important area of your nervous system.
Next time well look at some of the other challenges the pediatric chiropractor can help with. See you next Blog. I'll be back on my regular Blog schedule now.

Yours for optimal health awareness,
Dr. Bob Pike