I want to ask you a very serious question….when it comes to your health and the health of your loved ones, who do you trust? What I mean is this: what information, input, and actions do you allow to affect you health? Where does this information come from? Why do we do certain things? If you stop and think about, for the majority of Americans the choices we make about our health are primarily cultural. They are so ingrained us that we don’t think about them anymore. They are so ingrained in the collective psyche that we don’t even question them. The issue is we have allowed this zeitgeist to deaden our true instincts and as a culture have marched our way to one of THE MOST UNHEALTHY SOCIETIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. We spend twice money on our health as much as any other nation, we take the vast majority of drugs in the world, yet according to the World Health Organization we are ranked 37th in the world in health. Start thinking cost to benefit ratio and its pretty horrifying. We are overfed, yet undernourished. We are more hygienic with all of our antibacterial junk, yet taking more antibiotics. We are toxic from chemicals, food, and stress. We over medicate and under meditate. Perhaps, our biggest transgression is that we have allowed the hum of the information age to drown out the voice within that teaches us better. Our own inborn wisdom, our inborn healer, our Innate Intelligence. We live in a media saturated culture. The noise around us is so thick and constant that the streamline of info and junk that is flowing around us seems almost infinite. The problem is almost all of this information is useless, wrong, or a lie. Start checking the sources, follow the money trail. We have let the culture dictate our lives enough and it is time to step away from that and choose a better future for ourselves and our families.
What this ultimately means is that we have to start trusting ourselves instead of our culture. We have to learn to trust our God given Innate Intelligence. Chiropractic uses the term Innate Intelligence as a proper name to describe that auto-pilot system in you that runs and organizes everything within you. The example we always use: you don’t tell your heart to beat, your lungs to breathe, or your ears to hear. What does that for you? This organization that happens perfectly and effortlessly by our own bodies is your Innate. Go further, you don’t tell a cut to heal or a broken bone to heal….and no doctor or medicine can do that for you either….it is only by your own internal healing mechanism…..your Innate.
So why are we so sick? I’m glad you asked. In my humble opinion it is because our cultural health process works against Innate, damages Innate, or simply doesn’t trust Innate. Listen, we work against and damage Innate by pouring in crap food and toxic medicines. Make no mistake medicines are: all toxic, all of the time. All processed food is toxic. It is a testament to Innate that we are still standing after years of fast food and ibuprofen. We don’t trust Innate by overlooking the protective mechanisms of the body. We kill a fever with meds, versus understanding it is brought on INTENTIONALLY by the body to kill a foreign invader. Thus, we’ve turned off our natural defenses and now allow the foreign invader to freelance in and damage us. Another example: we get a muscle spasm in our low back and take a pain killer and a muscle relaxer. The pain was there to warn you like a check engine light and the spasm was there to stabilize the damaged area. Artificially, take away these “symptoms” and then head out to your day….now feeling no pain and being spasm free we think we are “fixed”, in reality we have killed our information system that was limiting us and the area is still broken, just forced into a drugged silence. Without these limits we do too much and then inflict REAL, ACTUAL DAMAGE to the area. The “symptoms” weren’t symptoms but safety measures. What about immunity? We kill our immune system by never allowing it to work. We wipe ourselves in antibacterial goo (that puts on and leaves chloroform, a carcinogen by the way) and wipe out all the germs on our hands. In the long run, this prevents the body from ever forming immunity to bacterias and we actually weaken ourselves long term, effectively making us MORE susceptible to illness. So many new modern conveniences….so easy and available. Unfortunately, like most instances in life, the quick , cheap, and easy is usually not quick, cheap, or easy in the long run.
So now what? What do we do? Being one of the most fat, sick, and unhealthy nations in the world is clearly not working for us. It’s time to step away from the “easy” and to start making real decisions. We have to eat for fuel. We have to move and exercise. We have to cultivate joy. Stress less, meditate more. We have to trust the process of Innate in our body: pain and other “symptoms” aren’t to be turned off, but taken as wisdom. We have to maintain the function of Innate in our bodies. We have to step away from the TV and start looking for real answers. The beautiful thing is this: you can do this. You can create real change in your life and by doing this your family’s life. You can be the positive, the different, the bold, the better, you can be all you were meant to be. It’s simply a matter of trusting the inborn wisdom which God put in you instead of the wisdom of man and the Today Show.
When we adjust you, please know it is not to remove pain, but help the flow of Innate Intelligence that is housed in your nervous system. We listen to pain complaints, because they are information. They are not the primary goal, though. The primary goal is to allow the Innate to work perfectly in you. When the spine is subluxated to puts pressure on nerves and blocks the movement of Innate. We adjust a subluxation to remove this interference and allow the Innate to work fully and accomplish whatever it needs to within you. You are the healer and the the doctor. We simply try to help your body get out of its own way. Your body is the best doctor ever, in command of countless processes and a huge pharmacy of chemicals and hormones that run the body. Allow Innate to work within you fully and correctly and your processes normalize and problems heal as well as possible. It’s amazing what happens when you trust your body and are patient with your body. The time is now. I encourage all of you to make the leap and trust your Innate, try it….all you have to lose is illness, unhappiness, and poor health.
Wishing you true health, Dr. Graham, chiropractor