Our society’s concept of health and well-being is always evolving. In the past century up to the present day, the primary emphasis over matters of health were mechanistic and materialistic, such as chemistry, potions, remedies, surgery, nutrition, supplements, physical exercises, and others. These mechanistic approaches are still important and relevant for understanding and promoting health.
Moving forward, however, the emphasis in health is evolving to focus more on the individual human being, and his or her ability to adapt to stress emotionally and mentally. Here, we are elevating above trying to change the environment to suit us, rather focusing on setting ourselves up to suit and adapt to our environment – very much a chiropractic approach.
Chiropractors support every individual’s ability to adapt to stress on all levels, by focusing on freeing up the nervous system, which is largely responsible for responding and adapting to life’s everyday physical, chemical and emotional stresses.
When we can manage, comprehend, and derive positive meaning from life’s stresses, this creates a “Sense of Coherence” and a strong foundation for health and well-being. Within this chiropractic framework, health is born from our ability to adapt to stress coherently, thereby amplifying an individual’s capacity throughout life.
The chiropractic ‘vertebral subluxation’ is a key component to this conversation. The presence of subluxation is an important measure of our overall adaptability–a measure that helps us “see” the presence of stress reflected in the individual’s life.
The aim in chiropractic at Advanced Health Chiropractic is to grow each individual and families adaptability, so he, she or they may become greater than the challenges that exist in life, and to help everyone in our community to advance forward with greater freedom and expression of health. “Correcting subluxation” in the body is really about becoming greater than our unique challenges in our experiential life.
The goal is not just health over disease, but greater life expression, and the release of that inner spark of creativity which elevates each of us towards living an amazing life.
Leading the way in this new family well-being model are chiropractors and chiropractic practices like Advanced Health Chiropractic, who offer specific care for the nervous system to lay the foundation for this creative adaptability to unfold. With the principles and discoveries that support the chiropractic family lifestyle, we are now living at an exciting threshold for this beautiful way of life to emerge collectively. It is undoubtedly one of the greatest times to be involved with chiropractic, and to be open to the gifts of the chiropractic paradigm of health.
Adapted from Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, Issue 81.