Turning your Power On {Chiropractic Care for Families}

Welcome if this is your first time visiting! This post is a little long so hang in there, but with help from my husband, we tried to make this information understandable to help you learn about how the body works. 

For you to be able to turn your car on, you must have gas in the tank, for you to turn on a light in your room, you must have a light bulb, for you to even use your iPhone or laptop to read this now, the power has to be turned on and your device must be charged.

And to turn things on correctly, you have to take care of them because if you don't, eventually they will break or run out of power.

Well, your body, namely your nervous system isn't any different. But the majority of people do not know this concept. There is a huge misconception about chiropractic care, that it's all about neck and back pain, and although pain is usually reduced, it's about the interference being removed that is allowing your body to function and heal. 

Before we take a look at turning our power on or even chiropractic care, let's talk about health for a second.  

If you want to be healthy in today's world, it literally comes down to who has to take care of it.  You do... you have to take responsibility for it but we don't anymore because we live in a world that takes that responsibility away from us. 

I don't often get political so I won't stay long on it but truth be told, when people that you know get sick, most of them count on and expect their insurance to take care of it, to take a medicine for it and get a quick fix. That sums it up. Have a problem, cover up problem with pill, never get to root cause of problem, deal with problem for rest of life.

This is where we get the BIGGEST problem in Healthcare. How do you know what health is and how do you respond when you are sick?

Old, young doesn't matter. If you have kids or if you have friends or a spouse, people you care about, how do you know if they are healthy? 

Take your time on this one. 

This is how confusing our doctors and the medical model has made it for us. We don't even know what the definition of health is. What do you think most peoples' definition of health would be?  They know they are healthy when they Feel Good, right. 

My kids feels good, then they are probably healthy, but can you really say that if the kid has a ten inch tumor in his chest and feels good. Have you ever known someone with cancer eating away at their body and not have a clue that it is there? We all know people like that. 

It's the same thing if you have 100 people developing heart disease, when do 90 of them find out they have heart disease? When its too late. Of that 90, they all had their first symptom when they had a heart attack. Of those 90, 2/3 of them die. Most of those people, their first symptom was death, so should we wait until symptoms come about? Symptoms are a terrible way to measure health, much less define it. Feeling good doesn't equal health.

We define health as 100% function of all your organs, cells and tissues regardless of symptoms. Read that last part, regardless of symptoms. Regardless of symptoms, your body needs to work at 100%, that means every cell, down to the smallest cell of over 74 trillion cells needs to work at 100%. 

If you get headaches from eating junk food then stop eating junk food,  Don't cover it up with a pill! Doesn't that make so much sense? Root cause vs. symptom management. Headaches do not mean your body doesn't function properly. In fact, having a headache after eating junk food is a great example of the body responding to human error. If you stab your leg, it should hurt. If you poison your body, you should get a response. Its not about symptoms, its all about function. How do you measure function anyway? Its a hard thing to measure. But there is one organ that control and coordinates every single function of your body.

So that brings us here, what does that mean to turn your power on anyway? 

Your brain. Your brain controls and coordinates every single function that happens in your body. In fact, when God put that brain in there, for your heart to beat, for your lungs to breathe, for your stomach to digest, for a cut to heal on your arm, or for cancer to heal inside of your body, your brain sends messages down through the spinal cord at over 300 mph and 20 watts of electricity, out through the spinal nerves, to all the areas of your body... power ON! 

 I've heard my husband say this probably 1,000 times and I still get excited about it because its amazing. For anything to happen in your body, your brain must tell it to do so. 

Just for fun, wiggle your big toe... 

see, your brain is at work! 

What do you think happens though if we cut the nerve to your heart? What happens to your heart? It stops working and you die. What if I cut the nerves to your lungs, stops working and you die. What happens though if we take that same nerve and instead of cutting it off completely, we cut it down 10%. Now the heart is working at 90%. Then what happens to the heart? It starts to work harder. Eventually, it gets weaker, and it dies and you die, way before your time. This sounds morbid but I want to teach the truth. 

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So this brain/body function thing; it's real.

This is the foundation of chiropractic. 

How YOUR power gets turned on. 

Through chemical, physical and emotional stress, pressure is built up into the nervous system. Your nervous system comprises of your brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves. There is not one single part of your body that is not connected to your nervous system. 

Nothing in your body can work without the nervous system. 

When pressure is building in the nervous system, internal organs begin to get damaged and an emergency response commences in the form of ''freak out''. You might as well be getting chased by a tiger when there are misalignment's (or interference) in your spine causing nerve pressure. The only people on the planet educated on how to remove pressure from the spine are chiropractors.

We all deal with physical (athletes, desk or factory workers), chemical (poor/chemically laden nutrition, harsh chemical exposure) and emotional (spouse, family, poor time management) stress, from birth to death. Stress causes stretching of the spinal cord that decreases the FUNCTION your body. Because the brain cannot communicate with the organs, tissues and cells, your body starts to shut down slowly. This dysfunction leads to disease, disease leads to death. 

The only way you can know is to have a nervous system check by a chiropractor. Your pediatrician and medical doctor Do Not check for this. Instead, they treat symptoms. Remember, symptoms vs function.

When everyone else reaches for pills to cover up their symptoms because their body is slowly dying, my family goes to our chiropractor to remove the interference caused by stress. Chiropractic adjustments connect the brain and body, to allow healing that God has created in all of us. Our bodies work better because of this and out power is ON. 

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Our bodies, big and small, young and old, function closer to 100% because of regular chiropractic visits to get our power turned on, literally. If you would like to find a wellness chiropractor in your area to turn your power on, click here. 

Do you believe God created our bodies with the ability to heal themselves?

This post is part of the Raising Healthy Families series I am participating in over the next couple of months. Today is my week and got to share with you something my husband & I are so passionate about.  If you have a health-related question, be sure to ask my husband a question. I hope you'll; take a moment to look around and "Like" us on facebook! 

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