Ever wonder why our healthcare system in the United States is in such shambles? Ever wonder why with all the amazing technology we have, and all the “breakthrough discoveries” you keep hearing about every night on the news, we are still a nation of chronic illness, pain and disease? Ever wonder why you keep suffering with aches, pains, and various illnesses and doctors never seem to help? Well the answer may shock you.

The first thing to consider is a tiny piece of history so you understand where all this is coming from. This all started all the way back in the seventeenth century with a physicist, physiologist and mathematician by the name of Rene Descartes. He’s the man that said the famous phrase I think, therefore I am. In his time Descartes revolutionized modern thinking with his theory of dualism. To summarize, dualism says that the mind and body are completely separate from each other. Descartes came up with his theory while meditating one early morning. Then he went and made an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church that he, as a man of true science, would restrict himself to the study of the physical body, while religion would deal with the mind and not the body. After that, studies of the mind and body have for the most part, remained completely distinct and separate fields from each other. Scientists have stayed within the realm of what they could see and measure to be a true science. Meanwhile, those in the religious field and life lifted thought, reason, and emotion out of the body into the realms of the spiritual. This created some problems. The first problem with this separation is that medicine used science as it’s only measuring stick and completely left out the find. Medical procedures are only used if they pass strict scientific testing. This means that the procedures must be able to be seen and measured to be considered valid. If they can’t be seen and measured and proven through scientific experiments that are visible, they are considered to not exist and will not be used in medicine for treatment.

Consider this example. If you place your hand in a bucket of water, the water will of course rise. The amount that it raises is the exact amount your hand takes up or displaces in the bucket of water. You know that it happened because you can measure the level of the water. This happens every time so it is called a law. This is known as the law of displacement. Now consider this. What happens if I stick my hand in the ocean? You already know that your hand displaces the water. It has to because it’s a law and does not change. The problem is can you prove it? After all, you can’t measure it because the body of water is so large. You can’t see the results with your naked eye. So did the ocean actually rise even though you cannot measure it? Absolutely it did! It rose in an immeasurable amount that is invisible to the eye. At least immeasurable with the tools we have in current time.

So what is the point for this example? The point is that by throwing out the mind-body connection because it could not be scientifically measured, medicine has seriously ignored one of the most powerful healing forces known to man. We are referring to the mind.

How is it known that the mind-body connection is such an important healing force? In regards to a discovery in 1981, the Neurobiologist David Felton at the University of Indiana discovered that the immune system is actually hard-wired to the brain through the nerve system. Why is this so important? According to history, in 1974, Ader, an experimental psychologist made what most consider being one of the most important discoveries of mind-body research. In the course of investigating conditioned response such as Pavlov’s drooling-dog-and-bell theory, he was testing to see how long such a trained response might last in some laboratory rats. He used a combination of saccharine-laced water and the nausea-inducing drug Cytoxan. He trained the rodents to associate the sweet stuff with a bad stomach ache. Afterwards, while giving them saccharine-water without the associated Cytoxan, Ader observed to see how long it might take them to forget the association between the two substances. Unexpectedly, during the second month of removal, the rats began to fall prey to disease and die off even though there was no Cytoxan. In investigating this unexpected result, Ader checked into the properties of the nausea-inducing drug he had used and found that one of its side effects was as an immune suppressant to the body. The rats had been conditioned to not only to associate sweet water with nausea, but also with an immune shutdown that caused them to become ill. The conclusion was very obvious. Their minds were controlling their body and immune systems! This was very amazing. The rats actually killed themselves just by thinking it even though they no longer had the poison. So the question is what are you thinking your immune system and body into doing? Are you thinking yourself healthy or are you thinking yourself sick? Here’s an even more important thing to consider. Since your nerves serve as the communication lines between your brain and your immune system, you have to make sure those lines are open so your brain can keep you healthy.

The base line is if you have skewed or malfunctioning spinal bones, your brain cannot correspond properly with your body. And as you now know, this relates to the immune organization. Having these spinal misalignments, also known as subluxations may not only cause ache, but also deteriorate your immune system and lead to sickness and possibly disease. The only way to keep your spine without these subluxations and unnecessary hurt and ailment is by regularly getting your spine checked by your chiropractor just like you routinely brush your teeth and go to the dentist.

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