That is an axiom, a true statement. The problem is that it can only be easily understood with regard to mathematics and the hard sciences. When it comes to, say, something like the human body, it is a little more difficult to understand, primarily because we can only know some of the parts through our senses. There are parts of the body that are outside the realm of our knowledge, parts of the body that defy understanding in the empirical realm, that is, parts of the body that are not physical. How do you measure love? How do you quantify the will? How much does desire weigh? These are parts of a human being that we cannot measure, yet we know they exist. We know how much the “human” part of you weighs. You can step on a scale and we can measure it. But what about the “being” part of you? Can you measure that?
In chiropractic we acknowledge an unseen, immeasurable, immaterial part of living things. We call it the innate intelligence. It is the principle of life… whether that life is in the form of a plant, an animal or a living person. While there are differences between plants, animals and human beings, the innate intelligence is the one thing that all living organisms have in common. With it, the organism grows, reproduces, assimilates food and most important, adapts. How can we prove that if it cannot be measured? Well, we can use the most unscientific means of proving something. It’s called “common sense.” A dead animal or plant does not adapt. A live one does. You can call it whatever you want but innate intelligence is as good a name as any. It is the principle of life that when interfered with causes a degree of loss of life, somewhere between 1% and 100%. The objective of the chiropractor is to remove the interference that is due to spinal misalignments called vertebral subluxations. We cannot do anything when that interference is 100%. But with anything less than that, the person should be under the care of a chiropractor regardless of what the manifestation of that lack of life is called or even if there is no physical manifestation of that absence. They may also need some other type of care. However, nothing but chiropractic will correct the vertebral subluxation.
1. When nerves are cut-off, LIFE is cut-off.
2. When LIFE is cut-off, the result is death.
Chiropractic is not a treatment or a therapy of any disease condition. Neither is it an alternative to medicine. The purpose of Chiropractic is to facilitate a full expression of the innate intelligence of the body. PERIOD.
1. Wholeness or health = Total life
2. Death = Total absence of life.
3. Somewhere-in-between = Partial life.
When life is choked off to any extent, we have a situation called partial
(partial life, partial ease, partial function, partial coordination, partial control, partial death, etc.). Even when people feel well, when some life is choked off,they are at the stage of DIS-EASE (partial everything)
At the stage of dis-ease, the body progresses to such an extent that many tissue cells malfunction and break down. Signs, symptoms and even pain will eventually appear. The person has a disease or some other medical condition when these symptoms manifest themselves within the body.
It may take a person as long as four to six years before of malfunction before symptoms appear (like cancer, kidney stones, and arthritis for example). As you know, these diseases do not develop overnight. Why sit around waiting for symptoms to develop? The hospitals are filled with people who just last week had no signs or symptoms and now they are dying.
The famous philosopher Aldous Huxley once said: “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored”.
Dr. Lessard,
U are just on the mark, and u have put it so planly simple.
Thank U,
Ronen Mendi, Israel