The Wisdom of the Body!

By: Dr. Alan Rosenthal

Are you healthy if you feel good? If you said “Yes,” ask yourself if you ever felt good one day and then came down with a cold, the flu or some other condition the next. If so, were you healthy? What about people who “feel good” one moment and have a heart attack or stroke the next?

Health and Balance

Being healthy has deeper roots than how you feel. Health is your ability to handle physical, chemical and emotional stress without losing your physical, chemical and emotional balance. Many forms of stress threaten your balance: the onslaught of elements; bacteria, viruses, pollen, mold and fungi in the air; pollution and chemicals; cuts, bumps and bruises as well as the stress of adapting to all of them. If you did not, a hot summer day would boil your brain; every inhalation would bring massive infection; tumors would overwhelm you, etc.

Thankfully, we usually adapt to life’s stresses because many mechanisms are built into our bodies for this purpose. They are as simple as shivering when you are cold to more elaborate immune system functions such as engulfing bacteria.

Inside the body, adaption is thousands of different chemicals being balanced, millions of cells dying, millions being born and billions of nerves firing messages to every part of your body. Moreover, these functions happen every second. Your lunch is somehow turned into eye, muscle, heart, bone, skin, and blood; and used to repair damaged tissues and destroy germs.

Innate Intelligence

A wondrous intelligence organizes this overwhelming complexity. As put by Deepak Chopra, M.D. “Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies… our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.” This Inner, or Innate, Intelligence organizes your body into a complicated, living, adapting, growing being – without it, you would be no more than a few dollars worth of chemicals.

This inner wisdom travels from your brain through your spinal cord and to the billions of nerves that emerge from it. Your nervous system touches every nook and cranny of your body, and your body’s wisdom uses this vast communications system to organize your billions of parts into a healthy, adapting, living being.

How Your Body Communicates

True health can only emerge when your Innate Intelligence can communicate with your body without interference. A complete break in communication results in death; a partial break in communication results in disease, or a general deterioration of health.

If you have spinal dysfunction and resulting pressure on nerves, it only makes sense that you will have a partial break in communication. Spinal subluxations are common, often painless and create a state of body dysfunction.

Optimal Health = Optimum Function

Whole Health Family Chiropractic in Thousand Oaks, California has a team of highly specialized health professionals that will help you reach your Health and Wellness goals. Chiropractic wellness care improves your body’s natural ability to heal and enhances your overall quality of life. Imagine living a healthy and holistic lifestyle free of asthma, low back pain, ear infections, menstrual pain, headaches, ADHD, and many others. Take the first step toward better living and contact us today at (805) 449-0061.

Dr. Alan Rosenthal also dedicates his time to health awareness and education within his community. He offers free lectures and workshops to businesses and organizations. If you would like to schedule Dr. Rosenthal to speak at your next event or to view his list of chiropractic lecture topics, please go to Free Lecture Topics.