CONNECTIONS to HEALTH

THE CONNECTIONS OF HEALTH To be healthy you must be connected. The goal of healers is to help you reconnect. You are born to express physical, mental and spiritual health; to radiate vitality, harmony, peace, joy, optimism, strength, love and healing at every age. But it rarely seems that way. Disharmony, illness, disease, depression, fatigue, emotional and spiritual suffering and isolation touch so many lives. Too many of us walk this earth with our bodies, hearts and souls in pain. Yet no baby is born bored or depressed. Infants are full of wonder and awe. They breathe deeply, relax completely, radiate energy and sparkle with the light of life in their eyes. They are closer to their natural state, more connected to it, with a clearer conduit to the wisdom, intelligence and energies that percolate up from their source.  To be truly healthy and alive you must be a clear conduit to your inner wisdom [also referred to as your “source,” the “wisdom of the body,” your “inner healer,” your innate (inborn) intelligence and other terms]. Our very word health derives from the old English word hale meaning whole. You are healthy when you are whole, unified, integrated and complete; not fragmented, disintegrated, disconnected or incomplete. Let’s explore health from this perspective. When you are physically healthy all your body parts are in their proper places, communicating with one another and not interfering with the function of other body parts or the flow of your energies. Your body is in a state of exquisite coordination and balance. In this state you have abundant vitality, sensitivity, strength and joy. You have a flexible, balanced body; breathe deeply and sleep deeply—refreshed and invigorated. You have high resistance to disease and the energy to adapt to life’s stresses and challenges.  A physically disconnected person’s parts are not fitting exactly right. The result is lack of balance, interruption of the energies that flow through you under the directives of your innate intelligence and weakened connection to your source. This results in dis-ease; a lack of wholeness, coordination and harmony. When you are dis-eased, stress can overwhelm you and disease, illness, exhaustion, accelerated aging and shortened life results. A person with dis-ease who feels fatigue may have tremendous energy, but it’s often trapped in their muscles, joints and other body tissues and is not flowing freely. That’s why people often have sensitive spots in their muscles or tendons called “trigger points” and may jump when these points are even lightly touched. Emotional health is also dependent on being connected—to yourself and others. The more connected you are to yourself the more you can connect with others and the more fulfilling your emotional connections (relationships). The more relationships in your life the more happiness, joy, hope, optimism and vitality you will have; the healthier and longer you will live and the quicker you will recover from physical and emotional trauma and illness. An emotionally disconnected person holds pockets of unresolved anger, fear, resentment, pain or other emotions locked up within their body and mind. Whatever the cause (abuse, conflict, etc.), trapped emotional energy prevents you from living fully in the present because some of your energies are still living in the past. Past trauma and fear cause chronic physical tension and emotional stress that disconnect you from your deeper self. This can lead to disease. In this state intuition is clouded, life’s purpose is confused, and there are difficulties forming healthy relationships. The more spiritually connected you are, the closer you are to the love, energy, joy, vitality and wisdom of your source. The goal of all spiritual and/or religious practices is to teach you to commune with, be in the presence of, or be connected to your soul, God, the universe or whatever term you wish to use. When you are spiritually healthy you are connected to both the depths within and the universe without. When you are spiritually connected, you are more in harmony with your life's purpose and meaning. You follow your heart, trust your instincts and are sensitive to the laws and powers that create and recreate reality at every moment. There is more sensitivity, inspiration, empathy, compassion and intuition. There is more synchronicity (meaningful coincidences) and meaning unfolding in your life. Such people speak of having “peak experiences,” of feeling connected, or of communing with those around them, humanity, a loving nature, God or a loving presence. They feel joy, happiness and peace in these states. The spiritually disconnected person feels separated from the love, energy, joy and vitality of life source. Out of touch with one's deepest needs and desires, a sense of isolation, loneliness, confusion and fear permeate and harm both mind and body. One’s will to live is weakened and life lacks vision and meaning. One’s purpose in life is clouded.  Chiropractic has discovered a powerful “disconnection” in your body called a subluxation. This is a condition that interferes with the flow of energy and information from your source and can affect physical, emotional and spiritual health. The result is dis-ease, a communications disease, where you are less than whole, slightly disintegrated, slightly fragmented. Chiropractors are especially trained to assess and adjust subluxations. Chiropractic helps your body/mind to gently release old stress so your powerful natural healing ability may flow from your source and begin a process of reconnection.  The process of reconnecting and healing is a fascinating adventure. Sometimes this process appears effortless; sometimes it seems difficult and painful. Often it is both. As we reconnect, locked energies may be released, painful memories revived, stored toxins stirred, hurtful experiences re-lived. This is called retracing. As old energies dissipate you become more sensitive to the deeper layers of your being. As your spine and nervous system release stress, you begin to tune into the deeper laws of life that guide you. You become more sensitive to the unseen hand that is always directing you to greater wholeness, awareness, growth and wisdom. For other great thought-provoking articles vist Ted Korens website http://www.korenpublications.com/

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