Do You Know What You Have?
Guest Post by Dr. Jim Sigafoose
As chiropractors, I wonder if we are completely aware of the magnificent intelligence that dwells within all living things that we call innate intelligence. There is no compromise when it comes to what innate can do and does do when you realize that the balance of the blood, the balance of the body, the harmony of all the tissue cells, along with the re-creation of new tissue cells is all the result of a magnificence that dwells within each tissue cell called innate,
When you understand the energy flow, when you understand the vibration, when you understand that which is created from foodstuffs put in your body that are not exactly the best, when you realize that the body is capable of creating all of the various building blocks it needs from something other, that it takes in one substance (which has not in its makeup and composition what the body needs) and builds something inside of this body that is alien to that which it took in- because of the magnificence and wisdom that dwells within that body.
When I compare what we do as chiropractors, if we truly believe in what we do, if we truly believe in the intelligence that’s in us, if we truly believe in the intelligence all around us that we walk through and live through called universal intelligence and we have an understanding that universal intelligence is in fact a supreme intelligence or supreme being, a supreme knowledge or as some would say, God and that same intelligence has entered into a primitive brain and is then converted to an intelligence for the use of the organic materials that are going to be put together by this intelligence, making a body that you and I dwell in- that is now going to sustain itself through that intelligence in it, over a period of years be it 10 years, 100 years, or more and I look at these preachers and how much they truly understand that which they present to millions of people and how they go to God on a continuum and how they seem to have their lives wrapped around this Jesus Christ or their particular opinion of God nearly 24 hours a day, write about in copious amounts of books and writings, maintain television shows one after another, teaching what it is that they say they believe.
Then I look at the chiropractor of whom I’m not sure really believe in the trueness and the philosophical tenets of chiropractic, who in fact do not perhaps believe in a universal intelligence as a whole that balances the universe 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year and so it’s difficult for the majority of chiropractors who were taught primarily physical medicine and therapy excluding the philosophy, excluding the importance of innate intelligence, excluding the universal principles that make up this profession of ours to succeed.
We seem to be more concerned about what therapeutic device we can purchase for large amounts of money, so we can apply it to a person from the outside in, which is the practice of medicine, so that we can charge and make more money.
From a principled philosophical viewpoint we want to be able to educate as many people as is humanly possible, bringing people in through a common and simple procedure that allows us to have a flow that will incorporate the passing of hundreds of people per day to receive that all important adjustment, which is the art form of chiropractic, to release the power of life in that body, to allow a greater expression of innate intelligence which is universal intelligence in living entities. And to then be able to have a re-creation of that body over a period of time from that which it is, to perhaps that which it could be.
It is my opinion that we as chiropractors should be joining hands and spreading ourselves across the world to aggressively teach that world what chiropractic is and aggressively teach the world what chiropractic is not, so that we would have many, many more people coming into chiropractic offices to learn what chiropractic is, to receive that specific, magnificent, adjustment, that releases the power of life within that body, to allow that body to reach its potential so that intelligence might better express through matter for the benefit of all the rest of the world.
To do so we need to employ better methods to enhance the profession and share that information with all for the sole purpose of having more people enter into chiropractic offices that teach the philosophical tenets of chiropractic based upon the principle. The object of which he is to make an adjustment, get out of the way and let innate do what it’s going to do ,what it needs to do ,what it wants to do for the benefit of that body without your encroachment of what you think. What you think is wrong and why you think you are to compare your educated intelligence to the innate intelligence is like an infant comparing its educated intelligence with that of a well schooled parent, It’s time for you, in my opinion, to attend Gatherings, join the Systems, go to seminars that teach philosophy: at segments of Parker, DE, New Beginnings, Focus, CORE, EPOC, the European philosophy meetings, and make an absolute decision to fill your mind with the knowledge of the philosophy of chiropractic and then go out and win the world’s hearts and minds, aggressively.
Imagine!
Imagine if we all worked together to bring this gift to the world…
Imagine if we brought our friends along…
Imagine what we can do!
Profession Mourns the Loss of Dr. Karl Parker
The Chiropractic profession sadly mourns the loss of Dr. W. Karl Parker, one of its most passionately dedicated leaders. Parker lost a valiant 18 month battle against cancer Christmas night, 2009.
He received his degree from Texas Chiropractic College in 1969 and began his career in Houston, where he built one of the most successful practices in Texas. He left his practice in 1976 to join his father, the legendary Dr. James W. Parker, as executive vice president of Parker Chiropractic Resource Foundation in Fort Worth.
Together they conducted the largest seminar series in the profession. To date, the 300th Parker Seminar in January 1989 — with an attendance of more than 8,300 doctors, spouses, and staff — was the largest gathering in its history.
With his son by his side, Dr. Jim Parker was able to expand their vision by starting Parker College of Chiropractic in 1982, so future doctors could be exposed to the Parker principles for life and practice success while going through school. He ultimately assumed the presidency of both Parker Seminars and Parker College in 1996.
In order to continue his and his father’s vision and legacy, he began the Karl Parker Seminars in 1999. Through incredible odds, and debilitating disease, he persevered for the betterment of the profession he dearly loved.
Parker died peacefully at home with his family in prayer around him. He will be greatly missed.
In lieu of flowers donations are being accepted for the Karl Parker Memorial Fund. Please make checks payable to the executor of the estate, Robert Parker and mail to: Parker Health Solutions, 6210 N. Beltline Road, Suite 155, Irving, TX 75063.
Source: Parker Health Solutions, www.parkerhealthsolutions.com
Chiropractic: The First Step Toward a Healthy 2010
The American health care system is failing. Americans spend 16.5% of our total economy on health care, estimated to be $2.4 Trillion in 2008 (that’s $2,400,000,000,000) which equates to twice as much per capita as other industrialized nations. Despite this obscene level of spending, we rank at the bottom of the list compared to our peers by measure of quality and outcomes. Americans pay more and get less value for their health care dollar than any other country in the world.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that about 119 million, or 64.5%, of US adults are either overweight or obese. According to projections, this number is expected to increase to 73% by 2008. Young Americans today now face a lower life expectancy rate than their parents, thanks largely to the effects of poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyles.
The AP reported on May 14, 2008 that for the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems. The most widely used drugs are those to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol — problems often linked to heart disease, obesity and diabetes, all of which are nearly 100% preventable with lifestyle modification.
The data shows that last year, 51 percent of American children and adults were taking one or more prescription drugs for a chronic condition, up from 50 percent the previous four years and 47 percent in 2001. Most of these drugs are taken daily.
Medication use for chronic problems (read taken daily for life) was seen in all demographic groups. Almost two-thirds of women 20 and older, one in four children and teenagers, 52 percent of adult men and three out of four people 65 or older take one or more prescription drugs regularly.
Most horrific is that among seniors, 28 percent of women and nearly 22 percent of men take five or more medicines regularly. All of which carry side effects too numerous to list, up to and including death. The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the U.S. annually is estimated to be approaching 1,000,000.
The current state of affairs in the U.S. with respect to diet is too bleak to even discuss in detail in this article, but here are some highlights:
The U.S. Census bureau data indicate that Americans drink a significant number of their calories. Americans drink about a gallon of soda a week along with a half gallon each of milk, bottled water, coffee and beer.
The biggest single source of calories in America is not pizza or burgers, but soft drinks. Soft drinks containing High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) supply just over 7% of all the calories consumed in the U.S. every year. The consumption of HFCS increased by more than 1000% between 1970 and 1990, far exceeding the changes in intake of any other food or food group. A possibly toxic chemical sugar alternative made from genetically modified, government subsidized corn is the leading staple of the American diet.
Americans are exposed to thousands of different food chemicals including: food additives, preservatives, synthetic sweeteners, pesticide residues, environmental contaminants, mycotoxins, novel food ingredients, packaging-material migrants, flavoring substances and other added nutrients. Food chemicals make up only part of the 75,000 synthetic chemicals developed and released into the environment since World War II. Fewer than half have been tested for potential toxicity to human beings.
America is a nation of poorly nourished, overly sedentary, chemically exposed individuals. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle requires a diet of natural, healthy, nutrient rich food, reducing toxin exposure from foods and drugs, regular exercise, normal sleep, emotional, spiritual health, and a fully functioning nerve system.
These factors all contribute to sickness and disease because they interfere with the body’s ability to produce new healthy cells. The brain controls and regulates, through the nerve system, all cellular function in the body. Proper cellular function is the key factor which determines ones health. The human organism is a community of 70 trillion cells working together, in harmony. This symphony is conducted by the brain and orchestrated by and through the nerve system. Chiropractic adjustments remove any impediment to the communication between the conductor and the orchestra.
Any attempt to extricate one’s self from the current disease care system requires an individual to radically alter their lifestyle. To begin an exercise program, change one’s diet, reduce their exposure to toxins, or work on their emotional health all take a considerable amount of effort on the part of the health seeker.
To improve one’s health through chiropractic requires nothing more than scheduling an appointment. We have in our offices the best kept secret in healthcare. Isn’t it time you find out what regular chiropractic care has to offer you and your family? As the only passive method of altering one’s health and well-being, chiropractic offices around the country will be inundated with more clients than they can handle in the coming decade.
Spread the word that chiropractic care is the fastest, the easiest and the most effective way to start off 2010 on the path toward health, happiness and abundant life.
Deepak Chopra Articulates the Chiropractic Message
The following article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. Deepak Chopra very clearly articulates the major tenet of the chiropractic message: that the innate intelligence of the body is far superior to anything that can be added, from the outside in. I took the liberty of making a simple substitution of “innate intelligence” (a chiropractic concept) for Chopra’s term “healing system”. As Chopra clearly states below, Chiropractic’s fundamental concept of relying on the body’s own innate intelligence and ability to self regulate, adapt and heal IS the answer to the so-called “health care crisis”:
Do You Want a Health Care System or a Healing System?
The current debate over health care reform has been about politics and money. There is no escaping either factor. Huge vested interests are spending millions of dollars a day to pressure Congress into minimal reform. But even if the political system were pure as snow, an aging American population makes it inevitable that the health care system is going to grow more and more expensive. These external factors fill the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the healing system your body’s own innate intelligence than the health care system. The healing system innate intelligence is inside your body. Its intricacies are just now being fully explored, but certain broad trends have become clear.
- The healing system Innate intelligence is more flexible and powerful than previously thought. For example, the brain can heal itself, a finding that seemed impossible a few decades ago.
- The healing system Innate intelligence is highly sensitive to outside conditions. Stress and emotional discomfort, for example, can severely compromise your ability to heal.
- Healing affects your genes and how they are expressed. An expressed gene is an active one, and this activity turns out to be far more responsive to your state of mind-body health than previously thought. The old image of fixed genes is rapidly changing to a conception in which the body’s genetic material is eavesdropping on all the experiences in your life. In short, a gene isn’t a thing; it’s a process.
- The healing system Innate intelligence is automatic, but your lifestyle choices make a huge difference in the efficiency of healing.
These factors hold true throughout your life, and if we simplify them to one sentence, this would be it: Change your life and you change your healing system. That may sound like the advice we get constantly about proper diet, exercise, and stress management. But with new evidence showing up every day that lifestyle affects an incurable disease like Alzheimer’s, for example, it’s becoming clear that your own healing system will always be the front-line defender of your well-being, not your doctor or the drug companies. So-called lifestyle diseases used to be restricted to conditions like heart disease, obesity, and type II diabetes, where a link with improper diet was easily demonstrated. Now a wider range of disorders is being linked to lifestyle choices, not by one-to-one correlations but through more general trends. That is, no one can predict exactly which disease you might contract due to poor lifestyle choices, but at the same time, reversing those poor choices has a broad effect in improving your power to heal.
Some recent statistics bring home how crucial it is to rely on the healing system your body’s own innate intelligence rather than the healthcare system:
- 58 million Americans are overweight; 40 million obese; 3 million morbidly obese
- Eight out of 10 people over 25 are overweight
- 78% of Americans don’t meet basic activity level recommendations
- 25% are completely sedentary
- 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 years old since 1990
The statistic that really jumps out has to do with sedentary lifestyles. We are addicted to sitting on the couch watching beautiful, slim, fit actors and athletes on television, with a steady increase in other sedentary activities like surfing the Internet and playing video games. In addition, these activities are reaching into younger age groups, making children less active and therefore more inclined to obesity. Yet the simple fact is that the alternative to being sedentary isn’t joining a gym. The greatest benefit of exercise occurs when you move from being sedentary to light activity like walking, doing housework, gardening, and climbing the stairs. Exercise at higher levels will bring increased benefits, certainly, but this first step brings the biggest single improvement in health. Being sedentary is more harmful to you than forgetting to jog three times a week. In addition, at least one study has shown that when overweight adults are put into groups that walk, jog, or run every day, the group that lost the most weight were the walkers.
Thrashing out health care reform is a defining issue for the coming decade and an inescapable duty. Having said that, I urge you to look inward rather than outward. The most perfect health care system can’t do as much for you, on a daily basis, or do it as cheaply as your own healing system innate intelligence. The evidence is there, waiting to be acted upon.
Authors Note: In the interest of maintaining the integrity of the original article, all occurrences were substituted equally.