Healing and Awareness

Healing and awareness go hand in hand. One of my professors used to say, “you can’t heal it until you can feel it.” So, why the beach picture? Well, I know most people have felt sand between their toes or a wave crash against their body and these are pleasant sensations to most. This is not different from the sensation of pain in the brain except where our awareness and focus is. We can focus on what we want to, the sand and waves or the pain in our bodies. You see healing takes place when you pay attention to the pleasing sensations and expand the pleasing sensation over the top of the pain. What do I mean?  I understand that this kind of focus and awareness takes time to develop and extreme pain demands attention, but so does relaxation and ease. I don’t know how many times I have exercised beyond my capacity or encountered pain from an injury and those are valid pains to pay attention to, but you need to “check-in” to what is “feeling good” too. How do you maintain  a sense of “feeling good” or great. It is mental you know, but you can get help to get there. Many years of adjusting the spine I have discovered that you better be feeling better than your patients or they won’t improve with your adjustments. People recognize the “feeling good” or the lightness of heart that you express. Yes, I need to have a sense of well-being in my life in order to help someone get out of their pain and find that well-being too. That is where awareness comes in. I am keen to many sensations in my body and pay attention to a lot of feelings. If you are not careful you can get overwhelmed with pain sensations and it is hard to get out of it. Releasing the tension from your spine with chiropractic adjustments is a way of establishing a “feel good” base that you can work from. Chiropractic adjustments work by establishing balance in your movement and making sure each part of your body is connected and doing it’s part, so tension doesn’t accumulate in areas of the body because the body is at ease and the tension in your body and spine moves right through and adapts as it is supposed to. Chiropractic is a great way to improve your health and to put out some “feel good” into whatever you do. So, until you can feel the sand or waves again, get a chiropractic adjustment and “feel good” where you are.