“Give a man a fish”
Hungry in an hour???
Good morning, cool, crisp New Day! 🌧
Last night I had the pleasure of hosting our Intro to Care class at New Day for a small group of newer clients.
As usual, I gained many creative insights from having the extra time to spend with you, and hopefully you feel the same way ✨🌍🌀
During the powerpoint section of my presentation, we were discussing the similarities and differences between traditional chiropractic care, and Network Spinal care.
One of the ideas that was raised by one of our participants was that Network Spinal is different because the adjustments seem to go farther, or last longer.
Another suggested that it’s kind of like the difference between giving a person a fish (hungry again in an hour) and teaching them to fish (feeding them for a lifetime) 🎣
I LOVE discussing this care and its effect on the spine and nervous system, and hearing your descriptions of what it feels like to you.
I have a couple of thoughts about these ideas that Network Spinal “lasts longer” and is more like “teaching a person to fish.”
First of all– YES. Agree, agree, agree 😊
To the extent that Network Spinal seems to have more of a profound effect than typical manual spinal adjustments, this sense is because your brain is actually working differently.
Because of my focus, as your practitioner, on helping your brain get a different awareness through your nervous system through the course of the adjustments, this is what helps you when you’re on the table, and after you walk out the door 💥💓
You walk down the street to your car and you may notice feeling lighter, feeling a reduced or different sense of pain or tension, a different breath pattern, or noticing something different about your posture. Your brain is tuning in differently, which helps perpetuate the changes initiated on the table.
This change in access or awareness is what helps with “teaching a person to fish.” ✨🎣🌀
If you didn’t come out of your adjustments with any different and improved awareness of your body and your nervous system, it would only be a matter of time (possibly a very short matter of time) before you became “hungry” again.
Does this mean that there eventually comes a time when you won’t want or need any Network Spinal adjustments?
A time when the effects of all the adjustments you’ve had so far have put your nervous system and body into a permanent state of increasing optimization?
Do we ever just evolve past needing or wanting adjustments?
This is actually a deep and philosophical question! 🌊
I would say realistically, for most people and for the foreseeable future, the answer is no 💥💥💥
Most people come into chiropractic care with me for the first time with quite a “back log” (get it? 😉) of spinal cord tension and a habit of fight-or-flight reactivity in the nervous system.
This “back-log” is part of why so many people who are new to care, despite finding that they feel that Network Spinal adjustments seem longer lasting or that the adjustments seem to get to a deeper level than other care that they’ve experienced, still feel like they get the greatest benefit from care when they receive it multiple times per week.
We need time and repetition to turn the ship around! 🛳🛳🛳
Then, once we help your nervous system and body catch up and get to a more energy efficient baseline, there still comes the fact that we live in a stressful world full of physical, emotional, mental, and chemical triggers 💥💥💥
There are VERY few people in the world, I would guess, who are living in a situation where they are so spiritually evolved and experience such little stress that they are never triggered physically or otherwise 😱
And that’s really as it should be!
We came to this world to live in it and to change it for the better, not to evolve past any ability to relate to our fellow human beings and all the stages of healing. That’s my opinion anyway 🌍
Seen in this way, those “triggers”– whether they are your office chair, your boss, a post on facebook, travel, etc– can be viewed not as setbacks, but as ways to continue to allow us to heal, grow, optimize, and empathize 🌀✨🌍
Thank you for your ideas, energy, and engagement, New Day community! I look forward to seeing you at your adjustments tonight ☀️💓✨
