This is where your stress comes from

Why I felt drawn to go on this trip with this group is that it is part of my spiritual path in life. Engaging in such activities helps me become even more sensitive to the energies that create our experiences.

The Shamanistic view of life can be considered “Animistic.” Animism can be defined as a belief that there is a soul of the universe, in animals, plants, bodies of water, mountains, basically everything natural.

I’ve benefitted a lot from doing this work over the past couple of years, consciously strengthening my connection to and relationship to the earth 🏞️

It probably makes sense to you that I would be doing some sort of spiritual work, given the work that I do with you at New Day. 

You might not know this (but some of you do!), but chiropractic itself is a vitalistic and spiritual philosophy.

Traditional chiropractic philosophy holds that is 1) there is an unlimited intelligence in the universe and 2) that everything is connected in such a way so that that intelligence can express at all times. Blockages in that flow of intelligence are aberrations and create all experiences of stress, symptoms, and illness 🧠✨🌅💞

Because much of what we are taught and experience currently on our planet — disconnection, separation, randomness, unwanted events and calamity, etc.–  informs our view of life, it might feel a little surprising (or even threatening), even right now, to read about “intelligence” and how this is central to chiropractic philosophy.

As I have always said, it is not necessary that you “believe in” or “know” or “agree with” anything intellectually for chiropractic or Network Spinal to work for you! 😊

My work here is to give you an EXPERIENCE of yourself as whole, connected, and part of something bigger. YOU (and your nervous system and spine healthy) ARE the antidote to the mechanistic experience of life 💥🌍💥💗💥

No matter what you believe, spiritually or otherwise, and no matter what you normally focus on when you are outside of New Day, this is the case.

Deepak Chopra in Quantum Healing (yup, STILL getting goodies from this book!), argues that belief in a random universe reigns supreme in our society. “And a random universe is inherently a stressful universe.” (my emphasis!)

Just consider it! Next time you’re stressed by what’s happening in your body, or in an email, or with your partner, consider whether a belief in a random universe, where something could ever happen to you that is outside of and separate from the tapestry of life, is part of what makes this situation stressful. 

If you let it, chiropractic and Network Spinal care are here to effortlessly lay the groundwork for a MUCH less stressful experience (which makes change and improvement MUCH easier, by the way!).

Thank you for engaging with me in my thoughts about this, New Day! I look forward to seeing you this week, next week, NOT the week after, but also after I get back from Peru 🥾⛰️✨🦙☀️💓🌍