Opportunity For A Healthier You

A NEW BODY EVERY NINE MONTHS
OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEALTHIER YOU

It used to be seven years. Then it went to one year. Now scientists say that ninety-eight percent of the atoms that make up the cells of the body replace themselves within a nine month period. Therefore, you have the capability of being "new" every nine months. How healthy or unhealthy the new you is, depends in part, on how healthy the cells are that replace the old ones.

One reference from Webster's defines health as "A condition of wholeness in which all of the body's organs are working 100% all of the time". This functioning of the human body is dependent on properly working organ systems and their basic elements, the cells and component atoms. Health, therefore, begins at the cellular level.

Your body is a constantly changing system. It is programmed to continually heal itself and maintain "HEALth" by replacing old worn out and damaged cells with healthy new ones. It is not programmed to deteriorate and only does so when destructive forces and unhealthy lifestyles outweigh the body's ability to adapt. Health is the continual replacement of healthy cells, adaptation to environmental influences (physical, biochemical, and mental/emotional/spiritual), and maintaining balance within the organ systems.

It's like a giant orchestra in which all instruments must be in good working condition, in tune, and in harmony with all other instruments. If they are, you hear beautiful music. If not, discordance and irritating sound. So, who is the conductor?

The conductor of the "orchestra" of the body is your innate, inborn intelligence that created you from one single fertilized egg cell into the magnificent complexity of your human body. This innate intelligence did not leave when you were born, but remains on the job throughout your entire life directing and modulating all life processes.

The key to manifesting health on an ongoing basis, therefore, is to continually remove interferences to your innate intelligence' ability to do it's job. Examples of direct and indirect interferences include negative effects on proper nerve function (subluxations), improper nutrition, toxic substances, electromagnetic fields, the accumulation of small and large traumas (birth process, slips and falls, car accidents, falling off your bike, downstairs, etc.), abnormal physical stresses, lack of exercise, bad posture, inadequate rest and relaxation, mental/emotional/ relationship stresses, etc.

The list of influences can get overwhelming as to where to start in creating health. It's my impression that health is not about being perfect and having to address all of these aspects to their fullest. It's a matter of doing enough healthy things in your life to tip the scales in a positive direction toward healing and health. It's when the negative influences outweigh the body's ability to adapt to them that the body goes into a declining health state, a state of dis-ease, within which sickness and disease processes can manifest.

To maximize your health expression, it makes sense to first focus on what has the greatest overall impact? This leads us to the nervous system which is the primary route over which your innate intelligence expresses itself into the physical body. It is your informational "superhighway"; the body's master system. It's job is to regulate and balance organ systems and help you adapt to internal and external changes. Present thought is that it is also the primary system over which vibrational energetics manifest. This maintains proper levels of energy within the atoms.

The nervous system's main transmission lines, spinal cord and nerve roots, are housed within the spinal column. Misalignments of the spine, what chiropractors call subluxations, interfere with proper nerve function and can exist without any pain. These may exist undetected for many years, interfering with your health and potential, until enough damage is accumulated for you to experience pain associated with them. 

Chiropractic adjustments remove subluxations and are a strategic place to start for improved health. A nervous system free of interference unleashes your "LIFE-FORCE" increasing your innate capability to create health. This healthier integration of the body's systems helps remove the state of dis-ease. From this foundation, awareness of and attention to other influences through a variety of holistic health practices will enhance your innate expression of optimal health.

Things like life-force, innate intelligence, emotions, spirit and soul, etc. are vital elements of your health that don't fit linear, cause and effect scientific scrutiny, but can transcend physicality into devine spontaneous manifestations. This does not mean that they are not "real". Spontaneous healing is what your cells do every second of your life as they strive to maintain health. Whenever lifestyle influences have tipped the scales in the negative direction, cellular integrity and function is effected and a disease process may then develope. It is then possible for an observed "spontaneous healing" to occur if a shift in lifestyle choices, attitudes, beliefs, faith, or some other element changes the balance, allowing the healing process to overcome the destructive elements. 

The evolving health care consciousness is quickly moving away from sickness and disease treatment. Individuals are now embracing vitalistic lifestyle choices, creating health and wellness from within preventing the state of dis-ease. William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved". How healthy will the new you be in nine months? Take the steps necessary to insure your destiny and achieve an optimum state of healing for a higher quality of life.