The Truth About Chiropractic, And How it is Widely Misunderstood

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The Truth About Chiropractic, And How it is Widely Misunderstood

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By _Dr. Lloyd Fielder_ (http://www.schaumburgchiropractor.com/)

The most frequent response to my answer of what I do for a living is after I

respond, " I am a chiropractor! " that person then grabs his or her neck or

back and says, " Oh Doc, I need ya! " If I have your permission I would like to

tell you about the truth of chiropractic and how as a society we have not

understood what a true gift it is.

There was a great philosopher named Hippocrates who once stated, " We are

either growing or dying. " Not to be outdone Confucius stated, " Our lives are

like that of an egg, we are either growing or decaying. " See, everyday we are

exposed to chemical, physical and mental stressors in our environment that

continually bombard our system. It is the job of our nerve system to detect

these

stressors, interpret them, and either adapt to them and continue our growth

or shrink from them and stop growing while in a survival or protective mode.

See, in essence we are both growing and dying each day and it is simply that

one will predominate over the other. One is an upward spiral of growth

leading to fulfillment and ease; the other is a downward spiral of decay

leading

to death.

Our Bodies’ Innate Intelligence

Our bodies have an inborn intelligence that is called innate intelligence.

This intelligence runs, regulates, heals and grows the body to our fullest

potential, allowing us to reach our god-given purpose in life. There are many

things you must have to accept in understanding the full breadth of

chiropractic: either we are on this earth from the grace of a higher

consciousness, or

we are simply the random assimilation of organic substance that has evolved

over many years making us nothing more than a higher order of mud.

If you have a live person and a dead person side by side, what is the

difference? They both have all the same stuff, the same potential for life,

however

in chiropractic understanding it is the live one that possesses an innate

intelligence or life force. See, most people look at the body as being run and

regulated by the brain, but let me ask you, " What runs the brain? " There are

those who think genes dictate life, but we know that they turn off and on

regularly even mutating and adapting, so I ask, " What turns genes on or off? "

For a hundred years chiropractors have been saying that there is an inborn

intelligence that is perfect inside of us that continually gives 100 percent

of the information we need to run, regulate, grow, heal and flourish. They

have been saying that ill health, disease, and lack of potential does not arise

from any other cause than that of a lack of expression of this intelligence.

The Expression of Light or Darkness

This lack of expression leads to dis-coordination of the body or a lack of a

body’s ability to comprehend itself in its own environment. That leads to a

lack of the body being able to adapt to outside stressors and this causes a

loss of function, breakdown of tissue and is a downward spiral of decay and

ultimately death.

If we look at the full expression of this inborn innate intelligence being

the fullest expression of life as light we can look at the lack of this

expression of intelligence as decay or disease and as darkness. So, how do you

remedy darkness? You can study darkness, examine it, qualify it, be aware of it

and focus on it, but the only solution to removal of it is to add light.

Chiropractic understands this premise and does not look to cure disease,

address disease or diagnose disease. We understand disease for what it truly

is,

a lack state, one that arises only in the absence of the fullest expression

of life.

The Subluxation Process

Chiropractic is the detection and correction of interference with the

expression of this intelligence in relation to the spine called the subluxation

process. The primary system for the expression of this innate intelligence is

over our nerve system, and being that our spinal cord is surrounded and

protected by spinal bones called vertebrae, this important relationship is how

chiropractors became synonymous with backs.

However, in truth chiropractic deals with the innate intelligence and the

nerve system, and a chiropractor is not a doctor of the spine, especially not

spinal disorders, decay nor disease.

As a chiropractor the only conclusion that I can with any degree of

certainty make is that your body is better off with a clear nerve system than

one

with interference. Chiropractors are trained and are the only practitioners who

have the philosophy and the technique to find that interference and to assist

in correcting it.

Anything that is beyond the detection and correction of the subluxation

process is usually regarded by the allopathic or medical mindset that we are

not

whole and need something outside ourselves to help us to heal or grow. It is

assumed that the first thing we need is an outside intelligence that looks at

us to tell us what we need, be it ultrasound, electrical stim,

pharmaceuticals, supplements, etc.

See, we need to go back to our original thought process and question, " If

there is a practitioner who directs the energy where they think it needs to go,

how does that honor an individual’s inborn innate intelligence? " Doesn't

innate intelligence know what is needed, where and how much? How does an

application of ultrasound to a mid-back honor that process?

It is that in our society where sitting for five minutes in a drive-through

seems like an eternity. It’s a society where commercials bombard you five to

seven times in three minutes and that problems are resolved in three

eight-minute segments on a television program. To then have someone shift and

comprehend that all of life, including healing, is a process and that being

under

care is also a lifetime process can be a challenge.

You might want to ask yourself, if you start to exercise because it is good

for you, when do you get to a point when you can stop? How about brushing

your teeth? Eating vegetables and other healthy foods? You can always choose to

stop doing those things and that is not a bad thing, it is just not congruent

with the fullest expression of your life's potential.

The Effects of Nerve System Interference

So chiropractic care is a process that gives its greatest rewards over a

lifetime and starts with your getting checked to see how much the subluxation

process is interfering with your nerve system and your life. We automatically

say, " Yeah, but I feel fine, " however, symptoms are the last thing to show up

in a process and therefore the worst possible way to judge your life's

expression.

We all know or have heard of someone who has dropped dead from a heart

attack and never showed the smallest sign of that process, yet we know that

cardiovascular disease is a process that occurs over decades. Diabetes is said

to

be at epidemic proportions mostly due to there being no obvious signs until

the process has gone rampant for years.

Or look at tooth decay, a process that occurs for years by the time you feel

any pain or sensitivity. And haven't you heard of someone getting checked

out and to their surprise they had a 99 percent blockage in their coronary

arteries only to get immediate and drastic open heart surgery with basically no

sign or symptoms before that?

Please understand that these things are just an example of processes that

are a function of our fundamental disconnection with the understanding of life,

health and being out of touch with our self. These disease processes are all

low end on the spectrum and in reality are not what I am talking about when

I speak of possibility. It is not enough to live just not to die, to be alive

with no symptoms or to never need a surgery. I do not believe that is why

god put us here on this planet.

We Are All Meant to Flourish and Grow

I believe we all have a purpose, and we are all meant to flourish, grow and

reach our optimum potentials. You see, you cannot be in fear and love at the

same time; you cannot be in survival mode and growth at the same time. I know

we are meant to live in love and growth and honor the gift of grace always,

all of the time.

To me, it is impossible to accomplish this with a nerve system that is

compromised--one that disconnects the creator from the creation and allows a

little less life in us each and every day that it remains. So, from a person

who

has searched as a chiropractor for the meaning of our profession for the last

10 years, a person who has seen thousands of patients, read hundreds of

books, listened to dozens of tapes and lecturers, please get checked.

Get checked for the subluxation process; get your families checked, your

friends, your loved ones or anyone you care about. Even the people you don't

care about, mention it to them, as maybe it is the subluxation process that is

preventing them from their fullest expression of love and happiness. You never

know, with a clear nerve system anything becomes possible.

Dr. Lloyd Fielder was born in Brooklyn, NY and lived most of his life in

the town of Oceanside on Long Island. He completed his undergraduate studies at

the State University of New York at Albany before receiving his Doctor of

Chiropractic degree at The National College of Chiropractic in Lombard,

Illinois. He also has bachelor of science degrees in both biology and human

biology.

He has successfully owned and operated Schaumburg Chiropractic Wellness

Center in Schaumburg, IL for the last seven years.

Dr. Fielder commonly refers to his office as " one that is driven by

possibilities to improve a person's life and health. " For seven years Dr.

Fielder has

transformed the practice into one that is focused on the inborn innate

ability of each person to achieve and express his or her full health potential.

If you would like to know more about chiropractic or Dr Fielder's practice

please visit or contact him at: _www.schaumburgchiropractor.com_

(http://www.schaumburgchiropractor.com) .

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

 

 

 

Dr. Fielder has been a friend of mine for many years. He is a local

chiropractor and has helped me appreciate the value of chiropractic to

optimizing

health. Additionally, he helped me understand that one of the basic foundations

of chiropractic, as well as one of their 33 founding principles, is the

recognition that there is an intrinsic life force they call innate, which

guides

and directs the body's healing process. Many chiropractors hold this

philosophical perspective and call it " vitalism " --it is one I strongly resonate

with.

 

I posted Dr. Fielder's comments on this topic as I thought many would find

it useful. Dr. Fielder has been providing me with regular chiropractic

adjustments to optimize my nerve system for some time now.

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