Modern Healthcare; Can We No Longer See the Forest for the Trees?

Has modern healthcare become to mechanistic or reductionists (including alternative medicine)? Basically means you can learn more about the body and how to treat it by reducing it down in parts. This philosophy has created the need for specialists or 'experts' to tinker with the sum of the parts that appear to be malfunctioning. We cannot delude ourselves into thinking that you can treat one part of the body without affecting the rest of it, i.e. Blood pressure meds not only go to the heart, they go thru out the body and effect the other parts as well.

So if the mechanistic or reductionist philosophy is true (that a person is the sum of their parts), a question that haunts me is what is the difference between the living you and a corpse? A corpse has the same parts; consists mainly of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon and oxygen; has a brain and nerves. But of course you know that a corpse and a person are just not the same. A corpse lacks life, lacks the innate intelligence that's in all living things.

Perhaps modern healthcare ignores life itself too. Since we cannot quantify a patients' will to live or a mother's love for her child in a laboratory, does that mean they do not exist? We have all witnessed at some point in our life people who were healed or overcame their present circumstances through faith and/or by changing their lifestyle.

Unfortunately, "modern" healthcare/ science usually doesn't look at the innate intelligence or spiritual part of our makeup or fully appreciate the impact that lifestyle changes make in our physical and emotional health because (again) this philosophy views your body as merely a biochemical machine controlled by the sum of its' parts or genes and predestined to either; crumble or thrive, be happy or sad, be weak or be well.

Truth is, you are a mind, a body, and a spirit. These cannot be separated. When they are separated, you have death. The three are interdependent. If you ignore one you lack an essential to life, hence you don't have life.

People who come to us routinely ask us what makes our practice so different; why was our experience here incredibly unique? Truth be told, the answer to these questions point to our philosophy. We understand that you are not the sum of your parts. We believe that the power that makes the body heals it as well. We believe that when you get adjusted, we free up the innermost circuitry of the person, the nervous system. The nervous system is our connecting link to the matter of the body (the parts), and the Innate Intelligence, the inborn wisdom of the body (the spirit). We also believe that the application of our care is what enables the linking of the physical and the spiritual. Now we cannot measure the spirit, but can anyone really deny life, the only difference between you and a corpse? Think about it. If you cut your finger it eventually heals. Did you ever wonder what coordinates and orchestrates this healing?

Something to think about, huh? Can you picture where do you stand? Do you disregard this innate, spiritual, etc. stuff and side with the mechanists and reductionists? Do you believe in fighting disease? Do you fear disease, and believe that cancer, heart disease, diabetes II, etc. are just bad luck and can strike anyone at any time?

Or on the other hand, do you revere life, the Innate Intelligence in you that created you from two 1/2 cells, and embrace a more vitalistic view? Rather than fight disease you prefer to adopt well-being. Do you beleive that if you are healthy it is impossible to be sick, that the power that makes the body, heals it too?

I'd love to hear your thoughts...

With buckets of love and respect,

Lawrence
www.thespinery.com