Your amazing inborn wisdom.
In Chiropractic we see you as more than just physical chemistry and reactions – we see you as a complete being consisting of spirit, mind, and matter.
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work” – Albert Schweitzer
Our matter is all parts of our physical body – the material of the body.
Our mind is the thought processes that we use – our cognition.
Our spirit is the energy or intelligence within us.
Some people prefer to see humans as simple physical chemical processes and reactions. This limits us and minimizes us and takes away our wholism and our humanism. We are more than the ‘sum of all our parts.”
Your intelligent body
Your body is doing so many things to keep you alive every second, minute and hour.
Your heart is beating, your muscles are keeping you upright, your skin is healing, your bones are remodelling, your immune system is fighting a virus and so all through all the billions of processes!
Imagine having to consciously think through all the functions your body does for you every minute – it would be mentally exhausting!
Your body does all these functions without your mind controlling it, and this ability occurs from the moment of birth. Therefore, Chiropractor’s say that there is intelligence with you, and since you were born with it named it “Innate Intelligence.”
Innate = Inborn
Intelligence = an Organising principle.
We acknowledge that your body has an organising intelligence within in it, that keeps your matter working and that is independent from your thinking mind.
What is it that separates us inorganic matter? We are alive. Without this intelligence within us, we would not be alive – we would simply be “matter.”
Our body has the functions of life – we can adapt, assimilate nutrients, excrete waste, our cells can reproduce, and so on. Inorganic matter cannot do this!
The simple observation that our body has this unique ability leads us to deduct our body is intelligent. Therefore, all living things have this intelligence.
Our innate intelligence takes the food that we give it, and through the processes of digestion adapts this for use in the body, and removes waste.
Our innate intelligence is always acting for our benefit!.
Humans tend to focus on the signs and symptoms related to things going wrong in the body.
It’s uplifting to think about and acknowledge the bigness of all the things going right in the body!
Switch your attention to your intelligent amazing body, and the amazing things that life has to offer when it is fully expressed without interference.
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