Murrayville Family Chiropractic

The Third Day: The Fecundity of Universal Intelligence

September 29th, 2006

The third day portrays God fshioning the earth in stability and fruitfulness when He said ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear” (Gen 1:9) Creation is essentiall an utterance of God, It is spoken forth from the secret recesses of th Father’s substance. All things at heart are a birth or embodiment of God. This is not to say that everything that we see or hear in creation is a perfect _expression of God. We know that life is streaked through with all sorts of distortion and suffering. The MAJOR underlying cause of this is the subluxation, particularly in the upper cervical area. Some more examples are people flying planes into buildings as well as a fruitless war. At the begining or center of life, however, is Universal Intelligence, or God. God utter creation forth from the heart of the universe As creation conceives of the Christ-child in the waters of Mary’s womb, so creation is born of the Spirit in the virgin womb of the Universe.

To experience the goodness in life, therefore, is to be in touch with the gift of God. We all have memories of the goodness of creation. We have smelled the earth after the freshness of a rain. To touch the ground with our bare feet is to become more alive to the vibrancy of the goodness that is in the earth. We all know the difference it can make to be barefooted. To feel the soft moisture of grass beneath our feet open a new awareness in us. It can allow us to see life with a different perspective. Just as shoes can cover our awareness of our physical world around us, a subluxation in the spine cutting off the Life Force flowing from Above, Down and Inside, Out. Just as the feeling of grass between our toes is a symbol of the rediscovery that needs to happen if we are to come back into a true sense of relationship with creation, the subluxation, that only a Doctor of ChiropracTIC can correct allows us to lose touch with the deepest and dearest thing in our life, our own Innate Intelligence.
We are like fields with the fertility of God’s life within us. Here, too, ‘crops’ of goodness are to be reaped and shared. The fallow fields of our souls that have been long left unploughed need to be turned over. Then we will see that deeper than any fallowness in us is the fecundity of Universal Intelligence, the creative power of God that is within our nervous system. Go see your local Chiropractor, let him/her unleash the power within you!!


The Wildness of God

September 29th, 2006

Creation is planted, as it were, in the water of God’s life. It is rooted in the Unseen. All that is born in this matrix of lifehas its inception in the Infinite. Creation’s life partakes of the essence of God’s life, and to that extent is a theophany or manifestation of the Mystery of God. This Mystery of God is seen in everything in the Universe and since human kind is a part of the Universe, we also exhibit this Mystery of God. How do we know how to sweat when we are hot or shiver when we are cold? Every couple of months our bodies are almost completly replaced with new atoms. How does the food we eat today become a liver cell, kidney cell, or hairs on our head tomorrow? It is all with the Mystery of God that this happens.

There is also a sense of wildness of God. Like nature it is unrestrainable. The book of Genesis portrays all things as born out of the wild wind that swept over the face of the waters. This ‘wind’ is sometimes translated as the Spirit of God. This is the same ‘wind’ that  Genesis 2.7 says “…God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Are we expecting it to be entirely different in our lives? Do we think creativity can emerge without surges of unordered energy rising from the unknown depths within us? Part of what we fear, of course, is the uncontrollableness of wildness. In its essence life is hidden in the Mystery of God, but is drawn forth into visible forms and corporeal beauties. If you recall the thirteenth princple of the 33 Chiropactic Priciples that state “The function of matter is to express force.” What God does is create force (i.e. Principle No. 8: The function of intelligence is to create force). The force, which is the Mystery of God is what unites you and I to God (i.e. Principle No. 10: The function of force is to unite intelligence and matter). Can you see how all around us is the emergence of the visible world out of the invisible waters of God? It is like a subterranean river running through all things. Although it is hidden and unseen, nothing has life apart from it.
George Macdonald, in his novel Lilith, imagines a land that has been so oppressed by evil that its waters have gone underground. They flow unseen, deep below the surface, unknown to the creatures of the land, but from these underground streams comes the water of Life. The story is about the rediscovery of the great hidden river. It is sensed first by someone asleep on the ground dreaming. He hears far beneath him the sound of water rushing of the stones of buried channels. It is, he says, a ‘loveliest chaos of music-stuff.’ In the end the liberation of the submerged waters transformes the parched land into a garden of abundance. The waters of Life are also in each one of us. This ‘music’ is heard in our nervous system. No one else but a Chiropractor can release this orchestra that God is directing. What Chiropractors take care of our not bodies. We take care of human beings WITH bodies. for human beings are made up of mind, body, and spirit. We deal with the subtle substance of the soul. Now, some of you may think that all we deal with is low back pain, headaches, and sometimes asthma. We do not. All a Chiropractor does is remove the interference with the ‘force’ of life. This Life Force is what keeps us alive and allows us to function successfully in the environment in which we live. This may be hard for some of you to grasp, but it is the truth. When we sit and think about it, we all know that medicine, pills, shots, potions, and lotions do not heal anything. It is the ‘Mystery of God’ that heals everything…it always has and it always will. Did Jesus and the disciples give out perscriptions to the people they were healing? NO! He was touching them,most of the time on their heads. We do not know for sure, but who is to say that Jesus wasn’t giving the sick and diseased an adjustment? We do not know for sure, but we DO know that He WAS NOT giving them perscriptions. People sometimes ask me if i think I am Jesus. There is no way any man before Jesus or ever after Jesus will even come close to what He was. He was the Son of God. We must also remember that He was a motal man while here on Earth too, just like you and I. Once we open up to the Mystery of God and allow him to flow from Above, Down and Inside, Out we will see amazing changes heppening in our lives.

You Are Here.

September 29th, 2006
I dont like going to malls. I am not a shopper. I usually only go if I have something specific to buy. Consequently, I am not very familiar with the local malls. I also have a very poor sense of direction. As a result, I spend a good deal of time in front of the directory/map of the mall to try to figure out where I am going. The most important thing to do is to first find out where you are, hence the little arrow showing you the location of the directory you are staring at. You see, you cannot figure out how to get somewhere unless you know where you are.
For us to reach a destination of good health, which should be the objective of every patient in the office, we must first determine where you are. Your location, both physical and mental are important. Physically, you are probably subluxated. One or more vertebra may be out of its proper position, cutting off the vital life energy to your body, inhibiting your ability to be healthy, to work, to play, to sleep and to reach your potential in every aspect of your life. Whats more, these subluxations have probably been present for years and may well have been reducing the quality of your life experiences since childhood. Further, they are not going to go away overnight or with one or two adjustments. In the beginning, most people need quite a few adjustments and everybody needs to be checked regularly for their entire lives and adjusted whenever the chiropractor finds vertebral subluxations.

Perhaps more important, is realizing where we are in our thinking. We have more than likely all been raised with a distorted view of life and health. We are taught that germs cause disease and that treating the symptoms of a disease while ignoring the cause is okay. We are taught that health comes from somewhere outside ourselves rather than coming from within our bodies. We believe that taking something from a bottle or in the form of a pill will actually make us healthy, rather than just treating the symptoms. We are at a place where we put our confidence in some doctor to get us well rather than the inborn wisdom of the body. We are not interested in maintaining our health but only in getting rid of the illness when it comes. We think that getting sick is a matter of bad luck, rather than doing the wrong things or failing to do the right things.

Until we realize that our perspective is wrong and want to change, we are never going to find our way to a healthier, more productive life. We will either stay where we are in our thinking or worse, we will wander off in the wrong direction trying to find health and a better life in the same old ways that have not worked for the last 5,000 years. Chiropractic offers a new perspective and a new direction. It involves a radical change in our way of thinking, even our way of looking at life and the world around us. Investigate its philosophy. It could change your direction and life.


A Day in the Life of our Kids

September 29th, 2006

They wake from the soundest of sleep startled by the sound of their alarm clocks or your voice calling them for the fourth or fifth time. Groggy and still half asleep, they shuffle from their beds to the bathroom stubbing their toe on something they should have put away, forcing them to hop on one foot the remainder of the way. They shower in water containing who knows what all kind of chemicals and they shower and they shower.Now, late for the bus they go running full speed down the stairs, grab two Pop-tarts and with a 40-pound bag of books strapped across their backs, they make a mad dash out of the house to their bus stop. At school all day, they sit in uncomfortable, hard-as-rock chairs with their heads bent over their books (whether they are reading or sleeping). When they take a break from the more than six hours of bending their necks in the opposite direction of their natural curve, they are in a constant state of stress. Are they going to pass all of their classes? Who are they going to the dance with? When will their face clear up? What if they dont get into college? Why wont their parents leave them alone? Why wont their parents pay more attention to them? And this is a good- to best-case scenario. We all know children who have other serious personal struggleswith their identity, with handicaps, with peer pressure.

After school, they challenge themselves physically with sports of all sortsfootball, soccer, tennis, golf, track, wrestling, basketball, baseball, volleyball. Unfortunately, often times this activity is fueled solely by the one lousy piece of pizza they had for lunch or maybe a cheeseburger and fries or sometimes nothing at all! Its possible that their after school activity isnt physical maybe its musical, artistic, or academic. Still, the stress of a long, challenging day on little fuel takes its toll.

By the time they arrive back at home in the evening they are often exhausted not to mention cranky. This may result in arguments with other family members, which is upsetting to everyone. Dinner often is fast-food or if it is homemade they fall asleep on the couch while it is being prepared with their bodies contorted in some unbelievable position that theyre too tired to even notice. After dinner, its homework time or probably more likely TV time or computer time where they sit lifeless for another several hours. Or maybe they sit and talk on their cell phone for hours on end with their girlfriends or boyfriends with their heads tilted over stressing the delicate neck musculature. Finally, you yell to them saying its getting late and they better get ready for bed (mostly because youre exhausted at this point and you just dont want to deal with it anymore). At this point they are pretty much ready to go again since they power napped if not on the couch in the car or the bus on the way home).

With all the physical, chemical, and emotional stress your child packs into the typical daydo you really think their spines are going unaffected? Is it even possible to undergo such numerous and various stresses and not have every part of their body be affected? No, it is not. The problem is the nerve system directs and organizes every other system and every function of the body. If you want your child to learn and grow and play and be all they can and should be, you simply must have their spines checked regularly. Take your child to see their chiropractor this week and every week. Make the time to fit it in. Its vitally important.


33 Principles

September 29th, 2006
33 Principles

R.W. Stephenson, DC published a book in 1927 called Chiropractic Textbook. In it, he presented the core principles of Chiropractic strong enough for the most seasoned Chiropractor and simple enough for even the lay person to understand. I present the 33 principles of chiropractic as they were written in this timeless text for you to survey and grow to appreciate.

Excerpt from Chiropractic Textbook:
Some of the principles are basic, upon which others are founded or derived as going from the general to the specific; some are down to a part of the whole thing. These specific principles are, of course, derived principles.

They are not limited to any given number. A fundamental principle of Chiropractic is a statement of the quality or actions of intelligence in matter which will include any and all circumstances that may arise in study.

1. The Major Premise - A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus aintaining it in existence.

2. The Chiropractic Meaning of Life - The expression of this ntelligence through matter is the Chiropractic meaning of life.

3. The Union of Intelligence and Matter - Life is necessarily the union of intelligence and matter.

4. The Triune of Life - Life is a trinity having three necessary united factors, namely: Intelligence, Force and Matter.

5. The Perfection of the Triune - In order to have 100% Life, there must be 100% Intelligence, 100% Force, 100% Matter.

6. The Principle of Time - There is no process that does not require time.

7. The Amount of Intelligence in Matter - The amount of intelligence for any given amount of matter is 100%, and is always proportional to its requirements.

8. The Function of Intelligence - The function of intelligence is to create force.

9. The Amount of Force Created by Intelligence - The amount of force created by intelligence is always 100%.

10. The Function of Force - The function of force is to unite intelligence and matter.

11. The Character of Universal Forces - The forces of Universal Intelligence are manifested by physical laws; are unswerving and unadapted, and have no solicitude for the structures in which they work.

12. Interference with Transmission of Universal Forces - There can be interference with transmission of universal forces.

13. The Function of Matter - The function of matter is to express force.

14. Universal Life - Force is manifested by motion in matter; all matter has motion, therefore there is universal life in all matter.

15. No Motion without the Effort of Force - Matter can have no motion without the application of force by intelligence.

16. Intelligence in both Organic and Inorganic Matter - Universal Intelligence gives force to both organic and inorganic matter.

17. Cause and Effect - Every effect has a cause and every cause has effects.

18. Evidence of Life - The signs of life are evidence of the intelligence of life.

19. Organic Matter - The material of the body of aliving thing is organized matter.

20. Innate Intelligence - A living thing has an inborn intelligence within its body, called Innate Intelligence.

21. The Mission of Innate Intelligence - The mission of Innate Intelligence is to maintain the material of the body of a living thing in active organization.

22. The Amount of Innate intelligence - There is 100% of Innate Intelligence in every living thing, the requisite amount, proportional to its organization.

23. The Function of Innate Intelligence - The function of Innate Intelligence is to adapt universal forces and matter for use in the body, so that all parts of the body will have coordinated action for mutual benefit.

24. The Limits of Adaptation - Innate Intelligence adapts forces and matter for the body as long as it can do so without breaking a universal law, or Innate Intelligence is limited by the limitations of matter.

25. The Character of Innate Forces - The forces of Innate Intelligence never injure or destroy the structures in which they work.

26. Comparison of Universal and Innate Forces - In order to carry on the universal cycle of life, Universal forces are destructive, and Innate forces constructive, as regards structural matter.

27. The Normality of Innate Intelligence - Innate Intelligence is always normal and its function is always normal.

28. The Conductors of Innate Forces - The forces of Innate Intelligence operate through or over the nervous system in animal bodies.

29. Interference with Transmission of Innate Forces - There can be interference with the transmission of Innate forces.

30. The Causes of Dis-ease - Interference with the transmission of Innate forces causes in coordination of disease.

31. Subluxations - Interference with transmission in the body is always directly or indirectly due to subluxations in the spinal column.

32. The Principle of Coordination - Coordination is the principle of harmonious action of all the parts of an organism, in fulfilling their offices and purposes.

33. The Law of Demand and Supply - The Law of Demand and Supply is existent in the body in its ideal state; wherein the clearing house, is the brain, Innate the virtuous banker, brain cells clerks, and nerve cells messengers.


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