How Our Bodies Work
B.E.S.T. is a very large step in a more holistic direction. It is a hands-only, non-forceful procedure that allows for the removal of primary interferences, allowing structure and function to normalize and the body to heal according to and under the direction of Innate Intelligence, or Nature's Law.
Illness never occurs spontaneously. Rather it is the result of minute stresses - stresses that can begin even in the mother's uterus - present over a long period of time. These stresses are physical, emotional and nutritional. When stresses are prolonged and constant, there comes a time when symptoms occur. What has been happening is that medicine and, to a lesser degree, chiropractic have too often been treating the symptoms. Both subluxations and diseases are effects, not causes.
The body is a delicate balance of structure and function. There is no way to treat only a portion of the body. The body will not allow this. It will compensate in some way, the result becoming a game of symptom chasing. Symptoms can sometimes be altered from the external, but health can only be regained from within by obeying the natural laws. Healing and health is an inside-out job, not outside in.
The technique presented here seeks to go deeper, to understand primary cause, based on sound scientific evidence, and to correct the cause. We firmly believe that the cause of illness is the result of interruptions of the energy flow (the life force of the body), and once that energy flow is restored, the body is in a position to heal itself. The existence of an energy field around the body is not just pure speculation but a proven fact established by both medical and chiropractic research. These forces have been measured with extremely sensitive instruments. Until now, however, a method of effectively and consistently balancing these fields was not available.
Stress-induced energy imbalance will cause the body to become divided into areas of North and South energy. BEST doctors renormalize the body's energy field so that it can become revitalized and can function as a holistic entity. In a healthy body there is no polarization of north or south energy.
Let us say a few more words about the nature of primary interference and how we can rectify it through adjustments. This interference or confusion can be either one of sensory or motor malfunction. If the interference is sensory in nature, the patient does not know he has a problem; for example, the patient that is riddled with cancer and has no pain. If the confusion is motor then the correction impulses do arrive at the site of involvement; for example, a left hip correction is sent to the right hip. Regardless of where the malfunction occurs it must be corrected if we are to treat the cause and allow for the return of normal function.
The brain, after receiving impulses that are too intense, too hot, too loud, too bright, etc., that appear to be an actual threat to the survival of the body will cause an emergency physiology to occur (more about survival later). When this defense, emergency, survival physiology is retained or generated unnecessarily, ultimate nervous system exhaustion must occur. This process will lead to symptoms and disease, and now represents a timing problem.
To correct this state of affairs, properly sequenced impulses must be received over the sensory system. When impulses of correct sequense and intensity are received at the thalamus, a clearing or unjamming will occur. This clearing will allow for a return to a normal awareness of the sensory function which in turn will allow for a return to a normal response by the motor system. What is being accomplished is the elimination of nerve interference, whether it has been caused at the intervertebral foramen, thalamus, or cortex.
Through (1) correct interpretation of body language, (2) complete switching with every treatment, (3) the correct transfer of energy, (4) the exact synchronization of body pulsation, (5) the correct nutritional program, and (6) sufficient time, health can be restored.
In order to appreciate and understand the technique set forth in this manual, it is well to review briefly what we know from biochemistry, neuroanatomy and physiology. The use of the technique will then be based on sound scientific evidence.
Postulates of B.E.S.T
1. All health comes from within.
2. Health can not be forced upon anyone.
3. The human body functions within an internal environment and within an external environment.
4. The body has both an internal and an external control system.
a. The internal control system is communication between cells, tissues, organs, and systems. It is regulated and maintained by both neurological and hormonal activity.
b. The external control system of the body is not as well documented or identified. It is electro-magnetic in nature and is manifested by pulsations. These pulsations are evident in photo-micrographs of the fertilized ovum as well as in each cellular division.
5. This is the same pulsation we endeavor to synchronize in all of our treatment.
6. This electro-magnetic field controls the development and repair of the body from inception throughout all life.
7. Any interruption or interference with the movement of this field will result in some malfunction in normal physiology.
8. These interferences are the result of excessive stresses. They may be:
a. physical . . . trauma . . . timing
b. chemical . . . primarily nutritional . . . toxicity
c. emotional or mental . . . thoughts
9. These interferences may manifest as vertebral subluxation, organic disease, or emotional disorders.
10. These interferences can be removed with B.E.S.T. adjustments, restoring normal function.
B.E.S.T. is to be considered a facilitate in achieving health.
Rudolph Virchow, one of the first to proclaim the "germ-theory," said that "If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that the germ-theory was wrong and that the germ sought its natural habitat - diseased tissue - rather than causing the tissue to become diseased."
Germs do not cause disease. They are the result of disease. A clean body supplies an unhealthy media for germs. An unclean body, that is one choked with waste materials and poisons, forms a perfect media for germ propagation. The problem in combating disease is not the destruction of germs, but the destruction of the media which causes germs to multiply.
There are numerous studies that have investigated whether or not communication goes on between other forms of life. For example, a gardener in a lettuce 'factory' was told to chop up a head of lettuce while some of the other heads of lettuce were monitored by a "physiograph". Not only did the other heads of lettuce register alarm when the subject lettuce was being destroyed, but days after the event, the remaining lettuce would continue to register alarm of this particular gardener when he entered the potting area, but would not register alarm at the other gardeners.
Scientists have monitored the life function of a normal fertile chicken egg while, at a distance of approximately 2 feet, they proceeded to drop, one at a time, other normal fertile chicken eggs into boiling water. Each and every time the wired egg would register alarm when the other egg hit the boiling water. This wired egg also registered alarm when brine shrimp were put into the same hot pot.
A number of years ago a drought in the region of Kreuger National Park in Africa was claiming many Kudu from starvation. However, the animal's stomachs were found to be full of leaves. Out of this experience, scientists took sticks and began to thrash a Hookthorn tree and in 15 minutes the levels of tannic acid had increased 94% while an hour later the levels had risen to 282% (the Kudu were tanning their innards). What the scientists didn't expect was that Hookthorn trees six to ten feet away began to raise their tannic acid levels 42% after 3 hours. There are probably many theories that would explain these phenomenon but one that would apply to all of the above situation is that there is a communication between living things via the entities energy field. This data was found after Dr. Morter had discovered that a patients leg length would change simply to his (Dr. Morter's) thoughts! It is with this data that we are able to access the patients subconscious. Careful, everybody hears what you are thinking, at some level.
Additional science was found concerning how the nervous system, the mind, and memories of past experiences interact and how they can be having an influence on our daily health.
Guyton Textbook of Medical Physiology, 6th edition, page 218. "Many emotions such as excitement, anxiety, or rage often discharge the sympathetics en masse, causing marked increase in arterial pressure, palpitation of the heart, and cold chills over the skin." If we limit our talk only to chiropractic, this great volume of sympathetic activity also brings about increased skeletal tone: tense muscles.
Note: The most damaging emotions involve someone loved or cared for and are the most difficult to locate.
Guyton, 6th ed., pg 218. "The emotions of worry, depression and lethargy, all of which have effects opposite to those that excite the sympathetic system, often stimulate the parasympathetics. On occasion, however, both of the systems may be stimulated simultaneously. Fear, for instance, can cause extreme sympathetic stimulation resulting in elevation of arterial pressure, while at the same time, stimulating the parasympathetics to elicit such intense gastrointestinal activity that the person has uncontrolled diarrhea."
Note: The most frequent negative emotion is fear of the rejection the patient has for himself and an experience concerning himself. The self-forgiveness necessary in correcting this problem is very difficult.
Guyton, 6th ed., pg 218. "A psychosomatic effect is a bodily (somatic) effect produced by psychological stimulation."
Guyton, 7th ed., pg 548. "Simply thinking about exercise has the psychic effect of exciting the autonomic nerve centers, which increases the heart rate, increases the strength of heart contraction, and constricts the blood vessels throughout the body to increase the mean systemic filling pressure. Together, these effects can increase the cardiac output instantaneously as much as 50%, even before exercise begins."
Guyton, 7th ed., pg 547. "One of the major functions of the nervous system is to process incoming information in such a way that appropriate motor responses occur ... Indeed, more than 99% of all sensory information is discarded by the brain as irrelevant and unimportant. The 1% that reaches the brain is considered to be important for survival." This word survival has a very significant meaning which we'll talk about shortly.
Guyton, 7th ed., pg 548. "The storage of information is the process we call memory, and this too, is a function of the synapses. That is, each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of synapses, these synapses become more capable of transmitting the same signals the next time, which process we call facilitation. After the sensory signals have passed through the synapses a large number of times, the synapses become so facilitated that signals generated within the brain itself can also cause transmission of impulses through the same sequence of synapses even though the sensory input has not been excited. This gives the person a perception of experiencing the original sensation, though in effect they are only memories of the sensations."
Guyton, 8th ed., pg 478. "Most activities of the nervous system are initiated by sensory experiences emanating from sensory receptors, whether visual receptors, auditory receptors, tactile receptors on the surface of the body, or other kinds of receptors. This sensory experience can cause an immediate reaction, or its memory can be stored in the brain for minutes, weeks, or years, and then can help determine the bodily reactions at some future date.
Therefore, more than 99% of all stimuli that regulate motor function comes from the memory of past experiences (except in an emergency).
Science is telling us that thoughts have a direct effect on our bodies and memories of past experiences influence how our bodies are responding (functioning) today.
When information arrives at the cortex, an evaluation is made of incoming impulses. The motor side of the nervous system acts as a servo-mechanism for the sensory system and becomes involved by sending impulses to elicit a response of improved glandular secretion (autonomic) or improved muscle cooperation to accomplish structural homeostatic symmetry (muscles on one side of the body just as tight or loose as muscles on the other side of the body). This response is performed without conscious thought.
When we evaluate someone at presentation, we are really looking at their body language. Findings such as leg length, muscle tightness in the legs, arm muscle strength, back muscle tightness, are merely the results of motor impulses to skeletal muscles, under control of the cortex and cerebellum.
If a normal homeostatic structural state is to be achieved, then the sensory system must provide impulses that are accurate, complete, uncompensated, and appropriate for present need. This will allow for accurate integration between the sensory and motor systems.
If the sensory system has accommodated to the interference caused by defense physiology (more about this later) then the cortex may be receiving incorrect information about the condition of the body . . . a timing problem has occured. In B.E.S.T. adjustments, the sensory system is caused to evaluate pathways for incurred, accommodative stress and to reevaluate if that accommodation is still necessary . . . a clearing or updating of the system will occur.
We need to realize that interference to homeostasis can occur anywhere in the nervous system where stresses such as physical (accidents), mental (emotional), or nutritional are involved.
Vertebral subluxation is not the only area of interference in the nervous system. As stated by Drs. Janness and Toftness in the Sept./Oct., 1981 issue of Digest of Chiropractic Economics, p. 128, ". . . the primary source of nerve dysfunction occurs in the brain rather than in the spinal cord."
Perfection and Illness
The patient must know that he was created perfect. The creation was originally perfect and remains perfect.
He may not be functioning perfectly or feel perfect but he is perfect. The expression may not look like perfection but it is there. The difference between being perfect and feeling perfect must be accepted.
Feeling poorly is caused by the perfect being not expressing perfectly. This may occur when the conscious mind interferes with subconscious control. The body does not know how to he sick. It was not programed so. Sometimes the subconscious memory interferes with normal homeostatic subconscious hypothalamic control.
Yes, the plan for the human body was, and is, perfect. The human body, created and developed with an intelligence far greater than the cortex of man is capable of understanding, has no neurological pathways developed to produced abnormal vertebral positions. Therefore, if a vertebra is in an abnormal position some interference with normal neurological impulses to the paravertebral musculature must exist. A vertebra remaining out of normal position (subluxation) could do so only if (1) the muscles are unable to restore normal position due to fixation of position or local damage, or (2) if some interference still exists within the sensory-motor neurological response cycle, inappropriate for present need. (Memory). (A timing problem).
This is how it works. The body does not know how to be sick.
> Any measure that will provide normal, accurate and complete physiological input to the sensory system of the body represents good therapy. (Joe Janse, DC)
> The human body contains motor and sensory pathways.
> Sensory fibers carry information to the brain.
> There are 10 - 100 times more sensory fibers than motor.
> The brain stem is bombarded with 100,000,000 impulses per second.
> Motor response requires a minimum of two sensory impulses for synthesis, usually one is memory.
> The autonomic nervous system is primarily motor in function, and requires sensory input before motor expression.
> The cardio-vascular system pulsates at 72/minute.
> Other pulses, in addition to vascular pulse, exist in the human body.
> Interference in the body will cause improper brain cell to tissue cell communications causing vertebra subluxation and other pathophysiology, including organ malfunction.
> Primary quality interference occurs in the brain and will cause interference in pulse synchronization throughout the body.
> Poor communication between brain and paravertebral muscles will cause an imbalance of paravertebral muscle tone.
> Gravity will rotate vertebra to the weak side of muscle strength.
> This rotation is termed 'subluxation'.
> As a subluxation worsens, it will cause additional stimulus to the sensory nervous system until it becomes symptomatic and a chief complaint of top priority (Quantity Interference).
> Ideally, adjusting the vertebra will communicate sensorially with primary interference in the brain and allow an influx of corrected sensory input to the brain balancing the primary interference and removing quantity interference.
> When the brain and body communicate totally, the intelligence that created the body will recreate the balance that was programmed originally and the muscles and bones will function and move as they were designed. The many pulses will be synchronized throughout the body, and both quality and quantity interference will be removed.
> If the primary interference is not corrected in the high brain levels, then the impulses from the brain to the vertebral muscles will again create the subluxation.
> Since the body does not have nerve pathways created specifically for subluxation or disease, the abnormal position (subluxation) for the vertebra must have been correct for some past experience.
> The body must be allowed to reevaluate the inappropriateness for sustained contracted vertebral muscles when the patient on the table should be relaxed. (retained defense physiology).
> This updated evaluation of muscle response is accomplished by touching areas of equal tenderness (not the painful areas of the chief complaint) until the pulses synchronize indicating the sensory-motor cycle has been completed. This will allow an immediate correction of muscle physiology. The tenderness at pulsating points will disappear.
> The areas of tenderness are usually located on the sacrum, lumbars, dorsals, occiput, abdomen, and skull. By contacting pairs of these until the pulses synchronize, the tenderness disappears, the primary interference in the brain is reevaluated and if the normal pathways are reestablished, the primary interference will be neutralized and normal skeletal muscle tone will be re-established.
> The sacral, occipital and temporal points are parasympathetic. The lumbar and dorsal points are sympathetic. The abdomen is visceral afferent.
> By contacting these points simultaneously, the brain receives information from the two points and compares it to memory. The mind (thoughts) can activate unnecessary defense physiology.
> If present physiology is not correct for updated information, the physiology will change instantly as the tenderness disappears (the brain will correct the error).
> As the tenderness disappears, the primary interference in the brain is reevaluated and if the normal pathways are reestablished, the primary interference will be neutralized and both quantity and quality interference will be removed.
> The improved communication between the body and brain in relationship to actual present muscle physiology requirements will balance normal paravertebral muscle tone.
> This improved balance will pull the vertebra back toward a more normal position and hold it there.
In Summary:
a. You can not force health on anyone.
b. The body's muscle or tone will always determine lasting vertebral (cerebellum).
c. The body does not know how to be sick or subluxated.
d. Remove the improper sensory input and a more normal motor response is absolute.
e. Osseous adjustments reduce quantity interference.
f. B.E.S.T. adjustments reduce quality interference.
Defense Physiology
When the patient's skeletal muscles will not relax in response to the doctor's request, the muscles are said to be in defense physiology. The excess muscle tone must represent subconscious instructions or messages since the muscles are tight in response to stimuli from some part of the nervous system (cerebellum).
It is appropriate for skeletal muscles to increase tone in response to an emergency situation which initiates the fright, flight, or fight reflex. We have learned that the body utilizes the same emergency defense mechanism in response to anxiety. Since anxiety is an ongoing situation, the muscles remain tight and defense physiology results as a normal response. Anxiety is quite common in our everyday existence and the defensive response is often seen in our patients. Since the patient can not consciously control these tight muscles, we must investigate the neurology that allows this tightness at the subconscious level.
Since the cortex represents conscious control, we know the cortex does not have total control of this inappropriate muscle tightness. Of those areas of the brain involved in subconscious (or below the cortex), the cerebellum is responsible for maintaining muscle tone. In fact, the spinocerebellar and cerebelospinal pathways carry the information.
"Information concerning the condition of the muscles, the amount of tonus, and the position of the body is supplied by unconscious proprioceptive fibers, whose receptors are found in joints, tendons, and muscles."
(Neuroanatomy, p. 34).
"It is believed that the cerebellum compares the actual instantaneous status of each part of the body as depicted by the peripheral information with the status that is intended by the motor system. If the two do not compare favorably, then appropriate corrective signals are transmitted instantaneously back into the motor system to increase or decrease the levels of activation of the specific muscles.
"Since the cerebellum must make major motor corrections extremely rapidly during the course of motor movements, a very extensive and rapidly acting cerebellar input system is required both from the peripheral parts of the body and from the cerebral motor areas."
(Guyton, p. 639).
The flexing of the legs in Level I and the turning of the feet in Level II, and thought correction in Level III, will cause input into the appropriate area of the brain (cerebellum) to permit a comparison of this movement with stored memory information. If the information from the sensory system shows a muscle in defensive tone while at a resting position, the increased tone must be in response to memory.
"An underlying theme of the B.E.S.T. system is that subluxation and disease are caused by defense physiology, that is, the manifestation of responses to stimuli coming from memory. We have cited scientific literature indicating that 99% of the stimuli eliciting physiological responses comes from memory."
(Chiropractic Physiology: Morter, p. 73).
"It is important to understand that this defense mechanism exists and that the power it exerts on physical configuration can mean the difference between a successful and unsuccessful adjustment no matter what therapy is used."
(Ibid., p.74)
"When a person learns to perform a motor function, he or she experiences in the somatic sensory areas the effects of the motor movement each time it is performed, and memories of the different patterns of movements are recorded. These are called sensory engrams of the motor movements. Once a sensory engram has been established in the sensory cortex the person then uses this sensory engram as a guide for the motor system of the brain to follow in reproducing the pattern of movement."
(Guyton, p.648). In accomplishing this, sensory signals from the legs (Level I and Level II) and from the fingers, hands, and arms (Level II), are compared with the sensory engrams. If the two do not match, the difference, called the "error", supposedly initiates additional motor signals that automatically activate appropriate muscles to bring the fingers, hands, and arms into the necessary sequential attitudes for accurate performance of the task.
"Thus, one can see that the motor system in this case acts as a servomechanism, for it is not the motor cortex itself that controls the pattern of activity to be accomplished. Instead, the pattern is located in the sensory part of the brain, and the motor system merely follows the pattern, which is the definition of a servomechanism. If ever the motor system fails to follow the pattern, sensory signals are fed back to the sensory cortex to apprise the sensorium of the failure, and appropriate corrective signals are transmitted to the muscles."
(Guyton, P.648). It becomes apparent that the messages the motor system carries are determined by the sensory system. Once these corrective signals are sent to muscles in defense physiology, they immediately relax and switching can then begin.
Level III
Level III conditions are just as common and as physical as the strains and sprains that we all experience. Every one you know and every one you don't know can be effected by them. Those Level III indications are merely the results of memory engrams established at some past time (sometimes even before our conscious memory can recall them).
It now appears that any physical activity that was accompanied by an emotional anxiety state will create a subconscious memory engram, as Guyton calls it, that can influence our homeostasis for the rest of our lives. An engram is merely the storage of the stimulus-response cycle.
The engrams are established as the body receives a stimulus, externally as an accident or internally as anxiety, and processes that stimulus. Either source produces a primary interference in the nervous system, and prohibits normal body function if the emergency physiology is maintained. The stimulus can be of two different types. They can occur in a short term duration of high level intensity or they can occur in a long term duration of low level intensity.
The occurrence is recorded in the cerebellum and other high brain centers where they become a vital part of our very existence. From these centers in the brain these engrams become part of the stimulus response cycles that govern our daily lives and control our activities and sense of well being. The cycles are physical in nature as described by Guyton.
It long ago became evident that different engrams required different techniques. The difference is how it got to be an engram. That difference will determine the technique to be used in the updating process. We learned in Level I that this physical, structural physiology, stored in the cerebellum, could manifest itself as defense physiology, that it could be perceived as the pain of the chief complaint (muscle pain, the lump in the throat, or weak knees), and that it could be removed or allowed to update by the physical procedures of Level I technique during full inspiration. We use the tender areas on the physical body to update, not negate, the engram.
We learned in Level II the same type trauma or anxiety, when stored during an emotionally charged time, could produce an engram that can be located physically by the procedures of Level II. By the challenging of the quadrants of the brain to locate residual segmentation depolarization and by the patient's concentration on that area, normalcy and balance is updated during full inspiration to a more appropriate response.
Now in Level III we are going to learn how the conscious mind can be used to update, by a very physical procedure, that subconscious memory engram to more appropriately fill the present need. We will use the patient's response to his own conscious thoughts and evaluate his physiologic response to those thoughts. By then having the patient follow the appropriate conscious thought process during full inspiration, we will be able to evaluate the updating of physiology in Level III. We will observe the patient's conscious thought and the body's response to that thought. If the body reacts to the thought it can retain that response and recreate the abnormality as a new engram or reinforce a preexisting one. The response needs to be negated. The negation of response is corrected automatically, according to Guyton, by sending a new stimulus into the area causing a repolarization of that area of the brain. The pulsation synchronization registers the completion of the application of the techniques used at each level of adjustment.
Now, let's talk more about the 2 major divisions of the nervous system; the sensory system and the motor system. As we said before, the sensory system is responsible for gathering information about the external environment, combining it with information received from the internal environment, and sending it on to the higher centers of the brain, including, but not limited to, the cerebellum, the hypothalamus, the thalamus, and the cortex. When this information arrives at the cortex, an evaluation is made of incoming impulses. The motor side of the nervous system acts as a servo-mechanism for the sensory system and becomes involved by sending impulses to elicit a response of improved glandular secretion (autonomic) or improved muscle cooperation to accomplish structural homeostatic symmetry (muscles on one side of the body just as tight or loose as muscles on the other side of the body). This response is performed without conscious thought.
When I evaluate someone, I'm really looking at their body language. Findings such as leg length, muscle tightness in the legs, arm muscle strength, back muscle tightness, are merely the results of motor impulses to skeletal muscles from the sensory nervous system, which may be appropriate or inappropriate, uncompensated or compensated.
If a normal homeostatic structural state is to be achieved, then the sensory system must provide impulses that are accurate, complete, uncompensated, and appropriate for present need. This will allow for accurate integration between the sensory and motor systems.
The response of the motor system is always perfect for the stimulus that causes a response (first big key point). The motor system does not think - it only responds. It does nothing on its own, ever! If the response is not appropriate for present need, then it must be appropriate for a past need (second big key point). If this occurs then the response must be coming from memory of a past experience (third big key point)! (This paragraph is probably the most profound paragraph you will ever read in your life. This is where cancer and, I venture to guess, all other chronic degenerative diseases have their beginning. Refer to the Iron Law of Cancer).
When I palpate the hamstring muscle group with one of my hands contacting the left or right hamstrings specifically with my index finger and thumb contacting the tendons of the semitendonosus, the semimembranosus, and the biceps femoris muscles while with the other hand I flex their knees, I feel for the contractions of these muscles after I've asked the patients to relax all of their muscles totally. If I palpate contractions in the muscles, if the patient cannot relax on my command, they are responding to a past need of a time when those muscles were needed (or made) to be tight for some reason. If this is the case, the body doesn't know these muscles (or any other aberration of compensated, inappropriate neurophysiology) are tight because if it did, it would have taken measures to update the established engram and put an end to this aberrant behavior.
Survival
We, that is, man, is designed for survival. That is, the primary function, initiated subconsciously, of every bodily process and reaction, including thinking, is to survive the moment. Man was not designed specifically to be comfortable while he is surviving. Comfortable, pain-free, symptom free survival is certainly an ideal goal or state; however, comfort in not necessary for survival. Regardless of the comfort level produced by any activity of the body, all functions are directed toward the body maintaining life at that precise moment.
In order to survive, we must defend against those things that threaten that survival. In our society, those things of everyday living are as diverse as improper food, air pollution, traffic situations, perhaps even physical assault, anxiety, worry, and other things too numerous to mention.
Defense physiology, as it is called, is a bodily response activated by the subconscious (that is, you have no control over it) in response to external stimuli perceived by the five senses (you hear a threat, see a threat, small a threat...) OR to an internal stimuli of thoughts accompanied by feelings.
Defense physiology brought about by the five senses is usually over in a very short time (the half life of those chemical compounds commonly known as adrenalin is about 1 1/2 hours), after which time the body can repair itself if need be, and get on with its life. However, most defense physiology in our society is brought about by internal, nonphysical threats; by negative emotions. Anger, worry, prolonged fear, jealousy, hurt, grief, guilt, and all of the other emotions we term as "negative" are quite capable of bringing about defense physiology and in turn, illness. Where defense brought about by the five senses is usually not too taxing on the body, defense brought about by negative emotions can be devastating to the body and to health because this type of defense physiology (internal, emotionally induced defense physiology) never ends! It can go on and on, sometimes for years, sometimes for the rest of our lives. Even after the situation ends, the memory, consciously or subconsciously, remains.
Defense physiology generated by thoughts and attitudes is ordinarily more potent, more devastating to health IF the thoughts are accompanied by feelings. Strong feelings are cemented in the memory of the event that triggered the feelings. In fact, my clinical experience shows that the suppressed memory of the feelings can outlive the conscious memory of the event that brought about the feelings.
Nearly every patient who consults a health care specialist of any discipline is functioning under emotionally-induced defense physiology. The body is, and has been, defending against a perceived threat. The body was designed to prepare itself for defense. However, it was not designed to withstand days, weeks, months, or years, of unremitting defense without damage. In time, the body becomes exhausted. The body cannot defend and replenish at the same time. As a result, the immune system suffers, and the maintenance and repair functions are suppressed. The stage is set for disease, and symptoms begin to become evident.
Treating symptoms brought on by continuous defense physiology is futile. If one symptom is suppressed, another will appear, sooner or later. Eliminating symptoms may increase the comfort level of the patient for a while, but it won't correct the cause that brought on the symptom in the first place. The cause of defense, and, consequently, the ultimate cause of pain and disease brought on by sustained defense physiology, is in the patient's own thoughts! This is the primary reason why disease, illness, and dysfunction of any kind returns to the body after a "successful cure." The thoughts that caused the patients health problem in the first place are still influencing, still controlling the body.
We need to realize that interference to homeostasis can occur anywhere in the nervous system where stresses such as physical (accidents), mental (emotional), or nutritional are involved.
With the obvious exception of truama to the spine, the chiropractic subluxation is caused by interference at a high-brain level with its effects filtering down the cord expressing itself in vertebral subluxations which in turn create new impulses that are sent back to the brain and/or out to the organs and muscles as additional effects of that far removed primary cause. The traditional chiropractic subluxation, when viewed in this light, is shown to be only a compensation to the true brain interference causing a loss of communication to the muscles attached to a vertebra.
Science attempts to investigate the "what" of Nature. Religion attempts to investigate the "why" of Nature. A good B.E.S.T. doctor does not attempt the "how of Nature or to explain why the body functions as it does, but rather, learns how to help it function as it was created.
Life is the journey in search of that which we have always had but failed to recognize. That for which we search we had at birth - the ability to give and receive unconditional love. At birth the cortex is minimal in function yet the functions of life are carried on perfectly.
As the cortex develops, the sub-cortical or subconscious memory is influenced by high intensity and long duration stimuli. Experience teaches the avoidance of certain situations that cause discomfort, building barriers that eventually prevent the giving and receiving of unconditional love. These patterns become ingrained in the conscious mind-memory and frequency imprints or records these patterns in the sub-conscious memory. Sub-conscious memory may interfere with sub-conscious (hypothalamic) function. This leads to bad timing and then to toxicity. The location of the area of the stored specific memory pattern is similar to finding the quadrant of the brain (in Level II) that manifests in a strong arm going weak. In Level II the quadrant was found and balanced. Pulses were then synchronized.
In Level I, we studied the effects of the engram on the physical body and learned of a way to deal with them by removing tension in muscles and updating neurology.
In Level II, we studied the specific location of the engram and how we could allow the body/brain to update.
In Level III, we observed the physical response, initiated by a conscious thought, to the engram and through conscious input, allowed the patient to reduce the intensity of that engram to an appropriate level, one more consistent with a healthier lifestyle and present need.
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