This may sound like a strange question, but there is a profound difference between curing someone and healing them. Many health care practitioners, both orthodox and alternative professionals, concentrate on treating, or curing symptoms. Their work often involves laboratory tests, and their goal is to return you to the way you felt, or to the same biochemistry you had, before you noticed that you were sick. Curing also involves a judgement about various symptoms and whether they are good or bad for you. In the curing model, you are left feeling like you have little control over your own health, and that you must instead rely upon the judgements of others and submit to whatever course of action they deem appropriate. Now don't get me wrong, curing has its place, especially in life-threatening situations. Curing techniques can keep you alive. But once the crisis has passed, or, to avoid reaching a crisis stage in the first place, I suggest you consider the healing model of health. Healing practitioners use the understanding that your body has an innate intelligence that is more powerful than any drug you can take, and that your body knows best what you as an individual need for health. In the healing model, symptoms are not judged as good or bad, but instead are used as a basis for understanding what is happening to the body. And in some cases, symptoms can be beneficial. That sneeze you just had or the runny nose that won't stop are your body's way of ridding itself of pathogens. Like them or not, they are sometimes necessary. Symptoms then, are used as a way of determining how the body is functioning. Healing practitioners work to help you reach a state of health, one in which you feel vibrant and alive, instead of just feeling "not sick." Network Chiropractors are among the healing oriented practitioners. They realize that your nervous system controls every cell, system and organ of your body. Misalignments, or subluxations, of the spine interfere with the central nervous system (housed in your spine), which then hampers the functioning of other parts of your body. The chiropractor adjusts the spine to its correct position, which removes the interference and allows the body's innate intelligence to heal and restore you to a state of health. So next time you are sick, consider the differences between curing and healing. And if you opt for healing, Network Chiropractic can be a very beneficial part of the process. One of the most common misconceptions people have is: "If this treatment does not help within a month, it's not working, and I am not healing". My answer to that is a quote from Dr. Caroline Myss's book: Why We Don't Heal and How We Can "Healing is, above all, a learning experience, and one of its biggest lessons is that life is characterized by impermanence and flux. If you can learn to accept change with equanimity, you will have mastered a lot more than just an illness."
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