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Is That It?!
Dr. Steve Gettinger
Wow. I’ve heard that question countless times, and after 30 years as a chiropractor, my answer is still the same - where do I begin?
People have complained to me that other chiropractors take only a few seconds to make an adjustment. I’ve even listened to other chiropractors bad-mouth their own colleagues for not spending much time with their patients. Patients who experience firsthand healing miracles, are nonetheless swayed by medical doctors to discontinue Chiropractic treatment in favor of more time-intensive western alternatives.
I think it’s time to clear up a few misconceptions.
Here is what chiropractic does:
Chiropractic re-unites the tissue cell with your own energy – your ‘Life Force’ - enabling your body to heal itself.
How long does it take for the energy in your body to reunite with a tissue cell? A split second.
Is that it? Yes – and THAT is EVERYTHING. Of course Chiropractors can do other things, like consult, use other therapies, massage, recommend nutrition. The most important part, the part that creates the MIRACLES, however…takes a split second.
I can hear it now. “You mean, I just heal MYSELF?”
Yes.
Why is that so difficult to believe? Well, it doesn’t help that in western corporate medicine, your ‘Life Force’ - YOUR ability to HEAL YOURSELF - doesn’t exist. Most of the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry have impressed upon us that if we’re not being stuck with needles, taking pills, vitamins or being cut, nothing is being done, and we are putting our health at risk.
Somehow it seems easier for people to accept these ominous warnings and give in to their fears than it is to believe that their bodies can heal by themselves. This relinquishing of our bodies’ inherent power is easier to do when you realize that most people can’t accept that their body got sick by itself.
Here’s where people start to get angry with me.
Look… ALL of us are responsible for our own health and... show more well being. Sure, we know we’re responsible for how we eat, but we’re also responsible for our thinking, our stressful reactions to life, our inner conflicts. Bad spiritual, emotional and physical habits make you a perfect host for virus and bacteria. Our weakened states allow us to succumb to ‘the bug that’s going around’ ‘that stomach thing’ ‘the flu’. Our compromised ‘Life Forces’ slow down the healing process for those little aches and pains that should heal by themselves.
Sometimes you need some help to get you out of your own way, to allow your energy to get unblocked and get your spirits raised back into a glowing, healthy state. That’s what chiropractors do, like no one else can.
So, why all the suspicion about Chiropractic? Why the rumors of quackery, the speculation as to its validity?
As I said earlier, many people in the medical establishment reject the concept of ‘energy’. Years ago, it was even less understood. It’s an Eastern concept all but unknown in the west until 1895, when chiropractors rediscovered an ancient healing art that was in practice as early as 3000 years ago.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, chiropractors were arrested for practicing this natural healing art. These pioneers took a stand for the power of the human body to heal, and were handcuffed to their adjusting tables for it. In doing so they paved the way for all ‘alternative practitioners’ that followed. These Chiropractors had guts, and so do Chiropractors today.
So why isn’t everyone going to a Chiropractor? Why hasn’t your G.P. recommended one for you?
One important reason comes to mind - Chiropractors were, and are, without apology, anti-drug and anti-surgery. Not very radical thoughts in today’s world – or a very large part of today’s world, at least.
Just not our world. Consider this:
According to the World Health Organization’s statistics on Life Expectancy, the United States rated 24th under this system, or an average of 70.0 years of healthy life for babies born in 1999. Basically, we as Americans die earlier and spend more time disabled than members of almost a quarter of similarly advanced countries.
Something’s very flawed with our mainstream approach to keeping ourselves healthy to an old age. And both the medical profession and pharmaceutical industries fight very hard to keep it that way.
Throughout the 20th century, chiropractors denounced one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the medical profession, that even today is elevated to a position of almost religious reverence. As a result magazines, television and other media refuse to inform the public of the miracles in health and well being occurring in chiropractic offices daily, while at the same time giving massive coverage to any negative cases (which are proven largely anecdotal).
On September 25, 1987, it was found that the American Medical Association had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and that it had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade "to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession." (Wilk v. American Medical Ass'n, 671 F. Supp. 1465, N.D. Ill. 1987). This resulted in a permanent injunction against the AMA.
It’s an enlightened Medical Doctor who refers their patients to a Chiropractor and receives Chiropractic care, themselves.
Chiropractic has prevailed. We have made the world safe for other natural practitioners to practice their healing arts.
That…Is IT.
Chiropractic is simple. Chiropractors release and enhance your body’s ability to heal itself. There are other body/mind methods that we may use that further help to enhance your well being, but adjustments/alignments are simple and effective. Out of all the healing arts, Chiropractic adheres most closely to the tenet to “first do no harm”.
It is simple.
It is effective.
It is based on Eastern Wisdom.
It is and always was miraculous.
________________________________
Dr. Gettinger is available to speak to your company, club or group on "Becoming a Black Belt in Life". Please call 917-613-7642 show more
Dr. Steve Gettinger
Wow. I’ve heard that question countless times, and after 30 years as a chiropractor, my answer is still the same - where do I begin?
People have complained to me that other chiropractors take only a few seconds to make an adjustment. I’ve even listened to other chiropractors bad-mouth their own colleagues for not spending much time with their patients. Patients who experience firsthand healing miracles, are nonetheless swayed by medical doctors to discontinue Chiropractic treatment in favor of more time-intensive western alternatives.
I think it’s time to clear up a few misconceptions.
Here is what chiropractic does:
Chiropractic re-unites the tissue cell with your own energy – your ‘Life Force’ - enabling your body to heal itself.
How long does it take for the energy in your body to reunite with a tissue cell? A split second.
Is that it? Yes – and THAT is EVERYTHING. Of course Chiropractors can do other things, like consult, use other therapies, massage, recommend nutrition. The most important part, the part that creates the MIRACLES, however…takes a split second.
I can hear it now. “You mean, I just heal MYSELF?”
Yes.
Why is that so difficult to believe? Well, it doesn’t help that in western corporate medicine, your ‘Life Force’ - YOUR ability to HEAL YOURSELF - doesn’t exist. Most of the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry have impressed upon us that if we’re not being stuck with needles, taking pills, vitamins or being cut, nothing is being done, and we are putting our health at risk.
Somehow it seems easier for people to accept these ominous warnings and give in to their fears than it is to believe that their bodies can heal by themselves. This relinquishing of our bodies’ inherent power is easier to do when you realize that most people can’t accept that their body got sick by itself.
Here’s where people start to get angry with me.
Look… ALL of us are responsible for our own health and... show more well being. Sure, we know we’re responsible for how we eat, but we’re also responsible for our thinking, our stressful reactions to life, our inner conflicts. Bad spiritual, emotional and physical habits make you a perfect host for virus and bacteria. Our weakened states allow us to succumb to ‘the bug that’s going around’ ‘that stomach thing’ ‘the flu’. Our compromised ‘Life Forces’ slow down the healing process for those little aches and pains that should heal by themselves.
Sometimes you need some help to get you out of your own way, to allow your energy to get unblocked and get your spirits raised back into a glowing, healthy state. That’s what chiropractors do, like no one else can.
So, why all the suspicion about Chiropractic? Why the rumors of quackery, the speculation as to its validity?
As I said earlier, many people in the medical establishment reject the concept of ‘energy’. Years ago, it was even less understood. It’s an Eastern concept all but unknown in the west until 1895, when chiropractors rediscovered an ancient healing art that was in practice as early as 3000 years ago.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, chiropractors were arrested for practicing this natural healing art. These pioneers took a stand for the power of the human body to heal, and were handcuffed to their adjusting tables for it. In doing so they paved the way for all ‘alternative practitioners’ that followed. These Chiropractors had guts, and so do Chiropractors today.
So why isn’t everyone going to a Chiropractor? Why hasn’t your G.P. recommended one for you?
One important reason comes to mind - Chiropractors were, and are, without apology, anti-drug and anti-surgery. Not very radical thoughts in today’s world – or a very large part of today’s world, at least.
Just not our world. Consider this:
According to the World Health Organization’s statistics on Life Expectancy, the United States rated 24th under this system, or an average of 70.0 years of healthy life for babies born in 1999. Basically, we as Americans die earlier and spend more time disabled than members of almost a quarter of similarly advanced countries.
Something’s very flawed with our mainstream approach to keeping ourselves healthy to an old age. And both the medical profession and pharmaceutical industries fight very hard to keep it that way.
Throughout the 20th century, chiropractors denounced one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the medical profession, that even today is elevated to a position of almost religious reverence. As a result magazines, television and other media refuse to inform the public of the miracles in health and well being occurring in chiropractic offices daily, while at the same time giving massive coverage to any negative cases (which are proven largely anecdotal).
On September 25, 1987, it was found that the American Medical Association had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and that it had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade "to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession." (Wilk v. American Medical Ass'n, 671 F. Supp. 1465, N.D. Ill. 1987). This resulted in a permanent injunction against the AMA.
It’s an enlightened Medical Doctor who refers their patients to a Chiropractor and receives Chiropractic care, themselves.
Chiropractic has prevailed. We have made the world safe for other natural practitioners to practice their healing arts.
That…Is IT.
Chiropractic is simple. Chiropractors release and enhance your body’s ability to heal itself. There are other body/mind methods that we may use that further help to enhance your well being, but adjustments/alignments are simple and effective. Out of all the healing arts, Chiropractic adheres most closely to the tenet to “first do no harm”.
It is simple.
It is effective.
It is based on Eastern Wisdom.
It is and always was miraculous.
________________________________
Dr. Gettinger is available to speak to your company, club or group on "Becoming a Black Belt in Life". Please call 917-613-7642 show more
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