The Process of Healing

We are given one body. What we do with it has a direct effect on the quality of life we experience. When we are young it seems we are invincible, so little thought is given to health and balance. Fortunately, a mechanism is always operating — the homeostatic mechanism — whose job is to keep bringing our body back to balance.

My training has sensitized me to look for the first signs of imbalance by evaluating the nervous system. When people experience severe pain for the first time, the event — a lift, a fall, a twist — often doesn't seem to warrant the severity of the pain. It is important to introduce the notion of cause and effect: if you continually lift, sit, or sleep incorrectly, the cumulative effect of that behavior will eventually catch up with you, and you will experience the effect — usually pain.

Pain need not be the only guideline we have for an imbalanced situation.