Belief
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 08:05PM James Allen once stated, "Belief always precedes action."
So why does a person with high blood pressure take a pill prescribed by his medical doctor day in and day out?
Why would a patient allow a surgeon to remove an inflamed appendix?
Because of belief. Faith.
We trust the "experts." When we are at a loss in knowing what to do next, we rely on the advice of someone in whom we believe not only has correct knowledge, but also has our best interest in mind.
Most times in the realm of health care, the medical experts will advise a patient to either 1) take a drug or 2) undergo a surgical procedure.
Perhaps out of a 100 cases presented before a medical expert, 95 or more of the problems put forth will tried to be solved by means of a drug or a surgical procedure. Think about it. When going to a medical health care professional for advice, how many times does the recommendation NOT involve putting something into the body or taking something out of the body.
What is the alternative?
While we do need the skills of a medical doctor from time to time, maybe we should rely on them less. Maybe we should stop believing everything they say, stop following their recommendations of drugs and surgeries with a childish blind obedience.
Instead, let's turn our faith inward; let us look within. Believe in our own innate ability to heal and be well.
And chiropractic is the action born of this belief.
"We Chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse -- the tiny rivulet of force -- that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to cells and stirs them into life. We deal with the majestic power that transforms common food into living, loving clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.
In the dim, dark, distant long ago when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time, it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.
And yet you ask, 'Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?' Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power than animates the living world?"
