Welcome to the Summer 2022 issue.
“There is a shift of consciousness happening in all sectors of our world, and I believe family wellness chiropractic will play a significant role in this shift.” –Jeanne Ohm
We are going through a paradigm shift, one that’s been a long time coming. Some would say this shift began over a century ago, with the inception of chiropractic care and the philosophy that affirms that “life expresses intelligence” in all its manifestations. The community of parents, practitioners, and researchers aligned to this philosophy are helping to advance the world in a much needed evolution of understanding. At the core of this movement is the ability of each individual to evolve with the new knowledge and information that is becoming available.
This issue focuses on some key discoveries that so few people know about; new knowledge that changes our understanding of how the body works, and affirms the importance of a vitalistic perspective of health. These discoveries are really a natural outgrowth of the recognition that the nervous system connects us to the larger field of emotion and “perception,” and that an understanding of “health” requires a particular focus on the nervous system. Within the field of research called German New Medicine we find the science of vitalism. The science validates the philosophy of what so early healthcare geniuses intuited, including the chiropractic inceptor, D.D. Palmer, who emphasized that “subluxations,” or obstructions in the nervous system, are at the root of “disease” manifestations. The discoveries of German New Medicine show that there are “above atlas” brain subluxations that impact specific brain relays as a result of emotional shocks or life-conflicts. These “above atlas” subluxations (visible on a CT scan) control specific, intelligent, and biologically meaningful adaptations in the cellular tissues of the organs of the body. The consequence of these organ-specific changes are the well-known symptoms of disease—which are really symptoms of recovery from the emotional conflict. With the science of vitalism, we can now predict disease states, answering the question “why does one person get ill, and his contemporary does not?” With this new knowledge, all people can learn to face health challenges with newfound clarity and with a salutogenic recognition for what “gives birth to health”—our ability to adapt to the emotional trauma. In supporting the nervous system at the mechanistic and vitalistic levels, we are learning to grow our capacity to adapt and evolve and achieve higher levels of health and family well-being in our journey through life.
When enough people find the calling to venture beyond traditional frameworks of medicine, to include the importance of the nervous system, the brain, and perception, then we will reach a tipping point. In many ways, we are privileged to be witnessing the end of an old paradigm of health and disease, one that goes back thousands of years; to witness, as well, the emergence of a new kind of scientific doctor, one that has a keen interest in supporting individuals using the philosophy and science of vitalism… And more so, one that appreciates the longstanding truth that each individual has born within her the greatest of all resources—an innate intelligence that will guide the body and mind throughout the story of life, if we recognize it.
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