I know there is so much controversy between chiropractic and medical care, but if it were not for chiropractic I would still be in pain. A car accident left me with constant lower back pain. I tried everything from painkillers to preparing to have surgery. I heard stories from my friends who had surgery and to this day wish they never had it. So I decided to go to a chiropractor before the surgery and I am so thankful that I did. My back pains are gone and I am living my life to the fullest and pain free.
Simply put wellness is holistic health. Health is the body maintaining balance. This balance is not dictated by random expression of genes but in turn the intelligent genetic expression of your environment. Your environment consists of physical, chemical, and emotional/spiritual factors. In wellness, each environmental factor has to be addressed on a daily basis. Genetic disease occurs in only about 2% of the population.
As a wellness provider, what treatments/therapies do you offer?
This is a question to trick your provider. Wellness is not a treatment or therapy. Wellness is creating sufficiency and/or purity based on what is required to maintain balance.
If you encounter a ‘wellness’ center (or centre for those Canadians), that promotes treating a condition, they are not a wellness center. They may be a natural intervention center, but natural intervention is not synonymous with wellness. Taking milk thisle for liver problems is a natural intervention. If you are having liver problems, it’s not because there is a deficiency of milk thisle.
Early detection testing, like mammograms, colonoscopies, or blood pressure screenings is NOT wellness. Wellness is not concerned with testing. Wellness is concerned with human potential. Early detection screenings lead to aggressive treatments of drugs or surgery.
Are there any contraindications to wellness?
There could not possibly be any contra-indications to wellness. Like it was said previously, wellness is concerned with creating purity and sufficiency based on the requirements for your cells to maintain balance. If someone is creating purity and sufficiency through life style decisions, there is little to no need for medical or natural interventions.
If there is an emergency, don’t go to your wellness provider. Go to your medical provider. In the same breath, if there is a purity or sufficiency issue, don’t go to your medical provider, go to your wellness provider.
What is required to be well?
Purity and sufficiency are required. This comes about by making daily choices to create this in your body through the way you eat, move, and think. In today’s age, we have a movement deficiency problem as most people sit at a computer for work. We also have an Omega-3 deficiency problem as we are not hunting wild game or fishing from wild unpolluted water sources. We are also toxic in stress from over spending and under-saving. These are just examples but very common.
My Employer offers wellness services, how are you different?
Most employers are well-intentioned but not well-educated when it comes to wellness. The flu shot is not wellness. Your cells do not require aluminum, formaldehyde, mercury, and flu virus to maintain balance. Many employers will reward people on losing weight, lowering cholesterol, or lowering blood pressure but did not define the ‘how’ it is done. Those results can be done by sitting on a couch popping pills.
Again, a wellness provider is not so much concerned with the result but is very concerned with the action taken. Wellness recommendations are virtually the same for every human being. As a human race, what’s required by the cell is required by the species. Each person’s potential is different based on lots of factors so the effect of recommendations may look different. This does not mean, it’s not good for the cell.