Is Your House on Fire?

Any of us know that owning a house means regular maintenance and upkeep.  Cleaning, painting, small fix repairs for the short list.  The better we do at maintaining, the longer the house will keep us safe, warm and dry.

But, sometimes, due to circumstances of failing maintenance or because of negligence, houses catch on fire.  When they do, we are very happy to see our fire department rolling down the street to put out the fire!  Their response time means whether or not the house can be salvaged, whether people will live or die inside the fire.  The fire department's job is very important when there is a fire. 

Now think of your body as if it were a house. 

The truth is that most of us maintain our houses and our cars better than we maintain our bodies.  The fire department in this case is the medical profession.  We rely on them for the ever increasing fires that occur within our human population.  And after the fire is out, the house requires a massive clean up in order to get it so that we can live in the house again comfortably.

Isn't it better to prevent the fire?  Does anyone really want to have to go to the emergency room or take 17 prescription medications everyday?  Of course not. 

Would you ever expect the fire department to do the regular maintenance on your house?  They might give you information on changing your fire detector batteries and making an emergency exit plan, but their job is not to help you maintain the house.  Just like relying on the medical profession to maintain your health is not only ineffective, it can be dangerous.  Ignoring your body until it becomes diseased, often means that it will not ever be normal again.

So, who do you rely on to help maintain your house?  Well, it takes YOU for one.  You are the most important party in the health of your body! 

In our practice, we spend time adjusting the human spine to minimize the effects of subluxation.  And we spend a lot of time coaching and encouraging people on how to minimize the tendency for their lifestyles to create subluxations and dis-ease.  Our job becomes very important when our practice members want to ignore the body's innate wisdom thereby creating an increased potential for injury-all without drugs or surgery.

So, if your house is on fire, please go to the emergency room.  But realize that when the fire is out, you will still need to clean up and maintain the most important asset you have-YOUR BODY!