Healing
As I sat there on my grandma’s love seat, what I wanted and needed was healing. But make no mistake, that’s not how I categorized it at the time—back in 2014, healing wasn’t the buzz word that it is today. The territory I so desperately knew I needed to enter was foreign, and would require the deepest form of trust, courage, and Faith that I had yet to experience.
More accurately and honestly, what I was desperate for that night was a way out of the lies, trauma, and drama of my life. Playing with, entertaining, and being involved in all of those things had brought me to a breaking point. It felt as if I’d been led down this dark hole, and now that I was down there, I knew it wasn’t normal or where I belonged—I wanted out. I needed out. I hoped, inside, that I’d been as low as I needed to be, to see what I needed to see on this level and now, I had to go(grow) up.
Divine Guidance.
What came to me, that night, was Chiropractic. It was the answer to the cry of my heart. It came to me in a way that I no longer feel the urge to explain, I just know it did.
Not knowing who or what a Chiropractor was, I did what I think we all do at this point: Google. In my Google search, I discovered not only a philosophy, but my answer. In my search, the things that I always knew about life and the amazing abilities of the body was confirmed. In that moment, light was brought to the darkness of my situation. I had an answer, yes—but it came in the form of the vehicle I would take towards my healing.
Chiropractic.
Within us, exists a consciousness and wisdom that is self-developing, self-maintaining, and self-healing. We instinctively know how to heal and thrive, we simply need the appropriate environment to do so.
That was it. That is it. Till this day, it is THE philosophy that guides my life and my practice. Our bodies are more intelligent than science will ever have the capacity to truly discover. And, I know that the human spirit is capable of anything…all things. Healing, yes—but healing is simply the tip of the iceberg of what the body and human spirit is capable of manifesting and achieving.
What I KNOW FOR SURE. . .
Yes, I was in need of healing. And, you too, today—may be called to that word. In some form or another, we are always healing. Healing is an aspect of what it means to be alive, to have life within us and to experience it. As you look around, you’ll notice the entire world is (in need of) healing—the signs are there and more apparent than ever. But what I have come to realize is that what we more specifically need are the virtues that have stood the test of time: they will guide us to healing.
We need hope, hope that a better and higher reality is possible. We need trust, we need to trust the process and journey that our healing will call us on. We need courage, we need courage to navigate the tumultuous (and sometimes flat) terrain that we may find ourselves on from time to time—and that same courage is needed to re-remind ourselves of our commitments and truth. We need more courage, as we learn to loosen the grasp that the ego has on our lives and to surrender, more, to the callings of the heart. We need love and compassion—these qualities will teach us to be gentle with ourselves (and others). We need patience and understanding—these two will soothe our anxiety and culturalisic desires to get it fast and now—these two will help us to enjoy the unfolding, the beautiful journey called life that is before us. And, finally, we need Faith—Faith is what will carry us through, Faith is the cloud that we can rest on at night. Faith is what we must grow accustom to, Faith is what we must let unfold as we paint our picture of life through our experience here on Earth. Faith we can believe in and return to.