How Well Is Your Body Communicating?
Have you ever experienced static on a phone line before? Despite your best efforts to communicate effectively, the static creates a disturbance that makes your message difficult to understand.
Static can also occur in your body. Similar to a series of phone lines, your body is made up of a network of nerves running throughout your body.
Your Nervous System is comprised of your Brain, Spinal cord, and Nerves and is what your body uses to send messages throughout your body. Your brain generates a signal and that signal must travel down your spinal cord and out into a nerve until it reaches its desired ‘target’.
For example: If you wanted to tap your foot up and down, your brain must generate a signal and that signal must travel all the way down your spinal cord to a nerve that runs down your leg and simulate your muscle to contract so your foot would raise.
Your body utilizes this pathway for all of its communication, whether to tap your foot, tell your heart to beat, or for your stomach to digest the food you just ate.
In fact, the ability for your body to function properly is directly proportional to how well these messages get transmitted throughout your body.
When static occurs these messages get disrupted which result in irritation and improper communication. You may notice pain or discomfort or a myriad of other symptoms including:
- Digestive issues
- Hormonal Imbalances
- Weight loss struggles
- Asthma or other breathing issues
- Chronic Infections
- And others….
In order to have a body that is working at maximal potential you must have a nervous system that is communicating at its highest level. Any disturbance to this communication will negatively affect your health and may be what is preventing you from reaching the health goals you desire.
What Disrupts the Communication
There are 3 culprits that typically interfere with the communication of your nervous system: Physical stress, Chemical Stress, and Emotional stress.
Emotional stresses include job related pressures, family relationships, deaths of loved ones, anxiety over responsibilities, and depression. This type of stress causes your body’s systems to work overtime and results in chemical imbalances. Over time your body begins to break down and results in improper function.
Chemical Stress can result from the toxins and pollutants in our environment. As you breath the air, drink water, eat pesticide laden foods, and utilize the many other industrialized products in our society, these toxins begin to accumulate in your body. As a result, they wreak havoc on your body and cause your nervous system to work improperly.
Physical stress results from the postural strains of every day life, as well as, the trauma of high impact sports, work related accidents, and automobile accidents. Your spinal cord is protected by a series of bones called your spinal column. These bones move on top of each other allowing proper spinal motion and communication of your nervous system.
As a result of physical strain, these joints become hypo-mobile (stuck) and create static on your nerves. This static disrupts the proper signaling in your body resulting in pain, inflammation, weak muscles, numbness, tingling, and other issues throughout your body.
Just like you must remove the fallen branch that is lying on a telephone line, you must remove the strain on your nerves if you want to restore proper communication. Only by properly restoring mobility in your joint can you decrease the inflammation and improve your nervous system’s communication.
Chiropractic care has been utilized for over a century for addressing physical stress. Chiropractors use specific techniques, known as adjustments, to remove these physical strains. In addition, chiropractors educate you on proper posture and train you on exercises to enhance the mobility of your spine and the communication of your nervous system.
No matter what your health concerns are, unless you address the Emotional, Chemical, and Physical stresses on your nervous system you will never reach your desired health goals. All three are equally important and addressing just one or two of them will not result in maximal health. Only by addressing all three will you allow your nervous system the ability to work as God intended it to.
For more information about how my clinic helps people restore their nervous system to maximal potential check out our website: www.HuntForWellness.com.
