What Is Chiropractic Anyway?
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July 30, 2006
Issue #2: History Prejudice Magnetism
A dab of history. But only a dab.
The first chiropractic adjustment was given in 1895. And since it was the first, the guy who did it could thus be called the founder, and his name was Daniel David Palmer - or D.D. as his mates called him. Now, without getting into the details, there were always two things that intrigued me about this bloke and the adjustment. One, was that before he stumbled upon the benefits of a quality chiropractic adjustment, he was a magnetic healer. And the second were the affects of the adjustment he performed.
Probably one of the biggest hurdles I've had to deconstruct over the last few years in the study of healing is prejudice. Having preconceived ideas and notions about the ways things are, or should be, with no valid basis for doing so other than my biased education, opinion and hearsay. To unlearn the preformed habit of just refuting something at very first glance because it doesn't fit into my paradigm of belief, whatever that may or may not be, and to learn to stop, listen and try understand, as absurd as anything might seem to me because for all I know, in my time on this Earth, with the minuscule amount of knowledge that I possess, the New Idea being presented to my senses might actually be a universal truth.
Magnetism and its healing properties has seemed to creep back into society. Throughout the 1900s it became uncool; filed under "quackery" along with many other disciplines quashed by orthodox Western medicine. Call "alternative medicine" a fad, but twenty years ago I wouldn't have received a flyer in my letter box today informing me of the guy practising Chunsu Energy Healing down the road. It's only alternative by the order of your priorities. Suddenly all these things are coming to light again (in Western society) and you kinda gotta wonder why.
I never gave much thought to holding a couple blocks of magnetite to somebody's person, but I stopped and looked at it this way: Everything, or most things, I presume, are maintained in order by gravity - or induced gravity because two, or three, or nine or more masses are in relatively close proximity, spinning at quite a lick. It regulates all the oceans, it regulates the lunar cycles, and these cycles are oddly in tune with reproductive cycles; birds migrate along its invisible grids... the list is probably endless, but what stands out is rhythm.
There are lots of theories as to how magnetism induces its healing ways, such as ionising (breaking up or rebuilding) superfluous particles within the body, but the premise is to restore natural harmony and rhythm: arthritic joints becoming mobile again, for example, with increased blood flow, and with that comes increased oxygen. More oxygen means healthier nerve cells. And healthier nerve cells means a better functioning nervous system. Kind of weird how all this stuff ties together when you think about it.
The first chiropractic adjustment was given in 1895. And since it was the first, the guy who did it could thus be called the founder, and his name was Daniel David Palmer - or D.D. as his mates called him. Now, without getting into the details, there were always two things that intrigued me about this bloke and the adjustment. One, was that before he stumbled upon the benefits of a quality chiropractic adjustment, he was a magnetic healer. And the second were the affects of the adjustment he performed.
Probably one of the biggest hurdles I've had to deconstruct over the last few years in the study of healing is prejudice. Having preconceived ideas and notions about the ways things are, or should be, with no valid basis for doing so other than my biased education, opinion and hearsay. To unlearn the preformed habit of just refuting something at very first glance because it doesn't fit into my paradigm of belief, whatever that may or may not be, and to learn to stop, listen and try understand, as absurd as anything might seem to me because for all I know, in my time on this Earth, with the minuscule amount of knowledge that I possess, the New Idea being presented to my senses might actually be a universal truth.
Magnetism and its healing properties has seemed to creep back into society. Throughout the 1900s it became uncool; filed under "quackery" along with many other disciplines quashed by orthodox Western medicine. Call "alternative medicine" a fad, but twenty years ago I wouldn't have received a flyer in my letter box today informing me of the guy practising Chunsu Energy Healing down the road. It's only alternative by the order of your priorities. Suddenly all these things are coming to light again (in Western society) and you kinda gotta wonder why.
I never gave much thought to holding a couple blocks of magnetite to somebody's person, but I stopped and looked at it this way: Everything, or most things, I presume, are maintained in order by gravity - or induced gravity because two, or three, or nine or more masses are in relatively close proximity, spinning at quite a lick. It regulates all the oceans, it regulates the lunar cycles, and these cycles are oddly in tune with reproductive cycles; birds migrate along its invisible grids... the list is probably endless, but what stands out is rhythm.
There are lots of theories as to how magnetism induces its healing ways, such as ionising (breaking up or rebuilding) superfluous particles within the body, but the premise is to restore natural harmony and rhythm: arthritic joints becoming mobile again, for example, with increased blood flow, and with that comes increased oxygen. More oxygen means healthier nerve cells. And healthier nerve cells means a better functioning nervous system. Kind of weird how all this stuff ties together when you think about it.
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