Illness By Accident-Healthy By Design

HEALTHY CHOICES

When it comes to health, it would appear that there are only two choices: ILLNESS BY ACCIDENT – OR – HEALTH BY DESIGN.

There seems to be a prevailing belief system within our culture that sees illness, sickness and disease as being a game of chance – over which we have little influence. You get an infection because a bug that is going around chooses you as a potential home, and if you are unfortunate enough to be exposed to that micro-enemy by a carrier passing by who sneezes in your general direction, then you are out of luck – sneezes and snuffles are just around the corner. Mental malfunction is the result of chemical imbalance within our brain, over which we have no control. Cancer is just a game of chance, the uncontrolled growth of a tumour that has mysteriously housed itself in its new home – the sufferer. And now the concept of genetic predetermination and that if you are one of the unlucky ones to inherit a gene for a particular malady – then it is just a matter of time till that malfunctioning gene is going to produce a malfunctioning body.

An underlying philosophy to this type of thinking is that disease and illness come from the outside – Invading to get inside – to create the damages of warfare inside the unfortunate territory that has been invaded – YOU: ILLNESS BY ACCIDENT.

This philosophy has its own set of behaviours that result: If the problem comes from the outside, and if the illness is produced by a foreign body, then the best ways to manage these problems are through methods of guerrilla warfare – chemical, physical or otherwise: Drugs to destroy the invaders, or to suppress the signs that the enemy is present, heroic surgeries to remove the unwanted guests.

This at first appears to make good sense: After all when you are in the middle of a battle ground you want some outside help – call in the hired troops. But, maybe if there had been some choices made prior to the arrival of the unwanted guests: Perhaps if a careful program of border protection had been carried out earlier – maybe the invaders would have turned away to look for easier prey elsewhere.

Is there an alternative? There is a counterculture that sees the development of illness from another viewpoint.

Illness may not come from the outside in, but from the inside out. An infection can only occur when the host allows the invasion to happen – if the defence mechanisms are sleeping, switched off or dormant. The chemical production in the brain is a manifestation of the thoughts, feelings and experiences, and not the other way around. Potential cancers are appearing and disappearing within each body continuously, but when the body fails to recognise and manage the impending problem then the tumour can be allowed to expand and wreak havoc. And genes only express themselves in the context of the environment in which they are working – get the environment right, and the right genes will be expressed – get the environment wrong, and the wrong genes will be expressed.

This alternative philosophy leads to its own set of behaviours: If the internal environment of the human body determines which illness and sicknesses will be allowed to express themselves – then to control and change this environment is the key to reducing the dangers from potential maladies: HEALTH BY DESIGN.

Ocean Grove Chiropractic prides itself in providing you with the resources and services to be able to fulfil the dream of designing your own good health.

Chiropractic adjustments aim to improve the performance of the human central nervous system, the communication centre of the human body that coordinates all healing and recovering processes. Auriculotherapy taps into the brain centres to help balance and normalise overactive or under-active brain circuits. Educational resources provide the knowledge and motivation to make the best design choices. Careful choices of the ingredients that we put into and onto our body need to be made, products supplied and healthy nutrition nurtured.

Don’t settle for illness by bad luck – start working towards health by good planning – start today.

“Problems will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.” (Orion Murden.)