Chiropractic & Yoga The Giving and Receiving of Life
All resolutions, goals and achievements come from self-awareness, knowing what you want, how to get there and why you want it. A healthy body is a must, it is the very beginning, and you can't get very far if your body is screaming from the inside due to poor choices of the past. The messages that your body gives you are a gift, so that you can know more of yourself, and then respond with free will and choice to make a better life for yourself. This vehicle that moves you 'around and about' takes care. Your spine and nervous system needs care for life. Having taught Yoga for 21 years, and having been in Chiropractic for 18 years I can tell you from experience that one does not replace the other. I have meditated and studied on this thought for years, as there is plenty cross over in philosophy and science, but in application it is different in many ways. Here are some major points for you to ponder.
Chiropractic is passive for the recipient. Through the art, science and philosophy of a precise chiropractic adjustment you receive help on your healing path by the placing of skilled hands on vertebrae of the spine where life force is blocked, and an opening to the pathway of the spine and nervous system is restored in a way that you could not have achieved yourself. A Chiropractor studies 9 years just to be able to give an adjustment, and then studies for the rest of their life to give a life affirming clearing adjustment that in moments connects man the physical to man the spiritual. Chiropractors improve the brain to body messages by keeping the pathways cleared, as it is through the nervous system that life, health and healing exists. We have no control of the messages, nor do we seek to control the message or the outcome. We restore messages period, and then we stand back and watch the miracle of life that exists within you to be awakened as we are fully aware that this intelligence that exists within you is always good, and is always 100%. When you are connected to that goodness, and to that 100% power, amazing things happen, we have seen it again and again.
Yoga is active, in that you begin to learn the process of how to live a life that connects you to that source of power within and to the source of all intelligence and power within, God. Through free will, thoughts, actions and deeds you restore the lifestyle that supports healthy living. Yoga teaches you to live a life of truth, kindness, giving, responsibility, and faith. You learn how to purify the body, mind and thoughts, to be content, to have discipline, to be self-aware, and to seek God always. We use body positions or postures named in the image of other living things to identify and remember that all of life exists within you. Yoga teaches you to breathe life, and to allow life to breathe you. You learn to control the senses, to meditate and to devote to the will of God and to become at one with God within. That is the path of Yoga.
We live in an imperfect world and we will always have blocks to our life force despite the best of intentions. We need each other, we need to care for ourselves, but we also need to seek care for ourselves. We need to regularly practice Yoga and we need to regularly receive Chiropractic. One feeds the other and enhances the other, like brushing and flossing. As a Chiropractor I can help you to connect to your true power, and hope that you will know what lies within you, but it is not necessary that you believe to receive benefit, as inner intelligence works without free will, it is always there and it is not of a man-made design. As a Yogi, I can guide you to a way of living that seeks health and God, but it will be up to you to get there, I can only lead you on a path. You are a product of creation and personal choice, work with both by keeping the pathways of the nervous system cleared through Chiropractic to keep creation alive and well within you, and build a life of healthy habits and connection to creation through Yoga and see the marriage of a match made in heaven.
Happy New Year 2016, Dr. Raina Robinson