Each day we are bombarded with constant input. Billions and trillions of sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, emotions, lights and thoughts happen all around us, to us, on us, and in us. And we, living in this blender of sensations, have to process and integrate all that we perceive. It is easy to understand why most people are overwhelmed most of the time. It’s like putting your mouth around a fire hose and turning on the hydrant. This overload is what causes the subluxation (interference) in the nervous system. When I was in school, I learned that subluxations were caused by the “unbalanced concussion of environmental forces”, and I viewed the body as being weakened by the forces it stored. It created tension, breakdown and a general dis-ease. It was a “bad” thing! As I have become more and more aware of energy and force dynamics I have had to seriously re-think this point of view.
When looking at the overload of input in terms of forces, the picture becomes quite different. Forces impart energy. Whether it is the energetic pulse of a sound wave, the energy waves created when your foot hits the floor, the photons of light striking the retina of the eye or the energy of a strong emotion. Energy is not good or bad, it just is and it is meant to flow through all that exists. In fact, it is considered that the greater the flow of energy, the healthier the body. So why is it that all of these environmental forces imparting all of this “energy” don’t simply extend and improve our lives? Why does it seem to cause tension, stress and dis-ease? Because the body is not always able to integrate and flow with the energetic input. The body’s inability to integrate this energy causes it to be stopped as if by a dam and therefore stored instead of flowing through. The body was not meant as a storage house for energy and energy was not meant to be contained. This storage containment creates tension and dis-ease. But once again, energy is just energy and even though it may reek havoc when stored, contained and built up, it has an equally powerful healing affect when released. In much the same way as the Chinese character for crisis is opportunity, every bit of tension stored in the body is a great source of potential energy, waiting to be released. The greater the tension, the greater the unhealed event, the greater the source of potential energy and healing. Each time an adjustment is given, a little bit of potential energy is released, increasing the flow of life in the body. I no longer see it as “boy you have a lot of tension”, but rather, “boy you have a lot of potential”. Potential to heal, potential to grow, potential to feel, potential to evolve. Every bit of energy released to flow through the body increases the body’s ability and potential to function in a healthy flow. That is why we live in this never-ending barrage of input, to increase our energetic flow, to increase our healthy functioning, to help us evolve. Each step you take generates a force which generates a wave of energy which increases your flow. Have you ever noticed that people who lead sedentary lives tend to get more sedentary as time goes by? It is because there is no movement to help generate the forces, the very impulses of life. It is easier to keep an object in motion if it is already moving than to get it started from a dead cold stop. Explore life, welcome its experiences as generating force, generating energy, generating flow throughout your being, your existence.
Once I began viewing life in terms of potential energy, it was amazing how light life got. If I get overwhelmed and am not fully integrating all of the input coming to me, I know that my body will store what I cannot integrate. That’s only a problem if I leave it there unattended. If, however, I get adjusted, it is simply energy that is allowed to flow, i.e. more fuel for my internal generator.
Life is full of potential energy and so is your body. And lucky me! I get to help you release it and see you reach your full potential.