Mind/Body Medical science has physically proven the existence of your brain, but cannot prove you have a mind. Your brain automatically regulates your body without you even thinking about it. For example, breathing – you don’t think about it but your brain and nervous system automatically control it. Another example is putting you hand on a hot coal, you automatically pull it away without thinking about it. 

After spiritual health the next most important component of your total health = wholeness is your mental/emotional health or soul health. Your mind, although it cannot be proven, makes the difference in regaining health or succumbing to disease. This mind aspect of curing disease can be seen when patients with illness are prescribed placebos, which are nothing, more than sugar pills and 30 percent of these patients report a cure or substantial improvement. The mind so powerfully affects the body that attitude might have more importance in healing than any medicine, chemical therapy or radiation therapy. 

The example of how the mind affects the body can be seen analogous to the operating of a large company. Your brain will be called the General Manager (GM) who basically operates the company day in and day out and keeps everything running smoothly. Your mind can be called the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Now although the GM operates the company very capably, the CEO can at anytime step in and intervene and change the operation to however he sees fit. He needs no approval from the GM. Can you see how an extremely talented CEO can add to the company whereas a poor CEO could financially ruin the company? This is true in life and in health. Your brain runs the show, but your mind can be a great asset or be a great detriment to your total health = wholeness. Remember, the brain automatically caused you to pull your hand off the hot coal, but there are people who can control their mind to hold the hot coal and not feel the pain. This is mind over brain and mind over body, and our minds might be a major factor in who gets sick and who gets well. So to combat disease, you need a healthy brain and a right attitude mind. Where does the brain get its energy from? According to Dr. Roger Sperry, Nobel Prize recipient for brain research, “90 percent of the stimulation and nutrition to the brain is generated by the movement of the spine”. This is similar to a windmill generating electricity. Dr. Sperry also found the more biomechanical faults (spinal misalignments) the less energy was available for thinking, healing and metabolizing. For this reason and also that 9 out of 10 people have these spinal misalignments and aren’t even aware of it, everyone should have their spine examined and if necessary corrected by the spinal structural specialist – the chiropractic physician. 

This will ensure maximum energy made available to the brain so it can perform its proper functions. This same energy also helps operate the mind and its many functions.  Chiropractic physicians have helped many people with symptoms of brain fog, depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder and in improving these various mind related symptoms. Attitudes also improve as well as general health because spirit directly affects the mind and the mind directly affects the body and the total health of the body. How important is attitude to general health? It may be the single most important factor after spiritual health in making us live in, walk in and enjoy total health = wholeness. Charles Swindoll said it best, “the longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, than giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it, and so it is with you….we are in charge of our attitudes.” 

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