Who Is The Greatest Doctor On The Planet?

At first glance you'd think an upper cervical doctor was responsible for these words. But they were actually written by a Harvard medical school instructor and practitioner in the late 1800's. While this belief is trivialized today by the medical and pharmaceutical community, it remains the core foundation of Upper Cervical Care.

Upper cervical care humbly acknowledges that "the ONLY thing that can heal the body is the Power that created it." The wisdom Dr. Cabot refers to in his quote is often referred to as Innate Intelligence. It is the power of life that animates our cells, tissues and organs. It is the coordinating force that maintains our body's intricate chemical balance. It silently and confidently orchestrates all steps involved in the healing process from mending a broken bone to putting cancer in remission. It is in favor of you living, rather than you dying.

Upper cervical doctors often, and most certainly should, let you know about this great force inside you. If you really want to know who's responsible for getting you better from the weak state, chronic illness, incapacitating pain or depressing condition you first walked in with? Take a look in the mirror. It was the best doctor on the planet, the one staring right back at you, that did ALL the work.

Upper Cervical Care And The Power Of Listening

Most of us would rather talk than listen. People write best-selling books on how to become a good listener. It is an art. Many women say that a man who is a good listener is more attractive than a man with good looks. When it comes to listening to our body, we all could take a lesson or two. Perhaps part of the problem is that it is a one-way conversation. If you are ever caught talking to your body, well, they just might take you away.

So how do you listen to your body? First, we should understand that your body does not talk to you in a small voice you hear in your head. It really is quite simple. Our body speaks to us with sensations that we can perceive. For example, our body tells us when our stomach is empty, we call it hunger pangs. When we have responded to that message we have a feeling of satisfaction. Unfortunately, most people continue to eat for various reasons long after the call has been answered. Then we feel stuffed, bloated and/or uncomfortable. All of us have experienced both situations. Which is better for your health and well being having a stuffed feeling or one of “comfortably full”? You see the problem is not that our body does not speak to us, the problem is that we are usually not listening. Somehow we seem to think that any sensation is bad. Hunger pangs are not pleasant but they go away even if you do not eat. Remember all they are indicating is that the stomach is empty. That does not mean that we have to fill it let alone overfill it!

If listening is an art, then it can be cultivated. Conversely, the less we listen, the less we are able to do it. We all know people who just love to talk and whenever you speak with them, you get the impression that when they are not talking, it’s not because they are listening they are just collecting their thoughts for when they are going to speak again. With regard to the human body we have lost the art of listening to it. That is because we ignore its messages, like telling us we are tired and need to sleep. Or we misinterpret the messages, like feeling we need to constantly fill our stomach, or, and here is the most common, taking drugs that cut off the messages rather than respond to what our body is telling us. Getting rid of pain messages rather than addressing the cause is the most common example of this practice. There are many professional athletes who have cut their careers short because they played with injuries ignoring or medicating the pain when they should have been sitting out the game.

We live in a society in which people do not listen to their bodies, they ignore its messages or cut them off with medications. So how do we turn that around? Well, first we need to listen to our bodies when they are obviously speaking to us. Eat when we are hungry, not just because it is time to eat. Eat only enough to satisfy our hunger, stop when our body tells us we are full. Sleep when we are tired. Drink when thirsty, exercise until your body says stop. If we listen to the body in minor ways, we will learn to listen in other ways, learning not only when to eat but what to eat. (Even now we are told by the body in no uncertain terms what foods do not agree with us.)

Lastly, we need to make sure our nerve system is free of any interference due to head/neck misalignment so that the messages can get through. Upper cervical care can provide a helpful role by periodically checking you to find and correct this interference so you can listen to your body.

Upper Cervical Care And The Master Chemist

How’s your body chemistry? When was the last time somebody asked you that? Probably never. People may ask you how you feel or how is your headache or how is your leg doing, but they never ask about your body’s chemistry. Yet that may be the most important factor in your life and health. They do not ask because you cannot not tell them, and you cannot tell them because you just do not know. In fact, no one can really know what their body chemistry should be. You see everyone is different and only your body knows what your own chemistry should be. What is your normal blood sugar, histamine level, adrenaline, cortisone, and serotonin level at this very moment. You don’t know, you can’t know nor can you know what it should be. No one does and there are thousands of other chemicals which are vital to your life and health. Science is not even able to guess what is the average for many of these chemicals, let alone what is normal for any particular person. There are, more than likely, some that have not even been discovered yet. Everyone’s body chemistry is different and everyone reacts differently to changes in body chemistry.

You need look no further than your local bar to prove this point. The consumption of alcohol changes your body chemistry and changes in your body chemistry effect how you react and perform. When some people drink alcohol, changes in their body chemistry makes them belligerent, while others may become mellow. Some become withdrawn, others are the life of a party. Some become somber, almost morose and others laugh and have a good time. Some get sick or have a hangover the next day and others seem to experience no after effects. One thing we do know about alcohol, it effects your judgment, your reflexes, your reaction time and your eye-hand coordination. That is why the law will not allow you to drive a motor vehicle when your blood alcohol level reaches a certain point. But who established that point? Like every chemical, and alcohol is a chemical, the proper level is probably different for everyone. Some people, well within the legal limits for blood alcohol, may still be functioning so poorly that driving an automobile could be fatal. This is but one chemical. There are literally hundreds, maybe thousands of chemicals in the body all of which affect your body’s performance in one way or another.

There is another aspect of body chemistry that is important to your upper cervical doctor. You see the millions of glands and cells that produce all the chemicals in your body are regulated and maintained by the nerve system. You cannot perform any function in life without the production of chemicals. Everything from laughing to sleeping, to digesting food depends upon the production of chemicals and doing those things at your best depends upon having just the right chemicals produced in just the right amounts. If there is an interference in your nerve system due to head/neck misalignment, then your body chemistry is going to be altered and your body will not work as it should. Upper cervical doctors do not know what your body chemistry should be. As we said before, no one but the inner wisdom of your body knows what your body chemistry should be, what chemicals need to be produced, when they are needed and in what amounts. But one thing your upper cervical doctor does know. He or she knows when there is head/neck misalignment, when there is interference in your nerve system that is altering the message from the brain to the millions of little chemical factories in your body and upsetting your body chemistry. What is more, the upper cervical doctor can correct it quickly and efficiently so that your body has the greatest opportunity of normalizing your body chemistry and keeping it normal.