“INNATE is GOD in human beings. INNATE is good in human beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated or tricked. INNATE is always waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact you are in tune with the Infinite.” -B.J. Palmer
When you cut your finger, do you ever wonder how it heals?
Some of you have broken bones before and needed a cast. Have you ever wondered how the break heals back together?
Is it the Neosporin that heals the cut? Surely the Band-aid is what keeps the big bad world from infecting the cut even more, allowing it to really heal, right? How about the cast set about the broken bone? Doesn’t the cast heal the fracture?
Wrong. None of those things aid the healing process in any way.
So How Do These Things Heal?
Very simply put, your body’s Innate Intelligence.
Every thing in life that has organization, has an intelligence. It could be a picnic, a multi-million dollar corporation, or the human body. The picnic needs someone to organize it i.e. who’s bringing sandwiches, blankets, potato salad, etc. A corporation has a CEO to make decisions in the best interest of the company and shareholders.
The human body is a collection of cells, molecules, and structures organized by Innate Intelligence. This Innate Intelligence knows more about the body than we could ever hope to understand. This Innate Intelligence organizes the most complex structure in the history of the world, and we have no clue that it is ever happening.
As humans, we shed and regrow our outer skin cells about once every 27 days. That comes out to about 1,000 different skins in our lifetimes. How does the body know how to do that? Better yet, why does the body do that?
Only our Innate Intelligence knows for sure.
Innate Intelligence Always Works Toward the Preservation of the Body
Take high blood pressure for instance.
High blood pressure occurs because the homeostasis of the body’s cardiovascular system has been disrupted. This disruption has been caused by a combination of bad diet and stressful thoughts. This leads to brittle, clogged arteries. Because of this, less blood gets through, thus leading to less oxygen to other parts of the body.
Innate Intelligence’s reaction is to instruct the heart to pump harder to get the necessary amount of blood through the narrow opening.
Innate Intelligence is smarter than any pharmacist walking this earth.
It knows exactly what chemical to prescribe, what amount is needed, the exact location where it is needed, what frequency is needed, and the exact time of the day it is needed.
All of this goes on continuously, each second, without our conscious knowledge of it happening.
The Specific Adjustment and Innate Intelligence
What happens when we, as Upper Cervical Chiropractors administer a Specific Upper Cervical adjustment?
Are we healing the recipient’s body?
No. Here is what happens: We introduce a force in the form of the Specific adjustment. The recipient’s Innate Intelligence accepts that force and uses it to remove any nervous system interference present as a result of a vertebral subluxation.
This is where the body begins to heal.
How Does the Body Heal?
Every body is dynamic and unique, and so the application of the Specific adjustment throughout the human body is as individual as the person receiving the adjustment.
It could manifest itself as relief of low back pain or dissolution of digestive problems or the healing of plantar fascitis.
No one knows exactly what happens in every single person after every single adjustment.
Only Innate Intelligence knows.
I will leave you with the words of former Palmer College of Chiropractic President Virgil Strang, DC:
“We know that homeostasis involves negative feedback. We even know some of the mechanisms entailed. But this knowledge does not really touch the deeper mystery of how the body “thinks” physiologically: sensory information must be endlessly integrated and efferent activity determined.
The stringing together of mechanisms cannot be expected to capture the overall reality of organic, dynamic activity. Classic mechanistic thinking is rooted in the notion that the parts explain the whole. This is true of mechanistic processes such as gearing or even electronic computing. But as Aristotle observed, nature is a world of purpose. In such a world, mechanisms are merely the instruments through which superimposing purposes work their will.
It is this marvelous, innate (inborn), purposeful nature which is the predominant, practical reality behind the mechanisms of homeostasis.”
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What I love about this post is that I can totally relate this to pregnancy and birth! Our Innate Intelligence knows exactly what is going on and what to do to create a perfect little life and to help the mother birth her baby. I am trusting this process…I am trusting my Innate Intelligence!!!
Now you’re talking!
I LOVE coming to your blog. I am spending my time reading and filling myself with everything that is Chiropractic
Innate Intelligence – we just need to listen to it!
Dr. Brandon, that is fantastic!
I love the Strang quote at the end about how the body’s various “mechanisms are merely the instruments” being directed and coordinated by the vitalisitic purposes of Innate. Such a powerful image…the conductor leading the musicians.
Thanks for keeping it real, practical, and truly interesting.