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Awakening the Life-Force Within Us
By Dr. Joan Norton

“Our brains are star-gates, our bodies celled of mysteries, which when unraveled, give us citizenship in a universe richer than our aspirations and more intriguing than all our dreams. Our minds and bodies have dimensions as large as these and are able to sustain a flowering of life and consciousness far greater than any we presently know.”
- Jean Houston, Life Force –

Perhaps one of the truly great boons of the age of information is the knowledge we are now beginning to gain concerning the powers and capabilities resident within our own bodies. Scientific research now confirms what ancient healing traditions have taught for centuries, that the body’s innate intelligence has amazing even miraculous self-renewing capacities.

Many of us are probably now familiar with the significant number of case histories documenting spontaneous healings of severe or even life-threatening diseases. Perhaps we have read books or articles or seen documentaries on television, which detail some of the body’s remarkable capacities for self-renewal, self-healing and deep emotional and physical transformation. If these cases of spontaneous remissions of disease, self-healing and personal transformation were to occur in even one person the implication would be that they are powers latent in every individual. The large number of such cases simply confirms that fact that these powerful self-renewing capacities reside within each of us.

Why then does this power seem to manifest seemingly sporadically? Why are these amazing powers of our mind and body not available to us fully and consistently? Through information gathered from a variety of disciplines and areas of research we are now discovering that it is the nervous system and spine that may hold the secrets to unlocking this Life-Force within us.

As it pertains to our own body-mind, we may think of this Life-Force within us as our Innate Intelligence – the individualized human expression of the same, flawless intelligence which creates, coordinates and regulates every living form in the physical universe. This marvelous Life-Force which is capable of creating the delicate beauty of a rose or the towering majesty of a redwood is expressed in the human body as the deep organizing intelligence which heals a cut, beats the heart, rebuilds our bones, inspires our creativity, generates our insights and directs us toward wise and healthy choices. Indeed, every person contains within them, from their breath to their DNA, the infinite organizing intelligence of the universe.

The primary storehouse and essential conduit for this Life-Force within the body is our nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves. Studies regarding the spine and the brain continue to reveal just how essential a well-functioning spine and nervous system are to both our physical and emotional well-being. Since it is the nervous system which controls and coordinates every regulatory system in our body - including the reproductive, digestive, glandular, circulatory, and immune systems, any obstruction or diminishment in the nervous system’s capacity to exchange energy and information can pose a serious threat to our body’s ability to respond to and recover from stresses placed upon it. In other words, when our internal communication system is impaired the free-flow of Life-force throughout the body is also hampered; our body and mind are thus put at risk and our ability to live at our full potential likewise diminished.

Given this information, we can now understand why the world’s ancient healing systems have so often held the spine and nervous system with such high reverence and respect and consider the spine as the primary storehouse of the Life-Force within the human body.

Almost all religious, spiritual and healing traditions speak of this power, or Life-Force, resident in our bodies. In the yogic and Hindu traditions they speak of the Life-Force as the kundalini or serpent power which rises from the sacrum along the spine correcting and opening the various chakras or energy centers of the body. The Japanese call the Life-Force, ki, and the Chinese chi. It is taught in these traditions that when the spine is cleared of its inhibiting patterns profound regenerative and healing capacities are awakened which facilitate every area of human growth and evolution.

In Mexico, this spinal energy/Life-Force was represented as the serpent-god Quetzalcoatl; the Kung people of the Kalahari Desert call this same power n/um. The Hopi Indians of North America teach that along the spinal column of man runs an axis containing a number of vibratory centers starting at the top of the head and flowing to the base of the spine. The healers of the Hopi tradition teach that when this power is accessed and allowed to flow an individual returns to his original wholeness.

Although the names used to describe this resident power and the means by which this power is evoked vary from culture to culture, it is clearly a universal phenomenon. If you and I are to access this innate and most-powerful intelligence within us, it is obvious that the channels by which this intelligence flows must be clear of its obstructions. In other words, both the obvious and hidden interference patterns must be released from the spine and nervous system so that the free-flow of life-force can take place and the full healing process begin.

If each of us is to realize our true life potential, we must begin to recognize and access our body’s’ profound capacities for self-renewal, self-healing and transformation. By giving more attention to the health and well-functioning of our spine and nervous system, we can begin to access this abundant flow of Life-Force within us, and so awaken our innate intelligence and its seemingly miraculous powers.

Dr. Joan Norton and Dr. Nicholas Tivoli are two of the nation’s few Network Spinal Analysis chiropractors, a rapidly growing group of highly-educated, highly-intuitive healing facilitators dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their full physical, emotional and spiritual potential. As founding practitioners/doctors of at-ease Wellness Center they have integrated a number of dynamic healing techniques into their practice and have developed a natural yet profound healing method known as the at-ease adjustment. Those interested in finding out more about the subjects covered above or about the at-ease adjustment are encouraged to contact Dr. Nicholas Tivoli or Dr. Joan Norton at 520-325-4881 or to visit their web page at www.at-easewellness.com.