by Robert S. Donovan

I was at a sports seminar this weekend learning new applications and skills to better assists the injuries we often see at VFCHC.  It was a good weekend to attend, since it rained most of the time around here. At the end of the program, the announcer said, “Ladies and gentlemen, remember to set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed tonight. Remember, spring ahead, fall back. And, if you spring too far, see your chiropractor.” It was great to hear her mention chiropractic, but it also made me think of a few things.

Most people see their chiropractor for one of two reasons:

1. If they have fallen back in their health and well-being.
2. To make sure they don’t fall back in their health and well-being.

While it is good to make sure both of these things happen, everyone who uses chiropractic in this way is severely limiting its, and their own, potential! Let me explain what I mean by defining three words. Those words are health, wellness, and wholeness.

Health is the ability not to get sick. It is the ability to function normally and adapt to most of the physical, chemical, and emotional stresses you encounter in your daily life. This depends upon the ability of your body’s innate intelligence to correctly comprehend and respond to everything in both your internal and external environments in a timely manner. This requires you to have a clear and balanced Nerve System, and this is where regular chiropractic check-ups are so vital to your family’s health. An aligned and fully functional spine allows normal communication between your brain and body to occur, and increases your internal resistance to all of these stresses.

Wellness means continually expressing higher levels of health. It does NOT, as many people think, mean that you maintain good health. No, wellness means actually increasing your internal resistance to stresses, so that you continually get stronger. Wellness is actually about growing. The best way to illustrate the difference between health and wellness is this:

Health helps you get through the day; wellness allows you to give to the day.

Wellness is necessary to move towards wholeness.

Wholeness means the total integration of your mind, body, and spirit so that you are lovingly expressing your purpose and potential in every area of your life (relationships, career, wealth, and even fun). It means taking the progressively higher levels of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health you are gaining from your wellness lifestyle and using them to more fully demonstrate your purpose and potential in every area of your life.

You see, visiting your chiropractor on a very regular basis does not just allow you and your family to keep from falling back. It allows you to continually spring ahead. And, as more and more individuals keep springing ahead, the whole world moves in the direction of health, peace, happiness and the full expression of LIFE!