Are You Limiting Your Potential?

All too often people judge their health simply by whether they feel "good" or "bad." Feelings can be deceiving. Someone can feel good without realizing their systems are not functioning at full potential. Even more importantly, someone can feel bad simply because their body is working through a healing or growth phase and doing what it's designed to do. When the only goal is to make a symptom go away, it's easy to miss what the body is actually doing, and why.

"While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events." — Peter A. Levine

The big idea

The nerves of your head and neck travel from the brain through a central canal in your spine as the brain stem and spinal cord. These nerves control every function in the body. They are protected by the vertebrae. However, if a vertebra moves out of alignment and interferes with the central nervous system, the body can't function at its full potential. That doesn't always show up as pain. It can look like headaches, poor sleep, low energy or a body that never quite feels like itself.

Checking your spine for proper alignment is not just about relieving pain. It's about restoring proper communication and function to the system as a whole. You may be limiting your own potential without even knowing it, and no one deserves that. When was the last time you had your alignment checked?