GAP and the Bounce Back

As I cruise further into my career I seem to have greater clarity as to what chiropractic really does and what it stands for. Unfortunately its not like a brilliant light shines down and illuminates me with newfound wisdom.  In reality, its clarification of what I’ve known all along, just in simpler terms.  I love the lexicon associated with our grand scheme called chiropractic.  I love that an adjustment is not a treatment and I love that Innate intelligence is not merely “energy”.   The confusion for me comes when a quasi religious association is made that asks us to leap in faith alone.  BJ understood this dichotomy and spent a lifetime trying to develop a scientific model that matched the power of an adjustment.  As I understand it now, chiropractic represents a Universal truth that is based on balance, harmony and most of all efficiency that can be referred to, in totality, as adaptability.  The more able an organism is able to interpret and adapt to its environment, the greater the potential exists to express its genetic legacy.

Because of chiropractic’s universality, most scientific methods that detect physiologic shifts away from or towards more balance, symmetry and efficiency are valuable tools in observing the benefits of the adjustment.  When we focus in and look at these physiologic shifts through neural function, the specificity of chiropractic is most visible. Tie this together with sound biomechanics and biochemistry and we have a construct that is mostly complete, except for “that something extra”.  As Steven Covey discussed, there is a millisecond that exists between stimulus and response and in that time we define our humanity.  This is where free will mixes with Universal and Innate intelligence. 

In simplest terms, we heighten the recovery response.  The ability to bounce back from minimal or major interference is the hallmark of a well person.  Stress is natural and endemic.  Gravity exists as do memories and patterns of inefficiency derived from years of compensation and neglect.  Mixed together, the body reacts and responds to manifest subluxation patterns.  These persistent disturbances affect the neural processor and spill over to affect all body systems through the autonomic and motor imbalances.  If we add in the immeasurable impact on potential and socialization, we recognize that this combined state of well being is dramatically at risk.  Like rust on your 1979 Porsche, subluxations just eat away at the perfection that once was.  Slowly, these subluxation erode the patina of the original work of art until finally your health is just a project for some car hack known as a therapist or allopath.

The only consistent model that defines wellness so easily, in my mind, is the GAP.  If we recognize that life has limits genetically, environmentally, socially and most importantly, self imposed, then we come to a realization that it is better to live in a wider GAP than to feel the compression of narrow parameters.  The super skill of any wellness practitioner is to identify the primary and other subtle drivers that are narrowing the GAP in our patients.  Most clinicians can detect the obvious but as always the next question remains.  What do we do about it?  This is where chiropractic stands alone and can define itself in perpetuity.  We OWN the principle of subluxation but better than that, we have spent the past 114 years developing sophisticated methods to release these core tension patterns known as subluxations.  No one else cares about them like we do and only when we tie the hip bone to the universe do we really become relevant to mankind. Does the world really need a better group of exercise therapist or nutritionists?  Perhaps.  But the gaping void facing humanity is neural distress in the manifested form of subluxation.  Our GAP’s may be narrow but the hope that can be accessed lies in the determination of a strategy to release and rebuild neural core efficiency.  Who knows, we may even get our communities to realize the value of natural revitalization as the GAP grows wider and wider.  

Docfletch offer his opinion and expertise in widening the GAP through the docfletch.com website.  Coaching towards a wider experience is available to those who would love to explore being truly happy and wildly productive in practice.  Learning to “Love what you do and do what you love” is a foundational principle in GAP Coaching.  Call or write me at docfletch@docfletch.com  to explore these opportunities.