When my son used to watch GI-Joe cartoons, I remember they put a public service announcement at the end. I think it was about drug abuse. But what I remember is that it finished with, “…because knowing is half the battle!”
I like that! Knowing is important, BUT it is only half the battle! The other half is doing something with the knowledge you’ve gained.
The articles available on our website will provide you with valuable knowledge. It is doing something with that knowledge that will change your life!
Maybe you or someone close to you is suffering from an “incurable” illness. If so, then you should know that every condition or disease know to man has gone into spontaneous remission or been cured outright without help from doctors or medicines. What does this mean to the person with the disease or condition? It means that our bodies are self-healing organisms capable of wondrous feats of healing. It means that where there is life there is hope. It means that when the doctor says, “We’ve done all that we can,” he did not say that healing was impossible.
About 25 years ago, when my aunt was nearly 50 years old and lying in a hospital bed, she was told that she had maybe two weeks to live and that she would never leave that hospital alive. She would not accept that prophecy of doom. She and her husband prayed.
They did not “pray”, “God why did you do this to me. I’ve been a good Christian. I have worked for the church and the congregation. I’ve been a missionary for the church!..” Some people think that is a prayer. That is railing against cruel fate and accomplishes nothing. She and her husband prayed for forgiveness towards others and to be forgiven, and she prayed for many more healthy years to carry on the good work she’d begun.
And she was given many more years.
What if you’re not a Christian? What if you have no religion? Are you doomed? No! Nobody has a monopoly on either God or the healing power. You have access to the same Source as my aunt did. The only reason you are sick right now is that you have created interference between you and your Source. You may have done this unknowingly, but you can learn what you did and how to remove that interference. If you do that, you can change your life forever!
We have become a nation of helpless babies being spoon-fed toxic medicines of dubious value by the pharmaceutical industry. But we can grow up. We can learn how to take back control of our life and our health! That is why I give workshops to any local group that wants to learn how to make better choices in the six essentials for life. These workshops are free, and if you just want to get a half a dozen friends together to learn more about natural healing that's good enough for me! Of course I am promoting myself, and I believe you will see the value of what I do. I also know that you will get value from the knowledge you will gain in the workshops, and if you embrace change in your life, you will have already begun the healing process. See, WORKSHOPS. See also, PRAYER.
THEY SAY I’LL HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT!
Now, if somebody removed my leg, yeah, I guess I’d have to live with that. But if you’re just sick or injured, well, I wouldn’t buy that kind of baloney for a minute!
Our bodies were designed by the architect for the entire universe. There is no substandard engineering involved. In fact, our bodies never ever make a mistake! They respond perfectly to the choices that we make in six essential areas of our life: What we eat and drink, how we rest and exercise, the quality of air we breathe, and the thoughts we choose to think.
If you are sick or you have an injury that is not healing, it means that some choices you have made in the past caused your body to respond perfectly with the condition you are now finding yourself in. In other words, what you think is your problem is actually your body’s perfect solution to wrong choices. Probably you didn’t know that they were wrong choices, or you wouldn’t have made them. Can you cure a solution to a problem? No! But you can correct your choices today, and start the healing process that your body would just love to put into action!
At our office in Darrington, Washington, and at the offices of other Morter Health System members (go to morter.com) around the world you can find solutions that you can LIVE with. The painless B.E.S.T. method (Bio-energetic synchronization technique) updates your body’s response to the present need so that you don’t have to suffer with past solutions. Then our self-help WORKSHOPS show you how to make better choices in the future. We want you to EXPERIENCE WELLNESS! Our mission is to help you, and those you love, to get MORE out of life!
Our bodies are self-healing organisms. If you cut yourself, you really don’t need to do anything but keep it clean and it will heal. So how come people need doctors at all? Why don’t we heal all problems that crop up?
There are several ways of looking at this situation, but one of them stands out for me as the best answer to the question, “Why don’t arthritis, cancer, fibromyalgia, or ruptured discs always heal on their own.”
Imagine a piece of paper (or get one out and do this). Now draw a line down the middle of it. On the left side of this line let’s put the words, “resting, healing, relaxing, digesting, cleansing, and repairing.” On the other side of the paper let’s put the words, “run, fight, speed up, tighten up, go-go -go!” These two sides of the paper represent two distinct parts of our autonomic nerve system.
The autonomic nerve system is responsible for maintaining all the automatic body functions like blood pressure and heart rate to name a couple of the ones that you’re most familiar with, and also stomach acid production, insulin level, and blood calcium level to name a couple more of the thousands of functions our bodies perform constantly. So one part of the autonomic system speeds us up preparing us for fight or flight, and the other slows us down and repairs any damage done during fight or flight. How well you heal from a traumatic event like a fall, or auto accident depends on how much time your body spends in the healing, resting and repairing mode; versus how much time you spend in the run, fight, go-go-go mode. In fact, if you have symptoms for any reason and they seem to be getting worse or just not any better, you are spending more time in run, fight, and go; than you are in rest, digest, and heal.
And when I say you are spending more time in one than the other, I don’t mean that you choose to keep going when you should be resting, even though many of us do just that. What I mean is that the signal coming from your subconscious brain to the autonomic system is still, “go-go-go!”
Let me give you an example: If you were sitting at home on a warm summer evening and a cougar walked in through the open front door your brain would send the signal DANGER! Instantly your fight or flight response would kick in. Your blood pressure would shoot up as would your heart rate. Adrenalin would be released into your blood stream to enhance muscle activity and thousands of other chemical changes would take place in a matter of moments to meet the challenge to your survival.
When the encounter with the cougar was over, assuming you fought it off successfully, your brain would send the message ALL CLEAR! Then your system would switch over to resting and healing mode to repair any damage done during the encounter. Are you with me so far? Good.
Over the next several days as you are lying in your hospital bed swathed in bandages, you might observe that each time you remember the event your heart starts pounding again just like it did when you spotted the cougar, and you begin thinking that this is the worst thing that ever happened to you. You get home from the hospital and don’t seem to sleep as well as you used to. You worry about the cougar coming back, and you can’t get the event out of your mind. Your emotional response to the attack has created a program in your subconscious mind, a timing problem. Your body starts spending more time in fight or flight than it does in rest and heal. Even when you are asleep your body is being instructed to produce the chemicals needed to defend against the cougar!
Most of us aren’t fighting cougars, but we are dealing with bosses, co-workers, the IRS, ex husbands or wives, and many other situations that get us riled up emotionally. Unknowingly we make connections in our subconscious memory between agitated fight or flight states of being and emotions, both good and bad, that we are experiencing at the time. Several of those in your subconscious memory can keep you in flight or fight mode 24 hours a day seven days a week. Soon your body begins to wear down because it just doesn’t get to spend much time in rest, heal, repair, and cleanse. Maybe you don’t seem to get over the minor strains like you used to. Perhaps stressful events just totally wipe you out. And months or years later you go to the doctor and find out you’ve got Fibromyalgia, or arthritis, or cancer. All of them the natural end result of a body exhausted by being in fight or flight mode 24/7.
So what can you do about it? Typically, people treat the condition rather than the cause. But if you are one who thinks that eliminating the cause of a condition makes more sense than trying to manage the condition, you need to switch off the fight or flight auto-pilot.
The fastest way to do this is to see your B.E.S.T (Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique) practitioner, such as Dr. Nels. He will use a procedure of directed thinking and gentle touch points to eliminate the connection between subconsciously held emotional patterns and the fight or flight response that is draining your body of its vital energy.
You can also help yourself by learning to remember the negative events in your life in such a way that they don’t initiate the fight or flight response. For example; you could remember the incident with the cougar and BE THANKFUL that you or someone you love wasn’t killed. Maybe that event taught you something about your ability to handle a situation you never would have thought you could have handled, and therefore you are stronger for it.
Shakespeare said, “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” If you judge an event in your life as BAD, then it is having a negative effect on your life and health today. When you can learn to find the good in every situation, and be thankful for the lesson learned. You will be on your way to better health and a more rewarding life!
INTERFERENCE WITH A CAPITAL “I”
I’m a third generation chiropractor. My mother’s parents graduated from Palmer Chiropractic College in 1921 when the profession was just 26 years young. My parents graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic in 1950, and I graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in 1979.
I can remember when I became infused with the spirit of chiropractic. Shortly after I started the fourth grade, I had a fall from a tree-house we used to play in. I landed on my back just inches from a sharply pointed stump us boys had chopped with our little hatchets. I remember thinking as I struggled to catch my breath, “I should be dead right now!” Over the next weeks and months I kept struggling to catch my breath through pneumonia and then whooping cough, and I spent many hours three or four days a week at my parents clinic in Poulsbo, Washington. Their gentle adjustments to my spine gradually loosened my spasmodic diaphragm and rib cage and my breathing improved although I remained prone to breathing difficulties for about 10 more years. It was during my time in their office that I witnessed many people dragging themselves into the office in pain and sickness and walking out with smiles on their faces. Many of them would come up to me and ask if I was going to be a chiropractor like my parents. Pretty soon I found myself nodding that I would, thinking, “These people really appreciate what mom and dad are doing here. I’d like to be appreciated like that some day.” So, since I was ten years old, I’ve been a chiropractor in spirit.
Over my lifetime, I have seen many changes in the profession and how the business has changed. But more importantly for you, I have seen and tried, either as a patient or as a doctor, thirty or forty different methods, or techniques as we call them, for adjusting the spine. They all have their unique approaches, but they all share the same purpose. To remove the interference to the power that made the body, so that power can be restored and allowed to heal the body.
So chiropractic is about the removal of interference that exists between the power that built and runs our bodies and our bodies themselves. Up until July of 2001 I thought that interference could only exist in the spine. I previously understood that a vertebra would have to misalign and put pressure on a nerve to cause that kind of interference. Then I became exposed to an idea that changed my understanding of what that interference is, how it affects the body, and what we, you and me working together, can do to eliminate that interference more quickly, more completely and with better results than I ever thought possible. I am convinced that if my parents had known about this quantum leap forward in chiropractic when I fell out of the tree-house, I would have recovered in a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at the most, but fully and completely without the years of breathing difficulties that plagued me into my college years.
It Started in 1965 when Dr. M. Ted Morter, Jr. asked himself this question, “If the misaligned bone putting pressure on a nerve is the cause of the interference, why do I have to keep adjusting the same bone the same way over and over again. Could there be something else that causes the interference, and would that mean that the misaligned bone is just another symptom of that interference?” Now, almost four decades later, we know the answer to those questions are, “Yes, and Yes!”
We, the member doctors of Morter Health System, now know that it is the choices we make in the six essentials for life that either create a life of abundant health and vitality, or one of illness and fatigue. Those six essentials are what we eat and drink, how we rest and exercise, the quality of air we breathe and, more important than the other five combined, what we think. Because what we think, with feeling, programs our subconscious mind, and our subconscious mind runs our bodies.
That is why I titled this message, “Interference with a capital ‘I’.” We are the creators of our problems, BUT we are also the solution to those problems. Those of us who practice the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique help you begin to neutralize years of self-destructive programming in the time it takes to hold a deep breath. And we offer Life Enrichment Seminars where you learn how to make better choices in the six essentials so that YOU can begin to eliminate “I”nterference to your body’s natural good health. Click on WORKSHOPS to help you and those you love to get MORE out of life!
IS CHIROPRACTIC “ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE?”
Up until about the 1950’s, chiropractors were being charged with practicing medicine without a license in some states. Some were convicted of this charge, but most weren’t. Those who beat the rap in court did so with a simple argument, “Chiropractic is not the practice of medicine.”
The fact that people went to the chiropractor with health problems and responded to chiropractic adjustments by getting well didn’t make chiropractic the practice of medicine, they argued, because the chiropractor was not treating a medical condition.
Their argument was two-fold. First, chiropractors did not diagnose medical conditions. They analyzed the spine for the purpose of locating vertebral subluxations which, at that time, were not recognized by the medical profession. Second, the chiropractors’ objective was to correct the vertebral subluxation and allow the body to heal itself. It was NOT the chiropractors’ objective to treat or cure any disease or condition other than the subluxation. The fact that people were “cured” only pointed out the rightness of the chiropractic premise that a body free from nerve interference will heal itself.
So, if chiropractic is not the practice of medicine, it can’t be alternative medicine.
Does that make chiropractic incompatible with medicine? No! Sometimes crisis intervention is needed. That is where medicine excels. But when the crisis is over, you must eliminate the cause if you want to be truly healthy. And, unlike taking more than one drug at a time, you don’t have to worry about mixing chiropractic and medicine and having a fatal reaction.
Chiropractic is unique, unduplicated by the world of medicine, because it does not seek to diagnose or treat diseases or conditions. Chiropractic’s only objective is to restore wholeness by removing interference to our normal body-mind-spirit communication. A body free from interference is ALWAYS better than one that is being interfered with.
When we work on the emotional connection to a person’s health problem, questions like this come up: “Why did you choose that word? I can see how a feeling like ‘hate’ or ‘anger’ can be unhealthy, but how does a word like ‘peace’ or ‘joy’ make me sick?” If you’ve never seen me, this question probably doesn’t even make sense. So let me explain.
While your pain or sickness is a physical thing that you feel in your body. One of the places where the cause is often found is in the subconscious memory. Which means it began in your conscious mind, specifically, how you reacted to an event or series of similar events in your past. On each office visit, part of our evaluation is to find out - is the cause in the body, or in the subconscious memory? Sometimes it is both. Remember, we are working with cause. We know that your health concerns and symptoms are about - and in your body. Our job is to remove the cause and let your natural healing ability do the rest, as only it can.
So you are lying on your back on the adjusting table. We test your arms and legs for weakness or stiffness as a measure of your resting physiology. We start moving your feet together and apart, together and apart. What we are doing is establishing communication with your subconscious mind. We find that one leg is short when we want to know what a “yes” answer is, and the other leg goes short for a “no”.
“Wait a minute!” you say. “How does that work?”
In a phrase, quantum physics. A quanta is a particle smaller than an atom. Electrons are quanta and they are the currency of exchange between atoms. EEG machines measure brain waves which are fluctuations in electron movement. While EEG machines can only identify general states of consciousness like waking, sleeping, anxiety, and meditation, your conscious and subconscious mind identify much smaller states of electron movement, such as, thoughts, feelings, and pictures. In the quantum world of electrons then, thoughts have physical reality as specific patterns of electron movement.
Around our body is an electron cloud which has been photographed using Kirilian photography. When we establish subconscious communication to get our yes and no answers, it is through the interaction of our electron clouds (also called energy fields). Our conscious question, asked for the benefit of the patient, instantly alters electron movement in the energy field. The patient’s energy field resonates with the question. Their subconscious mind instantly responds which alters their energy field causing small changes in physiology and one leg or the other will shorten in response. The “trick” is in knowing how to ask, what to ask, and especially in being willing to “listen” for the response instead of us deciding what the response should be with our conscious mind.
What we ask during our subconscious communication is, “Is it body, mind, memory, or field?” This gives us the area in which the cause of the interference to your perfect health is located. Then we ask, “Is it positive or negative? Top or bottom?” And so on until we have a specific place on the feelings chart. We look at the chart and there at positive, A, 6 is the word, “love”. (Or if it were negative, A, 6 it would be, “selfish”.) This means that an important part of the interference to your normal functioning centers around that feeling, “love”, stored in your subconscious mind. It was stored there when you reacted negatively to a physical (fall or accident), chemical (drug reaction, coffee, unbalanced nutrition), or emotional (divorce, IRS, etc.) stress somewhere in your past while you were also feeling love.
How come we can find it on the chart? In the quantum field the word, “love” written on a page has the same electron vibration as the thought, “love”, and in the quantum field, like attracts like. In this scenario, every time you have feelings of love you reactivate the stress physiology that is associated with that feeling in your subconscious memory. That’s how what should be a good feeling to have can become a part of a health problem.
In case you’re wondering, during the procedure we can’t snoop around in your subconscious, and we can’t know your thoughts. But because like is attracted to like in the quantum field, we can find the dominant electron vibration pattern (or feeling) that is interfering with the normal flow of energy in and around your body. Then, using your own thoughts, we can negate the interference that feeling, which you had stored in your subconscious memory, is causing to your normal energy flow and body functioning.
Does this energy field thing sound a little far-fetched? Don’t know what to think about energy field exchanges? Well, have you ever been with someone who left you feeling completely drained? You felt like the energy had just been sucked right out of you? That was the interaction of your energy field and their energy field. Unconsciously on both your parts, they needed what you had and you gave it to them. Frequently that kind of exchange happens when the predominant feeling resonating in the one who takes the energy is “dominating”. They may be a meek, small person, but their energy, and usually their conversational tone, has an extreme need to be right about their opinions which seem to always run counter to yours. You give in, and give up your energy to them. Or maybe they are a loved one who is depressed. Maybe they whine and complain because they think they need something or someone to lift them out of their depression (actually the answer is inside of them) and you wish you could help them. In both cases it is their neediness that draws you into giving them your energy.
A good life is all about the effortless flow of energy. While physical things like magnets and T.E.N.S units can temporarily alter energy flow patterns. Our minds, and particularly how we feel about events in our life, can create the most damaging and the most lasting interference to the effortless flow of energy through and around us. Uncorrected, these thought patterns will continue to interfere with our healthy expression of life. But we can learn how to erase the damage of the past, and how to respond positively to all of life’s events for a better future. See, FORGIVENESS and WORKSHOPS.
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