To Heal Or Not To Heal? - That Is The Question

What is healing and how is it distinct from curing?

Pain strikes everyone eventually and will infringe upon your life from time to time. It's not something you're likely to appreciate. If it's only mild your natural tendency will be to ignore it and hope it goes away on it's own. If severe, your immediate urge will be to do anything to make it disappear.

Healing is a return to optimal health or wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.

Curing is a return to no symptoms or obvious signs of disease, or something we do to bacon.

They are far from synonymous ideas. It's possible to have both, but it's common to have curing without healing as discussed last month in the story about my dad.

Who needs healing and why? I believe everyone breathing and walking this Earth for any length of time, because this is an injurious and distressing planet to live on.

We often depart from wholeness soon after birth evidenced by 70%of American children having been on at least one round of antibiotics by 6 months of age as only one of many examples. Once kids have been injected with multiple vaccines containing mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and antifreeze in addition to the live or killed virus, I would say that the toxic load precludes wholeness.

These are only the beginning of the physical, chemical, and emotional challenges of our lives that overwhelm our balance. We will discuss this more in upcoming months.

Do you have goals for the elimination of specific pains or indications of illness? These can be fine at times but do they aim high enough? Are you settling for basic comfort or do you likewise have the loftier target of restoring more of your original potential for passion, intelligent creativity, and vitality?

The following is a true story shared by one of my patients whom we will call Alexander:

One of the most amazing aspects of Alexander's story is that since he wrote this, he has gone on to run several 26 mile marathons in the Santa Cruz, California mountains!

We will continue next month to explore these themes and their next logical extensions through a new story.

More on "To Heal Or Not To Heal" in Healing Hints below.

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1. We would love to meet with you for a FREE consultation to learn about your pain and illness concerns and evaluate our potential ability to help restore your health and vitality even if(or especially if) all other efforts have failed! Please call us at559-490-9550 to schedule this special free appointment by July 7thand go to http://www.DrMatthewNorton.com for details about our unique work.

2. FREE Special At-Home Learning Opportunity! Please call right away for more information and to register form next teleseminar on Thursday, June 23rd at 7 P.M. Pacific Time. It will include the recorded CD and special transcript report. It is entitled "I Could Feel Better But..." and will address head-on "The Top 10 Myths and Misconceptions of Chiropractic Healing".

   If you have fears, objections, or beliefs that prevent you from exploring chiropractic as a viable and much-needed solution to the pain or illness that's compromising your quality of life, then this FREE program is for you! Call 559-490-9550 to reserve a seat in your living room. Invest in your health today.

3. CD's of my recent teleseminar: "What's Blocking You? -A Chiropractor's Insights to How You Can Release Energy and Improve Overall Health" are now available and the feedback has been very positive. This program is based upon material from my upcoming book that I'm very excited about.

   The truths on this recording could save your life or that of someone you love!! Go to http://www.DrMatthewNorton.com/news_events.html to learn more about this powerful message and then call us at 559-490-9550 to order.

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Healing Hints

1. -Bernadette Devlin "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
2. Quality Of Life... How much is your quality of life worth to you? How much is your quality of life related to or dependent upon your level of health? What would you be willing to do, change, or try if your health or life were dependent upon it? It is, even though you may not know it yet.
3. Will you wait until you confront a clear life or death crisis to make the necessary changes? Will you then hope, pray, and seek a miracle cure because you let the time for healing pass you by? What if the crisis ends your life without announcing your final chance to change?
4. Change!? If you would be willing to change or try something new to improve or save your life under such a threat, then why wait? How about exploring some new avenues now to enhance your life quality and lengthen your Earthly stay?
5. Experience Chiropractic! Have you explored Chiropractic yet as the solution to your pain or illness? Have you investigated its potential to contribute to your wholeness of body, mind, and spirit even in the absence of significant health issues? Is today the day? Call 559-490-9550 today to discuss the possibilities with us.
6. -Anonymous "The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way." (another great quote from him/her)

About Dr. Norton

Dr. Norton unites his passion for learning, teaching, and healing with a compassion for those who are struggling with pain and illness or not performing at their peak. He brings to his work a high level of academic achievement and cutting-edge bodymind research. However, he also brings a deeply caring heart transformed by difficult personal life experiences. Read more.