Innately Directed
by
Joseph Strauss, D.C.Often we hear speakers talk about being innately directed or acting in response to the direction of the innate intelligence of the body. Most people have no idea that there is an innate awareness within their body or that it is capable of directing every physiological function. They have ignored it, buried it, and covered it up with educatedly directed actions for so long that they are not likely even aware when their body is innately "speaking" to them. The key to be innately directed on the physiological level is to remove interferences to the expression of the innate intelligence of the body.
The vertebral subluxation is one interference, the one that chiropractors direct their attention toward. Society, civilization, and many other factors have made it difficult to be innately directed on a physiological level. They have created interferences. we often cannot eat when the body tells us, it is just not convenient. The same is true for sleep, rest and exercise. Consequently, we must "educately" schedule these activities and hope that they come as close to the desires of innate intelligence as possible.There is a school of thought within the chiropractic community which believes that by correcting vertebral subluxations we can insure that the educated intelligence is working properly. However, we can no more guarantee that a good nerve supply will insure proper educated decisions than we can guarantee a person free of vertebral subluxation will never get cancer, heart disease, or some other medical problem.
All we can say is that the educated brain will function better if the person is free from vertebral subluxation. But we can also say that it will function better given good nutrition, clean water, exercise, the proper rest and by avoiding poisons.
With regard to the educated brain and educated intelligence, there is another factor that needs to be explored. There is something more that can be to make us "innately directed". An innately directed individual is a person who has an ADIO philosophy of life. This is not a mystical concept. It does not mean some supernatural small voice tells him/her to turn left at a crossroads when they were thinking all along that they should turn right.
There may be such things as gut feelings, intuition, "spiritual guides," but if these exist, they are not innately speaking to you. But being innately directed does involve your thinking. It means that the individual is directed by the following:
1. PRINCIPLES that have been internalized. The person does not waiver with the external influences of life. He/she is not swayed by other peoples' ideas or pressures. The innately directed individual does not blindly embrace every new idea that comes along. Instead, he/she has learned a set of principles and has developed a philosophy from them. Every issue, idea, and decision in life is filtered through these principles.
2. An UNDERSTANDING that the educated intelligence is not adequate in running the internal organism, either the person's own or that of someone else. The innately directed individual acknowledges that it is the innate intelligence that has been and continues to know how to run the human body and the best thing that can be done educately is to stay out of the way as much as possible.
3. A KNOWLEDGE that to consistently free of vertebral subluxation is necessary to maximize the the effectiveness of every phase of ones life. The innately directed individual gets their spine checked at least weekly!
4. KNOWLEDGE that is not merely academic information but that which is applicable to all aspects of life. This individual knows how to apply that information. This is know as wisdom. Not only does he/she have the knowledge, know how to apply it, but he/she does apply it.!
There are very few innately directed people in this world, either on a physiological level or an educated level. It is our responsibility as chiropractors to remove interference to the expression of innate intelligence but also to teach the principles that if internalized by the patient, can enable them to be innately directed and to be more of what they should be on every level of human function.
(Vol VII, No 5) The Pivot Review - Joseph Strauss, D.C.