mind body planet

The other day I was i our local coffee shop and I was browsing the books shelves. I typically only buy the old relics on the older shelves, but this time I thought I would hop on over to the newer book section and see if there was anything worth looking at. I saw of course all of the political books and takes on the lives of the candidates that make me want to vomit from political overexposure. I also found plenty of great looking graphic novels that I would never put down until I had sucked out all of the life from those pages. Then I came upon a book that peaked my interest and made me think of all of you readers out there. The huge text books weighed a ton and cost relatively little and I’d like to talk about it right now.

The book is titled Alternative Medicine: the definitive guide by Anderson and Trivieri. This book is basically the ultimate guide to anyone who wants to know all of the methods in which they could seek help for any particular medical condition.  It is set up i a really great style where it is listed first by the different types of conditions that you could hope to heal or remedy with an alternative or complimentary treatment. Conditions as simple as a skin rash all the way to things like cancer which may people choose to treat i ways other than chemotherapy since it is so hard on the body.  After the listings of the conditions it goes on to list in depth each of the different kinds of treatment methodologies that the books has to offer. It is ot meat to be ay kind of a medical text, but for those who really want to know anything about an alternative healing mode. For me I personally found all of the sections on Yoga, Herbal healing, and Chiropractics to be very close to how I myself would explain these methods within the context of a discussion of healing. The way it is presented is a bit dry at times, but they make sure to include plenty of cool diagrams ad pictures to really paint a picture of all the different styles of learning that may be ended to entice people to read and remain interested in such a large book.

IF you are out there wondering what certain modes are about and if there are other ways out there to aid in healing with some condition that you have, pick this one up because it will really help you find what you are looking for.

Chiropractics

In the fall of my first year here at school I was introduced to a class that opened my eyes in a lot of ways to many healing practices that I had never heard about. Though my parents were fairly liberal and interested in those things that may be considered fringe, they were never wealthy enough for us to be a part of those things. Living out in the middle of nowhere didn’t help either. Anyway, this class was probably one of the best classes I will ever take in terms of exploration of a topic that I’d love to learn about and not necessarily study in depth. The class was a very general survey of alternative, complementary, and preemptive healing methods. At the time I was pretty blown away by most of the information that I was being flooded with because it was all very new to me and some of it, like shamanism, I didn’t know still existed other than in Carlos Castaneda novels. After the class ended I knew that I would like to try some of these new methods and still I was bound by my limited budget as a student. This summer though I finally gave in and realized that it would do me a lot of good in my life to go ahead and try something. My big question was which one I should choose. I finally decided that I would try Chiropractics because it seemed to me to be the most effective of all of these modalities at really solving a much bigger problem.

My experience with Chiropractics, though still very limited, has been nothing but positive as of yet. The whole series of appointments began with an initial examination that is very similar to a general examination that you might get in a doctor’s office. The guy who I picked out was amazing and he really made me feel like he cared. The entire examination lasted about two hours during which we did a full physical, x-rays, and a questionnaire sort of interview. He then gave me a brief overview of what he wanted to do the next time and told me he’d call me in a day or so. When I went back for the next appointment he had my x-rays up on the projector and showed me the problem areas of my spine. He told me that a car accident I had had a few years ago my be the cause for the problems I have been having with my arches in my feet lately. He said that all of our health problems essentially boil down to an imbalance and areas of trauma in the spine. He did an adjustment on my spine that first day and gave me some evaluations of the strength of different areas of my spine. That was last week and now I am really excited for my appointment tomorrow.

I have been looking in to chiropractics more and more now that I am a subject and I feel better about it every time I read on. The work that Chiropractors do on the spine has been used by various cultures for a very long time and many of their theories are being proven by science long after they known that they are truth. It’s really a very beautiful set of theories of health and human development based around the proper functioning and shape of the spine in order to balance the whole of the body system. Based on my current level of care and improvement I would not suggest that this level of satisfaction will change any time soon. I will have to recommend this to every one of you if you have the money to shell out since many insurance policies do not cover this amazing form of medicine.