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How Does An Entrainment Differ From A Chiropractic Adjustment?

  • May 5, 2009
  • 4 min read

From the moment we come into this world, there's a part of our brain and nervous system that starts assessing what is safe and what is not safe for the purpose of survival. This very sensitive part of our nervous system is a part that gathers information by 'feeling' into our world. There's no thinking involved. We're just reaching out into our world through this feeling and sensing part of our nervous system. Through this very sensitive part of our nervous system, we make very fine discernments about our relationship with ourselves, others and the world by relating to them on a subtle energetic level. When our nervous system deems that some experience is not safe, let's say it's a sensorial experience of some emotion in our bodies, our system uses a variety of methods to sequester the offending energy, to lock it down, to keep it from moving; essentially to keep us from experiencing this thing that has been labeled as unsafe.

This survival programming is a bundle that is tied together through an intricate weaving of physical, emotional and mental components. The physical component of this process involves physical tension, a change in physical posture, a mechanical stretching of the spinal cord and structural changes to the spine. As we mature emotionally, part of our emotional intelligence becomes stunted because the sequestered energy has an emotional component to it which has been deemed unsafe to feel. Later on, as our mental capacity develops, we apply thoughts and stories to help support this survival programming that may have been installed years ago. If this physical/emotional/mental complex is going to dissolve completely, all three parts must be affected. If only one side of the triangle is affected, the momentum of the other two sides will reassert the pattern and force the one side to resort to its old relationship to the other two sides.

Furthermore, our nervous systems are self-observing, self-organizing systems. Your nervous system is observing the state of your body and making a billion decisions in this very moment that you don't have to spend any time thinking about. It's breaking down the food you just ate and turning it into you. It's making decisions about your blood pressure and temperature and body chemistry; constantly keeping all of these things in a delicate balance. Your nervous system is responsible for regulating your immune system; making moment to moment decisions that allow for the most efficient adaptation to your environment.

Both survival programming and resources can be accessed through the body. There are specific parts of our bodies that are anchors for the survival patterns in our systems, parts where there is sequestered energy, parts that are disconnected, parts where information is not freely moving. It's like a circuit breaker has been tripped and the system only knows how to play out the survival pattern in those particular parts.

Then there are specific parts of our bodies that are anchors for what's resourced in our systems, parts that are connected, parts where there is a free-flow of information, parts where there is 'available, free energy,' parts where there is a reservoir of resource.

Conventional chiropractic, the chiropractic that the majority of people will think of when they hear the word chiropractic, works largely with the physical/structural aspect of the survival complex, leaving out the mental and emotional components. That's why it's common for people to report having experienced great physical relief from a conventional chiropractic adjustment, only to find that their body seems to eventually resort to its former misaligned state, requiring another adjustment, and the pattern repeats itself. That was my experience so many years ago. I saw many different conventional chiropractors on a regular basis for years and I definitely experienced changes and a lot of relief. But the changes and the relief didn't keep deepening; they seemed to bottom out at some point. That's when I started exploring other avenues for healing. It wasn't until I stumbled upon the kind of care that we provide at the Network Life Center that things started to move again. And over the years I've found, as research shows, that there seems to be no ceiling to the depth of growth that is possible with this work.

Many modalities, including conventional chiropractic, as holistic as it is, tend to focus on what is not working; what is not connected. Conventional chiropractic utilizes quick thrusts in a 'subluxated' area of the spine to adjust the structure before the protective mechanisms of the system have time to react. While a precise adjustment can be hugely beneficial by taking pressure off of the spinal cord and nerves, this model does not take advantage of the nervous system's ability to observe itself and make new choices on its own. In this way, tension may be temporarily released but the system does not learn anything new in the process. The person continues to live their lives the exact way they did before and the tension builds up again.

I've found the work that we do at the Network Life Center so powerful because it amplifies the system's awareness of what is working; of what is resourced in the system. It only takes a gentle contact--albeit a contact in exactly the right place, with exactly the right force, at exactly the right time--to cue the system to self-observe and self-organize around resource. This is what an entrainment does. When the self observing, self organizing nervous system can observe itself from a resourced perspective, it naturally wants to spread that resource to areas where survival programming has been installed. The system is then able to reorganize according to a blueprint based on resource. This results in a permanent change in the physical/emotional/mental, survival complex, which results in permanent physical change, as well as new emotional and mental awareness, ultimately leading to permanent growth and evolution.

Click here to read an article I've written and a video I've made that describes in more detail how an entrainment works...

 
 
 

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