On Cupid, On Dasher, On Dogma???
Well, I often voice a poor opinion of those who live by antiquated dogmas, and am now realizing that I’ve been throwing stones in a glass house.
I had need of a Chiropractor, this past week, and have been to a Chiropractor before. They were completely different, but then again, they had completely different problems to address.
It was long ago, and I don’t think that my neck was as badly off back then, when I walked into a Chiropractors office off the street because my neck was hurting. I hadn’t a clue who this Chiropractor was, and had no referal to go on. I only knew that I was desperate.
There was none of the cracking that I remembered from when I had gone to a sort of Chiropractic school when I was in college. This Chiropractor was very gentle and slow. Very different from the one that I saw this past week.
The one that I saw this past week was gentle, in his way, but his way was the quick cracking way again. It was scarey and wonderful at the same time. I actually had had a few vertebrae out of place for more than a week, and was starting to feel really awful.
Up until Yesterday, I’ve stuck by my guns when my clientelle have asked me about Chiropractors, and I’ve told them in no uncertain terms to go to the slow and gentle Chiropractors, and I had nothing good to say about the ones that do the fast cracking.
That just shows how little I really understood the practice until Yesterday.
When things are actually out of place, they need to be moved back into place, and when muscles are tightened around those things, (vertebrae) sometimes some brute force is necessary. Muscles are tenacious little buggers, and if they’re misguidedly protecting something or over/underworking, they can be sore or living stuck in a contracted state.
Massage makes the muscles around the misalligned vertebrae feel better, and can sometimes soften the muscles enough that they’ll let go, and allow the vertebrae to move back into their normal position, but this can only happen if the muscles aren’t already “hardened” in a position that holds the vertebrae misalligned.
So my dogma was not only completely wrong, it was holding me back from getting the help I needed. I had believed for a long time that the pop and crack docs were quacks, and that it was a quick fix at best and couldn’t give lasting results.
I’m sorry for misleading my readers/clientelle, and I take it all back. I am now a convert, and love Chiropractors. At the same time, the Chiropractor himself (George Wagner) told me that massage work afterwards really helps the Chiropractic work to set in, and that before hand, it’s not the best idea, so I learned something new as well. I would have told a client w/ ideas on going to a Chiropractor, that after is definitely a great idea and helps the work to set in and before hand can’t be a bad idea…..
So here I am hunching over my key-board again, when what I really need is a nap. Hope you get to enjoy naps, too, Dear Readers and are able to see your own dogmas for what they are and put at least one of them to sleep for good each night when you go to bed.
We should all really examine montly, everything that we learned about our world when we were young, and make sure that it’s still up to date, and relevant to us, and not clouding our perceptions of reality.
A good book to read to get you started on that journey is called: Getting Real. Email if you want the author. The book is downstairs, and I’m going to take a nap, now.