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CHAPTER: THE GLOBAL HEALTH MODEL

The intent of this book is to present a model for health and wellness that is effective for every person and every discipline. That sounds like a tall order, but I think it is completely possible if a health practitioner bases his treatments and techniques on the true fundamentals of health.

While doing research recently in the health and wellness section of a major bookstore I was pleased to see how many books have been written about the role that emotional well being plays in everyone's life. There are books on modifying the way one eats, thinks, sleeps, prays and perceives life. There are books on exercises, yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, stretching and athletics. Equally important are the books on chakras, the spiritual body, the soul, past lives, and higher metaphysical or spiritual teachings.

All these books assist people to help themselves, but I wonder how a person can effectively exercise or achieve optimal performance if their nervous system is disorganized and keeping them out of balance? How can a person modify their diet to achieve a desired state of health when the nervous system that controls their digestive function is in disarray? How can one successfully perform affirmations and move forward emotionally and spiritually if their nervous system is still locked into past events that inhibit the flow of life? Similarly, how can one effectively clear an imbalance of the aura and its chakras if the physical body is stuck in neural disorganization?

The physical hands-on reorganization of a person's nervous system is the essential variable that needs to be seriously addressed before any truly consistent and authentic research claims can be made.

The techniques and theories presented in this book are all related to one another on some level. My hope is to one day see a health care system that is based on a model that integrates these different systems in a logical and systematic way, guided by the wisdom of the body.

For example, if a patient breaks a leg, the first thing that needs to be done is setting and casting the leg. But it is important to work backwards in our thinking if we are to treat the whole person. The nervous system has several "safety switches" which alert the brain whenever the skin, muscles and finally the bone are in danger of being ripped or broken. If one stretches a muscle beyond its normal range the brain immediately shuts off the nerve supply to prevent serious damage to that muscle. If you have ever lifted something too heavy you know what I mean. Something inside of you makes you stop lifting the object or even tells you to drop it. These circuits will almost always be "in fault" after a bone is broken because in order for the break to occur the traumatic force had to be so strong and so fast that it would blow all the safety breakers first, in a matter of milliseconds.

Bearing this in mind, the next logical step to ensure a speedy and efficient recovery, after setting and casting the broken bone, would be to perform the N.O.T. procedures. This reactivates and returns function to the primitive reflexes that keep the head, shoulders, pelvis, hips, knees and ankles level with the ground. The next step would be to perform soft tissue rehabilitation and massage to break up the scar tissue. A few Chiropractic adjustments might be needed to realign the structure and mobilize the joints, followed by instruction in exercises to carry on at home, to strengthen the muscles. Such exercises might even improve previous muscle tone and, since poor tone may have been why the person broke a bone in the first place, this is an essential part of rehabilitation.

If the nervous system reflexes are not corrected after a serious fall or injury then the following scenario is typical: First, the body must compensate for any imbalance or misalignment. This usually means that the pelvis, knee, ankle and foot on one side of the body start to take excessive stresses. Second, tissue repair is hampered because the body is in a hurry to get back to balance. Lower quality tissue (i.e. scar tissue) is built up because the body responds this way in an emergency. (If the body were immediately rebalanced and therefore not under undue stress, it would heal gradually and correctly.) Excessive scar tissue buildup can cause problems down the road. Being non-elastic tissue, it can restrict range of motion, flexibility and cause stiffness, pain and perhaps lead to further accidents and degenerative conditions.

The problem of excess scar tissue layers can sometimes be repaired later, but it calls for many sessions of sometimes painful soft tissue therapies, trigger point therapies and time consuming hands-on work to break up the tissues. All this can be avoided by doing the correct balancing work immediately after the accident, followed by effective rehabilitation to ensure that scar tissue is minimized and primary elastic tissue is recreated instead.

I have seen many patients who have gone through this scenario. They have had an accident or broken a bone that healed, but other problems started to arise within a short period of time. They were put through countless sessions of physiotherapy, which never completely restored the range of motion because their pelvis and lower back were still misaligned. They saw chiropractors, massage therapists and many other mainstream and complementary health practitioners, all to no avail. No matter how many adjustments were performed, as soon as they got off the therapist's table and stood up again the pelvis began to go out of alignment. They may not have felt the symptoms return immediately, but within a short time they felt their pelvis was "out again". Why? Because the nervous system reflexes were still disorganized and turned off causing the body to react that way! These patients are typically given endless doses of painkillers or anti-inflammatories which just mask the problem. Worse yet, the pills significantly irritate the digestive system and produce other problems in the body. They do not get significantly better as time goes by, and find that they no longer have the same use of their leg and body - even though the broken bone has healed. This may eventually interfere with their abilities to work and they may have to change jobs, which places stress on the whole family and may lead to the patient feeling depressed and emotionally fatigued. So it's back to the medical doctor for some anti-depressants, and the story goes on.

Obviously the above scenario does not occur in every case of a broken leg, but I have worked on enough people around the world to know it is all too common. It doesn't have to be a broken bone or structural concern for this kind of scenario to start to play in a person's life. If a patient has dyslexia, hormonal imbalances or even digestive problems these kinds of events can begin to affect someone's life on all levels. First by interfering with their function, then their families, their jobs, their self-esteem and eventually their mental state.

 We all pay the cost.

Not only does it significantly affect a person's life, but also those around him or her. It causes unnecessary suffering. It costs the system incredible amounts of money because we have accepted many conditions as "chronic" and irreparable when they can clearly be fixed. Once a condition is labeled chronic it seems suddenly to justify many more treatments to correct or manage it. I challenge this mode of thinking because I have seen so-called chronic conditions change in minutes or hours using the methods described in this book. Health care providers are either lazy or ignorant if they claim that their modality is the only solution to the problem. What's worse is when they state that if they cannot fix it then nothing can, and then tell their patients to learn to live with it. This is not only arrogant but a very defeatist attitude. What I prefer to tell patients is that every day we are accumulating more and more knowledge and insights, and when health professionals and complementary practitioners work together we can solve many of the problems that are plaguing our society.

We must continue asking questions so that we can unravel the mysteries of the body and its relation to the universe we live in. We must stop ignoring the answers that lie within the human body itself, along with the means to correct these problems.

Much credit should be given to the pioneers of Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology who had the wisdom and humility to let the body be the Master Doctor. They used their knowledge of the nervous system and its relationship to physiology to unlock the potent and profound techniques described in this book. The power that made the body is the power that heals the body - we should listen to it and trust in its infinite intelligence to guide us.

I appeal to all health care providers and agencies, to governments, insurance companies, and all wellness centers and hospitals to open their minds and research dollars to investigating these innovative and effective techniques. The work described in this book requires no more than one to three treatment sessions, and once the corrections are made they are lasting - i.e. neurological integrity will hold - unless there is a new trauma. It is powerful, repeatable, and reproducible on everyone and its cost effectiveness surpasses anything I have yet to study or read about. These are primitive, innate circuits and reflexes that exist in all people and animals. The emotional state, spiritual well being, diet, exercise and so on will always be variables in any wellness profile, but 16 years of clinical experience in treating more than 15,000 people globally has shown me the effectiveness of this program.

This work must be given a chance to prove itself and to show its efficacy. The present day system is out of control and must be changed. I am available to present lectures and do research projects, as well as to consult with governments, groups and agencies so that we can restructure our present day health care system. The future is ours to create.

Namaste.

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