Wellness Seminar This Weekend (Bellevue)

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Kids:

There is this phenominal young chiro that I have told you about. His

name is

Chestnut. He is a rebel...so if you are like me and " rebels "

interest you, then listen up.... He is teaching a 4 module (in

person) 4

module (on the web) year-long wellness certification seminar. It

started with about 120 of us packed in small hotel seminar room in

Seattle (amazingly, there was a huge Oregon presence, even though it

is

an ICA thing)....now they are expecting that number to almost double

so

they moved it to the Red Lion Bellevue. You can start the series now,

even if you missed the first one.

This guy is smart: He is Arty Croft kind of smart...This guy reads

voraciously...like Mikey Freeman kinda reading....just pouring thru

journals year after year.....only his area of focus is different.

This

guy entered chiro college with a Masters in Physiology with an

emphasis

on ADAPTIVE NEUROLOGY!! His professors at CMCC did not know what to

do

with him, because he was already above their level of knowledge. He

is

pissing off alot of chiros young and old

because his work is forcing them to examine their current paradigms.

He

pisses off the ADIO guys/gals because he shows that the nervous

system

is actually mostly afferant, not efferent. He pisses off the guys

turning on the power, because he shows how " turning on the power " is

not enough. He pisses off the allopractors who spend their careers

memorizing Tierny et al. and becoming experts at labeling various

pathologic/traumatic conditions because he shows how it really does

not make any difference

what you call the " condition " ....as almost all " conditions " will

require the SAME solution. I love his approach for this reason. He is

correct! ;-) He is like a breath of fresh are in my opinion. And he

has

something for everyone of us, regardless of your practice

approach/specialty...if your are interested in studying health and

wellness and not just sickness, trauma etc. Then his approach is sure

to stimulate you. His model, simply put is this:

Humans, like rainforests, like wetlands, like Oceans, are ecosystems.

Only two things can throw an ecosystem out of it's natural balance

(homeostasis):

1- too much of something (toxicity)

2- too little of something (deficieny)

Only one thing will ever put an Ecosystem back into true homeostasis:

Giving the system exactly what it 'needs' and eliminating what it

does not need. Period. You can try to fake out an ecosystem

and/or " improve " nature with various artificial interventions, but

you are NEVER bringing it back to homeostasis. You may be able to

keep it stable, for a while, vis-a-vis artificial stop gaps. This

stable state is termed " allostasis " and will work for a while but is

ultimately NON-SUSTAINABLE!!

He even has the cajones to say : " There is NO such thing as

pathology, just adaptive

physiology. And then he backs it up with a mountain of left-brained

research. He wants chiros to go back to their physiology text-books

(Guyten) and learn that stuff, for real, and de-emphasize the stuff

in the pathology/medical texts.

So if being part of " sustainable health care " interests you, if

ecology interests you, if protection and preservation of

environmental systems (on a micro and macro level) interestes

you...AND you

want to be one of the " cool kids " , then be there or be square.

Warning, warning, warning, there will be no talk of how to deal with

insurance or third parties etc.....because he honestly states up

front:

This paradigm is about 98% INcompatable with any current third party

" health insurance " schemes that currently exist (except perhaps for

HSAs and wellness-oriented programs). The concept of " health

inurance "

is not " health " insurance at all , but rather

'accident/injury'/disability' insurance and such programs are based

on

a flawed , incorect, mechanistic/mechanical model of how the human

body

works/functions.

any way, i could go on and on....check out cspine.org calendar for

info

cheers, and let's all continue to inspire and challenge each other to

do better than we have thus far

J.

www.springbrookclinic.com

Springbrook Chiropractic & Natural Health Center

www.cspine.org

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