I once heard a pastor say that “a belief is something you buy into, but a PRINCIPLE is something you live and DIE by”. In conversation, I often uncover that though patients “like” coming to get adjusted, they aren't necessarily committed to the PRINCIPLE of Chiropractic. BJ Palmer said “teach the PRINCIPLE, and all else follows”. This is what he means.

Medicine stands by a principle. That principle is that the body is a mechanical unit, a chemical concoction, that is maintained and fixed much like a car by taking away and adding to. Chiropractic stands for a different PRINCIPLE summed up in the phrase “the POWER that MADE the body HEALS the body”. Chiropractic understands that the body is an intelligent creation beyond anything we can UNDERSTAND, let alone make better!

So what, they both have principles. There is nothing WRONG with that. I say that because we can't change that. It will always be that way. What we CAN change is who and how many live according to one Principle or the other. So which do YOU live by? If you rely on medications, cutting, burning, etc then you're Medically Principled. EVEN IF you get adjusted because you're back or neck HURTS, as a form of symptomatic relief, then YES you're still Medically principled. So what does it look like to be ChiropracTIC Principled?

Think of the “TIC” as what “makes you tick”. Someone that LIVES by the principle understands that “healing works ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT”, never from the OUTSIDE IN. It's an ABSOLUTE FAITH that God knows more than EDUCATED MAN could ever know about running a body (he's got more experience). It's to LIVE by the TRUTH that a DEAD body cannot heal EVEN WITH drugs, cutting, removing, vitamins, potions, lotions, and elixirs because INNATE INTELLIGENCE is NO LONGER PRESENT in that body. So what makes those things appear to “work” some of the time? That very POWER.

Does a well educated woman have any better chance of developing a healthy baby than an Uneducated “savage” in the jungle? Mankind has ALWAYS existed ONLY by the undeniable principle that LIFE exists without man's direct involvement. Are we better off doing it ourselves or letting Innate work? So ask yourself. Do you LIVE this principle? If not, you can start right now. Either way, the PRINCIPLE works EVEN IF you don't acknowledge it!

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