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Writer's pictureThe Wallpe Chiropractic & Wellness Team

Chiropractic Health Month

Updated: Apr 10, 2023

Every year, the month of October marks National Chiropractic Health Month. Every year, more and more people experience the amazing benefits of chiropractic care. At the same time, every year, millions of people miss out on the benefit of chiropractic care. Sometimes this is due to fear, misinformation, poor previous experiences, or just because they never thought it was necessary. Ultimately, anyone with a body, spine, and brain can benefit from chiropractic in some form or fashion. There are a multitude of techniques which can be utilized for the benefit of each patient. This is because each technique as an art form still follows the principles and philosophies of what chiropractic is. With more research, the science of chiropractic has continued to be proven across the board.

Over the next decade, there will be a shift in healthcare towards a more holistic and naturalistic basis of care. We are seeing it now with the increase in Functional Medicine physicians as well as the general public looking to live healthier lives through their lifestyles. Chiropractic has been living this paradigm since the beginning so I would like to refer to something published in “Chiropractic Textbook” in 1927 by Dr. Ralph W. Stephenson, DC. Some of the information has been updated through research over the last Century, but a vast majority of the principles remain true. Over the next few weeks, I will post about the 33 Chiropractic Principles in the words of Dr. Stephenson. Today, I begin with Principles 1-6. 1. The Major Premise 

Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence.

Since it is universal it is common to every locality. Therefore, it is in anything and everything that is in the same locality. In the beginning it created matter; it did not, then, abandon matter but creates or unfolds thoughts for its every moment. This solicitude maintains matter in existence. The physical “properties” which matter has, are but force (energy) continually given to it by intelligence. In a like manner, the quality that matter is said to possess, is what intelligence is giving it. Life ,as chiropractic sees it, is a quality or character that matter may have, occasioned by the presence of, or attention of intelligence, having continuation or duration, involving time. No lesser agency than Universal Intelligence can prevent any of these things but the perfect expression of intelligence, according to what man wants, may be prevented by limitations of matter. Even this is a universal law and is a phase of the Universal Cycle.

Life is a combination of intelligence, force, and matter. Matter makes up the material universe- intelligence is the immaterial universe, and force is what binds them together. We perceive force as forms of energy.

Matter is that which fills space and its function is to express force. It does not fill all space, but there is no limit to the places you may find it. You may travel in space for an unlimited time, and no matter how far you got, you would find material. The amount of it is infinite. “Infinite” means having no limit- no boundaries. “Universal” means everywhere- common to every locality. Therefore, being infinite and everywhere, we use the term Universe. If you subtract from the material universe, any amount you wish to name- no matter how large- it would not diminish the total amount. That is what infinity means.

The immaterial Universe is the intelligence that made all this. It, too, is everywhere, and therefore it is in all matter. It created everything, so it must have “known how” infinitely, and is all-wise. It is stronger than the strongest thing it made; and older, for it was there first. It is omnipotent, and unlimited. It fills all time, space, and distance.

The definitions of Chiropractic give it plenty of latitude in the realm of things universal. Therefore we are able to go back to the most fundamental principle of all; to “get our backs against the wall,” so to speak, and know that we are starting at the beginning. To question this fundamental is to be like the child who turns a picture over to see it from the back, or asks who made God 2. The Chiropractic Meaning of Life

The expression of intelligence through matter is the Chiropractic meaning of life.

The meaning of the term life has many interpretations. It is usually accepted to mean existence, or duration, or a vague idea of both. To Chiropractic, it is definitely the expression of intelligence; the manifestation of intelligence. Then in this broad sense the meaning is not limited to mere organic matter, but includes all matter. Therefore, we will be obliged to make a deductive classification, going from general to the specific and deal with the specific; viz., universal life and organic life. 3. The Union of Intelligence and Matter

Life is necessarily the union of intelligence and matter.

Without intelligence, matter could not even exist. Without matter, intelligence could not be expressed. We are never aware of motion unless we perceive matter moving. The study of physics shows us that some form of energy gets into matter to make it move. Without this energy, matter is inert. The study of physics also shows us that no matter is totally inert; therefore it always has some energy in it. Energy must have origin. From its character of precision and accuracy, we deduce that its origin is intelligence- nothing less. These facts from which we derive our conclusions are axioms- can be perceived everywhere. Our recognition of the intelligence of life or of motion in matter depends upon our ability to recognize law. 4. The Triune of Life

Life is a Triune having three necessary united factors namely, intelligence, force, and matter.

Without intelligence, matter could not even exist. Without matter, intelligence could not be expressed. Then there is a bond between intelligence and matter that cannot be dispensed with. These three factors; intelligence, matter, and the bond between them, are inseparable. The bond is called force. It is sometimes called ” The Missing Link.” Unlike other sciences, which study them separately, Chiropractic studies them all together. 5. The Perfection of the Triune

In order to have one hundred percent life, there must be one hundred percent of intelligence, one hundred percent of force, and one hundred percent of matter.

It is obvious that the three factors of the triune are inseparable; they are not separable in part, if one hundred percent perfection is maintained. Since intelligence is always one hundred percent perfect, and always creates one hundred percent of force, it is certain that if any imperfections of the triune exist, that matter is the only part of the triune that can be imperfect. Since matter cannot be destroyed by any lesser agency than the Creator, it is obvious that this imperfection is not in matter itself, but in the quantity, quality, and arrangement of matter. Hence, there are limitations in structures of matter; in its imperfect building; its imperfect arrangements; the wrong kind of matter for the purpose or even the lack of matter which should be in that structure but is not. From this fact arises the expression so often used fundamentally in Chiropractic. The expression of intelligence may be hindered by limitations of matter. 6. The Principle of Time

There is no process which does not require time.

Since action of matter implies a procession of events, a continuity, naturally time enters into the triune as an element. Time is an element necessary to the bond between intelligence and matter. Force is a word implying action; action is process. Action implies one event after another. One event after another, forming a series, implies time. No happening, even though it takes only a moment, but happens in a unit of time, or fraction of a unit of time.

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