The Luminous Child
Newsletter Provided by the ICPA
One of my favorite qualities about the chiropractic profession is that it is not easy, perhaps is impossible, to control from the top down. You will never find chiropractors walking in lockstep like you will other healthcare professions. When the 2020 lockdowns were imposed on businesses and laypeople across the world, it became apparent how true this was; how chiropractic professionals were among the most likely to be found speaking their minds and acting in the freedom of their conviction, despite the widespread cultural fear of consequences, taboo, and authority.
The reason for this deep respect for freedom in the chiropractic profession can be found in its philosophy and approach to health, which is grounded in a vitalistic principle of life. When you take this vitalistic principle to its logical conclusion— that life flows from above-down and from the inside-out, and that an innate intelligence exists throughout all of Nature’s operations that is infinitely more wise than the human educated mind—then it naturally leads one to both cherish the expression of this wisdom within each soul, and to be simultaneously averse to any form of stringent control imposed on others.
A simple way to understand how the chiropractic philosophy became so distinct and separate from other healthcare professions is to realize how, over its many long years, it never chose to treat the body as a machine. And so it became deeply understood that trying to impose a one-size-fits-all mechanistic approach onto people’s biological health and well-being is not only futile, but also debased by the truth of reality. One might go further to say that it becomes a responsibility, then, to resist such a cold, standardized approach to health out of respect for the belief that life and health flow non-mechanistically from an innate intelligence that reciprocates our curiosity, love, and appreciation—not our desire for control.