Where does health come from?

This question formed the basis for a shift in my paradigm. Previous to me asking myself this question, I thought health was this finicky thing that would come and go, maybe leave forever if I was unlucky or didn't take care of myself. I didn't really give any thought to the source of health.

Have you?

In doing research on this topic, it seems that there is a general consensus about health. However they might word it, health comes from within you. Think about it. If you get a cut, what happens? Do you actually need to do anything to make it heal? No! It heals on its own. We can do things that we think will help that cut heal, but even after surgery, eventually it comes down to the person who has to do the healing.

In chiropractic terminology, we refer to this source of healing as the innate intelligence. Innate intelligence is responsible for the coordination of all of the body's functions, not just healing. There are a myriad number of processes going on all at the same time in the body, and if it were left to our educated mind to sort all of it out, I'm certain we'd be quite dead, all of us.

Other traditions refer to the innate intelligence as energy, ki, chi, prana, or the spirit.

So, if health comes from the coordination of this innate intelligence and the body, what provides the link between the two? That is, how can people become sick? People become sick when the innate intelligence cannot respond adequately to the stresses going on in your life. This can happen for a couple of reasons. One, the stress is just way too much. Like a car accident or the death of a loved one. Two, the communication between the innate intelligence and the body has been disrupted in some way.

The nerve system exists in your body to communicate from the brain to the rest of the body. Your innate intelligence functions through this system of nerves, keeping everything working together. If that communication system is broken down, then health fails. It's that simple. We often use the analogy of the safety pin cycle. When the pin is connected, energy flows throughout. When it's not, it can't, and symptoms and disease result.

Health is simple. It comes from within you.