Health Care Providers Using Fear Tactics

Last week one of my practice participants called to ask if we could schedule some time to meet. She said she was feeling pressured about her electing to receive Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) care. Of course, I agreed and we scheduled a meeting for the following day.

The next day I found out that the pressure was coming from a chiropractor. Several months earlier she was offered a free exam, including an x-ray. The x-ray revealed a diminished disc space in the lower lumbar spine. He told her that she needed to get under his care to resolve this problem, or else the problem would get worse. He warned against the potentially devastating and degenerative effects of not receiving chiropractic care.

Although I certainly could rebut the fear-loaded testimony he gave for need of his care versus the care she was already receiving, I'm more interested in exploring another concept for now.

It is very common amongst health care practitioners to utilize the same approach as the chiropractor. And to the credit of all who use it, it works. Practice management companies in the chiropractic profession know that, in addition to its diagnostic use, x-rays do wonders for patient compliance.

I think it would be accurate to say that most patient compliance, in all medical fields, is based on the fact that patients are afraid of what will happen if they don't follow orders once they are presented with negative test results. To put it another way, patients make decisions based on the fear that symptoms will persist, become worse, harm them or even cause death. I'm sure there are times when this is an appropriate response. If you're standing in front of an oncoming train, the fear of death is an extremely effective and appropriate motivator. However, fear based responses are certainly not appropriate for every symptom your body expresses, and for that matter, every situation that life presents.

Symptoms are the body's call for attention and change. They can teach and direct us as to what lifestyle or behavioral changes are needed. If our only motivation is to extinguish symptoms out of fear, we will most likely miss the body's message. This can result in the return of the original or a more pronounced symptom with no net gain in insight.

If we adopt the same strategy in life, we will settle for surviving instead of thriving and growth. It seems that throughout life, we encounter situations that require us to re-evaluate and shift our focus, direction or behaviors. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we didn't have to navigate these situations from a mindset of fear?

Remember, in fear or a stressed physiology, we are accessing lower brain centers while drawing resources away from the more evolved higher brain. This is important when considering decisions about our health and life. Access to the higher brain enables us to process more information and gives us the ability to create and consider choices that may help us adapt to and grow through life's experiences.

To put it simply, being stuck in a fear based perspective disengages and disempowers us. Yet large segments of our society, like conventional medicine, operate heavily in fear based models. The truth is that most people don't even realize it. They just accept it as the way it's always been.

In my client's case, she had adopted the ideals of the wellness model and chose not to fear her body. This is sometimes a difficult road to take in the onslaught of the cultural norm. History has shown that cultural perspectives can and often do change. However, new ideas tend to generate resistance. Galileo was ostracized for suggesting that the Sun was the center of our solar system because his ideas were contrary to the cultural “truth” of the time.

Methodologies such as NSA that are based on a wellness model direct attention toward positive strategies rather than the fear of inaction's consequence. The wellness model is certainly not the most widely accepted and utilized model in today's culture, but it offers us the growth and life enhancement that fear of survival simply cannot.

Is There an Invisible Force That Connects Us?

Several years ago I heard about an interesting phenomenon called The Hundredth Monkey. The Macaca fuscata monkeys had been observe in the wild for many years. In 1952, on the Japanese island of Koshima , scientists began dropping sweet potatoes onto the sand to see what the monkeys would do. One young monkey, who found the taste of sand objectionable, washed her sweet potato off in a stream before eating it and then taught this trick to her mother. Soon, all the young monkeys on the island were doing this and then elders began imitated their children. One day, a tipping point was reached – let's say it was the hundredth monkey – and all the monkeys on the island began washing their potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But that's not all. Scientists observed that monkeys on other islands and even the mainland began washing sand from their sweet potatoes as well. Their deduction was that when a certain critical number achieves awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. There have since been disputes to the validity of the experiment, however, similar phenomena have been observed in humans in other experiments.

There is a very popular experiment that illustrated how Transcendental Meditation performed by a group of 4,700 was able to reduce the crime rate in Washington , D.C. by 23%. I believe this experiment is more widely accepted in the scientific community.

These two examples and other similar experiments point to the idea that there is something other than what our normal senses can pick up, call it telepathy or collective consciousness, which appears to somehow connect us to each other.

Network Spinal Analysis works on a principle called harmonic entrainment. Examples in nature would include flocks of birds and schools of fish who “know” how to move together, or women residing in the same household whose menstrual cycles become synchronized.

If you come home and your partner is angry, you need not even see or hear him/her in order to feel the energy or vibration (vibe) s/he is emitting. If you remain in proximity, your vibrations will begin to match or entrain to each other's. Similarly, if you work in an excessively stressful environment, your physiology will match the rest of the group.

Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) simply helps your brain to entrain to a more peaceful vibration or place.

Parents tend not to want their children hanging around the “wrong element.” This is because parents know that children's behaviors tend to match the behaviors of the surrounding group. In addition to the psychological effects of peer pressure we harmonically entrain to each other's vibrations. This in turn affects our structure, which has a direct effect upon our behaviors. Flexibility in our structure creates flexibility in our perceptions, choices and behaviors. Conversely, entraining to a vibration that puts our physiology in defense automatically means that we're not fully accessing our higher, more evolved brain. Given this scenario, we are less likely to think or act independently or even consciously consider our actions fully.

Interestingly enough, because people receiving NSA gain greater nerve system flexibility, they automatically begin to shift their behaviors. It could be said that in addition to accessing their higher or conscious brain, they are entraining to their own internal signal.

As people progress in Network care, their general tone and vibration become different than that of most of the people and the environment around them. Consequently, while they may leave the office in a certain vibrational state, they may not be able to maintain it if constantly entraining to the environment around them. This is, in fact, the case for all of us.

One of the things I do for my own personal well-being is to attend seminars called Transformational Gates. Hundreds of attendees receive Network Entrainments and other supportive practices in a room with eighty to one hundred entrainment tables. If you are lucky enough to attend a Gate, it quickly dispels any doubt in your mind that we have an undeniable connection to each other.

I've also noticed that my practice participants who attend Transformational Gates and smaller versions called clear days are more able to maintain a higher level of care in the office. This higher level of care and the associated strategies learned are statistically congruent with experiencing a higher quality of life.

Undoubtedly, we affect and in some way even need each other. Many indigenous cultures, tribes and civilizations throughout history have gathered for dance, for ritual and to entrain to a vibration of love, gratitude and support for each other. Many people gather at churches, temples and synagogues for their spiritual nourishment. Collectively these rituals support and manifest the concept of community. But as in the story that opened this article, it all begins with one monkey, one breakthrough idea or energy. NSA can help that breakthrough be for you.