Install
a dimmer switch in the room where you give your reports. It's a powerful way to
demonstrate the way the body adapts to abnormal nervous system functioning. Plus,
it's a useful metaphor for showing the positive effects of an adjustment. During
your report, when you review causes of subluxations or the locations of subluxations,
step over to the light switch and slowly dim the room. Maybe turn it down with
the mention of common causes of subluxations: birth process. Learning to walk.
Learning to ride a bike. Falling asleep on an airplane. Fender bender. Continue
with a list of physical, mental and emotional causes of subluxations. Slowly dim
the light a notch at a time until the room illumination is down to about half
or one-third the normal brightness.
And continue your report as if nothing
is wrong! Of course, in a couple of minutes, the patient adapts to the lower
light level. This is a metaphor for the way their body adapted to reduced nervous
system function until they could adapt no more and obvious symptoms prompted their
office visit! Then, when it's time to make your recommendations, explain
your adjusting approach and what will be done on a typical visit as you return
to the dimmer switch, slowly returning the lights to full intensity, observing,
"...each visit builds on the ones before. Visit by visit the supporting muscles
of your spine get stronger. The ligaments and soft tissues are retrained. Visit
after visit is used to help restore the way your body works."
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