Creating health begins with a shift in the perspective that the whole (body) really is something much greater than the sum of its parts. A shift that recognizes that health is our birthright and represents the natural state of affairs for human beings on planet earth.

I remember the first time this shift in perspective began to occur for me. I was starting chiropractic school and beginning a journey to understand how the body worked. I attempted to piece together everything I was learning in the basic sciences into a working model, which was quite a chore. There was so much I didn't know; so many relationships in the body I didn't understand. I began to realize that health was really the normal state and that the experience of disease was totally abnormal. This startled me because it seemed that everyone else I was exposed to in the health field was focused on disease and what was wrong with us. From that moment on, I began to focus on building health. The half empty glass forevermore became half full.

This seems so obvious to me now, and perhaps to you as well, but the moment I focused on health instead of disease, my perspective about everything totally changed. Even the word dis-ease became a reflection of the true state of affairs. Dis-ease, in medical terminology, means being away from ease, or away from health. Because of this change in my perspective, I soon began to see my whole world differently. And as my perception shifted, so, ultimately, did my (and my patient’s ) experience.
This formula has become key for me in translating the inner experience of body, mind, heart and spirit into the outer experience of health and vitality.