Maximized Living and Limitation of Matter

Last Thursday a couple of student representatives of Maximized Living came in and gave us their sales pitch. They are a coaching program that helps Chiropractors know how to setup/run their business. They seemed very enthusiastic and one could tell they had tasted success already even though they are just starting in clinic.

I was captivated with what they had to offer because it felt that it was inline with what I believed in. They focus on five different things in order to achieve health. They are: Mind, Nervous Supply, Nutrition, Exercise, and Toxins. I am unsure what they say when they talk about mind, but the others have always made sense to me.

It only makes sense that if your spirit can talk perfectly to your body and if your body can talk perfectly to your spirit then you will be able to fix just about any problem you face. This is the idea of Chiropractic that if you remove interferences with the nerves then you can allow for perfect communication. Why doesn't this fix all problems? Because there is a couple of limitations.

Limitation of Doctor - Maybe the doctor doesn't have the science, philosophy or art to fix you.
Limitation of Patient - If the doctor puts you in alignment and you go snowboarding really hard and fall down a few times... quite possibly you just made yourself go out of alignment.
Limitation of Matter - (This is my favorite that nobody talks about much) When the body has an imperfection in the quantity, quality, or arrangement of matter.

For example: if a disease is growing faster than you are able to repair, then you will continue to have that disease. However, if you increase the rate of repair that your body is doing (by whatever means) to the point that it is now faster than the rate of growth of the disease, then your body will eventually be cured.

This is what I believe that people forget about when they are trying to "sell" you on chiropractic. There are multiple things that go into healing your body. Of course you need to make sure your nervous system is working right, but if you only feed it McDonald's are you really going to be healthy? Of course not.

It's important to understand this principle because just because you were just aligned by a chiropractor doesn't mean that you can inject yourself with the black plague and feel that you won't get infected. Even with your body in alignment you still have the limitation of matter.

To help bridge the gap that's between health and disease there are a few more other things you can do to minimize that limitation of matter. That's where nutrition, exercise and detoxifying comes in. You want to give your body the best chance possible to be healthy. These are things that can lower that limitation, but not close it. Genetics can not be changed. If you don't have a stomach, you won't be able to function at 100%.

Sufficient to say that Chiropractors don't heal anyone. All we do is take away the subluxation or misalignment between bones and allow the nervous system to work again. We are doctors of the nervous system, not low back pain doctors or even spinal doctors.

Anyway, the reason that I am bringing all of this up is that I did some research on Maximized Living and saw a few things that I liked and disliked. I am still unsure if I want to join them yet, but I do like a few things about them and I don't like others. I want to see it from a patient's perspective and as a Doctor to see if I would like to join them. I would rather not write down right now the things that I have concerns with because I haven't researched it out enough.