Chiropractic Care and Emotions
How Chiropractic Care Harmonizes Emotions and Feelings
How Does Chiropractic Care Affect Emotions and Feelings?
Chiropractic is a holistic method that most people initially associate with successful treatment of back pain. What few realize is that chiropractic can also have a harmonizing influence on our emotional state and our feelings.
Chiropractic as a Way to Improve Your Posture and Presence in the World
Our posture has a tremendous impact on the positivity or negativity of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It also affects how we appear to others. Constantly reminding yourself to sit and stand up straight is rarely effective in improving your posture. Improving posture is a process that is especially effective with chiropractic support. Your chiropractor can identify the adjustments needed to relieve the forward-pulling tension. The goal is to release the majority of these forward-pulling tensions so that your inherent body tension, which naturally and effortlessly aligns you, can function optimally.
We have two types of tension in the body. The aligning tension is what keeps us standing and sitting up straight naturally. The tension that pulls us forward and to the side causes poor posture. Chiropractic care can address and relieve the forward and sideways pulling tensions, allowing you to maintain an upright position naturally and effortlessly.
The second effect of chiropractic care on your emotions is neurological in nature. You can imagine that our nervous system is a continuous network of interconnected nerve cells. If the mobility of this network is restricted, such as when the spine does not allow free movement of the spinal cord, it leads to tension in the brain’s structures. Since our feelings, thoughts, and emotions also originate in the brain, they are similarly affected by blockages and restrictions in spinal mobility.
When people suffer from pain or other limiting symptoms, they often tend to view things pessimistically and imagine scenarios where they will never be free of their pain and remain physically restricted for life. Chiropractic care helps you regain a sense of self-efficacy. Our job is to thoroughly educate you about how the healing process will unfold and then treat you in a way that quickly resolves pain and physical limitations, allowing your emotions to brighten up again. We provide you with all the information about your condition, so you don’t have to fear the unknown. This knowledge often alleviates many worries, allowing you to focus entirely on your primary goal: to get well again.
