10 in 10 Challenge - Week 9 Tip

From Dr. Patrick Moore, Clinic Director of Crawfordsville Chiropractic
Adapting to Stress: Calmness is Healing

Annual vacations are more than just a perk; they are a key to good health, says a new study from Psychosomatic Medicine. Researchers found that over a nine-year period, people at a high risk for heart disease who took at least one vacation every 12 months had significantly lower death rates than their working counterparts. The reason is that stress takes a physical and mental toll.
- CHI Newsletter Fall 2003
In an emergency room, a calm patient is far more likely to survive than a hysterical one with a similar injury. Calmness accelerates healing and recovery time. In fact, calmness not only governs healing, it is a prime determinant of “Quality of Life.”

While inflammation, pain and edema can be described as noise in the cellular matrix of the body, fear, worry and irritation would be noise in the nerve system. These noises interfere with our lives, exhaust us, and wear down our resistance to disease, making us more susceptible to colds and flu, impeding recovery.

When our bodies are quiet, they are capable of amazing things. Calming noise in the nerve system is probably the single most important factor in increasing the body’s ability to heal itself and in increasing quality of life. When our nerve system is quiet we are able to think more clearly, concentrate better and adapt to the environment at a much higher level.

A chiropractic adjustment is the quickest and most effective way to calm the nerve system and improve healing. Since the nerve system is the chief means of communication in the body, noise can interfere with nerve flow and lead to health problems. Doctors of chiropractic specialize in calming the nerve system by restoring vital communication within the body.