Restoring the factory default settings is an analogy I use a lot in relation to getting a spinal entrainment.
With Network Spinal Care I coach and guide your nervous system to self-realize that it's built up un-useful tension patterns negatively affecting one's life experience on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. I see myself as a coach pointing you to your already whole state.
The human nervous system, the brain and spinal cord, is elegantly designed to return to its original settings once handling a problem is done.
We return to a state of wellbeing automatically.
What happens if we think the "problem" is never done?
Well, then the "problem handling" software keeps on going...and going...and going.
A teacher of mine, Michael Neill, recently sent this email out from a book he wrote called "Supercoach":
As I wrote in Supercoach: A quick look into a baby’s eyes will reveal that we are born at peace – in tune with the infinite, in touch with our bliss, resting in the well of our being. But even as babies, our very human needs from time to time interfere with our connection with this innate well-being. We experience physical discomfort and because we do not yet understand the source of that discomfort, we do the best we can – scream bloody murder! Then, to our delight and amazement, someone comes and ‘makes it better’ – they feed our hunger, dry our bottom, entertain our nascent brains with funny noises and rollercoaster type movements, and before we know it, we are nestled back into the bosom of our innate well-being.
Over time, it is the most natural thing in the world for us to begin to connect and even attribute that return to well-being to the people or activities that seem to be causing it – we are OK because Mummy loves us, we are OK because Daddy protects us, we are OK because the people around us, for the most part, appear to have our well-being at heart. And then one day we do something in our joy that Mummy or Daddy doesn’t like – we splash colours on a wall, or cry when Daddy’s tired, and suddenly the ocean of love we are used to swimming in is filled with sharks and other monsters. Before long, we have bought into the myth of love and well-being being outside us, and the need for a persona is born.
Well-being – happiness, connection, love, peace, spirit – is our essential nature. So, all our attempts to capture these feelings from out in the world, no matter how well intended and practically followed, are doomed to fail. Not because happiness and well-being are unattainable, but simply because it is impossible to find what has never been lost.
So much of what we are striving for is there for the taking, it makes less and less sense to work so hard for what is already ours. When you don’t drink rat poison, you don’t need an antidote. And when planning and remembering your way out of the present moment, separating yourself out from the whole, and thinking your way out of well-being stops seeming like a good idea, you do it less and less.
At some point, the system resets, and you get a fresh start.
Will you get caught up again in the illusion?
Experience promises us no less. But a part of the kindness of the design is that you don’t only get a second chance – you get a third, and a fourth, and a fortieth.
And since presence, connectedness, and well-being are a part of the factory default, you’re only ever one insight away from everything you’ve been working so hard to achieve!