What's The Difference?
I am often asked what is the difference between the chiropractic bodywork and the transformative coaching work that I do. They are both on the same spectrum or in the same direction of looking at the foundation of what is true in life. If you think of a river flowing along, spinal entrainments are more downstream of understanding how we are creating our life experience to start with. Which is what we look at with transformative coaching.
Let me tell you a story:
A man was travelling by foot from village to village seeing the land as he went. He would stop at each village he came to for a while and help out where he could in exchange for supplies and room and board. When his supplies were replenished, he would move on leaving behind new friends and beautiful experiences.
One day he came to a village by a fast-flowing river. As he arrived, there was a great outcry and many of the villagers ran to the river in distress. The man rushed over to see what was happening. To his surprise, there were a number of people flailing about half drowning in the current. They looked as if they were going down for the last time. The man jumped into action with the villagers and began rescuing as many people from the river as he could. There were too many. The man worked alongside the villagers all day rescuing drowning people. As the sun set the drowning victims diminished and then stopped coming altogether.
The village headman turned to the stranger, who was now a new friend, thanked him, and showed him to a cabin where he could eat and sleep.
Every day in this village there would be drowning people to rescue from the river in addition to the usual work of repairing equipment, tending to crops, and maintaining the cabins people lived in. The man stayed and worked in the village for months.
"How long have the drowning people been coming down the river?" he asked the headman one day. "For as long as our elders can remember we have been rescuing folks. These people often stay in their turn to help rescue people as well. We can't thank you enough for your contribution." replied the villager leader. "Where do all the people come from?" "Why are they drowning?" Nobody knows, was the reply.
An idea grew and grew in the mind of the traveller. "Let's go upstream to see where the drowning people are coming from.", he exhorted the villagers. "No." they all said. "We are too busy here. We can't let anyone drown."
So, one day the man left the village to go upstream to see if he could discover the source of the problem. As he set out on the river trail, his new friends and dear ones became very angry with him. "You are abandoning us!" "We never thought you would leave our cause!".
As the man walked along the river, drowning people swept past in the current calling out for help. He kept on, farther and farther up the trail. Through hilly terrain and high mountain valleys. Past stands of birch trees and wildflower meadows, the river continued to claim people in distress.
Finally, the traveller came upon another village far, far upstream of the first village high in the mountains. Here the river was fast and narrow and the riverbanks were steep and slippery. It was very easy to slip and slide into the river. The people of this village kept doing just that.
"Why don't you swim and save yourselves?" asked the traveller of the village elderwoman about her people. "Swim?" she bemusedly replied.
And so, the traveller made the upstream village his home. He married one of their beautiful women and raised children with her. And taught the people to swim. And in doing so, to save themselves.
Chiropractic entrainments bring vitality and life energy to one's nervous system allowing your body to heal. Our bodies become more alive and more fluid. However, in the same way as our story, going upstream to understand how we work as human beings permanently increases our capacity in all areas of life, including our body's capacity for innate healing.
It's just how it works.
With Love,
Sara Joy
What's The Difference?