Lion and Magic Boy

Yesterday I visited my chiropractor.

I should mention that I always thought of chiropractic as the quintessential quackery, people who willingly take your money on a regular basis to keep you “adjusted”. WTF?? Yes, I realize that this may be slightly ironic given that I am perfectly willing to completely suspend disbelief when I talk to dead people (and accept money for doing it!), but for some reason I never drank the koolaid or got in line behind chiropractic.

I even went to one, years ago, and chose her at random from a local newspaper full of alternative healers. I was already well sold on alternative medicine and was a practicing Reiki healer myself, so I chose someone who did Reiki as well. I was extremely pleased with the results, made a nice contact with the chiropractor who did the session (which included essential oils, very nice, and she managed to really get to the heart of the issues plaguing me at the time), but I just.couldn’t.get.past.the.chiropractic thing.

So when we moved back to Pennsylvania from Colorado last fall, Michael’s back was bothering him greatly from all the moving and lifting and from the horrible torture-truck he was assigned to drive here laden with all our earthly possessions. He wanted a chiropractor, and the one I had been to here before was the only one I knew. He went and was immediately sold. He even talked me into going myself and making a family deal of it. “It’ll change your life,” he said. (It did.) I admit, I was hooked. It could have been the warm and wonderful energy of the place and the people there, or it could have been that there really *was* something to this “adjustment” thing, but either way, I found it really helpful.

Then, when Michael left and moved back to Colorado, I quit going, because I didn’t see how I could afford it.

I still can’t, not on an ongoing basis, but I went back yesterday.

I highly recommend the experience.

Now understand that there are chiropractors and then there are chiropractors. Some really do simply manhandle you into position. That’s not what I experienced here, and I wish that there was a Dr. Lauren near each and every one of you.

She gets right, as usual, to the heart of things, calling my bluff on certain issues, not judging but simply asking. I left there with a bottle of flower essences, crazy-sounding maybe (I have used these for years), but drops of the very essence of plants that when taken internally change your vibration, and can subtly and gently change your perception about things and allow you to relase certain held beliefs ir issues that no longer serve.

I also felt about 4 inches taller. No kidding. My point of view, literally, seemed several inches taller than it had before.

I have said this before, and I am certain to say it again many more times: this is turning out to be an awesome year for me. I hope it is one for you too.