Article Date: Sep 18, 2011

Redefining Moments   Insights that Change Destiny:  Part 2

Donny Epstein, D.C.

Early in my chiropractic practice, three
events forever shifted my professional
trajectory. These events would lead
me to explore the reorganisation of my
patients’ spines in relationship to their
lives, and to formulate concepts about
the fundamental relationship between
structure, behaviour and perception.
Moreover, they would set the stage for
a very powerful research agenda, having
broad implications for the chiropractic
profession and consumer, as well as for
the academic community and public at
large.

The first event involved a rude and
antisocial patient who with progressing
care demonstrated significant
positive personality, behavioural and
spinal changes. He however believed he
was still no different because his pain
remained. I asked his son what he liked
most about his dad since he was coming
to see me, and his response was that his
father no longer beat him or his mother.
Hearing this resulted in an emotional
and spinal shift in the father that would
transform his health and the family’s
dynamics in a most wonderful way. For
me, I realized that beyond symptoms
there were significantly more behavioral
and perceptual outcomes that needed
to be assessed. This lead to wellness
and quality of life research and a new
culture for practicing chiropractic.

The second event involved a woman
with autoimmune disease who re-
traced a rape and transformed its
meaning and somatic sensory motor associations.
With this, for her there were
new insights, resolution of the illness
and a more fulfilled life. For me, this
lead to a better understanding of the
relationships between unexperienced
or unprocessed emotions, the spine
and psychosocial influences - and later,
the inclusion of emotion in my evolving
model of spinal and neural integrity.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, the
third and perhaps most impactful event
would set into motion rigorous and
productive research at several universities.
New understandings of the spine,
neurophysiological models, and novel
applications would follow which would
set the course towards my future professional
and personal destiny.

The Third Event: Producing
the Network Wave.

While clinically obtaining a significant
restructuring of the spine and its
adverse spinal cord tension patterns, I
observed a wave like undulation taking
place along the spines of a few patients.
These patients experienced new
perceptual insights and emotions, as
well as a restructuring of their spines.
The presence of this wave, now called
the Network, or Somatopsychic Wave,
was one of the factors studied relative
to self-perceived wellness. It, along with
a respiratory wave, was a predictor of
significant improvement in self reported
wellness, stress busting, behavioural
changes, and overall life enjoyment.

In 1997, Professor Edmond Jonckeere of
University of Southern California (USA)
began studying the Network Wave.
Since then, he has determined that the
mathematics of the sEMG signal of this
wave evolves with the progression of
NSA care, and is a benchmark for the
spinal organisational strategies. The
Network wave is currently the subject
of investigation at several universities
for its unique properties as a central
pattern generator, individual identifier,
and its associated enhanced spinal
learning and synaptic connection. This
area of study will help the Chiropractic
profession to better understand how
the spine and nervous system can self
regulate and grow. Further papers will
suggest, based upon this research, that
the synapse may be predominately an
acoustic wave phenomenon. This, I am
sure, would be no surprise to Chiropractic’s
founder, DD Palmer, who stated
that chiropractic was founded on tone.

Underlying chiropractic practice is the
implicit relationship between structure
(the spine), behaviour (of the spine and
in life), perception (of the spine, of body
and of life), and energy. I refer to this as
the Triad of Change. It can answer most
of your patient’s questions about why
spinal change and transformation can
lead to other changes in their life, and
how the other life change they desire
has a spinal component that may need
to be addressed. The ability to care for
patients with consistent outcomes of
growth and positive development is
paramount to the chiropractic practice
of tomorrow.

In summary, all developments have
a back-story. These three events are
major markers in Network’s back-story.
In practice we all have had moments of
insight, that change the way we look at
the world, and require us to step-up to
a new level of accountability. Are you
holding yourself to a high enough standard
and always looking to reorganize to
a higher level?

In today’s world every industry is peddling
as fast as it can to keep up with
the need to redefine and evolve. In
redefining our outcomes we will also be
redefining the image of our profession.
Helping individuals to reorganise their
spine and life, with discernable outcomes,
assessments and milestones is
perfectly suited for needs of the public
in our rapidly changing world.

Dr. Donny Epstein is the founder and developer
of Network Spinal Analysis, Somato
Respiratory Integration and Reorganisational
Healing. He is the author of Healing Myths,
Healing Magic, 12 Stages of Healing, The
Boomerang Principle, and most recently, The
Somato Respiratory Integration Workbook.

For more information about Donny Epstein,
Network Spinal Analysis Care, and Reorganisational
Healing visit www.wiseworldseminars.
com

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