Innate Intelligence

We have all heard of intelligence. It is usually used to describe one’s ability to learn something in relation to education or knowledge. But this is not the only intelligence that exists in this world. There is a much deeper, complex form of intelligence that chiropractors term “innate intelligence”. Innate Intelligence is the core foundation of the chiropractic philosophy.

Innate Intelligence is the defining difference between a living human being and a deceased human cadaver. It is this inborn intelligence that allows your body to heal itself after you cut your finger, but a cadaver cannot. It is life itself that heals.

If you have never taken a moment to think about this amazing concept, I highly encourage you to do it now.

Think about a time that you or your child has cut their hand or leg. After the puncture to the skin, blood immediately starts flowing from the open wound and starts to clot to seal the wound. When your blood cells rush to the wound site and begins to form a clot, it has not traveled there at random. It knows exactly where it is going and exactly what to do when it gets there. But how? You did not have to tell your body to complete these important processes … so who or what is sending the instructions? It is the powerful life force that we term Innate Intelligence.

“In every living thing there is an Innate Intelligence guiding it on the path to health.” ~Dr. Terry Rondberg D.C.

Living things are not random collections of molecules and atoms. We are much greater than the sum of our parts. It is undeniable that there is an order to the body. This is the basis for Innate Intelligence.

In human beings, it is the Innate Intelligence that tells a newborn baby how many times its heart should beat each minute; how to ingest and digest nutrients and eliminate the waste; how to develop and utilize white blood cells to fight infections; how to communicate its need for outside assistance. No one has to teach an infant these things.

Yet, Innate Intelligence can only guide the internal functioning of that child. It cannot enable her to manipulate her environment or do more than her body will permit. She can’t, for instance, walk over to the refrigerator and get a snack if she’s hungry (anymore than a plant can turn on a lamp if it needs more light). That action will take training and education rather than inborn Intelligence.

If you put a plant on a window sill, in a day or so it will have turned its leaves to face the light. Turn the plant around and in another day or so, it again will have turned its leaves to receive the light it needs to maintain its normal functions. The plant doesn’t use logic to figure out that it needs light, or decide to turn its leaves around to face the window. It doesn’t “think” and it isn’t self-aware. Yet, the intelligence it possesses allows it to go from a tiny seed to a lush plant, to send roots into the soil to find water and nutrients, to search out and utilize light and air, to transform those elements into additional leaves, roots, sprouts, and even more seeds which will be carried on the wind to start the process all over somewhere else. Not random action, but intelligence. Not education, but inborn knowledge. Innate Intelligence. (Quoted from Terry Rondberg, DC)

Remarkably, every living thing possesses 100% of the Innate Intelligence it needs. You’ll never see a plant which “knows” that its roots need to grow into the soil, but doesn’t also “know” that its leaves need to grow upward toward the light. Can you imagine the poor plant pushing both its roots and its leaves downward because it only had 50% of its Innate Intelligence?

If an entity is alive, it possesses 100% of the Innate Intelligence it needs. More importantly, by its very definition, the Innate Intelligence is always normal, and its function is always normal. What this means is that our bodies “know” exactly what they need and how to adapt to our environment in order to function best.

If our physical and emotional health relied solely on our Innate Intelligence, we would all be “perfectly” healthy. But there are other factors at work. A master carpenter might be an expert in building a table, but if his arm is in a cast and he can’t apply force to his hammer, or if he doesn’t have the proper tools, the table won’t come out very well. Your Innate Intelligence is an expert in running your body, but if it is deprived of its life energy (Innate Energy) or lacks the proper tools (Innate Matter), it will result in a less-than-normal functioning system.

These three elements – Innate Intelligence, Innate Energy, and Innate Matter – make up the “Triune of Life.” Since a person’s Innate Intelligence has the “expertise” it needs to properly maintain that body, chiropractors don’t address themselves to that area. Nor do they involve themselves with the actual “tools” provided to each person – the body and internal organs. Their concern is with the Innate Energy or force which provides the link between the Innate Intelligence and Innate Matter.

Deepak Chopra, MD stated in his book Quantum Healing that when he researched and thought about Innate Intelligence and medical intervention, he came to three conclusions:

• First, that intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies.
• Second, that our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
• Third, that intelligence is more important than actual matter of the body, wince without it, that matter would be undirected, formless, and chaotic.

Intelligence makes the difference between a house designed by an architect and a pile of bricks.

Next time you are looking for a health care practitioner to evaluate your health, consider the concept of Innate Intelligence, Innate Energy, and Innate Matter. Will the treatment and recommendations given enhance the “Triune of Life” or interfere with its inborn potential? Does this practitioner see you as a whole entity? Or are you simply a pile of organ, glands, and tissues?

At Optimal Wellness Chiropractic, we promise to be a holistic provider that honors, respects, and recognizes that your whole is greater than the sum of your parts and to only recommend and use treatments that will enhance and support your body’s innate intelligence to heal itself.

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