what we believe.
At the Vitalist Collective, we believe that you are more than just a body. We acknowledge an Intelligence or a Vital Life Force working within and all around us. This organizing Intelligence is Life; it orchestrates all involuntary actions and vital processes within the body. It is constantly adapting, seeking higher levels of coherence and organization and is solely responsible for our health and healing. All dis-ease - expressed as a physical symptom, chemical dependency or mental/emotional state - is simply a result of interference in the expression of this Intelligence. We aim to work alongside this Intelligence rather than in opposition to.
Vitalism:
vital: late 14c., "of or manifesting life," from Latin vitalis "of or belonging to life," from vita "life," related to vivere "to live," from PIE root *gwei- "to live."
vi·tal·ism ˈvī-tə-ˌli-zəm (noun): 1. a doctrine that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces
2. a doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining
We believe that you are perfectly and intelligently designed. We believe that you already have the answers you seek within. We believe that you are WHOLE and made to be healthy, free and vital. We believe you were made to heal.
We chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse , the tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells, and stirs them into life. We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.
In the dim, dark, distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its form until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.
And yet you ask, can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?? Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?
B. J. Palmer, DC Ph.C