IN-Dependence Day

By Dr. Kevin Donka

“I want to thank you for everything you’ve done for me and helped me to do over this past year,” Carrie said as she hugged me goodbye after her adjustment. “This will be my first truly independent Independence Day in a very long time.” I asked her what she meant and she told me that she had been relying upon her medical doctors, all of their medical tests, and their medications to get through each day ever since she was a little girl.

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But since beginning her chiropractic care roughly a year ago and making  some lifestyle modifications we suggested for her, as well as working on her focus, she had been able to get completely off all of her high blood pressure, cholesterol, bladder control, diabetes, migraine, Crohn’s Disease, allergy, arthritis, hypothyroid, and anti-anxiety medications. She had also lost a total off 65 pounds and left a job she had hated for 14 years to open her own boutique.  Plus, her marriage was like brand new!

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I asked her if she had to pick just one thing that she believed was the most important thing she had learned over the past year, what would it be? She didn’t even hesitate; she put on a great big smile and said, “That I am not a victim of my body or a slave to medicine; that I am the one who ultimately decides what my health and my life will be like, not my doctor, and that if I really listen to my Inner Voice, it will never let me down!”

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“So you’re not using outside pills, potions, lotions or advice as much?” I asked. “NO!” she answered.  “And you’re not relying upon outside blood tests, urinalysis, DNA testing, bone density testing, x-rays, CT scans, and MRI’s to tell you if you are healthy or not?” “Definitely not!” she exclaimed. “And you’re not constantly running to some outside doctor every time you decide to try something new in your life?” I continued. “No way!” she beamed, “Not even YOU!”

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“So let me make sure I understand what you are telling me, Carrie,” I said. “Instead of relying upon all of those OUTSIDE things, you are now listening to your Innate Intelligence – what you are calling your Inner Voice, is that right?” She smiled at me and said, “That’s exactly right Dr. D.! I am now living what you call inside-out!”

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“So you are totally right then when you say this will be your first truly independent Independence Day! Instead of relying upon all of those OUTSIDE things you used to; in other words, instead of being OUT – dependent, you now trust all of the miraculous workings of your body and the Inner Intelligence that guides and runs it. You have truly become IN – dependent!”

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“Wow,” Carrie said. “I never thought about it that way, but I definitely have a whole new appreciation for what the words freedom and independence mean now. And I don’t just mean freedom FROM all those things we just talked about. I also mean the freedom TO direct my own health, my own life and to give to others at a level I have never been able to before.”

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Let’s begin today to make EVERY day IN – dependence day!

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