Cultivating Radiant Health, Vitality and Integral Living
By Dr. Timothy Michael Stranahan D.C.

The Vitalistic approach to life, living and health. From exuberance to anxiety our emotions, our thoughts and beliefs as well as how we relate and respond to our environment all have matching physiological states. The brain and nervous system are the source of these states having a direct, profound influence on our health and wellness. These states produce both positive and negative changes to our bodies on the cellular level, affecting all of the major organ systems of the body as well as our immune system.

There is a critical awareness emerging that the emotional, spiritual and environmental stress associated with many modern lifestyles can have a profoundly negative effect on our health and wellbeing over the long term. Our nervous system’s response to this ongoing stress is to go into a defensive or fight/flight mode.

Our natural state of being – our Divine design and potential if you will – is to experience and express our lives with a full measure of vitality and life, not in the adversarial mode and experience of fight or flight but in partnership with ourselves, our environment and our original and divine design! In the more progressive circles of both science and medicine there is today a rapidly growing movement and awareness towards more vitalistic approaches to achieving that quality of life. These methods when ever possible avoid the invasive and mechanistic use of drugs or surgery and instead embrace and support the body mind and spirit’s innate wisdom and ability to heal and correct itself from the inside out.

When our innate wisdom becomes overlaid by the stresses of our modern lifestyles, then our ability to heal and self-correct becomes diminished till we reach the point of dis-ease. This vitalistic method approaches each individual as a whole person and being, not just the sum of their body’s parts, nor a collection of symptoms. The result is gentle safe and direct care that supports our inner wisdom of correction and healing. When we begin to remove those layers of stress and diffuse their negative effects, we are essentially harnessing and directing our natural, dynamic and vital state of being. This is the body’s incredible ability to correct itself and to embody optimum health.

This emerging shift in awareness represents our true potential to live and experience our lives and our wellness in a way that reflects not just the absence of dis-ease but the presence and manifestation of a new way of thinking, perceiving, and relating. This vibrant experience of being is based on our partnership with and cultivation of these dynamic and vital forces that live within each of us.

Chiropractic care represents one of the most widely accepted and mainstream approaches to wellness and health care based on vitalisim. Again, the brain and nervous system are the seat and source of all physiological states both positive and negative. By interacting directly with the nervous system in a safe and gentle way, over time the cumulative dis-ease causing effects of stress on our bodies is gradually diffused. The body’s structure becomes more open, fluid and mobile as the innate wisdom- our natural state of being and vitality – begins to re-emerge and express itself.

With care based on this vitalistic approach in concert with a commitment to truly embrace positive healing and change we can finally begin to fulfill our true potential for radiant health as we enter a new era of possibilities for our healing, growth and personal evolution.

The ever evolving model of holistic and natural health, lead by chiropractic care and other successful approaches such as massage, nutrition, pilates, yoga and a host of others are rapidly being recognized as mainstream as opposed to alternative care. One very good and powerful reason for that shift in perception is the growing realization that it makes better sense and is infinitely more affordable to cultivate optimum health and vitality through these safe and gentle means than to wait until some serious manifestation of illness or stress arises.

We are indeed moving and evolving towards the embodiment and fulfillment of our greater potentials of wellness, self and health and as we continue to cultivate and support this natural and powerful state of vital being within we recognize ourselves and each other as divine expressions of that fulfillment.

Dr. Tim’s passion and commitment is to provide our community with extraordinary health and healing experiences based on the principles of true service, education, and effective and family oriented natural health care. Founder of Touch of Life Family Wellness Center in Austin Texas, his approach goes well beyond the treatment of symptoms and pain, encouraging each person to cultivate and embrace their true potentials through optimum health and vitality. Call Touch of Life Family Wellness Center at 512-458-9200 and receive a complimentary chiropractic examination and comprehensive consultation, a $180.00 value!