LIVING IN THE NEUROCRANIAL WORLD
Issue 1
By Dean Howell, ND
Everything in this newsletter is the personal opinion of Dean Howell, ND

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Many patients have said to me over the years “Will you please write this information down? People need to hear it. You need to write articles. You should have your own newsletter.” I resisted at first because I prefer talking with people one on one.

Then my wife Trisha convinced me to write a number of long, dense articles about a variety of health topics, which she put into a newsletter she edited. You can still read these on my website—they contain a wealth of information.

But now I’ve decided I prefer to speak with you as if we were having a conversation, telling you in short and simple terms what you most need to know to optimize your health. Feel free to email me with your questions and comments, and I will include as many of your concerns as I can in upcoming issues.

THE STRUCTURES BETWEEN HEALTH AND HEALING

One of my biggest complaints about “health writers” is that they write about health as if it were simply secret ingredients we’re all missing. You need to eat this---or take that---and your diseases will disappear. It makes it sound like most diseases are caused by deficiency of vital ingredients or from infections that can be killed with nutriceuticals. Most of the time, these articles urge you to buy these spectacular, missing ingredients.

I’m glad they’re promoting the idea that non-pharmaceutical therapies can produce health! Unfortunately, if you look carefully, you’ll see that the same idea is lurking behind both the pharmaceutical and the nutriceutical (nutrition + pharmaceutical = nutriceutical) approaches: Pills can heal you—you just need to find the right pill for you!

This is an inherently defective idea! As a naturopathic physician who believes in “Nature Cure,” I view disease from a very different perspective!

In natural therapy, we know that a properly functioning body is healthy and can deal with all problems it confronts. So, for instance, the ability to develop an infection can occur only when the “soil” of the body is unhealthy enough that the bacteria, fungi, or virus can grow. In other words, you can’t catch a disease—instead the disease takes advantage of you because there is already something wrong in your system.

Most of know that we “catch a cold or flu” when we’re overly tired, get chilled in a cold wind when we’re sweating, and/or when we’re eating badly, etc. In other words, we get sick when we’ve made our body weak enough to permit the infection to grow. Then we grow whatever infection we’re exposed to.

At a simple level, we say that a cold is “caused” by a virus. But not everybody exposed to the virus “catches” a cold. This is because the virus can infect only a body that is weak enough to allow the virus to thrive.

So the quest for the flu shot of the season or the right combination of medications to control a cold is a silly endeavor. It makes much more sense to treat the cause of the condition instead of the symptoms! If we treat the cause, it will be much harder to ever be infected again.

 As a naturopathic physician, I view the cold-infection as a reflection of the body’s weaknesses and treat the patient accordingly.  

The disease is the symptom and does not tell us the true cause of the condition. The process of treating the underlying problems (true disease causes) is the fundamental concept in Nature Cure. Following Nature Cure, we focus on:

1. Biochemistry (correcting deficiencies, finding and treating allergies, bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, toxic metals, pesticides, biochemical individuality, etc.)
2. Toxicity (learning to avoid toxins and using detoxification protocols to remove fat- and water-soluble toxins)
3. Environment (organic foods, sufficient sunlight, safe water, avoidance of chemicals, air pollution, electromagnetic fields, excessive noise, etc.)
4. Physical structure—primarily NeuroCranial Restructuring®!
5. Subconscious beliefs, your mental and emotional states—namely meditation, goal-setting, and ThetaHealing.

With each person and his/her symptom complex, there is a different balance needed among these five forces. This creates many pathways that can be followed to become healthy. Each doctor finds his/her particular blend of therapies, emphasizing one or more of these forces to treat the patients who are attracted to him/her. But you must embrace all five forces to achieve a high level of health. Becoming expert in one or two of them will leave your body “lop-sided,” and you will not be healthy.

How do you do this? I will be writing about all five of these forces in future issues!

THE NCR TRUMPET
And every issue of LNCW will have one article about NCR because I’m the editor—and NCR is my life!

Every body can use NCR®! You need NeuroCranial Restructuring® because your physical structure is not optimal. I can say this because I have never seen a perfect structure.

Why would you want NCR? If you believe in becoming your best, then NCR is your obvious choice because it’s the only technique that can optimize your structure in an accumulative, gradual, and permanent fashion. All other techniques are antiquated! The superior technology of NCR wins out over all others. By optimizing physical structure, the bones, muscles, connective tissues, and nervous system move into positions where they function optimally.

For example, if your eye socket isn’t perfectly shaped, how can your eyeball be its perfectly round, original design and thus your eyesight be perfect? Another example: Perfect posture is created by ideal position of the bones and muscles. Posture is not standing up straight when your mother corrects you. It is an alignment situation that requires gradual improvement with a cumulative therapy. Perfect posture requires perfect structure—it requires NCR!

We can talk about any body area, or talk about almost anything regarding our functioning abilities, and NCR can be applied to that area to help you become better. There is information on my website to answer many questions.

Below this article is a link to the Askdatabase Question campaign for this newsletter. You now have a direct line to ask me all those health questions nobody can or will answer for you, especially about NCR. I will include answers to as many questions as I can in upcoming newsletters. What questions would you like to have answered? Tell me by pushing on the button below!