Please go get a rubber band. Found one? Right on!
Now take that rubber band and wind it around several times around your index finger. Wind it over and over until it's wrapped super-tight. It won't take long before the area above the constriction turns red and the fingertip begins to tingle and maybe even throb a bit. It feels uncomfortable, but not what you would call painful. Not painful yet, anyway.
What if I told you to keep the rubber band on your finger for a week? How would it feel after seven days? Now the pain would really be intense. The pain would be so bad in your finger it'll probably keep you up at night.
Now imagine a trip to the doctor to care for this finger. After a quick examination, the doctor prescribes a powerful medication to kill the pain. And hallelujah! It works! Now the drug does make you feel a little woozy and it gets hard to concentrate at work... and you are a little concerned when you read all the warnings and possible side effects on the label of the pill bottle... but no matter, the buggah's workin! Plus, you did get the drugs from a licensed professional, how bad of a risk could it be? So for several weeks, you take the painkillers and the finger does not cause you too many problems.
However, after about twenty-eight days on the meds a funny thing begins to happen: your body begins to build up a tolerance. On your next visit to good 'ol doc you say, "Hey, the drugs aren't working as well as they did before." "Yes," the doctor replies, "that happens. But here is some samples of a better drug. Try these." "Wow! Is this the one I saw on that commercial with that actor guy?" "That's the one!" So you start up on a new prescription. This one is the bomb! It works great like the first one did and the finger pain goes away. Life is good! Until, of course, next month. When Drug Tolerance again rears it's ugly head.
Next visit to the doctor, you show your finger. It's now a gross blackish-green color, there's no feeling at all in the fingertip, and the pain is horrible! "Hmm," says Doc, "this is getting worse. It's time for you to see a surgeon." It takes another three weeks to get into the surgeon's office and he recommends (don't be too shocked here) surgery. Amputation of the finger is the only answer, the surgeon reports. You hate to lose the finger, but the pain is crazy bad. You can't work! You're a grump at home! You can't even think straight anymore because of the pain! Is there any other option?
As a last resort you see a chiropractor. The chiropractor examines your finger. "This is the source of the problem. This rubber band. Let's remove it." The chiropractor removes the rubber band constriction. Because the finger has been wrapped tight for so long a lot of tissue and nerve damage has occurred so relief does not come right away.
However, over the next few days, the innate intelligence within you begins to coordinate the healing process. Eventually the pain subsides and the injury caused by the rubber band fully heals. You realize that the power to heal was within you all along. All that was needed was for the chiropractor to remove the rubber band. Drugs only numbed the pain away. The surgery recommendation was only to remove the damaged part. To correct the cause of the problem, however, was the only true way to stop the effects of that cause.
What plagues your health right now? Instead of placing all your hopes on drugs and surgery, search for that rubber band constriction in your life. Search for that cause! Is the rubber band a subluxated spine? Too much fat? Too much stress? Not enough water? Like the rubber band, the source of the problem may be very obvious-- blindingly obvious. Find that cause. Remove that cause. Health shall be restored!
