Electrical brilliance

If the light switch in your bedroom isn't working, you do what every smart person does--you flick the switch about a 1,000 times to see if that will help. It never does, so the next logical step is to call out, "Hey, the light isn't working," and, if anyone hears this, they will come to where you are and flick the switch about three times to verify that this is correct information.

Once everyone is satisfied, someone heads to the main electrical box to see if the problem is there. Often it is a safety feature of the breaker and when it is reset, the light in the bedroom comes on and everything works again.

This is a good system. There are local controls for electricity in each room and there is a master control in one place for every room. It is a good illustration of how the electrical system in your body works also.

We have local nerve controls that exit at each of the vertebra in the spine. There are symptoms that the control may not be working very well. Muscle pain or weakness and tingling can indicate this. And like the need to flick a switch about a thousand times, we often repeat a motion that confirms, "yes, this nerve is not doing what it is supposed to do because this doesn't feel right."

Like a well organized electrical system in your house, your body also has a well organized electrical system with not only a local control, but also a master control area for muscles and general body alignment. This central point is accessed best at one very special point in the body, the first spinal bone or atlas.

The atlas is positioned exactly where the brain stem and the spinal cord actually connect and so much of the body is affected when it is mal-positioned. Like a breaker that is causing an interference in a good electrical system, the atlas can cause an interference in an otherwise good working nervous system.

The check for atlas misalignment is simple, the adjustment is easy and does not cause a popping or need a twist, and the results can "turn on the lights" just like resetting a breaker to the proper position. Find out if you need to have your atlas adjusted to help clear pain away.