Irene & Ken Pickering

Age 66 & 68

Canterbury

Healthier, Stronger & Enjoying Life!

During our two years at the Ideal Spine Centre we have come to think of it as a place of healing, learning, enabling and encouragement. We could list all the physical benefits, and we shall, but more than anything we have gained a sense of genuine awareness and, indeed, of what the Canterbury writer, Edward Greenwood, calls ‘the awareness of awareness’

Just what is this when applied to ourselves?

• The awareness of what the body can do and what we can do to it.
• The awareness of the need to maintain our bodies as we would any other sophisticated machine.
• The awareness that we are much, much more than a machine but equipped with astonishing powers of recovery, healing and development
• The awareness that we must take responsibility for our own health through understanding and constant striving.
• The awareness that how we feel is not necessarily how we are.

Coming to the Ideal Spine Centre makes sense of so much that has been disjointed and partial in relation to my health and yours…

It´s rather like using the London Underground and only understanding the city from the moments when you pop up on the surface at a station. This experience gives you no idea of how the stations are related to any other part of London and, sadly, that is how the NHS often treats us: a symptom comes to the surface, we treat it with drugs and the problem goes away. Actually, it goes underground!

An understanding of the central nervous system and its relation to the spine has helped us to see how the channel of life and energy can be impeded or enhanced and how we can achieve wellness both as a fact and, perhaps more importantly, as an idea!

The gentle and caring treatment we have received from Drs. Christian and Tracy and from James and the sense of well-being generated by the Clinical Assistants have enabled us rid ourselves of sciatica and regular migraines, frequent indigestion and poor posture, eye haemorrhages and back pain, hip pain, aching necks and even earache! Even some emergency cancer surgery was not the mountain it might have been.

Our ´before and after´ photographs that we reviewed at our annual check remain copyright, but be assured, they are a revelation that makes us ask ´however did we drag those desperate-looking carcasses around before getting our spine checked?´ But so often, it seems, that is the problem: we think we are too old, too permanently misaligned, too set in our ways to make an improvement. How wrong we are! And how grateful we are for being shown that!

“Human design is such that we were all made to be well, not sick. Your body always strives for wellness, from the inside out. Therefore, it is our choices that determine how we continue through life. Our choices can either weaken us or build us… it is those choices that we make on a daily to weekly basis that determine how well we are in the future. It is just a matter of how soon you act and how consistently well you do that.”

Dr. Christian