Julien's Journal May 2016 (Volume 41, Number 5) | Page 48

health, wellness& lifestyle system interference has been in your body for a long time, sometimes up to 50 years. The body will snuff out the brain’s awareness of pain receptors firing as long as it can. I imagine that this is because the lives of humans, up until the last 150 years, has mostly been filled with environmental challenges for which we now have solutions, like furnaces and air conditioning. We likely often needed to ignore pain in order to hunt for our food and survive. St., Dubuque; or Wendt Regional Cancer Center, 350 N. Grandview Ave., Dubuque. Most programs are offered at a fee. Register for at UnityPoint.org under “Classes & Events.” I will be talking more in future issues about how we need to think of subluxation in the early stages of any health and wellness challenge, from headaches to acid reflux, before we think about drugs as the answer to organ dysfunction. For now, a good selfscreen for subluxation is to stand in front of a full-length mirror or have a spouse or friend observe you. If you already have balance issues sit down in a chair. Diabetes Education/Support Group – Wednesday, May 11 @ 10:30-11:30 a.m., Asbury HyVee Close your eyes and nod your head back and forth, as far as you can go to your chest and as far back as you can go. For some, this alone will provoke pain. Bingo – this is a sure sign of individual vertebral subluxation. Alzheimer’s Community Education – Tuesday, May 24 @ 5:30-6:30 p.m., Kehl To check for global subluxation, do this three times with your eyes closed. Come to a resti