Are You Living In The Matrix?

In the movie, The Matrix, humans are living in a computer-generated reality. Every sensation they experience is generated by computers and uploaded into their nervous system via wires connected to their spinal cords. There is actually a popular conspiracy theory that this has actually happened and we are all living in a digitally created reality. While I don’t subscribe to this belief, we are all living in The Matrix. It’s simply generated by our brains, not computers.

Your brain is responsible for creating the reality that you perceive every second of your life. It is taking input from the nerves in your fingers, toes, eyes, and ears and creating images, sounds, and sensations. When you touch a fuzzy blanket, it isn’t your fingers that decide the blanket feels fuzzy. Your brain decides that.

The communication between your body and your brain is what creates your reality. What happens if that communication is faulty? Suddenly, instead of feeling that fuzzy blanket, you feel a rough surface or even nothing at all. What causes that faulty communication? In many cases it is a condition called subluxation.

Dr. Heidi Haavik, DC and her research team are showing through extensive research that subluxation is not caused by a bone being “out”. Guess what? Your bones aren’t going anywhere. As a side note, PLEASE stop telling me your “blank” is “out”. I will be responding with, “Where’d it go?” You’ve been warned. What does happen is that the bony parts of joints can stop moving normally. This creates a change in the communication from the nerves in that joint to the brain. A “glitch in The Matrix”. Suddenly, your brain is being given incorrect information to interpret.

This incorrect information from the nerves can be many different things. It can be inappropriate pain signals telling your brain something is painful when nothing’s wrong. This is why pain is never a good indicator of where or what a problem is. It can be telling your brain that you’re still hungry after you’ve eaten a large meal. It’s often simply incorrect information about how you are moving through space.

For example, my leg could be lying slightly bent in front of me in my recliner. But due to, let’s say, an old injury, the nerves in my knee are telling my brain that my knee is as straight as it can go. Those nerves are telling my brain that if I straighten my knee any more, it’ll be harmful and hurt. When I go to actually straighten my leg, I feel a sharp pain! My brain thinks I’ve just hyperextended my knee and has created a sensation of pain to stop me from moving it any more in that direction.

There are thousands of examples I can give you of how this incorrect information affects you and your overall health. I first got to hear Dr. Haavik this past February at a chiropractic conference. I even got to meet her and she signed a copy of her book, The Reality Check for me!