First Class: There’s A Reason for Everything
TECHNIQUE
Tedd Koren
DC
Beth and I are sitting at the terminal gate in Atlanta’s airport waiting to board our flight home to Philadelphia after teaching a Koren Specific Technique (KST) seminar. We’ve been there for more than five hours because of bad storm delays. I hear my name called and think, “What now?” We’re in luck, though—first class upgrades. Yay! With all the traveling we do, it’s nice to get a little perk.
So now we’re waiting with the other first class passengers to be the first to board while watching the peasants consigned to coach stare at us with envy. Wait, we’re not the first to board. Ahead of us is a man being pushed in a wheelchair.
He looks terrible. His hair is brown and he isn’t that old, but he looks elderly. His skin is sickly pale with blotches, he’s thin, and his right hand is shaking uncontrollably. We try not to stare as he’s wheeled past us to the jetway.
“What do you pick up?” Beth asks. I know what she’s referring to—nonlocal or remote analysis/diagnosis. At our KST seminars, we discuss this phenomenon, but we don’t advertise it (not yet). Remote or nonlocal analysis/diagnosis has been practiced since ancient times. We all have this ability to affect others at a distance. The great Persian physician Avicenna wrote of it a thousand years ago:
The imagination of man can act not only on his own body
but even others and very distant bodies. It can fascinate
and modify them; make them ill, or restore them to health.
Avicenna (980-1037 AD)
Are you too intellectual for this? Does it defy logic or our present scientific understanding? Bernie Segal, MD and author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, addressed recovering intellectuals when he said, “If you think your path in life must be logical, then you are path-o-logical.”
How exactly does this work? Is this the mechanism of prayer? Or cursing? Is it due to our collective unconscious, which Carl Jung, MD, hypothesized? It is hypothesized that string theory or quantum mechanics can explain this connection. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, it has worked clinically, and the important thing is that it does work. There have been many studies regarding this phenomenon, as Elisabeth Targ, MD, writes:
Over the last forty years, more than 150 formal, controlled studies of distant healing have been published—more than 2/3 showing significant effects. TargE. Distant healing. Institute of Noetic Sciences Review. August-Nov ember 1999;49.
But how do we employ this in clinical practice?
Binary biofeedback mechanisms
There are excellent ways of obtaining information from the patient. D. D. Palmer’s insight was ahead of his time:
When educated and innate intelligence are able to converse with each other ... we shall be able to make a correct diagnosis.
Palmer DD. The Moral and Religious Duty of a Chiropractor 1914.
How does one converse educated with innate? Through
the use of binary biofeedback devices, which include muscle testing, the short-leg reflex, still point (craniosacral therapy), and the occipital drop (OD). There are no doubt scores of other such mechanisms that come ‘‘factory installed” within us that may be used locally (in person) or nonlocally (at a distance).
While most people are familiar with manual muscle testing (MMT) as used in applied kinesiology (AK), and the short-leg reflex as used in various chiropractic techniques, the OD is not as well known. It was discovered by Lowell Ward, DC, of Long Beach, California and used as a binary (yes-no) device in his technique Spinal Column Stressology to get information from the patient’s body.
What exactly is the OD?
The OD is a phenomenon wherein the occipital bone in the back of the skull appears to drop on one side when the body is stressed or challenged. The OD is a very useful testing device because it can be done dozens of times a minute with no muscle fatigue; the patient can be analyzed/checked in any posture; and it can be done on oneself. You can use your OD to get yes-no information about yourself or others, even if they are far away. I discovered KST by using the OD to locate and correct my chronic subluxations that had been uncorrected after years of suffering despite more than 10 years of adjustments with limited or no results.
Initially, I confined using the OD to physical challenges and gradually expanded its use to mental challenges. Using such methods for remote analysis and correction was initially laughable to me, though, until my students reported using it after learning KST. Doctors related numerous stories of remote work on family members, friends, and patients who were inaccessible and unable to be helped in person.
At first, I ignored these stories because they were too “airy-fairy” for me, but then I began to investigate it myself. I received a call from a friend in Florida desperate for help. I tried remote work and it worked! What could I say? Reality trumps bias.
Gate D21
So here we are at gate D21, waiting to board. I’m looking at this poor man in his wheelchair. I start using my OD to ask questions.
I learned that his brain had toxins from exposure to chemicals at work and dental infections, specifically infected root canals. He had a head trauma that disturbed cranial bone movement, and both his atlas (Cl) and C7 were subluxated. A perfect storm.
By the way, a head trauma can affect the blood-brain barrier; chemicals that are supposed to be in the brain leak
out while chemicals that shouldn’t enter the brain do so. Add to that subluxations and toxins, and you’ve got, in this case, a very sick man.
I felt pangs of pity and frustration as they wheeled him past Beth and me—frustration because I knew I could help him but was unable.
I could have worked on him remotely, but it wouldn’t have been enough. People are often like artichokes—they have layers and need follow-np for a complete healing. I’ve tried in the past, but it’s rare to connect. We don’t live in a world where a complete stranger can sit down with a person unannounced and discuss his or her intimate health details.
There was nothing more I wanted to do than help him; it’s difficult to just be an observer when you have so much to offer.
After relaxing into my nice first-class seat, I began writing this story so that you might be intrigued enough to explore these insights and practices.
TeddKoren is the developer of the Koren Specific Technique. Dr Koren can be contacted at [email protected] and vou can see his products and blogs atwww.korenwellness.com
