Reflecting back on my first decade of patient education, it is easy to see how far off I was using the education tools that were and still are currently available. It was so easy to start explaining the spine with analogies to electrical circuitry breakers. The paradigm that tries to be illustrated by the Merrick chart now appears to me as being far from what actually needs to be conveyed to patients today.
I don’t recall ever seeing the ultimate representation of what patients need to understand in order to let go of the agonizing allopathic principle: the sensory and motor homunculi.
The homunculus is the perfect illustration of where symptoms are actually taking place in the brain. The image is easy for patients to relate to and its cartoon appearance is striking enough to catch their attention. From that point on, it is easy to transition from a peripheral concern for symptoms to an understanding of the cerebral events they might represent.
Try to imagine how your fullfilling your practice would be if people were readily understanding the neural nature of their health. What if people shifted and understood that nothing is possible without brain.
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