After suffering from allergies for fifteen years, I did not think that I would breathe normally ever again. Now, not only during my adjustments but the entire time until my next one, my breathing is open, full and so refreshing. I can actually smell and taste things in a brand new way more than ever before. It is like getting over a fifteen-year cold and going back to a normal life again.
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Asthma
Paul Atkinson 37 years old August 16, 1999 |
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What were the main health concerns that brought you into this office, and in what manner did they affect your life?
My main problem was asthma and allergies and my first visit in after patient appreciation day, I was very sick. The Asthma condition really puts limits on my life as it was chronic and I felt that nothing as of yet really worked for any true wellness and I might have been doomed to thinking and being addicted to Western Medicines. Because of allergies and a subsequent way to thinking—pollen seasons, and visiting people with pets was hard for me. Breathing was a big issue.
What changes have you noticed since being under Network Wellness Center's care?
From the beginning—I came in very sick. After three visits I was so much better and I was amazed at how well I could breathe! I got better without western medicine and I am amazed and excited at how my health and wellness has shifted. It is nice to have full breath! More than anything that is something new for me. I used to wheeze 70% of the time since I was a small child. Now—Hardly ever.
How has the quality of your life improved?
Very much! Things are clearer, much more open. I really held back a lot because of old problems but it is no longer a problem that holds me back. I was fortunate to go to a transformational gate. That itself is such a wonderful healing process, and man does it improve your conditions!!!! Yesssss it does!
Please write anything else you would like to share?
When I first started care I was very sick. I had a very severe asthma attack and as soon as I got better (Three visits) I had to house sit two cats!!!! I didn't’t get sick or affected by them at all! I was blown away by that! Three visits!!!! |
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The tremendous feelings of freedom from pain—totally—in my lower back is tremendous. A God send, a Network send, a Sophia send. Thank you for these moments from the depth of my being.
Due to the expertise and caring treatment of Network Wellness Center, I have released a tremendous amount of pain from my back. And the amazing thing is—my spine is beginning to adjust itself! |
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I was in a head-on collision eight years ago and had an extremely bad case of whiplash with excruciating neck and back pain. I received conventional chiropractic care and physical therapy for an entire year. However, for years I have experienced head, neck and lower back pain. I began my network in July of ’94 and now in March of ’95 I am experiencing no pain of any kind. I think this is what you call a miracle!!
Merci Magdalena
Singer/Performer
I was afraid to go to a chiropractor because I’ve been told that they can cause more pain or injury than you currently had…After being so uncomfortable from chronic pain in my lower back and shoulder cuff from a much earlier injury (years), Network Wellness Center’s ad gave me the impetus to "just see" what it might be like. Having some "east-coast cynicism" left in me, I was honestly a little skeptical, yet also desperate. I wish I had found Network Wellness Center years ago. I have been seeing her for only four months now, and the chronic pain in my lower back has diminished immensely. I rarely have any aches in my shoulder cuff, which was always cracking and stiff. The tension I usually carry in my neck and shoulders has reduced to the point where I no longer have to pop Ibuprofen during a day… I am now at the point where I can think about starting to exercise again. I look forward to experiencing the higher levels of care from Network Wellness Center, which I am now confident will be not only physically rewarding, but also spiritually and emotionally.
Thank you, Network Wellness Center, for your amazing, healing talent.
Mindi Schuman |
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A friend of mine, who was tired of hearing me complain of how much I hurt, recommended Network Wellness Center. She said that network was effective, and that it was different from regular chiropractic. I figured I had nothing to lose at that point, and it sounded less scary than going to a regular chiropractor. I had already started the process of seeing various doctors to figure out why I hurt all over, all the time. I was taking analgesics by the handful, but they weren’t really helping very much. After seeing the neurologist (who said there was nothing he could help me with), and the rheumatologist (who diagnosed me with fibromyalgia, for which he could do nothing), I just kept seeing Network Wellness Center. Yes, it’s been a slow process. On a week-to-week basis I really notice no changes. However, if I compare where I am now with where I was, the change is huge.
Initially, I hurt all over, all the time, for no apparent good reason. I couldn’t do the simplest things without going "Ow!". It hurt to sit, stand, lie down, walk up or down stairs, get in and out of the car, get up from a chair, walk anywhere, do anything. I kept having back spasms, which were getting worse each time. I felt crippled and tired and angry all the time at hurting so much. In short, life was not good at all. And, of course, getting a diagnosis of fibromyalgia was nothing short of totally depressing. To essentially be told that you can’t be helped and that there’s not much hope is a downer.
Now, two years later I still have pain, don’t get me wrong; I’ll probably always have some back pain. However, in general, my whole body doesn’t hurt. My back hasn’t blown out and I don’t feel crippled any more. It took a good year and a half, but I can get into the car without pain. I can walk up and down stairs without my legs screaming at me. I can walk with good posture, go reasonably far and not have it hurt just to move. If I would actually do weight training exercises and drop some weight I would probably be even better; I haven’t gotten into that mind space yet, but I hope I will soon. Life seems more worth living and less like chucking in the trash can. I NOTICE the fact that I can do things without pain all the time. It’s still sort of a shock each time I do something and suddenly realize, "Wow, that didn’t hurt!" Which probably goes to show how overwhelming chronic pain is, and how it totally affects one’s outlook.
I’m very grateful to Network Wellness Center for improving my quality of life so much. I’m going to continue and see if it can get even better!
Katie Jawetz |
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Dear Network Wellness Center,
Thank you for helping me to rediscover my capacity for self-healing.
Today, after working at level one, I am much more aware of my spine, and this new level of spinal awareness is not one attributable to discomfort or pain. Instead, I am now aware of my spinal cord as a noticeably alive part of my body. My spine responds with a tingling sensation of flowing energy whenever I am adjusted; awareness of emotional highs and lows often happen with each new adjustment.
I am more acutely aware of my entire body as a result of Network Spinal Analysis. My sense of movement is more certain and agile. Tensions, especially in my coccyx, right ankle and Achilles tendon and right scapula have been drastically reduced. I am much more playful as a result.
I am also starting to realize what movements release tension from my body. I am growing better able to conscientiously release tensions from my body and this learning seems to expand exponentially each time some part of my spine responds to an adjustment, or to tension between adjustments, with some kind of spontaneous movement that was inexplicable to me before I attended one of your health-care lectures.
I am now coming to recognize my spine as a thinking organ capable of self-diagnosis and self-adjustment. I am increasingly aware of what might be called a recovered awareness of spinal consciousness. My desire for and commitment to getting rest, exercise and sleep and movement have increased unbelievably as a result of this new awareness. I have always been a sedentary and I have always wondered, at the same time, what it was like for other people who say that they need to move. I never really believed them before, but now I have also discovered a new desire for regular and rigorous activity. I have not gotten into a daily pattern yet and I sometimes neglect the three times a week pattern I have been trying to establish, but the desire is strong and I think that I am headed in that direction.
I had little information about my spine when I first began. In contrast, I now know when there is spinal tension or restricted bodily movement, even in the absence of pain. I can now sense the day to day mental, emotional, chemical, or physical factors involved when my breathing is initially restricted and then opens up so much in response to an adjustment.
This regular experience of noticing less breath before an adjustment and noticing so much more breath following one has make me more aware of breathing as a life process. I can now more often remember to imagine and try deeper breathing, from occiput to coccyx, whenever I feel tension or restriction. I more often find myself stretching in odd positions. In the past, I would not realize that tension could be released in this way and that inattention to this need for movement was causing me to breathe in less air with less ease. My spine, subsequently is being awakened to a memory of its own proper alignment.
Even at level one of treatment, I have watched and felt my spine unwinding and making it’s own adjustments. For example, I asked you yesterday to think about my ankle which was starting to hurt because it has been locked out of alignment for months, since May 1996. Just last night, after seeing you earlier in the afternoon, there was an incredible, almost automatic adjustment of my right ankle.
I am healing and along with this I am beginning to have rather intense ideas about the necessity of changing my career. This has been followed over the past weekend by a radically intense insight into what I am learning about myself from that job situation. I am asking to be open to my own healing and this is happening at an incredible pace. I can now see that I cannot leave that position until I can learn to bring more loving forgiveness into my role in that situation and this, I can assure you, if not what I wanted to see. I can also see myself eventually becoming a chiropractor who is committed to Network Spinal Analysis work, but I now know that I will not be free of my old position, and of what I have helped to create with the people there until I begin to create something new and healing.
Helan
Dear wonderful Sophia,
I love coming to see you because I know I will feel great after the session. I feel relaxed, lighter, warm calm, centered and turned on in every cell in my body. I get such a high from the energy, like having a whole body orgasm. I feel like I could handle anything. I feel balanced.
Thank you for your love and everything that you are, and all that you give.
I love you,
Karina
Today was my fifth adjustment. I am 50. I knew my body well when I was in my 30’s. I loved the beauty my spine gave me. I had no guidance but that from within and life turned me away from that path, through trials and the efforts to survive I faced. Now, 20 years later, Sophia has shown me my way back from my separation. She reached through the crusted locks and tugged the threads I thought were gone forever.
Gone is the pain across my shoulder, lessened is the pain in the bottom of my foot, opened is my shallowed breath, strengthened is my courage that had begun to fail, and silken is the movement in my joints. A few times my spine cracked like popcorn. My intestines are calming down. I smile easier and I’m so mellow I hardly recognize myself. Today I found the view of myself down the inside of my legs to my feet which I have been seeing over the edge of a shelf of my pelvis for who knows how long. The treasures of rediscoveries of self. What will session 10, session 20 bring????? Ahhhh!
Barbara
All of a sudden, the issues I’ve been working on, the really stuck places released. I saw more deeply than ever my connection with existence and understood the "Bigger Picture" of some issues. My next adjustment I felt this energy relaxing throughout my body. My whole being feels as if it’s recalibrating to a higher level. It is so exciting and beautiful to feel my authentic self-emerging.
Thank you Sophia for your clear, loving presence. You are such a beautiful guide and partner on the journey.
Susan Olson
What I notice in Level 2C is more comfort around the tension in my body. After entrainment's I feel at peace even if I am "in the middle" (i.e., releasing "old" stuff). And in between, I know how to release tension with confidence in my body’s ability to heal. I am able to see "old" stuff come up (that I have worked on in other therapies); and I know when I see it at this level it is on its way out. I would "see" this in Level 1; at Level 2C I can "feel" it leaving. It’s great.
Shannon Seek |
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Sophia’s focused attention, love and care are very nurturing. That in itself is having a healing effect on my whole body. Specifically, the tension in my neck and shoulders is relieved and loosened up. This work is also helping me go deeper in my spiritual movement.
I have throughout my life had these "pinched nerves" as I call them. I don’t think they really are that, but it is something that when I am stressed my neck just locks up (actually in between my neck and shoulder).
Lately, they’ve happened when I get really open—to love, to intimacy, and then I get scared.... And boom… NECK LOCK UP.
It is incredibly painful and I can barely move and hardly anything has ever helped. I just had to wait it out (3-6 days) and slowly it would loosen up. But now I am in Level 2, my body knows how to heal itself so when this happened I came and got adjusted and after only 1 day it was practically gone.
I now feel like I can keep going, keep opening up and loving and being open to intimacy and have my fear and my body can let it happen!
God Bless You Sophia.
One day I had a bad neck and Network Wellness Center helped it get better.
The End.
Allie Granat age 7
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The tremendous feelings of freedom from pain—totally—in my lower back is tremendous. A God send, a Network send, a Sophia send. Thank you for these moments from the depth of my being.
Dear Sophia,
I admire you so much, you are my favorite roll model because you are the only one who can put up with me. It wasn’t an easy job, but you did it.
Your friend,
Dustin Silva, age 8
Sophia,
Thank you so much for the hands on healing and for the special energy that exudes from your office. I love being a part of it!
Gina
I have gone to chiropractors for 12 years and in the 3 months Sophia has put the curves in my neck that had not been there—this is remarkable.
Sophia, thank you for your stalwart support. It is a fortress in the chaos. Bless you.
Kimberly
Why I chose Network Wellness Center as my chiropractor:
Sophia radiates love and enthusiasm for her healing practice. I experience Sophia as sincere, clear, authentic, living with integrity, going for it 100% and making things happen. Her care for her patients and her patient education is excellent. Sophia is present, perceptive and follows through. Attention is paid to every detail—friendly caring staff, a pleasant feeling and professional office space, thank you and birthday cards, Donald Epstein’s tapes on Network Chiropractic and other educational material to check out, receiving copies of the report of findings to validate the patient’s progress to mention a few. Sophia has a high intention and is taking every opportunity to point out the healing changes that are occurring. She is very encouraging and empowering.
Thank you, Sophia.
Odilia McFarland
Ahh, after a five-day vacation in L.A. I am sooooo glad to be home—and home is where my chiropractor is.
I love you Sophia.
Love, Jeane
Thank you! Your love and care have been such a gift. My back and body and spirit are the best I’ve ever known. I love you. I am going up near Redding to open a spiritual retreat and school. I wish you all the best. Peace and Love.
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