THE OCCIPITAL DROP

A Technique For The Analysis of The Chiropractic Vertebral Subluxation and the State of Subluxation of An Organism

 

The Occipital Drop is a method of gathering information about an organism by interacting with its organizing field of innate intelligence.  A living thing is more than its body.  Dead bodies have the same parts and chemistry as live ones but no constructive, adaptive activity.  It is the innate intelligence of a body that causes it to adapt to the stressors of its environment.  When we are unable to adapt to certain physical, mental/emotional, and chemical events, the energy and information of that stress is stored in the tissues of the body.  This can cause damage to accumulate.  The purpose of a chiropractic adjustment is to offer the body a second chance to process the stress constructively.  The occipital drop technique affords a powerful insight into where the stress has caused subluxation (nerve interference, damage) and how to facilitate the body’s ability to adjust itself.

 

It has been demonstrated for many decades that certain reflexive behaviors can be used as reliable indicators of normal and aberrant functions.  For example, one may probe injured tissue on a prone individual and observe a subtle, transient shortening of a leg.  The same stimulus would also cause a subtle lowering of the occipital bone on the left side, indicating a positive finding of unsound tissue.  The occipital drop is a reflexive action.

 

The bioelectric/bioenergetic fields of the subject and the examiner communicate by using this simple binary procedure.  With the subject seated, standing or prone, the examiner maneuvers their hands so as to slide the thumbs, pointing towards each other, down to the occipital shelf while posing a yes or no question.  Should the thumbs remain level, “no” is indicated.  When the left thumb drops lower, this indicates “yes.” As the occiput is dropping on the left side, the bioelectric field is also perturbed, subsequently changing the examiner’s field in such a way as to cause the left thumb to drop as well.  No physical movement of the skull is necessary to get a yes or no response.

 

 

There are several methods of eliciting and reading the response.  To test a body part it may be touched or pushed in a particular direction to identify the direction of misalignment.  Or, the name of the body part may be vocalized, held in thought, or visualized.  With practice, any of these methods of inquiry may be available to practitioners.  The subject may be questioned or challenged through their field or their form (body).

 

Reading the “yes” or “no” response can be as simple as the hands-on-head sweeping motion allowing the thumbs to come to the rest on the occipital shelf.  Because of the nature of non-local field-to-field communication, the examiner may sense response by using their own head as a surrogate or by allowing the left thumb to register a response regardless of the position to the subject or the examiner.  Naturally, these more advanced methods prove useful in improving relative speed of inquiry, and accessibility to infants and wriggly children!

 

This technique may seem bizarre and improbable, however it has withstood the test of time.  Reliable information is gathered easily, noninvasively and inexpensively.  This elevates the certainty and confidence of the practitioner and ensures high quality effective care.

 

Still skeptical?  Consider this.  Can you look at a guitar and see if it’s in tune?  Would x-ray or MRI be able to tell?  You may see the form, but the function is expressed as vibration, which is driven by the field.

 

And… “The field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” - Albert Einstein.