Chart No. 2: Structural Balance

The anterior center of the human body is the umbilicus, around which sensory function and digestion revolve, through its plexuses and finer vital energy stored around this center.

The posterior center of the body is on the level with a line straight through, posteriorly, from the umbilicus to between the 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebrae [L2, L3]. This is the exact center of weight in the human body. It is in the motor area where weight and proportion are very important for exact mechanical relationship and motion.

So it would be well to look to these findings in tracing illness as a sensory disturbance, and limitation of motion and injuries as a motor lesion of imbalance. Using the center of the umbilicus as one contact with the right hand, and the vital area of function in trouble in sickness with the left hand, would be the way to balance the center with the circumference of effects. Tracing cause and effect is a logical procedure in any therapy.

In structural corrections, the 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebrae [L2, L3] should be balanced in the same manner, by double or POLARITY pressure contacts with the sorest spinal area.

After this release or balancing of the center with the circumference, then the superior and inferior poles should receive attention. The atlas [C1] and the 5th lumbar [L5] are the two ends of the same central axis of the spine, as the first and the last moveable vertebrae. One serves as a diagnostic interpretation for the other end pole.

Impulse is from above, downward. When it is blocked in its expression, there is an accumulation of energy in that center which registers as soreness and tension. The muscles involved show the same condition. This can be traced and proven: Examine the opposite pole - in this case the 5th lumbar [L5] - and the same condition will be present, with soreness, congestion and limitation of motion, because of a mechanical accomodation [accommodation] to this block through muscle tone impulses in excessive proportion. A slip or rotation has taken place which must be released first. Then it can be easily corrected.

The same holds true for all the cervical relationships illustrated here; also for the dorsals [thoracics] as intermediate reactions. However, the two end poles given here are the major factors in this line-up, as cause and effect, for correction. The others will relax and benefit by it. THE MIDDLE OF A CIRCUIT IS CONDITIONED BY ITS END FLOW, IN AND OUT, AT BOTH POLES.