Organization is the Key to Health

Osteopathy helps the patient find their inherent health. The way Osteopaths approach this is to help the patient's own body manifest their original map of Health, the map the patient first followed in their unfolding, as an embryo, before the end of the first nine weeks of life.  

When a patient has lost their ability to naturally manifest their own Health through the Organization laid down in embryology, conventional, and frequently successful medical treatments fail because the body lacks the Resources to know how to utilize and optimize these Resources. The gentle “hand holds” they employ remind the body of its initial Organization, formed in perfection. The manifestation of this Organization is referred to as the Health. Health is the opposite of the diseased state. The ability to access and manifest the original map of Health is a Resource the body can use to access and better maintain Health.

This technological “leading-edge” video records individual cells in a mouse embryo – a mammal – like our own unfolding, from a ball of stem cells to early structures. Each luminescent dot in the video is an individual cell.

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Watching the video one can observe:

The ball of stem cells.

The amniotic sack appearing below the ball of stem cells.

Midline

The first axis of Organization – seen in the video as a bright line of luminescent cells - that transforms us from a blob of stem cells is the central midline. 

This is the first of many axes that will guide the embryo in its unfolding. 

Therefore: This is the first axis I “listens for,” with my hands, at the initial office visit.

You can see this midline in the video: A loose luminescent line of cells appears, brighter than the cells surrounding them. The brightest cells, at far right-end of this, are the earliest stages of the brain. 

For people with chronic diseases, and especially trauma, this first axis is often missing, having been “blown out” and its restoration is an important first step in redirecting the individual away from the diseased state towards Health. The presence of midline is essential to subsequently re-establish of other axes that unfolded "downstream” from the midline axis.

Osteopathy as practiced by Dr. Cohen:

Restores Organization first laid down in the Health of the developing embryo. This Organization is carried throughout life. When lost, Osteopathy, when practiced this way, can help to restore the Health.

Once restored patients often find other resources, such as supplements, drugs, PT and other therapies begin to work better or to become more effective.  

A common question posed is:

Will osteopathic treatments hold?

The map of Health developed along axes of Organization occurs upstream - in the “sacred geometry” by which the body first forms. By first addressing the underlying Organization that maps our unfolding, Dr. Cohen provides a “scaffold-of-support” for subsequent treatments to hold and maintain. Dr. Cohen starts by first treating the map that guides the formation of three-dimensional structures (think bones and organs as just two examples). Once the map is intact, if the patient returns for a follow-up visit and has held this map, if necessary, Dr. Cohen will treat other axis of formation or anatomical structures formed from the map.  Many times, it is unnecessary to treat specific anatomy if the axes of formation are intact, as the body will self-heal and correct having retrieved the wisdom of its own formation in perfection in the embryological state.

This methodology contrasts with so many other medical models that start with treatment of the anatomy with little if any consideration as to whether the map by which such structure formed is still functional and intact.  In this way, many medical treatments yield mediocre results or fail entirely.  

Dr. Cohen often explains to patients that even if the problem cannot be completely resolved by osteopathy alone, and one needs a more invasive procedure such as an injection, or surgery the patient is increasing their chance for a successful outcome. Why?

Osteopathy when practiced this way, provides the patient with access to their own Organization of Formation which becomes a Resource for the patient so they can subsequently hold the benefits of treatment better or better deal with how to utilize a medical resource like surgical intervention.  

With access to the Resource of the original Organization, the patient facing injury or insult to their body, can more easily self-correct and self-heal.

The patient’s body want to naturally progress towards Health and will do so if given the correct Resources

This represents a second important principle of Osteopathy: The body wants to naturally go towards a state of Health and will self-correct and self-heal when given the Resources to do so.

In summary

The miracle of our unfolding occurs along Axes of Organization that become the map – a blueprint - of our Health.  Disease occurs when the body loses access to this critical map of Health.

Structure and Function are interrelated: Optimal functioning of the body occurs in the patient, when this map is currently and actively expressed along the embryological axes of Organization by which we first unfolded in perfection in the womb.

Energetic axes, when functioning, allow the body to Organize itself better.

An individual axis can be recovered and restored through gentle hand holds as done by Dr. Cohen in an osteopathic treatment. 

The body will go to Health if given the Resources to do so.

Organization is a critical Resource, helping the body to function better and for other treatments including drugs, surgeries, injections, supplements, and other medical interventions including other manual therapies to work better.

Treatments are likely to hold better and build upon each other when the body has access to its map of Health – the Organization discussed above.  This Organization becomes a Resource by which Health is expressed and maintained in the patient.