To get well and stay well you must treat the cause of a symptom or dysfunction. Just treating symptoms can be useful in the short run, but never gets you truly well. Once the cause for a health problem is eliminated, the myriad of symptoms associated with the underlying health problem will tend to resolve spontaneously.

Your body is an incredibly complex and completely integrated system. The Triad of Health is a model that acknowledges the interplay and interconnectedness of your structural, biochemical, and mental/spiritual aspects.

“You have to get to the cause to solve a health problem. Using the Triad of Health helps us to understand that the cause isn’t necessarily in the same place as your symptoms.” Dr. Griffin

We’ve all been trained to believe that the answer for most health problems is as simple as a specific pill, potion, or procedure and that we should be “fixed” pretty much right then and there, or at least within a few days. Your body can heal itself on that kind of schedule, but not always.

Very severe or very chronic health problems take time to develop as well as for your body to heal. Healing is a process, not an event. Drugs and other medicines can relieve symptoms rapidly, but actual healing may not coincide with the change in symptoms. As a result, the underlying process causing your symptoms may still be present.

It is imperative that we look for the underlying causes to find real solutions. Address the cause, restore function, nourish exhausted tissues and give yourself time to heal.

There is a vital force, an innate intelligence, inherent to all living things. Your innate intelligence works to heal and regulate your body. In other words, it is your natural state to be self-healing, self-regulating, well and vital, and to fully express your inherent strengths and gifts.

Science calls the expression of this principle homeostasis.