Why a Chiropractor Works with Limiting Beliefs and Subconscious Reprogramming

By Dr. Kent Drever, Clarity with Dr. Kent Drever

95% of our minds are subconscious. The 5% that we think we are has been likened to a rider on an elephant (credit, Jonathan Haidt in The Righteous Mind). We may think we’re in control but in reality it’s the elephant, our subconscious, that’s really guiding our decisions, spurring our thoughts, and ultimately constructing our lives.

So what does this have to do with chiropractic?

Well, everything. Chiropractic isn’t about back pain. It’s about healing trapped stress and trauma so that you can be healthy and happy. So whether you’re experiencing back pain, anxiety, or you can’t seem to move forward in your career, neuro-emotional chiropractic is a technology that gets to the root of cause - stress.

Put differently, it’s retraining your elephant to take you somewhere you actually want to go. Because right now, for most of us, our elephant is running circles in all sorts of old limiting beliefs and trauma patterns.

Of course YOU want to move forward in your health, your relationships, your career…but doesn’t it sometimes feel like you’re stuck? You just can’t break a cycle in your body, mind, or life? Trust me, it’s not because you’re not trying hard enough— it’s because your subconscious is playing out the same old story again and again. Until you reprogram that old pattern with remote kinesiology or some other technology that addresses the subconscious, your life will be on repeat.

The Subconscious: Where Trauma Hides

Trauma is held in the body, which is the subconscious. Limiting beliefs live there, quiet but heavy, steering your life. 

“Things never go my way”

“It’s impossible to change”

“There’s never enough time”

“Reality is a linear process”

“My pain will never go away”

You’d think we’d automatically stop believing and doing things that we don’t consciously want. But as a chiropractor, I’ve learned something wild: there are parts in all of us that WANT to stay small and sick. Our current situation may be miserable, but at least it’s familiar. And we are addicted to the familiar, because it’s literally written into our body.

Trying to change these patterns with your thoughts means trying to use the 5% of you that’s conscious to change the 95% that’s subconscious. It’s like the rider of the elephant trying to muscle the elephant a different direction. It’s like fiddling with your radio to fix your car’s transmission. It doesn’t work.

To reclaim the bound energy of the patterns, release the emotion, and heal the trauma, we need something that gets deeper. In my work, that’s remote kinesiology. Muscle testing allows us to identify and release the exact trauma and stress patterns that are underneath your limiting beliefs.

Limiting Beliefs: The Real Blocks

Think of trauma as a tangle of cords, anchoring your energy from the present to all of these old emotions of your past. Those cords are tied to beliefs you didn’t choose. As a chiropractor, I’m not here to crack your back and call it a day — I want to help you be free. That ache you can’t shake, that fear you can’t name? They’re not just physical. They’re calling you to go deeper and release the old stress beneath them.

Healing isn’t about fighting those symptoms; it’s about rewriting the script. You’re not broken—you’re just carrying someone else’s lines. A chiropractor’s job is to clean the slate and hand you the pen so you can author something new.

Reprogramming: Healing from the Inside Out

So how does a chiropractor reprogram the subconscious? It’s not talk therapy — kinesiology works with the energy beneath the thoughts. In a remote session, we zero in on a belief—say, “I’ll never move past this.” Then, guided by your subconscious through the muscle testing, we will arrive at the original events that created this belief in your system. Usually some event that occurred before the age of eight. Then we turn toward it, contact specific points on the body, breathe, and allow the intelligence of your body to integrate that energy in the present that you couldn’t process at the time. Inevitably, a moment of clarity comes forth. That child part of you goes from “I can’t” to an epiphany… “What if I could?”

That clarity is everything. It opens the door to freedom. Now instead of being trapped in the belief you see it for what it is - just an opinion. Healing happens when you stop running from it but acknowledge it and choose something greater. Remote kinesiology allows us to do this process from anywhere. One shift at a time, those cords loosen, and your subconscious starts humming a new tune. 

We all have many limiting beliefs. Trying to reprogram them all at once doesn’t help. Instead, I ask my clients to choose one core belief that they are absolutely ready to shift. Then we focus on it for a series of three sessions over three weeks. We return a few weeks later and continue the process with another belief. Pattern by pattern, they’re rewriting their subconscious to realize their potential in health, relationships, work, and their life purpose. Imagine what your life would be like if you really shifted six core beliefs over the next year. With Clarity, it’s possible.

Your Healing: What’s Holding You Back?

You’re here because you know there’s something holding you back. And it’s deeper than your thoughts. You don’t need a chiropractor to tell you that you’re ready to be free. Limiting beliefs and subconscious gunk—they’re not who you are; they’re just knots we can untie. Remote kinesiology is how I can help you untie these knots, reclaim your energy, and heal.

If trauma’s weighing you down, then please reach out for a discovery call. I believe in a world where we can each be at ease, fully expressing ourselves without the baggage of bound stress.

Booking here.

Here’s to a world that’s a little bit lighter, brighter, and more free.

In service,

Dr. Kent Drever