Adjusted Reality
Supercharge Your Whole-Being for Optimal Living and Longevity
Asserting that the body’s various systems are interconnected, the supportive wellness guide Adjusted Reality suggests holistic means of attaining lasting health.
Sherry McAllister’s holistic health guide Adjusted Reality leans on chiropractic insights to suggest means of enjoying whole-body health at any age.
Presented as an alternative to pharmaceutical intervention, this book suggests that many ailments can be alleviated by simple chiropractic or lifestyle adjustments. Its focus is on prevention rather than treatment, with recommendations for moving more, eating more fresh produce, and limiting one’s caffeine intake appearing throughout. It treats the body as a system, asserting that small interruptions that might seem innocuous, as with changes to one’s sleep patterns, can lead to short- and long-term problems. Indeed, it draws connections between sleep, nutrition, mobility, and balance—a compendium of interconnected systems whose issues are compounded when they exist in parallel with one another.
While its advice is straightforward, the book’s encouragements to improve one’s health are gentle in tone. Without specific judgment, it suggests that most people lead unsustainable lifestyles, but that with the right small, subtle modifications, they can achieve lasting health and contentment nonetheless. These small changes are also presented as incremental, best accomplished with time, patience, and ongoing investment in one’s self. Still, there’s a repetitive quality to this advice, and caring for the whole body is a point that is emphasized at length. Elsewhere, common criticisms about chiropractic practices are also addressed, resulting in discursiveness.
Further, many of the book’s ideas are common within the holistic health field; their credibility in this medium leans into a wealth of external references. Here, familiar advice is partially refreshed by the book’s unique framework: It employs an extended metaphor of two brothers on a hiking trip, during which they get lost due to several compounding factors and are plagued by other misfortunes. It’s an example with some poignancy.
Nonetheless, the book’s insights reflect slight bias, making lifestyle changes seem easier and more straightforward than they often are. Indeed, the text tends to view lifestyle changes from the stance of an able-bodied, healthy, young individual, pushing inquiries about disabled individuals, people who experience chronic illness, and the elderly outside its sphere of influence. Still, its insight on maintaining health and on course correcting in slight ways to cope with manageable levels of mental stress or physical duress are compelling.
The encouraging wellness guide Adjusted Reality shares holistic tips for maintaining a balanced lifestyle in the name of prolonged contentment.
Reviewed by
Caitlin Cacciatore
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