Our Healing Mission

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission." —Arnold H. Glasow

A message from Dr. David Meredith, D.Ac., founder of Very Well:

A beloved client said to me – in the midst of the Very Well expansion, when I was sleepless and no doubt wild-eyed from the never-ending preparations and challenges it required – “I’m getting the feeling that you want to heal the world.

OK, maybe I had dropped a few hints.

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk about the overarching mission of Very Well, the vision that has held everything together, motivated me through the challenging days of expansion, and is the guiding star for where we are going.

Healing the world. What does that even mean? It’s such an incalculably large abstraction that, upon hearing it, you’re more likely to blip over than take seriously.

Or maybe, depending on what you think needs healing, you imagine it would require endless demonstrating in the streets, living in a yurt on a prairie, donating all your resources to charities, or other intolerable contributions.

Here’s what I think it means, and I promise that, while it might sound extravagant, my vision is really quite down to earth.

It’s a vision that starts with you.

Seriously.

You affect the people around you – friends, family, and strangers alike – in ways you don’t imagine. We all do. Traditional wisdom extols the power of community, of its effect on us and our effect on the greater whole.

On a very basic level, the better we feel – the healthier, the more empowered, the more in a state of flow, the more in alignment with our goals and values – the more it benefits the people we come into contact with. From your presence and example, they may feel more inspired, at ease, kind, generous, expansive… and that in turn benefits the people that they come into contact with.

The reverse is also true. The more generally upset the people around us are, the more we are affected negatively.

Again, this may sound simplistic, even fanciful, but it’s very true on multiple levels.

The problem is that we do not live in a society that is set up for healing. We do great with rescuing people in emergency situations, but not so great at preventing those emergencies. Medical appointments for less serious symptoms focus on reducing them as quickly as possible and throwing the patient back into the very situation that created them in the first place, having learned nothing about how their body actually gets and stays well.

So how can Very Well heal the world? It starts with healing the people who walk in the door and empowering them to take care of their body and mind in the long term. Reducing pain. Reducing stress. Calming and uplifting the mind. Energizing the body. Inspiring the heart. To these ends, we give them simple but powerful options for taking healing to the next level, over time: acupuncture, red light therapy, PEMF therapy, salt room therapy, infrared therapy, vibroacoustic therapy, and of course the benefits of the traditional wisdom that holistic health is based on.

But we go further than that.

Feeling better is one thing, but the slogan of Very Well has always been get better. How can you get better on every level? Connect with a higher vision for yourself? Live with joy and purpose?

In “marketing speak,” I’ve been calling this state of being optimal living, the ultimate form of wellness. This is what I’m talking about:

Feeling so good that you influence the people around you in countless positive ways.

Accomplishing the things that are important to you.

Being strong and inspirational for your family, friends, coworkers, team, and community.

Very Well can make the world better by helping you to make your life better. And our therapies can help insulate you from the stresses of our very complicated world, leaving you lighter and more motivated to heal.

The same client I opened this email with, who is a very empathetic soul, also once said to me that it was hard to be joyful given the traumas and disasters of our time.

It’s true, it is. But it’s also necessary.

The world needs joy. Healing on that scale comes from joy, shared from one person to another. The world will be healed by those who are joyfully living their fullest lives.

As the saying goes, we are the people we’ve been waiting for.