Good Neighbor Podcast: Orange County

From Beliefs To Body: Energetic Chiropractic Explained

• Rachel Fyffe & Dr. Stephen Florez

Share episode

Your spine isn’t the whole story. We sit down with Dr. Stephen Florez of Energetic Chiropractic to explore how gentle adjustments and belief-level work can shift pain patterns, calm the nervous system, and create results that actually last. Instead of relying on force, Dr. Steve walks us through a light-touch approach that reads the body’s compensations, honors its natural intelligence, and uses intention and intuition to help alignment hold.

We trace his path from a biology degree to meditation, Eastern philosophy, and esoteric studies, and how that mix shaped a practice that treats structure and signal together. He explains why many common chiropractic myths persist, what “energetics” really means in plain language, and how methods inspired by Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT) and matrix-style energetics can harmonize the body with less strain. If you’ve ever felt great after a loud crack only to slip back a few days later, this conversation offers a different route: update the pattern, not just the position.

We also talk practicalities—how to evaluate subtle cues, when a classic neck or thoracic adjustment still helps, and why intention is a clinical variable, not just a mindset. Marketing this kind of care is challenging, so Dr. Steve shares how word of mouth, brief demonstrations, and clear explanations help skeptical patients feel the difference. Along the way, you’ll hear about his love of driving winding roads, the flow state that fuels his work, and his one core takeaway: light touch, deep impact.

If you’re curious about gentle chiropractic, nervous system regulation, and belief-driven healing, this is a grounded, accessible guide to get started. 

Visit: https://drstephendc.com/  

Listen, share with a friend who’s stuck in a pain loop, and tell us what myth you want us to tackle next. If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and leave a quick review so more neighbors can find it.

SPEAKER_01:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Rachel Five.

SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Now, are you looking for a new approach to chiropractic care utilizing energy matrix healing? Well, this resource is closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, Dr. Steven Flores, with energetic chiropractic. Dr. Steve, how's it going?

SPEAKER_00:

I am good. It's a nice day. It's warm, it's sunny. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I'm doing fine. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_02:

I'm great. I'm great. Well, I gotta tell you, Dr. Steve, we are really uh really interested in learning about your chiropractic practice. So tell us all about energetic chiropractic.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, it is chiropractic, but it's from an energetic perspective. It also deals in belief systems. So I like to say I deal with the structure and energetics of your body. I guide people into deep healing by helping them reconnect to the natural intelligence within their body, mind, and soul. I work with your structure to align your and balance the body and then move on to the energetics of your body, those beliefs patterns which energetically are causing the compensations leading to illness, pain, and suffering. So I'm hitting you from the structural angle of it, coming in from the energetic side, trying to get at your beliefs, because I have more of a philosophy where we start with a belief in our life. You know, we gather it from childhood, we gather it from situations we have, and we make those beliefs our own. And it's that belief that we precipitate and project out as an emotion, as a thought, and therefore an action, we create more of the reality we live in. So if you can do the physical for the immediate and then get the belief systems, you're coming at it from two sides of the uh game and getting a better result, a whole result.

SPEAKER_02:

Wonderful. How did you get into this kind of business?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, it's a long path. I mean, I went to college and I wasn't thrilled with the curriculum. So I stumbled along, got my biodegree anyway, and went out and started looking for meaning. I didn't know at the time, I wanted to know the meaning of like what's the meaning of life. But you know, my degree gave me the mechanics of things. So it's a long process of going through self-help books, looking within, meditating, reading Eastern philosophies and esotericism, and you know, reading some of the quantum mechanics to gradually put together a view of the world that fits and answers the questions you're looking for. Along the way, I was introduced to chiropractic, and I found some of their philosophy I could use and mold and meld into what I'd come to learn and know from all the things I'd studied. And I could use it. I'd always been able to feel energy. So I went off in that energetic path mode, trying to get the essence of chiropractic being a natural healthcare system and trying to get some of the esoteric language that came through all the things I had read and meld them together into something I can use to treat the person.

SPEAKER_02:

Wonderful. Now, what do you think are maybe some myths uh or misconceptions in your industry?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, misconceptions primarily are about chiropractic. Um, that it's primarily physical. It only works for the physical, which is that level of cracking the body to achieve results. Because you adjust somebody, you get a crack, usually you get a nice little relief. And how long does that last? Um, but there's a deeper, subtle energetic level that can be addressed beyond the purely physical, and this will add greatly to the overall health of your body. Um, there's a level of intent in your healing when you're adjusting somebody, when you're using the intuition you get from just looking at a person, seeing what doesn't look right or what catches your attention. You gotta take that look at it, see where it leads you, and see if that is part of the issue, or there's some underlying cause beneath that that you have to address. So it's not just purely a physical thing. There's some intuition, there's some energy, there is a physical aspect to it, but uh, I think in many instances you don't have to be as harsh, shall we say, as a lot of the adjustments are these days.

SPEAKER_02:

Got it. Now we know marketing is really the heart of every business. So how are you finding your patience?

SPEAKER_00:

I can be tough. You can get out there and explain some of the stuff, and in a sense, you have to be kind of mystical about it as to what you're doing because you can't exactly tell somebody this is what I do because I'll look at you sideways. It's more or less word of mouth, more or less maybe inviting somebody in that has questions, giving them a sample, showing them what can be done in a different mode. You know, there is some marketing as far as uh, you know, social groups, Facebook, Instagram, and such. But you can you yourself, if you read something like that, you'd sit there and look at it. You need to experience it more. So it's more along those lines.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Now, have you ever thought about doing your own podcast?

SPEAKER_00:

I've had that mentioned to me. Um, I've molded over a bit. Just you know, the only issue I have right now is like I'm doing all these other things, like that's just one more thing to do. So, how much stuff can I handle?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now, um, outside of work, what do you like to do for fun?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I'm a wannabe Formula One driver. So, you know, give me the keys to a nice car where I can go down the highway and have fun driving it through the hills and uh curves and just enjoying myself. I get a oneness with the machine at a point in time, and you just fluidly blend and just enjoy yourself. Uh, I had one person sitting across from me in the car one time and say, the wrinkles on your face just meld away when you're out driving. So I enjoy driving, but I still enjoy also reading a lot of the books I used to read, or books that have information I think is pertinent to let's say my life path of trying to find answers and the life path of trying to take some of that answers and information and use them to help treat individuals.

SPEAKER_02:

Wonderful.

SPEAKER_00:

Go along those lines.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, okay. Well, Dr. Steve, you know, please tell our listeners one thing they should remember about energetic chiropractic.

SPEAKER_00:

One thing you're gonna make it tough on me, huh? One thing about energetic chiropractic, it can be a very light touch, but it can have deep lasting impacts. Now, I will adjust you. You know, if somebody comes in and they want a physical adjustment, that I can do no problem. But there's a light touch you can do, you're gonna enter information of what the body's doing, how the body's compensating for the stresses and strain it's under, inform the body of that, then you can clear the energy pattern. So it can be a very light touch. Now I have some people who just like are not gonna leave the room unless I adjust their neck physically because it really releases something within them. But as a whole, the body can be manipulated in a way or let's say adjusted and aligned in a way, in a pattern, that clears many more compensatory mechanisms and allows you an overall good feeling, good harmony, and health than than you know, just plain regular physicality. It's a greater ball of wax.

SPEAKER_02:

I got it. Now, how can our listeners learn more about energetic energetic chiropractic?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, they can call me up and talk to me if they want to, but you have my website, it's was it dr www.dr as and doctor Stephen with a phdc.com. Uh, I have a few uh blogs on there, and I I post stuff on Facebook now and then on Instagram. It's all out there in a way. But yeah, I say if you have a specific question, if you you know really want more information on this, you can read about it to some extent, because there are things like matrix energetics, which I've used in my practice. There's something like sacral occipital technique, which I use in my practice. Those two harmonize the body in a more advanced way. I've taken that, melded it together, and kind of ran with my own information on it.

SPEAKER_02:

Wonderful. Well, Dr. Steve, I really appreciate you being on the show, and I want to wish you and your practice all the very best moving forward.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I thank you. It's been great being here. If anybody has any questions, please let me know. Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor Podcast. To nominate your favorite local businesses to be featured on the show, go to gmportscounty.com. That's gnpointcounty.com. Or call 714 9482.