This week, pick one thing you’re going to do better than you did last week…
This week, pick one new healthy food item you’ll try…
This week, choose to make a calmer response to a situation that usually sets you off…
Your life literally is what you make of it. Make it your best!
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” – Benjamin Franklin
Planning, in all areas of life, is one of the most important things you can do if you wish to succeed in your endeavors. My wife plans out the week’s meals in advance. Her marathon training program has workouts planned for 16 weeks. Businesses lay out marketing plans with a 6 month, 1 year or 5 year goal in mind.
If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you ever get there?
Today is chiropractic’s 117th birthday. Chiropractic did not begin because someone had an attack of lower back pain or a week-long headache that didn’t go away after a fistfull of Tylenol. Chiropractic began because a man with significant hearing loss was having a conversation with a magnetic healer who was, as a result of this conversation, inspired to put his hands on this man and perform the first specific chiropractic adjustment. Hearing was restored and millions of people have reaped the benefit of natural chiropractic care – all because D.D. Palmer thought outside the box.
We have fielded many questions about kids and chiropractic. “Why do kids need adjustments? They don’t have back pain…” “Isn’t that dangerous to adjust babies?” The list goes on…
If chiropractic was started because a man couldn’t hear, how have we distorted chiropractic into a neck and back pain treatment modality?
What’s more dangerous: a gentle specific chiropractic adjustment to restore proper communication between the brain and the body in a developing infant, or exposing an infant to foreign chemicals through medications and vaccinations at the time when their body is least able to process them?
We chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the prisoned impulses, a tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells and stirs them to life. We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.
In the dim, dark distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life, it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form and absorbs the spirit into itself again.
And yet you ask “Can chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?” Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world? – B.J. Palmer, DC, PhC
The new rave in fitness is “Extreme Sports”. This may range from Crossfit to the Badwater Ultramarathon (a 135 mile run across Death Valley) or the very popular “mud runs” like the Tough Mudder or Muddy Buddy which incorporate mud, obstacles and running.
Whatever the extreme sport, chiropractic care should be a part of your extreme lifestyle. Even if your lifestyle isn’t that extreme, chiropractic care is vitally important.
The physical and mental stresses involved in LIFE are significant. If left unchecked, these stresses can wreak havoc on your spine and nervous system and put you on course for an injury that could keep you out of your game, extreme or not.
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I had a patient come in yesterday who is on a weight loss journey. She has been very successful up to this point, but she informed me that the last 3 weeks has been a struggle. She had been very excited 3 weeks ago because she suddenly became not hungry anymore. She was eating extremely little during the day and her family members became very worried. They threatened to take her to the hospital. That was a wake up call!
Luckily, she identified that she was stepping into the world of “disordered eating”, and she immediately made the necessary changes. We discussed the fact that her “why” had strayed from “gaining health” to “losing weight”. We re-established her “why” and she recommitted to making the necessary lifestyle choices to gain her health back.
What’s your why? You may have many “whys” in your life – in your work, in your family, in your faith – identify your whys and make sure they are congruent with your beliefs. If your why is to make a lot of money so you can retire and enjoy life, what happens if you sacrifice your relationships with friends and family and end up spending your retirement alone? Or worse yet, what if you sacrifice your health and end up dying prematurely, leaving your friends and family alone?
Find your why and live life accordingly – you only get one shot at it, so make it count!
Somewhere along the line, we humans got the idea that we are somehow outside the scope of the natural laws governing animal species and that the current state of health of the human species is a result of our genetic makeup or bad luck.
If you feed a dog potato chips, candy bars and soda, two things will happen:
1. The dog will get sick
2. The ASPCA, Humane Society, and/or your local police department will pay you a visit and charge you with cruelty to animals
If you feed your child potato chips, candy bars and soda…
Get the picture?
Just because we CAN eat/do/think something, doesn’t mean we SHOULD. The laws of nature still apply to us as human beings.
We must understand that the choices we are making TODAY will impact our lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren, for years to come – not because of our GENES, but because of our LIFESTYLE. Why do you eat the foods you do? Probably because it’s what your parents ate. Please understand – you cannot change your family’s health history. You can’t go back and make your parents and grandparents eat better and exercise more. You can change your family’s health future! No one is going to do it for you – do it for yourself and those you love!
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One of the most powerful of human emotions is fear. The very word conjures negative feelings and brings to mind all the things we are fearful of. While this negative fear is a powerful motivator to more away from what we’re afraid of, it is never liberating – we are always tied back to our fears.
There is, however, a positive side to fear. It is referred to in the Bible as “the fear of the Lord”. It is respectful fear. You can change negative fears into positive ones simply by changing your perception of what you’re afraid of.
If you are afraid of spiders, as I am, you can begin to adopt an attitude of respect for them. Get a book and read about them. Go to the Butterfly Pavilion in Denver and hold Rosie the tarantula. If you’re afraid of losing something extremely special to you, use your fear as a catalyst to make necessary changes in your life to hold on to it!
Dwelling on your fears will only bring that which you are afraid of to you that much more quickly. Respect your fears and grow through them.
In the wake of the recent tragic shooting in Aurora, I feel compelled to write a bit about craziness in the world. It has been released, as it has been with all the shootings in my short-term memory, that the shooter was on prescription mind-altering medications. This incident is not about gun control laws, politics, religion, violent movies, video games or bad parenting. This is about mental health. It’s not about access to mental health services, the need for free or reduced fee medications or any of that – it’s about keeping your head on straight. This is the only way I know of to keep yourself right side up in an upside down world.
Depression and anxiety are not caused by brain chemical imbalances. No literature supports this theory. Multiple recent studies have shown that antidepressants are no better and, in most cases, worse than placebo. Depression and anxiety are a response to stressors in the environment that the nervous system cannot process effectively. The body goes into a protected/guarded state and begins to withdraw. This creates fear. Depression is fear of the past and anxiety is fear of the future.
Chiropractic care helps “get your head on straight”. By removing interference from the nervous system and making it more adaptable to stress, the nervous system learns to process things more effectively and efficiently and the body can find it’s way out of the protected/guarded state and express it’s full potential.
1. The nervous system is the master control system of the human body
2. The human body is self-healing and self-regulating
Therefore, anything that interferes with the nervous system’s control of the human body MUST NECESSARILY interfere with the body’s ability to heal and self-regulate.
It’s as simple as that.
If you want to express 100% health, you MUST have 100% function. In order to have 100% function, your nervous system must be clear.
See a chiropractor – that’s what we do.
Doing things right is extremely important. If you’re always doing things wrong, life is hard. It’s harder however, if you’re always doing the wrong things.
I listened to a 40 minute discussion on talk radio yesterday between the local radio personality and a physician, the topic being the problems with health care. Their discussion centered around efficiency and rapidity of data entry, patient transport and procedures. They showed some reduction in patient death with nurses in charge of the care. That’s great!
How many more lives could be saved, however, if rather than focusing on doing things right, we instead focused on doing the right things? The only way to reform the health care system and save health care dollars is by making people healthier, not by giving them access to more drugs and surgery. What about healthy eating, exercise and sunshine? Moore’s Cancer Institute at UC San Diego estimates that we could see a 75% reduction in cancer deaths in ONE YEAR if we optimized vitamin D levels of all Americans! Walking 30 minutes a day results in a 20-30% reduction in death from ALL CAUSES! (the reduction is greater with increased intensity and duration of exercise) That means cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke – you name it – exercise reduces your risk of dying from it!
Rather than focusing on trying to do things right – managing disease and it’s symptoms with the “latest and greatest” drugs and surgical procedures (of which, less than 20% are based on proven science), why not do the right things and trust the wisdom and intelligence of the human body, feed it the fuel it needs, give it the movement it requires and, of course, keep the spine and nervous system strong and clear of interference and watch the sickest species on the planet transform into the healthiest in a single generation!
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