Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
We hold tremendously beneficial wisdom inside every one of us. When we stop a moment to recognize it, it can shift our perspective in powerful ways. Inside of our body, as well as in life, most of our most precious and valued possessions are fragile. An obvious example is when our children are first born, the newborn baby is both adored by all and extremely vulnerable. Inside our bodies, the most important tissue we have, our brain and nervous system, is a soft spongy tissue made of nerve cells that have limited ability to divide and reproduce – they have to last an entire lifetime. They are both critical and fragile.
A common assignment for high schoolers and young adults is to have a doll that they carry for weeks on end to simulate the demands of having the responsibility of a newborn. They are told to carry it at all times, and care for it like a real human newborn, to learn just how demanding the task is. A newborn does, however, eventually grow up. Imagine if the assignment was to carry a network of delicate, spongy tissue that is approximately 5-6’ tall, has vast branches of smaller fibers attached to it, and it never grows up and moves away. This is a substantially difficult task. It needs to be cared for properly until old age or otherwise disastrous consequences occur.
You are the qualified guardian of your body. Some parts are extremely durable and tough, while others are soft and delicate. Both are extremely valuable. Your chiropractor is dedicated to helping you keep the tough, bony spine in great shape, so that your soft, ‘helpless as a newborn’ nervous system has the right carrying case – to last a lifetime.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
This is a series that covers the worst postural habits that many people are doing every single day and causing themselves all sorts of problems – often without knowing it. This one is super simple to fix, but can contribute to all kinds of problems for guys that do it regularly. This one is mainly for the fellas, and this bad habit is sitting on your wallet. For chiropractors, and those in the know, this is a no-no for sure. The thing is, most guys that sit on their wallet do it all the time, maybe even for hours and hours a day every single day.
Sitting on your wallet makes the sitting that you do exponentially worse for you. It un-levels and imbalances your pelvis and lower back, all parts of what is commonly referred to as your core. A helpful visual for this is to look at your pants if you have this habit, or someone that does. What you will see if you look closely is that over time the pressure of the wallet actually causes the material of the pocket to fade in color and to get deformed. You can easily imagine how this same pressure deforms the structures of the core, such as ligaments, muscles and the joints of the pelvis and low back. Your chiropractor wants the best for you, and that doesn’t include slowly breaking down your low back sitting on one of your most precious possessions.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Has anyone told you you don’t need permission to be a superhero? Or that you don’t need someone to tell you it’s okay to help other people? There are some amazing stories of people that decided they didn’t want to wait to help the people around them that needed help. These were people that didn’t have advanced degrees or complicated certifications. What they did have was the sense of action and an overwhelming urgency to start making changes in the world around them.
It’s a classic phrase by Rene Descartes – one that is instantly recognizable. And it comes from a totally unrecognizable world – 1637.
Yet it is still true today. Descartes’ attempt to get to the very bedrock of what he was as a human being is worth looking at as we turn over into the new year. Especially as we examine the beginning of something new – a time when discussions turn to the entire idea of new, and what the idea of new creates – the vision of new possibilities.
Anti-aging is a trick. And like all tricks, it’s not real. We all slow down, grow old, and die. But like all tricks, when done well, they are amazing and fun. Here is how the trick of anti-aging can work for you.
Take the aging progression above and expand it all the way. From the time we are very young, we grow, get bigger, stronger, smarter and generally better at everything as we go.
Here is the solution to understanding an ever-more common anxiety-causing malady. And how the key to solving it is getting two things – knowing what it takes to get healthy – and the power of understanding how to choose the quickest line at the grocery store.
