Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
Taking a very close look at the body, will reveal a constant habit that is wise to emulate in your life. That habit is the constant rejuvenation and repair that occurs inside of your body at nearly all times. In today’s ‘more is better, faster is greater’ society, so many of us live at a frantic pace that makes time for real restoration hard to come by. However, a close look at our bodies shows that as soon as they get even the slightest opportunity, they engage in consistent repair and reconstruction. Your body replaces the cells lining parts of your digestive system every single week, for example, with brand new cells.
How many of us take the opposite tact? We work hard, push ourselves, try to help everyone else – but we aren’t so quick to do the things that restore our bodies. This is a good time to re-evaluate this practice if this sounds familiar. Chiropractic provides vital self-care, focused on the very core of you, the spine and the nervous system. Having a comprehensive strategy to sustain your body’s regular recovery efforts is key to making sure you are not breaking down over time. Take a tip from your body’s constant repair strategy and put in place your own regular schedule to repair yourself from the efforts of your busy and stressful life. Otherwise, when we don’t listen to the body, it has another habit of its own, to keep on talking to us until we do.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
There’s something about being a chiropractor that, when you walk into a room full of people and introduce yourself, everyone sits up a little straighter, a little taller, and people generally quit slouching and get back into something more closely resembling normal posture.
There is something similar to this pattern that somehow works in the opposite direction. And that is when we travel. Traveling is great because we get to see new lands and new cultures, and get a new perspective on how we live our own life. Traveling can also bring a feeling of anonymity, and even a feeling of less inhibition. How often do we feel like talking to strangers in a new place, compared to when we are busy bustling about our own home town?
But there is another aspect of this that is important to safe, healthy travel, and that is how we use our body. It only takes a few minutes at the airport or the train station to see things that would have every chiropractor cringing at some of the truly worst postural examples you could ever see.
Travelers sleeping upside down in chairs. Strange hybrid positions of sitting and lying down that shouldn’t even be possible. It doesn’t take long to see travelers in every manner of torqued and twisted posture. When you find yourself in unfamiliar territory, take with you what you already know from your chiropractor about healthy posture and self-care so that your body can still feel right at home and well-taken care of when you get back.
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.
