BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic, said “The power that made the body heals the body.”
Chiropractors often phrase this “there is a power in your body that is responsible for the healing inside you.” Perhaps that is wrong. Perhaps there isn’t a power inside you.
Perhaps instead you ARE A POWER.
One that you expect to keep you sustained through an 9-hour endurance race…
Of sitting at your desk working on the computer. And talking on the phone.
While at the same time scrolling for something attention-grabbing. (For a little breather).
While asking it to dig up energy reserves while skipping lunch – then expecting it to handle an overwhelming amount of energy (INCOMING!) during appetizers, dinner, dessert and drinks with friends.
You are not only a POWER but also a WEAKNESS. A limitation of what that power ‘inside’ you can accomplish before breaking, and eventually burning out.
Chiropractic has always recognized that the body is amazing. That is has an endless healing energy inside of it but also that while this energy doesn’t stop, it has very real limits. Not only that, but the strength and resiliency of your body has real limits as well.
And when it breaks, that healing power is tapped even greater than before.
But we as people also have a different type of weakness. A weakness that says “I want to take advantage of how amazing I am.”
Ie, take advantage of the fact that our bodies don’t quit, and will always try to heal to the best of their ability – like a puppy that is waiting at the door, no matter how long its owner has been out, focusing on other things.
It is simply human nature. We forget that healing comes from inside, and take advantage of wherever there is consistent, unflagging help.
But for many, the first trip to a chiropractor is an awakening of sorts. To remembering what we knew all along. That we heal from within, and we have a responsibility to aid in that process – not just lean on it constantly without pitching in.
Because Today is the AFTERMATH of the battle left behind from yesterday.
Today is about not only having enough Power to win today – but also clean up what is left behind. To handle the ‘dirty dishes and leftovers’ that your body did not have time – or energy – to deal with from the day before.
And that could be a giant forgotten mess. Or it could be simple – maybe just the next phase of the rinse cycle from the evening before. Fortunately, chiropractic is there to help remind of this before too many of those ‘catch-up’ days get behind us – and leave a mess so big that it is daunting to even think of it.
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.
