Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
Life is a balancing act. Chiropractors recognize that there is a balancing act between different forces on us both from outside and inside of our bodies. A fascinating aspect of our bodies is that there are forces that build our body up and forces that break us down. Astronauts, for example, suffer from all manner of ailments if they spend extended time out of earth’s gravity, like decreased muscle and bone strength, for example. Gravity on the other hand, can cause us to hunch forward and become stooped and bent over, over time. The key is that the right balance of forces is critical for our body to be able to fully express great health, and to heal from stress, trauma and injury,
In day to day life, the positive stress of physical activity is another example of forces that are necessary for the body. Regular physical activity is a set of forces that our bodies respond to positively and get stronger with over time. Bed rest, alternately, is one of the most harmful activities for the body, as extended bed rest is known to rapidly re-create the effects of aging.
Chiropractic is a specific force designed to restore function, alignment, and healing. Applying the right amount and right kind of forces is a critical part of a healthy, vibrant, functioning body. Chiropractic can help you line up the right forces and avoid the wrong ones.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
Your body loves variety. A variety of movement and a variety of different postures. Chiropractors know that our current society has a problem – a sitting problem. A sitting problem at work, when we travel, and even at home.
Recent estimates have found that we sit on the average of 9-10 hours per day, according to a recent piece called “Sitting Ducks” by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. With an average sleeping time of 7 hours, this leaves barely a quarter of the day for anything else besides sleeping and sitting. It’s no wonder that chiropractors are getting a little bit uncomfortable about the current state of affairs when it comes to people’s health. They know that the body does best with a wide array of different types of movement, and that this variety puts the right types of positive stress on all of our bodies’ different systems.
When the amount of sitting gets high enough, the harmful effects of being sedentary can’t even be fully overcome by regular exercise. This publication also details how even for people with regular physical activity, excess sitting still increases mortality risk in research studies, despite the presence of exercise.
So if you find yourself stuck too long in the chair, take frequent breaks and get up and walk around – a proven strategy to reduce the stress of too much sitting. It will help your chiropractor’s state of mind. Because the way society is sitting around right now, they are saying “Yikes!”
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.
