Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
Everything we experience in life is experienced through our brain and nervous system. It is strange when we stop to think about it, but we don’t see reality exactly how it is, we see how it impacts our bodies. And that impact becomes known to us by our nervous system. At a fundamental level, we see a representation of the world around us through how it is absorbed and processed by our bodies, and the part of our body that does that is our brain.
There is a strange concept that is well understood by psychologists, and it is that our memories are only partially accurate. One study found that of 239 criminal cases that were subsequently overturned due to later DNA and laboratory testing, 73 percent were based on eyewitness testimony. Another study found that a third of people would believe a memory was true when it was given in a group of written experiences, when one fictional account was given in a group of true stories from family members. The point here is that the reality of our life is a construct form our brain of the world around us, and is not perfect, and that our memories are predictably only somewhat accurate. Just like everyone is, in our own way, not perfect.
This reminds us that the interaction between our brain and the outside world is not perfect, and probably never will be. Chiropractic is beautiful in that is built to eliminate stress to the nervous system – the way we go about experiencing our own life. Chiropractic and a stress free nerve system is critical help with the inevitable challenges and uncertainties life throws us.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
Did you call your mother today? And if so, did you hurt someone doing it?
This is about how we talk on the phone – and the absolute worst way to talk on the phone. And that is sticking the phone between your ear and your shoulder so that you can use both hands while you talk. That is a strategy that will make your chiropractor cringe and definitely set you up for a neck and upper back problem.
In the past, office phones would have big curved add-ons to the handheld phones, to minimize the stress this phone-to-shoulder position had on office workers’ necks and upper backs. Now our phones have gotten even smaller, and we would need a foot and a half of curved foam to save us while using both hands and talking on the phone at the same time! Wondering how you may have gotten your neck and upper back into tough shape? Look at how you are using your phone, and definitely watch out for that old habit of sticking it into the space between your shoulder and your ear. Keep that space wide open – for your listening and your health. Mom will be glad you did.
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.
