Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
Life is about our daily habits that make us who we are. The other aspect to regular habits is they also create the opportunity for dynamic breakthroughs. The wisdom of our bodies responds very strongly to our regular, daily habits. Think of any time when you had a regular routine – either filled with good habits or bad. The daily workout of a bodybuilder or the 16 hour computer routine of a professional game player will show the results of consistent patterns of behavior over time, the longer we do them. Just like our lives can end up being defined by what we do with regularity, for both good and bad, the same goes for the body.
The body also responds strongly and quickly to receiving what it truly needs and has been missing. Chiropractors see this regularly when someone new to care has dramatic symptomatic improvements very quickly. This is obviously great to see patients have great changes quickly. However both of these concepts occur in tandem – even great breakthroughs don’t change the power of habits to make or break us over time.
Chiropractic is the same – great lifestyle coupled with great care makes great outcomes. And it is easier to facilitate a great change quickly with someone that has taken very good care of themselves. While habits may seem like work, they are actually part of what make the great breakthroughs occur.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
One of the avoidable problems a chiropractor sees is when a patient has hurt themselves working out. All of that hard work can end up going down the drain. Make sure you get the benefit of the hard work that you do while you are exercising at the gym by avoiding the biggest mistakes.
Most importantly, avoid the very worst exercise for most people – sit-ups! While some people can do sit-ups fine and get away with the various stresses they cause, the group of people that should be most cautious of relying on sit-ups as a big part of their fitness routine is anyone that has had a history of lower back trouble. The most sensitive positions of the lower back involve rounding the low back forward, especially if that forward rounding involves side-bending or rotation movements – exactly the ones that many people use during sit-up variations. These are the positions where the lower back is the most susceptible to stresses, and any force on it gets amplified substantially.
The reason why this exercise is so commonly used by the exact same people that should avoid them the most – people with a history of lower back trouble – is because they want to strengthen their core to avoid further injury. This is the unfortunate definition of irony, and something that your chiropractor can help you avoid. Once you know the most basic mechanics of the low back, you can be a lot safer in the gym.
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.
