Embrace Your Inner Wisdom
Health is a game of spirals. Meaning that once your health starts moving in a direction, it is much easier to spiral up or down in that same direction. No matter which direction, once you start going one direction it is easier to keep going – either getting healthier or getting sick.
When you are laid up with an illness or injury, how much harder is it to focus on good choices when we already don’t feel good? Or are stuck in the house, with junk food and the television calling? Unfortunately, this is the story for millions of people. Once problems begin to snowball, the amount of work needed to get on the other side of them gets larger and larger as the results of lost health make getting healthier even harder. People’s health problems become their obstacle to getting healthier.
Fortunately, the other side of the coin is the same way. When you feel good, you make good choices. You want to take care of yourself. You can enjoy going out and being active. You can feel proud of where you are at, and stimulated to continue making more good decisions.
The fact is that while we all go up and down from week to week, the big picture of our health is also moving in a bigger, broader direction. And whatever that direction is, it gets easier to keep going over time. This is something that every chiropractor understands about health, and wants to help you. Because they know whichever direction it is going, it can easily pick up steam.
“Don’t Make Your Chiropractor Say ‘Yikes!’”
The way that we walk is something that most of us don’t think of often, if ever. Chiropractors, on the other hand, can’t stop from watching for patterns. Patterns like how people move, their posture, and even patterns of how we walk. The funny part is that most of us are not ever taught the basics of how to stand, move and walk, the simplest things we do every day. To figure out if you are causing yourself trouble or not, here’s a basic outline of what to look for.
Proper alignment in standing or walking involves having both feet pointing forward, while they are placed approximately underneath the hip joints – which you can approximate finding by putting your hands on the bony spots on the front of your waistline just under the belt. The farther outside of this pattern you spend in day-to-day life, the more stress is on the hips, the knees and other joints, such as the pelvis and lower back, stressing these joint structures.
This mistake can end up looking like feet that point way inwards towards each other, or one or both feet pointing way out to the side. Or it could also look like both feet very close to each other. When in doubt, think of your feet making the number 11 when you look down, with a natural space between the feet. Use these keys to help avoid problems in the future, and next time you are out people watching, you will start to see some scary patterns of movement yourself.
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.
