An iconic scene from the movie “Doc Hollywood” shows Dr. Ben Stone, played by Michael J. Fox, the hottest star of the day, upended by the old-time local doctor. The old-timer walks in and saves the day from the panicked newcomer, who was in the midst of making a giant mistake. It turns out the patient, a young child, who was almost rushed in for emergency abdominal surgery, just needed a cola (of all things) to solve his stomach ache. Crisis averted.
“Go home, you will be fine.”
Today is different. Back then, people were healthier and the ideal doctor’s role was to know if you were in the midst of a crisis or not. And it is true, in those days the right help often meant nothing. However, declaring ‘crisis’ or not is no longer good enough in the role of doctor. Today it is no longer enough to have some knowledge and calm some fears.
Our society and culture has progressed, and we need to progress along with it. Part of this progress has been seeing the results of dealing with our health only when there is a crisis. After decades of this practice, and these types of recommendations throughout health care, this ‘progress’ in society has actually ended up as a regression in terms of our health. While our resources as a society are greater than ever, for many, our health needs are much greater. Consider:
People today need to be moved towards greater health. Information is everywhere and largely free but it is not enough anymore to come and go, and get info, when we see the rates of chronic disease steadily increasing. People need their doctor to help them move towards health. Chiropractors have a unique position in this new future, a position that cannot be replaced by robots, software algorithms, or chemicals. It is the position of using your hands to improve the function of another person. That they are skilled at guiding people at making positive changes in how they live their own lives is a great bonus.
The present today holds tremendous potential. Chiropractic has grown and thrived because of its tremendous history of results. The results chiropractors bring to the table can be found nowhere else – the tangible skill of the chiropractic adjustment to help facilitate healing, produced with their hands. If you know someone that needs a ‘new’ kind of doctor, help them experience chiropractic and join the millions of people every year seeking health care that even more so focuses on health as much as disease.
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.
