Balance is Basic!

When in his eighties, Professor Raymond Dart,

world famous anatomist, brain researcher,

and anthropologist

was asked to sum up his life’s work.

Rising to his feet, he exclaimed,

“There is only one message.”

“You must tell people to

balance their brains and balance their bodies.

The future lies with the balanced human!”

A positive state of balance offers

a vital key to high performance,

harmonious living,

and inner peace.

Balance is the ideal, naturally poised

human state.

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Our office specializes in keeping you balanced, physically and emotionally.  Get balanced today!!!

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 Normal vs. Common

Do you know the difference?

     As you may know, we are actively involved in our community.  We participate in all types of community functions such as fairs, church events, women expos, kid expos, etc.  These events give us the opportunity to teach people about the amazing benefits of chiropractic and answer questions about their health.

     One thing that has become painfully obvious to me is most peoples complete misunderstanding of “what is common” and “what is normal.”  For example, at these events someone will invariably ask, “yes, but doesn’t everyone have subluxations?”  I then have to patiently explain that subluxations are common and most people are subluxated but it is notnormal!!  That is a huge difference!!

Please review the following examples to help further clarify things that are common but not normal:

 1. One out of 2 people die of heart disease in this country.  This is COMMON BUT NOT NORMAL.  In the early 1900’s, heart disease was almost non-existent!

2.One out of 3 people die of cancer.  This is COMMON BUT NOT NORMAL.  In 1930, 1 in 6000 people got cancer!  65% - 80% of all cancer is preventable through improved lifestyle—Dr. Barry Levin.

3. 60% of all drugs are prescribed off-label—American Health Congress Report.  Off-label means a drug was invented and FDA approved for a particular disease but the drug actually gets prescribed and pushed for entirely different reasons.  For example, after a few years on the market, a new arthritis drug is shown to clear up acne.  Now MD’s prescribe the drug to teenagers with acne.  No further testing, no research, unknown side effects...on teenagers!  Remember, the drug saswas only FDA approved for arthritis.

4. Medical malpractice kills 180,000 people per year.  This is COMMON BUT NOT NORMAL.  Dr. Leopold Leap, Harvard Medical School.

5. Medical right-practice kills 120,000 people per year.  This is COMMON BUT NOT NORMAL.  Through properlyprescribed and administered prescription medicine—Journal of American Medical Association.

6. In the U.S., 15% of all kids are overweight and/or obese.  This is COMMON BUT NOT NORMAL.

7. Childhood diabetes has been estimated to have increased ten-fold in the last decade.  HOW COULD THIS BE NORMAL?

8. A John Hopkins study labeled T.V. viewing as the number one leisure-time activity of most school-age children.  DEFINITELY COMMON BUT DEFINITELY NOT NORMAL!

     Hopefully, the distinction between normal and common is now obvious.  Never settle for anything that is common—odds are if it’s common it’s unhealthy, un-wealthy, and unwise!

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     Fly Like A Goose!

Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an “uplift” for the birds that follow.  By flying in a “V” formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

Lesson 1: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Fact 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone.  It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front of it.

Lesson 2: If we have as much common sense as a goose, we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go.  We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.

Fact 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies to the point position.

Lesson 3: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership.  As with geese, people are interdependent on each others’ skills, capabilities, and unique arrangements of gifts, talents, or resources.

Fact 4: Geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

Lesson 4: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging.  In groups where there is encouragement, the production is much greater.  The power of encouragement (to stand by one’s heart or core values and encourage the heart and core of others) is the quality of honking we seek.

Fact 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded, or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help protect it.  They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again.  Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.

Lesson 5: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.

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Adjustment-ology

The procedure we use to help you LIVE LONGER, HEALTHIER, and HAPPIER lives is obviously called an adjustment.  However, we have found there are more descriptive, exciting, and “juicy” words and phrases that accurately convey this dynamic and powerful hands-on process.  Unfortunately, there are also words and phrases that are inaccurate and misleading.  These words and/or phrases often misrepresent, distort, and convolute the true nature and intention of the adjustment.

The following is a list of words and phrases that we “encourage” you to use.  We tend to give better adjustments when these words and phrases are used!  (HA! HA! HA!)

Turn on the Power Re-Booted De-stressed

Turned On Balanced Tapped In

Tuned Up Energized Powered

Optimized Re-connected Electrified

Re-Charged Turn the Lights On Harmonized

Charged Up Integrated Get your lifeline in line

The following is a list that we strongly discourage (i.e. don’t use these if you know what’s good for ya). 

Manipulate = we are not politicians, nor do we work for the government!

Crack = we don’t sell crack, heroin, or marijuana!

Fix = you are not a dog, and we are not veterinarians!

Cure = we can’t even cure a ham! 

Straighten = you are not a parabola!

Twist my head = this is not “The Exorcist!”

Break my neck=we don’t know any karate!

Crunched = we are not “Cap’ns,” and you are not a breakfast cereal!

Snap = snap your fingers, not your spine!

Pop = this is what northerners call “soda”...or a term used for your dad!

Treatment = you treat your lawn not your nervous system!

You probably get the idea.  Feel free to come up with your own favorite expressions (we’ll have to O.K. them, of course ~ HA, HA, HA)!

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A Wonderful Message By The Late George Carlin…

          The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller building but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.  We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.  We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

          We drink to much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.  We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.  We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

          We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.  We’ve added years to life not life to years.  We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.  We conquered outer space but not inner space.  We’ve done larger things, but not better things.  We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

          We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.  We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.  We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.  We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

           These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.  These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.  These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

           It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

           Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.  Remember to say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.  Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.  Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it.  A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.  Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

          Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

           AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

          Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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The Flu Vaccine: Yes or No?

          Influenza is defined as a viral infection, lasting 4 to 5 days and characterized by fever, body aches, and weakness.  In the vast majority of cases, people feel yucky for several days and then recover with no complications.  The CDC recommends that people 65 or over and anyone with a compromised immune system receive this vaccine.  Additionally, they say women who are in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during flu season should have the vaccine.  The elderly and others that have suppressed immune systems seem to have the most challenges associated with influenza recovery.  This is why this is the target group for vaccination.  However, does it make sense to give a toxic substance to someone whose immunity is already challenged?

          Influenza activity peaks around December and early January.  This is an interesting phenomenon considering that most people tend to gorge themselves on food and drink from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.  Is it any wonder that people’s immune systems are run down and that they are more susceptible to manifesting the flu?  What about taking care of your body instead of abusing it for 5 weeks and then hoping that a vaccine will “save” you from the flu. 

          Did you know that the vaccine makers have to begin formulating the flu vaccine at least 9 to 10 months in advance?  It takes that long to grow the virus.  This is done in raw chicken eggs ~ those with egg allergies BEWARE.  Additionally, the vaccine contains thimerosal (the mercury derivative that was ordered out of the childhood “mandatory” vaccines) and formaldehyde.  So, the vaccine makers GUESS about which strain of the hundreds possible might be the prevalent one for the following year.  Does someone from the CDC sit on the west coast with binoculars to check for which strain is headed our way?  Come on!  Additionally, the influenza virus constantly mutates.  This is another reason that the vaccine is not very effective.  It is impossible to gauge which strain (Asian, Beijing, etc.) will be the one you “get” and how it will have mutated. 

          And where do they get these names for the various types of the flu?  Asian, Swine, Beijing, why isn’t there a North Carolina flu, or Nebraska flu?  Why do all the various influenza viruses seem to come from the Far East?  Is it some kind of conspiracy?  It must be those communists!  Soon we’ll be seeing an Iraqi variety.

There are many well-documented cases of children and adults developing encephalomyelitis following administration of the flu vaccine.  The flu vaccine of the late 1970’s was linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome.  In 1976, President Ford was persuaded to sign over $135 million for a comprehensive influenza vaccination program.  Despite the evidence that the new strain of flu the government was vaccinating against showed no sign of epidemic capabilities, 40 million adults were vaccinated.  Within four months of administration, hundreds of those that received the vaccine developed symptoms of Guillain-Barre Syndrome and some even died!  $3 billion dollars was paid out in compensation to these people.  Despite all of that, people continued to get vaccinated the following year, and  doctors reported almost 600 people exhibiting Guillain-Barre Syndrome that year.

All of that aside, just how effective is the vaccine anyway?  A 1993 Dutch study compared vaccinated and non-vaccinated elderly living in a nursing home.  In this study, two-thirds off all the residents were vaccinated.  50% of the vaccinatedpeople got the flu, compared to 48% of the non-vaccinatedgroup.  This clearly shows that the vaccination status did not have a protective influence at all.  Numerous other studies have come to the very same conclusion.  Please remember, just because you get the flu vaccine doesn’t ensure that you won’t get the flu….also, just because you get the flu vaccine and don’t contract the flu does not mean that the vaccine worked!

The question is, “why risk the effects of a toxic vaccine to prevent a generally benign condition?”  Perhaps instead of relying on an outside force to protect us from the evil “bugs” lurking, we should look inward, become accountable, and maximize our health in natural ways!  By eating healthy foods, getting enough rest, moderately exercising, and GETTING ADJUSTED you can know that you’ve done everything possible to strengthen your immune system.

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Diagnosis = Two Who Don't Know

     That’s right.  The definition of “diagnosis,” when broken down to the root words is “di” = two and “agnostic” = doesn’t know.  That’s why when you go to the medical doctor, or anyone else, and get the work-up to determine the diagnosis, two of you don’t know...YOU AND THE DOCTOR!

     According to C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States, 69% of diagnoses given in this country are wrong!  Many of you have had the experience of going to the medical doctor for a symptom.  He/she prescribes the blue pill.  That one fails to relieve the symptoms, so he/she then prescribes the red pill.  And the cycle continues.  Or perhaps you go to several doctors for second opinions and get completely different diagnoses every time. 

     How can this be?  Isn’t medicine a science?  Actually, “medical science” is an oxymoron.  How can something be scientific when it is incorrect more than half the time?  If the diagnosis is wrong, and the treatment is based on that diagnosis, how scientific could it be?  Medicine is not a science!  Don’t be fooled!

     According to an shocking study, Alfred Walton, M.D. stated, “Dr. Richard Cabot discovered at the autopsy department of Massachusetts General Hospital that only 51% of the diagnosis in that hospital were correct; that 49% of the diagnosis were incorrect seems incredible, especially since the physicians at MGH have been recognized for years to be superior to any similar body of men in American medicine.”  If there is any place in the world where it is critical to have the proper diagnosis, it is in a hospital.  Life and death decisions are made in an instant.  Don’t you want to know that the doctor is positive about what is wrong before he/she operates?

     According to Barkev Saunders, Ph.D., research consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service, a published study, “Completeness and Reliability of Diagnosis in Therapeutic Practice” revealed the following: “Only 40% of all human ailments are found and labeled by doctors, and 60% are missed.  Of those that are ostensibly found, 50% are diagnosed in error.  Given an ailment in a patient, then, the chances of the medical physician finding it and diagnosing it correctly are one in five.”  Think for a moment about what that means.  Out of every five people, four are getting the wrong diagnosis...the wrong prescription...the wrong treatment...the wrong surgery!  It’s easy to see why over 100,000 people die each year due to prescription drugs and over 180,000 people die each year due to medical negligence. 

     A very blunt comment by Robert Fisher, M.D. is, “the popular medical doctor offers an easy diagnosis, which is almost always wrong, and treatment that is magical, expensive, and toxic.  In the process a life is either shortened or lost and a greedy ghoul makes another trip to the bank.  Most medical men are robbers and murderers.”  And this guy is a medical doctor!  This seems like an extreme viewpoint, but perhaps someone he cared about was one of those four out of five people who got the wrong diagnosis!

     “Diagnosis is so fraught with the element of uncertainty that no reliance can be placed on it.  Diagnosis is a medical delusion.”  John Tilden, M.D.

     Don’t blindly follow!  Educate yourself and get opinions from outside the medical propaganda machine before submitting to any procedures or drugs.

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 Emotional Mastery

The “Discoverer of Chiropractic,” D.D. Palmer, stated that there are three things that cause or exacerbate     subluxations: trauma, toxins, and thoughts.  Negative thoughts can be defined as emotional stress.  That’s right…the emotional stress of work, family, finances, etc. causes nerve interference in our bodies.  This deadly combination of emotional stress and spinal subluxations clearly sucks the life, health, and vitality from your body.  You already know that consistent adjustments ensure the body is functioning at or near its god-given health potential, but how can you further reduce the emotional stress in your life?  The following are three simple tools that can change your life.    

The first tool for handling emotional stress in your life is to become a Master of Meaning.  We can never control all the external events of life (i.e. the weather, our families, other people, or traffic), but we CAN decide how we will respond to these situations and what they will mean to us.  Consciously interpreting events in your life from a positive, powerful, and inspiring perspective allows you to greatly minimize stress.  In other words, nothing in life has any meaning except the one we give it!  **please re-read that statement*** 

Consider this:  two women experience similar upbringings, including being born to unwed teenage mothers, being sexually abused and violently mistreated, becoming sexually promiscuous and pregnant themselves as teenagers, and using drugs to escape the harshness of life.  One woman becomes a drug addict, lives on welfare, and leads a life of despair and anger.  The other woman is Oprah Winfrey.  Both believe their lives turned out the way they did because of their childhood experiences!  It’s your choice, but we urge you to choose meanings in your life that are good, clean, pure, powerful, and positive.  Nothing in life has any meaning except the one we give it!   

The second tool to minimize emotional stress is through the power of focus.  Whatever we focus on in life is sure to multiply.  By focusing on negative situations, scarcity, distrust, or sadness we cause these emotions and circumstances to increase in our lives.  For example, if a person continually indulges in the emotion of sadness, it’s because he is “focusing” on sad events and circumstances.  The most important thing to remember is that you cannot consciously focus on two things simultaneously.  Therefore, by focusing on sadness, you are automatically deleting anything positive, loving, or hopeful in your life.  Conversely, if you chooseto focus on the great and outstanding events, people, or possibilities of your life, you simultaneously diminish and delete all negative emotions.

The quickest, most effective, and powerful way to direct our focus is through the use of questions.  The questions we ask ourselves direct our focus.  For example, a person that is continually sad could ask:  “What could I be happy about if I chose to be?  What is great about my life right now?  What am I  grateful for in my life?  What have I accomplished in my life that I am really proud of?  Who could love me if I really opened up and let them?  Whom could I love?”  If someone were to ask these questions consistently and with emotion, his brain will undoubtedly provide amazingly uplifting and inspiring answers.  Figure out what questions work for you, write them down, and use them.  Proper questions will keep you focusing on your most expansive and abundant emotions, even in the most stressful situations! 

The third tool for reducing emotional stress is proper physiology.  There are specific patterns of physiology that we “do” for each emotion.  Emotions do not just magically envelope us, we physically “do” or “perform” them.  Think about it...What is your physiology when you are sad?  Head is down, shoulders are slumped, breathing is tight and shallow, hands and arms are limp, etc.  On the other hand, when you are excited your head is up, you have a big smile, your spine is elongated, and you take deep and expansive breaths.  Each emotion you “do” has a specific physiology.  Change your physiology and you instantly change your emotion.  The key is to consciously recognize your disempowering physiology and break that pattern by adopting an empowering physiology.  For example, if you are doing sad physiology (i.e. slumped over, “woe is me”) and you force yourself to adopt an excited physiology by jumping up and down, dancing, and saying what you say when you are truly excited, you will be excited!  You will feel excited!  All of us have experienced unresourceful and disempowering emotions.  After all, we are only human.  However, the key is not to indulge in these negative states.  In fact, the less you feel like changing your physiology, the more you need to change!  The key to happiness is recognizing these negative emotions and instantly changing our physiology to reflect positive, vibrant emotions.  We must learn to make it easy to feel outstanding and hard to feel bad!

Let’s review the three powerful tools that can literally change your life:

1. Become a Master of Meaning.  Condition yourself to interpret all things in your life from a powerful, positive, and uplifting perspective.  Nothing in life has any meaning except the one we give it. 

2. Master your focus by changing the questions you ask yourself.  Most self-talk is in the form of a question.  Condition yourself to ask the most empowering, loving, abundant, expansive, blissful, and joyous questions.  Your focus will spontaneously and effortlessly shift to the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive!

3. Master your physiology!  Condition yourself to adopt physiologies that are empowering and expansive.  Change your physiology (i.e. your breathing pattern, facial expressions, body movements, head position, voice tone, inflection, language) and your emotions will instantly change!

You can talk about wanting to “feel” better emotionally all day long.  You can waste money on a psychiatrist to deal with emotional “baggage.”  You can whine and complain about life.  You can turn to illegal drugs.  You can turn to socially accepted drugs (I.e. alcohol, cigarettes, Valium, Prozac, Zoloft) and excessive food to escape emotionally.  Or, you can “step-up” and realize that you consciously and unconsciously choose all the emotions you experience.  Emotions do not happen to us, we do them!  We are not victims!  We are not slaves to our emotions.  We are not helpless.  We control our emotions, our emotions do not control us.  Make a conscious choice and commit to becoming a Master of Meaning, asking empowering questions, and using proper physiology. 

Yes, emotional stress causes subluxations.  Help us help you to be healthier and happier.  Give yourself an adjustment above atlas (i.e. an attitude adjustment).  Practice these tools.  Choose to be better.  Have fun while you grow stronger emotionally.  Be patient.  Allow yourself to make mistakes and to screw up.  Laugh at yourself, and love yourself anyway!  Master your emotions!

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       Hugging is healthy.  It optimizes the body’s immune system.  It cures depression (better than Prozac), reduces stress, induces sleep (better than Nytol), invigorates, rejuvenates, and has no unpleasant side effects!  Hugging is all natural.  It is organic, naturally sweet, and contains no pesticides, no preservatives, and no artificial ingredients.  It’s 100% wholesome! 

       This is something chiropractors have known for over 100 years.  Current research is finally catching up and proving the importance of touch.  Psychologist Tiffany Field has shown that touch therapy for people of all ages promotes health and saves money.  One study showed that hospital charges averaged $10,000 less for premature babies who were massaged than those who were not.  Also, massaged babies were more advanced in mental and motor development. 

       A more disturbing study done in the 1940’s divided infants into two groups.  One group was continually touched, held, loved, sung-to, and nurtured.  The other group only received bottles and diaper changes.  Tragically, 90% of the second group died within the first three months of the study.  For obvious reasons, the study was stopped.  In psychology texts, this phenomenon is known as Infant Grief Death Syndrome.  In fact, almost all psychoses, personality disorders, and mental illnesses can be traced back to a breakdown in the flow of love in the first few years of life. 

      Touch is one of our basic human needs.  It’s as important as food, water, air, and a healthy nervous system!  Chiropractic is one way to make sure you are getting your recommended daily allowance (RDA) of touch.  Part of the healing that takes place through the adjustment is the person-to-person contact.  Each of us has experienced radical shifts in our attitude and feelings after receiving an adjustment.  Have you ever come into the office feeling melancholy, gotten adjusted, and then gone home feeling awesome? 

      The adjustment accomplishes two things: optimizes your nervous system andfulfills the essential human need to be touched.  Here’s a good rule of thumb: we need 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 hugs a day for maintenance, and 12 hugs a day for growth! 

      So...go forth and hug!!

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