What do you believe?

'Thoughts create things.''

" What you think about is so."

I hear this over and over again from various people talking about attracting things into our lives. This applies to things we want, and things we don't want. People all want better health, but how often do you here people say "oh that just makes me sick!" Or, "that person I work with is a pain in my neck!" Or, "It's winter, I always get sick in the winter". Then what happens? They get sick, develop a neck pain, or something else.

When we think of something, the body listens. Every thought creates a reaction, without exception! If you think thoughts of sickness, it will happen. The pain in your hip may not be arthritis, but if you continue to say it is because your Aunt Mildred had it, then you will get it too.

The secret to having good health and anything else in life is to alway feel good. Be happy - always! Instead of thinking about the things in life that make you ill, think about what makes you well - and be happy about it! Regardless of the circumstances.

So, think about what you say. Even if you are joking, thoughts become things!

I'm Back!

I guess it has been over a year since I posted anything to my blog. It's funny how you plan things and then, slowly, life gets in the way and you forget about certain things that you had planned. But that's all behind now. It's a new year, with new energies, and now, new blogging!

This past year my granddaughter, Madison Lucy was born. She was born on May 30 to be precise. She came into this world healthy, and she has not been vaccinated. In her almost 8 months of life, she had one little cold that she got over in two days. She cut two teeth during the past month and had a little fever with each one. But she did not get a congested nose or ear infections.

Vaccinating newborns is such a ritual in this country. But health does not come from chemicals being shot into the blood stream of an infant. Health comes from proper nutrition, hygiene, exercise, and keeping the nerve system in its proper tone and tension with chiropractic care. Our little Maddi is already developing into a healthy child because she gets adjusted regularly!

Keeping the nerve system, the operating system of the body, healthy is the most important thing everyone can do for themselves - at any age!

The clouds and sun!

Yesterday, N told me that she was getting discouraged. She had only been with me for a month, so I was little curious as to her comment. She said that her leg hurt, and she had bouts of dizziness and this past week wasn't too good for her.

I asked, "Didn't you tell me last week that you had felt better?" She said that she did, but it all came back.

She is also having bladder trouble, and mentioned that hse was feeling better there, too. "And didn't you tell me that you had more feeling in your bladder?" She said she did, but it didn't last.

"So tell me, N. How old are you?" She said that she is 83.

"And how long did it take for you to develop into who you are?" She said a few months.

"No", I said. "You are 83. Your body is a reflection of 83 years of your life. Although healing is possible, we are still working against 83 years. So whatever you are going through is not going to go away overnight.

"Also, don't dwell on your pain or other symptoms. You have had days where you were feeling better. If your discomforts are the clouds on a rainy day, the times you feel better are as if the sun were peaking through. The sun is there, behind the clouds, even if you can't see it. So dwell on the sun, and just like a rainy day, eventually the clouds go away. That's what healing is all about."

Until next time....

Is It Holistic?

I received a call the other day from a gal who had been in a car accident. She wanted to see me because I am, as she termed it, "a holistic chiropractor". Since we are a cash only office, she wanted to find someone who took her car insurance, so she was going to continue trying to find a holistic DC.

But in reality, her search is not for someone who is holistic.

People tend to think my work is holistic just because I do not thrust into the spine as most chiropractors do, but this is far from the truth. Holistic vs. allopathic is not about the technique, it is about the INTENT.

An allopathic approach to the body is one that 'treats' a diagnosed condition. The intent is to make the condition go away. It does not consider the entire person. It is judgemental in that it considers that whatever the condition is, is wrong and must be dealt with.

The holistic intent is not concerned with a condition at all. This intent considers that any condition is an attempt by the body to heal something, but its ability to heal may be interefered with. The approach to healing is to strengthen the body, remove whatever blockages may be occuring, and allow the body to heal in whatever way supports its greater good. There is no judgement placed upon the condition. It is neither right nor wrong, good or bad. It just is.

In this case, this lady wanted to be treated for the car accident, but she wanted my gentle approach thinking that it is holistic. However, this is actually allopathic, because the conditions being treated are injuries from the accident.

As you can see, it's all about the intent.

Until next time...

Awareness

The number one reason people go to a doctor is because they are in pain. And it isn't so much that they have pain, but it's more about what the pain is intefering with in their lives. What's it keeping them from doing?

M was telling me yesterday that someone suggested he have cortisone shots for the pain in his neck. His xrays showed that he has ostephytes around the joints of his neck vertebra, so therefore cortisone will make the pain go away.

I asked, "Why do you want the pain to go away?"

He said so that he is more comfortable.

I said, "Maybe the pain is supposed to be there, have you considered that?"

Of course he said "no".

The body doesn't just give us pain to be mean. There is a reason for it. Any symptom means three things: Stop, Pay attention, and change something. Or,more simply, just BE AWARE.

When we have pain the Innate Intelligence of our body is telling us that something we are doing, or involved in, or experiencing is not working for us. If we ignore the pain by "doing something to make it go away", then we are not listening. It may go away for awhile, but it will come back and ususally feel much worse. This will often lead to more dramatic 'therapies' that end in degeneration and death of the area involved.

We ahve to listen to what the pain is telling us. When you are in pain, what do you differently? What emotions do you feel? How do you feel about how you feel? Do you breath diffently or hold yourself differently when you hurt?

By answering these questions we can be more in touch with our inner guidance which will do more to help one heal through it, than to fight it. There is no health in numbing oneself to pain. Remember, dead people feel no pain, living people do. It's what you do with it that makes the difference between healing and growing, or dying.

Until next time.....

Pre-emptive Surgery?

I had a discussion with someone today who was telling me about a girl he knows who had her breasts removed because someone in her family had breast cancer. Was it her mother? I can't remember, but apparently she carries the 'gene' for breast cancer and just to be safe, she had hers removed.

I find it amazing that the medical profession, a profession sworn to "do no harm" can actually convince people that by mutilating their bodies like this, they can actually prevent a disease. I also wonder how many of the male surgeons would have their testicles removed if their fathers had had testicular cancer? Probably not a one, yet they have convinced women to do this with their breasts. They even convince them to have their ovaries and uteri removed if there is a familial history of cancer here to. Let's just castrate women to save their lives. Insanity.

The notion that we carry genes that cause cancers is ludicrous. Cell biologist Bruce Lipton has done extensive research on cellular genes and genetic expression, and has shown that genes do not rule our lives as the medics tend to believe. He has shown that if he takes undifferentiated stem cells growing in culture, and puts them in a specific environment, he can get them to become muscle cells. Change the environment and they become nerve cells, or liver cells, or cancer cells. In other words, we are not victims of the genes we inherit. But rather the genes will express certain ways based upon the environment of the cell - change the environment, change the cell.

Just because someone in the family had a form of cancer does not mean that everyone in the family will get the same one, or any at all. It's the environment and various stimuli that get the cells to become what they are. By adopting a healthy life style, one minimizes the risk that they will get cancer. But to pre-emptively remove a body part amounts to mutilation.

My mother had brain cancer. According to this thinking, maybe I should have mine removed just so I don't get it too.

Happy Birthday Chiropractic!

On this date in 1895, in Davenport Iowa, a janitor named Harvey Lillard was working in D.D. Palmer's office. D.D. had been many things, but held a passion for anatomy, physiology, and looking at what made people sick. He had an office in downtown Davenport and was practicing as a magnetic healer. This was a form of laying on of hands, and may have been similar to what we know as Reiki today.

Harvey was hard of hearing and told Palmer that he had been that way for several years after he had lifted something heavy and felt a 'pop' in his back. Palmer had Lillard lie down on his table and felt along his spine. We don't know exactly what Palmer had found, but he described it as a "bone out of place". He thrust into that bone and "reset it". Within a couple of days, Lillard's hearing had returned, and a healing profession was born.

Palmer noted the relationship of the spine with the nerve system, (i.e. spinal cord) and said that Lillard's hearing returned because he removed the interference of the nerves to the ear that was caused by the bones of the spine. He called his new science 'chiropractic' which means "performed by hand" and began treating people with all sorts of conditions by adjusting the spine. People came from all over to be treated by Palmer and his new technique.

Actually there was nothing new about adjusting the spine as people had been doing it for centuries. But this was the first time that someone related the spine to the health of the nerve system.

Palmer wanted to keep the technique to himself, as was quite common for doctors at that time, but his son, B.J., felt that the world needed this healing modality. He founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport. And, the rest is history.

Today, there are thousands of chiropractors around the world treating thousands of people every day. Chiropractic is the largest natural healing profession in the world, and the second largest healing profession next to the MD's. And this is all because one man had his hearing restored on a hot afternoon in 1895.

Happy birthday chiropractic!