Communication
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Centering And Expressing
Communication
When we are in a relationship where we feel listened to and understood, we count ourselves lucky because we know how rare that experience is. We reserve our most intimate selves for the people who, along with us, cocreate an open space where we feel free to express ourselves and listen without judgment. These relationships, which thrive on open communication, can mean the difference between existential loneliness and a deep sense of belonging. We all long to feel heard, understood, and loved, and clear communication makes this possible.
Sometimes problems arise in the process of expressing how we feel, but it is always worth it to do the work. Even in our less intimate relationships, expressing ourselves honestly is essential to our sense of well-being. Whether at home with family or in the outside world, successful communication requires some forethought; otherwise we risk blundering through our relationships like the proverbial bull in a china shop. However, too much forethought can stifle us or cause us to pad our words so extremely that we end up saying nothing at all or confusing the matter further. The good news is that there are many methods that can come to our rescue, from meditation to visualization to journaling.
If the person we need to communicate with is open to sitting in meditation together for a set period of time before speaking, this can be invaluable. When we are calm and centered, we can count on ourselves to speak and respond truthfully. We can also meditate on our own time and then practice what we need to say. A visualization in which we sit with the person and lovingly exchange a few words can also be a great precedent to an actual conversation. If writing comes easily, we can write out what we need to say; it may take several drafts, but we will eventually find the words. The key is to find ways to center ourselves so that we communicate meaningfully, lovingly, and wisely. In this way, we honor our companions and create relationships in which there is a genuine sense of understanding and respect.
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Saving the Earth
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Have Fun And Save The Planet
Think Globally, Eat Locally
We all know that our planet needs our help right now, but we often feel unsure about what to do, where to make an effort, and what will really help. The good news is that we can heal the planet on a daily basis simply by buying and eating food that is grown locally. Food that has been transported long distances doesn’t contain much life force by the time it gets to your kitchen. Making a commitment to shop, buy, and eat locally is not only a very important part of creating positive change, it can also be delicious fun.
One of the best places to begin the adventure of eating locally is a farmer’s market. Stalls brim with fresh fruits and vegetables grown on nearby farms. Not only is this good for the environment, it’s good for the farmers since they benefit from selling directly to the consumer. The consumer benefits, too, from the intimate experience of buying food from the hand of the person who grew it. In addition, the food is fresher and more diverse. In supermarkets, particular varieties of fruits and vegetables are favored due to their ability to survive transport to a far destination. Alternately, at a farmer’s market, you will find versions of the fruits and vegetables you know that will surprise and delight your senses—green striped heirloom tomatoes, purple cauliflower, white carrots, and edible flowers, just to name a few.
Make an effort to buy as much of your food as possible directly from local farmers. You will become one of a growing number of people eating delicious food to save the planet and having fun doing it.
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The Chiropractic View of Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is one of the most frequent areas of discussion and concern among people in the United States right now, and the recently enacted laws and programs are doing little to alleviate our fears. In fact, many people are now more worried than ever and wondering what can be done to remedy the situation long term. The problem with trying to create any new plan of action can be summed up in a quote from Albert Einstein who said, “We cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that existed when we created it.” Einstein is basically saying we need to actually change (“re-form”) our entire level of thinking before trying to take new actions in order to effectively re-form healthcare for our future.
One thing most people need to re-form their thinking about is HOW our bodies actually heal. All of the various tissues, organs, and other structures in your body are really just groups of individual, specialized cells. When your body needs to repair itself, it does so by destroying the individual cells that are old, damaged, and have lost their normal function, and it completely REPLACES them with new, healthy, fully functional cells. In other words, your body quite literally “RE-FORMS” itself! In fact, this process of renewal never stops.
For example, every second, your body makes 8 million new red blood cells to replace the old, dying, dysfunctional and damaged ones. You make an entirely new stomach lining every 3-5 days, a new skin every 30 days, a new liver every 6 weeks, and new lungs every 6 months. What’s more, you completely replace every single atom in your body every 13 months or so! This replacement of your cells as they lose their ability to function ensures that your tissues and organs always have an optimal potential to keep you healthy. So it’s true; your body quite literally, constantly “RE-FORMS” itself!
There are 3 things you will need to “re-form” in your life in order to optimize your health & body.
RE-FORM Your Focus: Most people focus on what’s wrong in their life and in the world, what’s missing, and what they DON’T want to happen. Re-form your focus onto the opposite three things; What’s RIGHT in your life and the world, what you HAVE to be grateful for, and what you WANT to see happen. This creates positive emotions and HEALING, CONSTRUCTIVE biochemistry to help re-form your cells and therefore your body.
RE-FORM Your Lifestyle: A healthy lifestyle includes two crucial aspects. It both minimizes poisons, and maximizes nutrients and everything else your cells need to function optimally. Re-forming your lifestyle will help you re-form your body, cell by cell, tissue by tissue, and organ by organ.
RE-FORM The Neurological Connections Between Your Brain and Body: In order for the Innate Intelligence that runs your body to be able to properly identify when cells need to be replaced and correctly replace them, you require a clear connection in the nerves between your brain and all the cells of your body. Because of the numerous intricate connections between your nerve system and your spine, maintaining a clear brain-body connection requires an aligned and fully functioning spine! Because your nerve system is the master control system of your body, re-forming and maintaining your spinal function and neural connections is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of helping your body consistently re-form itself correctly.
By re-forming your focus and lifestyle, and seeing your chiropractor every week or two to re-form and maintain your brain-body connection, you can continuously re-form your body without ever worrying again about what the government is doing with healthcare reform! Health is an amazing journey 
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A Health Lesson from a Basketball Team
As I was watching a basketball game this weekend, I became aware of some similarities between what is required to be a strong, winning team, and what it takes to be really healthy and be your best physically, mentally and in every other way.
The strongest basketball teams all have three things in common;
1) They always play to win, rather than employing a “prevent-defense” and trying NOT to lose.
2) They are the best prepared and conditioned so they can handle whatever comes their way.
3) They have the best communication both between the individual members of the team, and between the players and the coach.
This allows them to be the STRONGEST they can be. And more times than not, they come out on the winning end of their contests, which also means they end up having the most fun!
The same can be said of you and your body. YOU and your body are the strongest when you;
1) Play to WIN, rather than using a preventive and defensive strategy, trying to NOT lose. This means mostly focusing on the positive things in life including;
a. What’s going right, rather than what’s not.
b. What you HAVE to be GRATEFUL for, rather than what’s missing.
c. What you WANT to see happen, rather than what you fear and DON’T want to see happen.
2) You are the best prepared and conditioned because of your healthy lifestyle. This has two very important parts;
a. It minimizes poisons, pollutants, chemicals, and things that weaken you.
b. It maximizes nutrients and other things your body needs so that it can do what it is asked to do as efficiently as possible.
3) You have good communication within your body. In order for your Innate Intelligence to be able to keep you on top of your game, it must be able to correctly comprehend and respond to everything both internally and in your external environment. This requires a clear neurological connection between your brain and all of the trillions of cells in your body.
Because of the intimate connections between your spine and your nerve system, the only way to maintain a clear brain-body connection is to make sure your spine is correctly aligned and fully functioning. Chiropractic care can not only RESTORE normal alignment and function to your spine and RE-ESTABLISH your brain-body connection; it can KEEP you functioning at your best all through your life, so that you too can experience what it means to “play above the rim” and be happier than you’ve ever dreamed!
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Peace
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An Inner Choice
Peace
“There cannot be peace in the world until we have it in our own hearts and minds, our own families and neighborhoods.”
Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder. We feel compelled to transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are often disappointed in our best attempts to do so. One reason for this is that we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Peace starts in our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally. Once we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and the whole wide world. Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our own relationship to peacefulness.
Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within. We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict. We begin to see our thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness.
When we find that we are able to locate ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves. Until then, we help the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within.
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