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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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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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Acorns into Oak Trees

Inside of every acorn exists the potential and the ability to become a mighty oak tree.

It just needs a few things to realize its potential. It needs some sun, air, water, good nutrition from the soil, and one more thing…

It needs to be free from interference so that the innate processes that grow it from acorn to oak tree can progress.

Chiropractic says that we are all just like acorns too. It says that each of us has a very special purpose and potential of our own. And, just like the acorn, in order for us to reach our potential, we require a few things as well.

We need some sun, air, water, good nutrition, and one thing more. We also need to be free from interference in our nerve systems so that our Life energy can flow normally and we can adapt to all the physical, chemical and mental stresses we encounter in our lives, heal any injuries we may have and continue to grow and unfold into whatever we are meant to be.

Because of the intimate connections between your spine and your nerve system, whenever you lose normal alignment or function in your spine, you also partially lose the CONNECTIONS between your brain and our body. As a result, you no longer have full expression of your “Innate intelligence” or “Life Energy.” This causes a loss of normal function and the ability to adapt completely to the internal and external stresses you continually encounter. In turn, your body functions at less than optimal levels. This loss of your natural state of health (ease) is referred to as a state of “dis-ease.”

The specific chiropractic adjustment process helps restore normal alignment and function in your spine and re-establish the neurological CONNECTIONS between your brain and your body. This in turn allows for the free flow of your Life Energy and therefore restores the ability to function more normally and adapt more completely to both internal and external physical, chemical and mental stresses, as well as to heal and grow.

The result is an ever-increasing realization of your potential in life!

The most important thing to realize here is that chiropractic is not a “treatment” for anything. It is, a way to help maximize the expression of your Life Energy in your body. It is a way to help ensure the greatest possible chance of fully expressing your purpose and your potential in life.

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An Astounding Affirmation

Springtime

Spring comes when the earth, coaxed by lengthening days and warmer temperatures, begins to awaken from her winter slumber. She stretches open to receive the rain that gives drink to flower buds and seedlings. She takes a deep breath, and on her exhale the leaves on trees unfurl like tiny flags heralding her revival as baby animals tumble forth, trumpeting the good news to all who will listen. Rebirth and repopulation fill the void of winter with flurry and fury as what appeared to be gone forever comes into being once again. Even though it happens this way every year, we stand in awe, our insides trembling sweetly like the legs of a new foal as we too are reborn.

This is when we fall in love, again, speak without thinking, say yes to things we would normally refuse. It becomes more difficult to say no when the whole world around us appears to be an astounding affirmation of the resilience, richness, and plain, perfect beauty of life. We may find ourselves feeling several years younger and 10 pounds lighter without changing a thing. We may feel the urge to cleanse our bodies with a new pattern of eating, clearing our kitchens of cold-weather comfort foods and filling them instead with lighter fare and fresh fruits and vegetables. We may clear our closets of old clothes or cut our hair to express a new facet of who we are, and who we might become.

Springtime inspires us to believe that, along with the earth, we too might change, release the past, and give birth to new ideas, new relationships, and new perspectives. In honor of spring, we could make a list of the many possibilities we envision for the future and bury it in the earth, surrendering the fertile seeds of our imaginations to the nurturing soil. In tune with the season, we can then watch in wonder as the last of the snow dissolves into the rich brown earth, and stark winter gives way to green possibility.

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Below The Surface

Finding Deep Strength

We have all faced moments in our lives when the pressure mounts beyond what we feel we can handle, and we find ourselves thinking that we do not have the strength to carry on. Sometimes we have just gotten through a major obstacle or illness only to find another one waiting for us the moment we finally catch our breath. Sometimes we endure one loss after another, wondering when we will get a break from life’s travails. It does not seem fair or right that life should demand more of us when we feel we have given all we can, but sometimes this is the way life works.

When we look back on our lives, we see that we have survived many trials and surmounted many obstacles, often to our own amazement. In each of those instances, we had to break through our ideas about how much we can handle and go deeper into our hidden reserves. The thought that we do not have the strength to handle what is before us can be likened to the hard surface of a frozen lake. It appears to be an impenetrable fact, but when we break through it, we find that a deep well of energy and inspiration was trapped beneath that icy barrier the whole time. Sometimes we break through by cutting a hole into our resistance with our willpower, and sometimes we melt the ice with compassion for our predicament and ourselves. Either way, each time we break through, we reach a new understanding of the strength we store within ourselves.

When we find ourselves up against that frozen barrier of thinking we cannot handle our situation, we may find that the kindest choice is to love ourselves and our resistance too. We can simply accept that we are overwhelmed, exhausted, and stretched, and we can offer ourselves loving kindness and compassion. If we can extend to ourselves the unconditional warmth of a mother’s love, before we know it, the ice will begin to break.

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An Enlivening Force
Cultivating Inspiration

We all know inspiration when we feel it. It is a force that enlivens us and activates us to do something-we might dance, sing, paint the house, or envision a new career. We might call an old friend or plan a trip abroad. Whatever the case, doing what we do from a place of inspiration makes all things seem possible. Inspiration sometimes comes out of nowhere, landing unexpectedly in the midst of your life and lifting you out of your habitual mind and into a higher level of seeing. However, we can be more intentional with our relationship with inspiration than just waiting for it to come to us. There are many ways to cultivate its presence, from journaling to scrap booking to visiting with a particularly interesting friend. Finding what inspires you and consciously cultivating it will give you access to new ways of thinking and energy you didn’t know you had.

Some people find that frequent trips into nature inspire them. Others have a box full of objects-a seashell, an old photograph, or even a collection of rocks-that does the trick. There are as many ways to find inspiration as there are people looking for it. If you already know what inspires you, find a way to incorporate it into your life on a regular basis. If you aren’t sure what inspires you, or if it has changed, take some time to think about it. When was the last time you felt the spark of your imagination? When was the last time you acted on an impulse that felt totally right? When we are in the presence of what inspires us, we hear our inner guidance more clearly and we have the energy to follow its cues.

If it has been a while since you have been touched by inspiration, you may feel listless and dissatisfied. Know that you can turn things around by remembering what lights you up and bringing that into your life.

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Your Most Vital Commitment

Finding Time For You

Within each of there is a well of energy that must be regularly replenished. When we act as if this well is bottomless, scheduling a long list of activities that fit like puzzle pieces into every minute of every day, it becomes depleted and we feel exhausted, disconnected, and weak. Refilling this well is a matter of finding time to focus on, nurture, and care for ourselves, or “you time.” Most of us are, at different times throughout the day, a spouse, a friend, a relative, an employee, a parent, or a volunteer, which means that down time, however relaxing in nature, is not necessarily “you time.” Though some people will inevitably look upon “you time” as being selfish, it is actually the polar opposite of selfishness. We can only excel where our outer world affairs are concerned when our own spiritual, physical, and intellectual needs are fulfilled.

Recognizing the importance of “you time” is far easier than finding a place for it in an active, multifaceted lifestyle, however. Even if you find a spot for it in your agenda, you may be dismayed to discover that your thoughts continuously stray into worldly territory. To make the most of “you time,” give yourself enough time on either side of the block of time you plan to spend on yourself to ensure that you do not feel rushed. Consider how you would like to pass the time, forgetting for the moment your obligations and embracing the notion of renewal. You may discover that you are energized by creative pursuits, guided meditation, relaxing activities during which your mind can wander, or modes of expression such as writing.

Even if you have achieved a functioning work-life balance, you may still be neglecting the most important part of that equation: you. “You time” prepares you for the next round of daily life, whether you are poised to immerse yourself in a professional project or chores around the home. It also affords you a unique opportunity to learn about yourself, your needs, and your tolerances in a concrete way. As unimportant as “you time” can sometimes seem, it truly is crucial to your wellbeing because it ensures that you are never left without the energy to give of yourself.

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Liquid Energy

Drinking Water

Water is life. As the planet is blanketed by nurturing salt seas and fresh water concourses, so are our own bodies, and those of all plants and animals, created from and provided for by water. We are bound to it and it to us so strongly that, as was discovered by Dr. Masaru Emoto, the vibrational energy projected by humans in the form of thoughts, words, ideas, intentions, and sounds has the power to alter water’s molecular structure. Dr. Emoto was working with magnetic resonance fields when he realized that the unique crystalline forms assumed by frozen water indicated that the water bore the imprint of not only its physical state, but also its spiritual surroundings.

The initial findings were simple: pure water creates beautiful, snowflake-like crystals while polluted water is entirely unable to form crystals and resembles mud. Dr. Emoto followed this by placing distilled water in front of speakers playing various forms of music, ranging from classical to heavy metal. Soothing, uplifting music inspired the formation of exquisite crystals, while discordant music forced the water to assume distorted forms. He found that positive or negative words and phrases typed on paper and affixed to bottles or simply spoken nearby created vibrations that enacted change in the water’s structure. Words like ‘love’ and ‘gratitude’ had a positive, cleansing effect on water and caused it to form pure, tight crystalline clusters. He also found that deep and focused prayer, even when spoken from afar, had the power to heal large bodies of polluted water. When the speaker was sincere, the words positive, the music beneficial to the soul, or the prayer pure in intent, Dr. Emoto found that the water retained the beneficial changes to its structure for some time.

Dr. Emoto compiled his findings in two-volumes entitled “Messages From Water.” Therein he explains how the effect of energy, both positive and negative, can now be clearly seen not only in water itself, but in all living things. As our bodies are mostly water, we are inexorably bound to the element and the molecular changes that occur in response to words, prayer, pollution, deeds, gratitude, and love. Positive energy will effect positive changes within our bodies and negative energy will effect negative changes. While it is empowering to realize that we possess such a level of control over our own health when we take action & have awareness.

Your body is estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent water. Blood is mostly water, and your muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water. Your body needs water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to all your organs. Water also transports oxygen to your cells, removes waste, and protects your joints and organs.

How Much Water do You Need to Drink? A good estimate is to take your body weight in pounds and divide that number in half. That gives you the number of ounces of water per day that you need to drink. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink at least 80 ounces of water per day. Water is life & it is essential for your health & well-being. Stay hydrated

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