Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Being Thankful

I would like to take a moment this week and give a big Thank You to all of our Food Drive and Toy Drive participants. We delivered 847 lbs. of food to the Food Bank of the Rockies! The Food Bank was in desperate need this year for donations and we feel so grateful for you that you were able to give so much.
I know we’ve asked a lot of you for the past 6 years when we do two different donation related drives back-to-back, yet every year we continue to give more and more. Thank you for being a part of our consistent growth.
The following quote sums up our gratitude to be taking care of such great and generous people!
“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don’t give thanks because we’re happy. We are happy because we give thanks.” (Douglas Wood, The Secret of Saying Thanks).

Friday, November 20, 2009

Mechanism vs. Vitalism

It is best to view your body not as a machine that is destined to break down, but rather as an organism infused with LIFE, able to heal, regenerate, repair and thrive. In fact, it has been proven that there is no signal from your brain that will create harm to your body.
Your body is always renewing and regenerating itself – so long as the force of life is present within you. Think about it, if you cut your finger vs. a corpse’s finger, who is going to heal?
You could perform any advanced surgical procedure, put on a special cream, and nothing would allow the corpse to heal. You, however, heal from the inside-out.
Every 7 days you have a new layer of skin cells, every 24 hours you have a new intestinal lining, every 6 weeks a new liver, even your skeletal structure is being broken down and regenerated with the laying down of new cells.
Why then do we age, and our joints degenerate? The answer is simple. Due to stress and imbalance we cause uneven wear and tear, we allow toxins into our system, not feeding it the right nutrition, we have negative thought patterns and behaviors. The result is increased cell division – which causes aging. Take skin cancer – too much exposure = a lot of your body working to “heal” overtime = increased cell division = dis-ease & accelerated aging with those tissues. Take that example into any structure or organ in your body and you quickly realize how important it is to feed your body the right nutrition, to exercise with balance, to begin the process of becoming more aware of what your thought patterns and behaviors are and if they serve you.
This along with consistent chiropractic care, leads to healthier, younger acting cells being laid down in every organ and system of your body, allowing that force of life within you to do its very best at giving you the highest expression of LIFE and Vitality!

Friday, November 13, 2009

Unconditional LIFE

It has been said that: Conditional love says: “I have got to find a way to stop all things that make me feel so bad.” You go about your day thinking, worrying and stressing about those things that make you feel bad – how can I fix them? What can I do?
Then you have: Unconditional love which says: “I cannot control those conditions, but I can control the direction of my thought. And the direction of thought is all I need to control how I feel.”
BOOM – you’ve got it!
Once you get a handle on this concept you are finally free. Free from trauma, free from disaster, free from all those things that make you feel terrible.
You get from this moment forward to determine HOW you will react to LIFE! You can see challenges immediately as opportunities – instead of downward spiraling into frustration and despair. You can see arguments as a means to have the chance to create more clarity with your communication and understanding. You can see the loss of a job as the opportunity to work toward something better.
We know you “get this” stuff. We just want this info. to serve as a gentle reminder to always focus on the good – it’s there, always – sometimes you just have to look a little harder.
This is such a great time of the year to focus on Gratitude. As you practice it more and more – you create momentum – momentum that will carry you through the hustle and bustle of all the holidays!

Friday, November 6, 2009

When Action meets Vision

All the great success stories you’ve read – all the great, masterful, influential, inspirational individuals you’ve met, heard about, read about, seen in the newspapers, etc… They all had one quality that set them apart. They chose to act on their dreams.
Their dreams served as an inspiration to keep them focused during times of economic downturn, during times of sickness and disease, during times of getting thru some rough days and the daily grind of some responsibilities they wished they didn’t have to fulfill. Despite all of those things, they kept on task with their ultimate vision. So, the real question we should all be asking is: “Am I doing what I can, the best that I can, for what I believe in?” If not you’ve either lost your dream, forgotten your dream, smothered your dream with day to day details, or gave up on your dream.
I hope this inspires you to at the very least start thinking about what your dream or dreams really are. What were they, what are they now and how can you gain more clarification as to make them into a tangible reality?
Don’t focus on the state of the economy, the H1N1, job losses, failures, etc… to detour you and limit your capacity to dream. There is no better time than now, than to begin reigniting passion within you to begin gaining resources and creating momentum for yourself to live from the thoughts, ideas, and inspirations on the inside rather than the fears, worries, doubts and criticisms on the outside.
You are meant to not only survive, but THRIVE.
How does this relate to your chiropractic care? Consider this: The founder of chiropractic over 114 years ago truly did not want to teach the chiropractic adjustment. He knew it would eventually end up being another allopathic method for treating symptoms. HE KNEW the cause of disease to be poor behaviors, and poor patterns of living, causing the attraction of negative thoughts, traumas, and toxins. He wanted to start a school to raise up leaders, to educate people on living a vitalistic lifestyle, not a school of adjusters.
So there you have it – the “mental adjustment” for the week!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Achieving Balance in Your Life

On the Ed Sullivan show, there was a guest that would make frequent appearances. He was known as, “the plate spinner.” The gentleman would demonstrate that he could keep several plates spinning and balanced upon rods. When one plate would lose momentum he would rush over to it and spin it, and just as he would get it going again, another would lose momentum and begin to wobble. From plate to plate he would rush, giving them appropriate attention to keep their momentum and balance going against gravity.
Our life and its many dimensions can be likened to the plate spinner experience. There are seven different realms of life: physical, mental, family, social, vocational, spiritual, and financial. Whether we consciously know it or not, we are always striving to maintain balance and “momentum” within each realm. When one needs our attention, (starts to wobble) we rush over to it and give it the needed attention.
When you begin to consciously grasp each realm and focus upon creating balance and momentum in each, you can begin to more effortlessly spin and keep your plates going! At first it can be a lot of tough work, but the joy of it all is that the better you get, you begin to add sub-dimensions and create more responsibility for yourself. The challenge and game continues and evolves as you do!
Here at Elevation Now, PC we are focused upon helping you achieve optimal health and wellbeing – one of the most important realms, for without it, none of the others matter much.