My 6 year old daughter has this peculiar desire to learn how to play chess. Despite my lack of superb chess playing skill, I knew I could teach her the basics. So we sat down this past Saturday morning and fought it out on the chess board. I’m not one to “let my kids win,” yet I point out the good, bad, and downright ugly catastrophic moves. Along the way I absolutely relished watching her mind THINK. I could see her eyes look at a piece and play out the next couple sequential moves in her head. Occasionally her eyes would “light up,” with excitement and her mouth would drop open wide with a smile as she would swipe one of my pieces off the board.
Watching her learn this game of chess made me realize we are never supposed to stop learning. Life is made so much more rich and fulfilling when we are ever expanding our Minds and accumulating those “light bulb,” moments.
Those “light bulb,” moments is where experience imprints itself upon us. Those “light bulb” moments become ingrained so we never forget them. That is where experience creates Wisdom.
We can choose to go about our lives content and satisfied, or worse, cynical and judgmental ~ assuming we know it all about our world OR we can search out and discover what that unconscious desire for growth and expansion is all about in this thing we call LIFE.
Our challenge to you is to engage LIFE to the fullest!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Back Pain/ Neck Pain/ Headaches/ Emotional Well-Being?
Chiropractic was founded on 4 principles:
1. The body is a self-healing organism (you cut your finger versus a corpse’s finger – who’s going to heal?).
2. The nerve system is the master and director of all bodily activity. Everything we experience is processed through our nerve system.
3. Interference can take place to the communication flow from our nerve system to the rest of our body. That interference results in physical, bio-chemical, and emotional symptoms and can lead not only to a sick individual, but a sick society.
4. The chiropractor’s Purpose is to remove the interference taking place over the nerve system (the master communication system) which allows your body to heal and maintain itself from the inside-out. This leads to a healthy, happy individual and multiply that by thousands and you have a healthy, happy society!
So yes, chiropractic is well-known for and can help back pain, neck pain, headaches, etc… BUT chiropractic was never intended for that. It was intended to allow an individual to express and experience 100% LIFE and begin to reach their individual potential!
A greater quality of LIFE, a greater sense of confidence and Well-Being – these are the effects of consistent chiropractic care!
1. The body is a self-healing organism (you cut your finger versus a corpse’s finger – who’s going to heal?).
2. The nerve system is the master and director of all bodily activity. Everything we experience is processed through our nerve system.
3. Interference can take place to the communication flow from our nerve system to the rest of our body. That interference results in physical, bio-chemical, and emotional symptoms and can lead not only to a sick individual, but a sick society.
4. The chiropractor’s Purpose is to remove the interference taking place over the nerve system (the master communication system) which allows your body to heal and maintain itself from the inside-out. This leads to a healthy, happy individual and multiply that by thousands and you have a healthy, happy society!
So yes, chiropractic is well-known for and can help back pain, neck pain, headaches, etc… BUT chiropractic was never intended for that. It was intended to allow an individual to express and experience 100% LIFE and begin to reach their individual potential!
A greater quality of LIFE, a greater sense of confidence and Well-Being – these are the effects of consistent chiropractic care!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Saving Lives
Your body is either right now this very moment dying or growing. Every moment you truly have the opportunity to save your life, and the lives of others. Every smile, every kind gesture, every act of hope and love saves lives. It is the accumulation of these events that causes life to perpetuate.
Whenever we engage in behavior that is destructive to life – consuming food and beverages that aren’t meant to be consumed; downward spiraling into negative thought patterns of fear, worry, grief, and depression; causing our physical structure to break down because of overuse repetitive motion, lack of exercise, etc…,etc…. we create for ourselves a slow death.
What do you choose? More life expressed in every moment or a slow death?
The chiropractic adjustment you receive restores LIFE! It absolutely removes interference from the communication flow from your brain to your body – increasing your healing, and increasing your performance in every realm of your life!
Who is the real hero? The one who at the end of someone’s life of a slow death – defers death for moments, minutes, days, months, maybe years longer OR the people who choose moment by moment to be on a mission of SAVING LIVES almost INTANGIBLY through sharing more hope, love, optimism and inspiration?
Whenever we engage in behavior that is destructive to life – consuming food and beverages that aren’t meant to be consumed; downward spiraling into negative thought patterns of fear, worry, grief, and depression; causing our physical structure to break down because of overuse repetitive motion, lack of exercise, etc…,etc…. we create for ourselves a slow death.
What do you choose? More life expressed in every moment or a slow death?
The chiropractic adjustment you receive restores LIFE! It absolutely removes interference from the communication flow from your brain to your body – increasing your healing, and increasing your performance in every realm of your life!
Who is the real hero? The one who at the end of someone’s life of a slow death – defers death for moments, minutes, days, months, maybe years longer OR the people who choose moment by moment to be on a mission of SAVING LIVES almost INTANGIBLY through sharing more hope, love, optimism and inspiration?
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Prep Time/ Prime Time/ Play Time
These are the three quadrants of time for living a balanced life: Prep time/ Prime time and Play Time.
-Prep Time is time used to: plan/ prepare/ organize/ clean, etc…
-Prime Time is time to do your work.
-Play Time is time to: rest, relax, rejuvenate, do a hobby, go on a vacation, etc…
When you are able to go about your life with some relative balance within the three quadrants of time, you are able to create ease, efficiency, and guilt-free fun in your life.
Look at your weekly calendar. Every week should be well balanced with adequate Prep time, Prime time, and Play time. You deserve it! – and don’t fall into the trap that you don’t have the time to plan it all out! Guess what - You will never have the time unless you take the time to plan and carve out your day, your week, your month, and your year. You get to determine your schedule and if you don’t – your life will be run by outside events and circumstances.
Another challenge:
Learn to love what you do and if that’s not possible find another job – have your vocation be your avocation. Then everything you do – be it Prep/ Prime/or Play time will all align and unify – creating for you an overall better, and ultimately longer life!
-Prep Time is time used to: plan/ prepare/ organize/ clean, etc…
-Prime Time is time to do your work.
-Play Time is time to: rest, relax, rejuvenate, do a hobby, go on a vacation, etc…
When you are able to go about your life with some relative balance within the three quadrants of time, you are able to create ease, efficiency, and guilt-free fun in your life.
Look at your weekly calendar. Every week should be well balanced with adequate Prep time, Prime time, and Play time. You deserve it! – and don’t fall into the trap that you don’t have the time to plan it all out! Guess what - You will never have the time unless you take the time to plan and carve out your day, your week, your month, and your year. You get to determine your schedule and if you don’t – your life will be run by outside events and circumstances.
Another challenge:
Learn to love what you do and if that’s not possible find another job – have your vocation be your avocation. Then everything you do – be it Prep/ Prime/or Play time will all align and unify – creating for you an overall better, and ultimately longer life!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Letter to the editor on August 29, 2009 in a Jackson, MS newspaper.
Take a moment to read and digest this!
Dear Sirs:
During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care?
Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture- a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks, "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.
Don’t you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS
Dear Sirs:
During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care?
Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture- a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks, "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.
Don’t you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS
Friday, December 11, 2009
Within every misFORTUNE is a hidden FORTUNE!
Our son Jack, playing with one of his cars at a restaurant drops it between the booth and the brick wall. Aarrrgh!! “Car, car?” Jack says frantically. Our daughter, Norah, reached down struggling to grasp Jack’s car. Samantha, my wife, saw her grabbing what she thought was a piece of trash and low and behold she came up with a $10.00 bill! Then we were able to take the seat off the bench and wallah – the car was rescued & Jack was happy, as we all were realizing within this apparent misfortune, there was a FORTUNE!
An email I read described a gentleman driving home from work on Colorado Boulevard in Denver. His car died – completely out of the blue – and he was able to coast into a gas station. He got out of his car frustrated and saw a woman crying while scrambling to see how much money she had to gas up her suburban full of children. He approached the woman to see if she was okay. She said her boyfriend had left her, and she packed her children and everything they had into the Suburban and were driving to her parents in California (of which she had not spoken to in 5 years). The gentleman swiped his card to fill up her car and went inside buying all the kids food from McDonalds. The woman was so grateful and asked if he was an angel. He smiled and turned to his car, realizing what a blessing it was to have his car quit giving him the opportunity to help out a family. He sat in his car and it started right up! A FORTUNE in an apparent misfortune.
Lastly, one of our patients, previously turned off by chiropractors had 9 weeks of suffering from vertigo. Cat scans & MRI’s at the hospital revealed nothing. A reluctant husband said, you’ve tried everything, I guess it’s time to try chiropractic. After one adjustment, crawling around was no longer the means of movement – this woman could walk! Her vertigo subsided significantly and now she and her husband enjoy the benefits of wellness chiropractic care. A FORTUNE in health all brought about by an apparent misfortune.
An email I read described a gentleman driving home from work on Colorado Boulevard in Denver. His car died – completely out of the blue – and he was able to coast into a gas station. He got out of his car frustrated and saw a woman crying while scrambling to see how much money she had to gas up her suburban full of children. He approached the woman to see if she was okay. She said her boyfriend had left her, and she packed her children and everything they had into the Suburban and were driving to her parents in California (of which she had not spoken to in 5 years). The gentleman swiped his card to fill up her car and went inside buying all the kids food from McDonalds. The woman was so grateful and asked if he was an angel. He smiled and turned to his car, realizing what a blessing it was to have his car quit giving him the opportunity to help out a family. He sat in his car and it started right up! A FORTUNE in an apparent misfortune.
Lastly, one of our patients, previously turned off by chiropractors had 9 weeks of suffering from vertigo. Cat scans & MRI’s at the hospital revealed nothing. A reluctant husband said, you’ve tried everything, I guess it’s time to try chiropractic. After one adjustment, crawling around was no longer the means of movement – this woman could walk! Her vertigo subsided significantly and now she and her husband enjoy the benefits of wellness chiropractic care. A FORTUNE in health all brought about by an apparent misfortune.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Challenges Birth a New Perspective
Gaining perspective in your life is sometimes best achieved during the most difficult challenges you encounter. Perspective gives us the opportunity to re-adjust our compass setting (life’s direction) or create a compass setting for that matter. It gives you the opportunity to re-visit your dreams and where you are headed in your life and which direction you’d like to go or take time to think about what your dreams and desires are. In hindsight, I am sure that you will find that some of the most trying times you’ve been through have produced some of the most positive results in your life. Experiences where you had an illness, excruciating pain, the loss of a loved one… as time goes by and the suffering and grief lifts, you naturally and most of the time unconsciously chart a course for your greater good.
I don’t know of one individual or family that has not felt the effects of the economy this year on some level. I don’t know of one individual that has not had the benefit of experiencing a tough time in their life in whatever realm it may have been. But I do know – everyone is a better person because of it. So it’s time to celebrate the “tough times!”
Now don’t go looking for “tough times,” in hopes for something better. Instead work on re-evaluating where you are at in your life and what direction you are heading. Ask yourself the question: “Am what I am doing today, going to lead me to a more fruitful future?” Know that what you sow, you reap – and know that in knowing all of this, it will allow you to forge through the “tough times,” with a little more grace and perseverance!
I don’t know of one individual or family that has not felt the effects of the economy this year on some level. I don’t know of one individual that has not had the benefit of experiencing a tough time in their life in whatever realm it may have been. But I do know – everyone is a better person because of it. So it’s time to celebrate the “tough times!”
Now don’t go looking for “tough times,” in hopes for something better. Instead work on re-evaluating where you are at in your life and what direction you are heading. Ask yourself the question: “Am what I am doing today, going to lead me to a more fruitful future?” Know that what you sow, you reap – and know that in knowing all of this, it will allow you to forge through the “tough times,” with a little more grace and perseverance!
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