Archive for November, 2009

Every day, because of the choices we make in our thoughts, our foods, and our activities, our bodies are either getting stronger or weaker. Over a lifetime of poor choices, our bodies accumulate stress, toxins, and deterioration and start aging faster than they actually should. We have been trained to see a medical doctor in those cases where the body breaks down due to poor lifestyle choices. While extremely important in emergencies, medical care doesn’t solve a problem caused by our choices of thoughts, foods, and activities, and a poorly functioning Nervous System.

Here are some testimonials of how people can recover back to their natural state of health, simply by changing what they put into their bodies, how they move their bodies, how they think and what they believe about their health, and most importantly clearing their Nervous system interference through wellness-oriented chiropractic care. These are true stories. These people are not actors and they have not been paid to give their testimonial. If you’ve been told that you have “_______” (enter diagnosis here), and “there’s nothing that can be done for you, “you need to take these pills”, “go do physio” you DO have another option. If you’ve been scared away from seeing a chiropractor, you’re not alone. Several of our patients report being discouraged from seeing a chiropractor by their GP or specialist. At the same time, we get many referrals from medical doctors who have been keeping current with the research supporting chiropractic care.

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Thanks to Science and Technology, we have made some incredible advancements in the field of Medicine. We have scans and tests that can see through the body and detect serious or fatal illnesses, acute overwhelming infections, and allow for the skilled physician or surgeon to make interventions that SAVE LIVES. Medicine’s genius is in it’s Emergency Care of extremely sick patients. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that science and technology has gone too far. We have put the medical system on such a pedestal that we have neglected to realize, as a society, that medicine DOES NOT CREATE HEALTH– and that we ourselves are responsible for it.

“Diseases of Civilization” which used to be unheard of are on the rise each and every year, and they are not due to a lack of medical science, technology, drugs and surgery. They are simply caused by making poor lifestyle choices as our collective health continues to decline and become a burden on financial system.

Today, our disease-focussed “health care” industry has come to the point where we are being marketed (literally to death) to “ask your doctor about” a new pill that is designed to manage symptoms created by our poor lifestyle choices. And more and more people die each day because of adverse reactions to PROPERLY prescribed drugs which don’t make you any healthier. Enough is enough. It’s time for the pendulum to swing back in balance. Even MD’s are speaking out about this: There IS a science to being well that doesn’t involve drugs and surgery. It all comes down to questions we ask ourselves, and the choices we make each day in our thoughts and beliefs, our nutrition, our physical activity, and how well our brain and body communicate with each other through our spine. I share these tools knowing full well I am likely going to be criticized and labelled an “unscientific quack” for doing so.

I am not bashing medical doctors. Many of my family members are MD’s and I love them all dearly. My goal is to help you win the health game by STAYING OUT OF THE MEDICAL SYSTEM and using medicine as a LAST RESORT rather than turn to pills and surgery FIRST. It is my mission and purpose to create a Wellness Centre where people can come for safe and effective alternatives to dangerous drugs which only mask problems, and MOST IMPORTANTLY to learn tools to get healthy, stay healthy, and to move towards getting off their medications that have been proven again and again to wreak havoc on the human body and mind.

There is no quick and easy fix to health problems and being healthy takes a some time and effort. I intend on sharing my research on mind and body health by teaching people to become an active participant rather than only a passive recipient, and taking control of your thoughts, your actions, and your nutrition. Health does not come from a pill, and it never has. Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to take a pill for the rest of your life. For more information or to register for upcoming workshops, classes and courses offered at Westgate, please log onto http://www.westgatewellness.com, or go tohttp://www.drnima.com/workshops and if you want to learn some health tips and learn about other crazy stuff on my mind, feel free to sign up for our newsletter/blog update.

I am greatly indebted to Dr. James Chestnuthttp://www.thewellnesspractice.com, Dr. Kevin Donka http://www.kevindonka.com, Dr. John Demartini http://www.drdemartini.com, and Dr. Bruce Lipton for who’s thoughts, ideas, and research I have taken from and integrated to form my own. I stand on the shoulders of giants.
-Nima

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Do so many things that fall onto your lap each day seem like hurdles, or am I the only person who sometimes feels that it’s an upstream battle?

Upstream or Downstream?

When you are the owner of one of Greater Vancouver’s Largest Alternative Healing Centres, there are many opportunities thrown your way to divert you from your high-priority activities.

My favorite, high priority things to do:  To adjust and consult my patients, to teach educational classes, workshops, and courses, to research natural thought and lifestyle strategies on getting and staying well in the mind and body, to exercise and to spend time with my wife, my dog Lucy, family and friends.

For the most part, I try to do ONLY those things.  I run a busy chiropractic practice seeing patients, I sign around 20 paychecks, I have coaching clients, I teach classes every month in posture, Exercise, Nutrition, Stress, Law of Attraction, and teach a course 3 times a year on Personal Transformation.   I research, write,  dance (not as much anymore ), and on top of all those responsibilities, I’m renovating my office.  These are all things I love to do–but each day, I have more lower priority stuff I gotta take care of to make sure all that stuff above gets done.  Luckily, my amazing staff takes care of most of it, but there are always decisions to be made and fires to be put out.  I could easily get stressed every moment of every day– somedays I even do– you can’t help it sometimes, with computer crashes, phone lines down, equipment issues, etc…

Luckily, I have learned some amazing tools that enable me to step back from my life and take account of my thoughts each day for the type of day I’m having.  With these tools, I can make mid-course corrections and end my day the way I am inspired to live…

But I can see how not having this awareness can cause some serious trouble.  You can turn a temporary sad situation worse, and allow it to escalate into weeks, months, sometimes years of hopelessness and self-neglect.  Anger, frustration, anxiety, and depression could result from not coming to terms with the accumulation of these stresses and upstream battles.

When these repressions compound and overlap one another, it’s easy to see how we can get illnesses of the mind leading to the body, and vice versa.  Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, to name a few, can be reversed if the desire is there.  You can only do so by first turning downstream.  It can be the result of the study of healthy thinking, healthy eating, healthy balance of movement and rest.  And it helps to have a clear neurological connection between your brain and the 100 trillion cells of your body.  Without that, successful, happy living is impossible.  And you’re at the mercy of a pill to make you calm, content, and peaceful.

Here’s a little something to try today.  Watch this video and just try to keep in mind the simple analogy.  It’s by Esther Hicks.  You may have a problem with how she refers to herself as “We” in the third person, or how she believes that the Prophet Abraham speaks through her.  I agree with you—it’s a pretty weird and tough one to put aside.  Just give it a chance… This chick is right on the money with this analogy.  This stuff actually works.

Enjoy.

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