Sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?  I finally understand this phrase.  Like many, I have heard this hundreds of times throughout my life.  Ya, ya, it’s important to read and learn.  But think about how this impacts your life:

When you know better, you do better.  If we only knew, we would do better.  The only way to change our behaviours are to change our beliefs. 

If you want to be healthier, all you have to do is understand more about what it takes to be healthy.  If you know, and you don’t follow through what you KNOW will make you healthier, then it’s clear you have unconscious motives to be unhealthy.  When one truly wants to be healthy, one does whatever it takes, pays whatever price, and travels whatever distance to get there if they believe that it will help them get to a healthier state.  One wouldn’t stop researching and trying new things. 

If your doctor says “take these meds and live with it”, you wouldn’t just sit back and call yourself a victim or a sufferer.  Has this ever happened to you, when your doctor has said “just live with it?”

To someone who values their health, the thought of getting healthier consumes them.  I can tell who those people are after 30 seconds of meeting them.  It’s an attitude.  Health is an attitude in how you eat, move and think.

The same way you get to your vacations, finish school, or reach any of your goals you have (ie, saving for a down payment on a home or braces for your kids) is by understanding that you will have to endure both pleasure and pain to get to that goal.  If your goal is to get a bicycle, you hold that thought with all your heart and emotion, you have a purpose, you endure the pain of sacrificing other things, prioritizing your time and money, and voila, you get it.  If it’s truly a meaningful goal to you, you would embrace both support and challenge, pleasure and pain in the pursuit of the bicycle.  If you can’t endure the pain and challenge of the pursuit for it, you simply didn’t want it bad enough. 

Here is my personal profile of a healthy person based on my experience in working with people on their road to recovery.  Someone’s recovery time will be dictated by how close this person comes to these qualities:

·      Exercises regularly

·      Eats healthy

·      Takes supplements regularly

·      Takes responsibility for their own emotions rather than labeling themselves with “sufferer of, or victim to”

·      Takes responsibility for their own health

·      Thinks that health is attainable if they work enough at it

·      Aren’t quick to take medications

·      Doesn’t smoke

·      Don’t need to consume alcohol on a daily basis

·      Love themselves enough to value themselves as well as others

·      Honour their own values and priorities

·      Has a clear purpose in their lives they need to get well and stay well for

·      Has a desire to learn about how their body works and how to be healthy

·      Open to alternatives other than drugs or surgery (medicine’s tools)

·      Regards the doctor as a partner in their health rather than one who has power over it.

These are simply “Dr. Nima’s characteristics of a healthy person’s lifestyle traits”. 

I know, I’m not saying anything new or anything that you haven’t heard before.  It’s another incovenient truth:  Those traits on the list are simply ways in how you eat, move, and think, and those traits are requirements to be healthy. Stop doing them in that certain way, and you are on the road to illness.  It means that being healthy is truly a conscious choice that you can decide right now.

What is most important in your life?  (Children, work, golf, music, business success?)

How will being healthy support your highest priority?  What would happen to your most important thing if you lost your health?  Take the time to think about it.  If you can come up with the “why’s”, then the “how’s” take care of themselves.

I’ve seen entrepreneurs have speedy recoveries because each day they miss work, they lose big money, while worker’s compensation cases, and people who get paid for their time off, seem to have a slower recovery time, and far more difficulty with getting better.  The reason?  There is no urgency, or unconscious motivation to get better faster. 

Decide that you will be healthy.  Give yourself 50-100 reasons why it benefits different areas of your life.  Then do your research and ask around.  Google it.  Try it from a multi-disciplinary approach.  Find out more about WHY you aren’t well.  The answer is always within you, and you’re important enough to find out.  Who is more worth it than you?

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Why on earth is it so tough for me to talk to people about what I do?

Fear of social rejection. Fear of being perceived as a “salesman”.

Sales people have a bad rap with our capitalist society. But the funny thing is, nothing can ever get done without someone making a sale.

Nobody ever got ANYWHERE successful without being an expert salesperson. I recently went to a James Arthur Ray Seminar that was touted as “free”. I went knowing full well that it was by no means “free”. Nothing is for free. NOTHING. There’s always someone who must gain from having a meeting like that. Otherwise it wouldn’t happen.

I knew he was going to try to sell me something on the back end.

Books, CD’s, a bigger seminar, DVD’s…. I’m not stupid, you know.

I was going there really to watch how he closes. I wanted to see how he was going to unconsciously sucker all these people into spending over 300 bucks to come to his seminar. Then it came:

“How many of you would take action and come to my seminar if I could GUARANTEE that you got whatever you just wrote down on that piece of paper by doing this ONE THING, would you do it? Take out that piece of paper underneath your chair. Put in your credit card number and buy now. Only available to the first 55…. Go ahead….Hurry up…. Who’s done? Good! You! Who else… Good, thank you!”

Then he interrupted himself: “Stop! Stop writing. Tell me what emotions are you feeling?”

One lady yelled “fear.”

He then went into a long discussion about how fears of “I can’t afford” stop us from reaching our goals and living our dreams.

He then asked if he made anybody feel manipulated. Several people put their hands up and he responded “those are all the salespeople in the room”. The room roared with laughter. He then went into a discussion about how what we are repressing deep down inside is exactly what we keep seeing all around us to remind us who we are and to embrace it.
(He probably stole that from Demartini as well, like everything else he’s been saying, the jerk!)

Then he finished with the most beautiful close I have ever seen. He talked about letting go of our fears and coming to his seminar for 4 thousand bucks. “Don’t for a second think you can’t afford that! You can! You have to never allow a fear of not having enough enter your mind.”

By this time, my jaw was dropped to the floor over how boldly he could talk about money without any fear. Yikes! (Weird that my reiki associate and coaching client admired the same trait in me—just had an aha moment there).

He then transitioned his close by reducing, reducing, throwing in a free this, that, include your spouse, let’s do it in Canadian dollars… Until I found myself giving him my credit card payment of $1297 for a bunch of DVD’s and books, and also to register to go to his San Diego Seminar in 3 months, and I was bringing my wife with me.

Holy crap.

I just got sold.

From that point on, I started thinking about talking to people more about what I do. Every time I go somewhere, I meet someone that I know who’s life can improve with either drinking the Monavie Juice, coming to me for Chiropractic care, joining me for salsa lessons, or attending one of my seminars. That’s because I know even stronger what I have always known—that there isn’t a person alive who’s quality of life would not improve by having me share with them something I have learned along my journey to empower myself and to physically, spiritually emotionally and financially self-actualize.

A week ago, I saw on facebook one of my friends’ status say (name has been changed) “Mary Jo wants to know what she can do to heal her back.”

At first, I had reservations about “selling” her about coming in. I sent her a message telling her that she should be seeing a chiropractor.

I went in to work the next day and she was in the schedule. I met her through the salsa community and she told me that she needed to get fixed so she could participate in the highly anticipated workshop with some of the international salsa stars over the weekend.

She got up from her first adjustment and could move her hips. I even got her to do some moves in the office to show me her stuff! She was pretty damn good. I could relate to her salsa addiction, so I had to get her back on track.

The following week, when I showed her the x-rays we took, it was clear this problem was building for a long time. So luckily, we could get her on a care plan to restore motion to her long-time stuck spine.

Her life is going to improve now because I have more courage to share with people what I do.  

Do you have to carry around tylenol or aspirin, or have a medicine chest full of pills you turn to on a regular basis (or even on occasion?)

Do you feel stiff, tired, and unmotivated when you get up in the morning, and throughout the day?

Are you constantly stressed and getting sick all the time?

Do you frequently have feelings of fear and anxiety, especially when you wake up in the morning?

Are you feeling resentful about your spouse and feel disconnected and have lost that “spark”?

Do you want to attract your perfect partner?

Have you been diagnosed with:  Fibromyalgia, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Indigestion, Irritable Bowel, Frequent migraine or tension-type headaches, Sciatica, Low Back Pain, Plantar Fasciitis (heel spurs or foot pain), Neck Pain, or any type of numbness/tingling in the hands or buttock/legs/feet?

Are you looking for a way to overcome your unhealthy food cravings?

Do you hate your current job and want to discover what you would love to do with your life?

Do you want to transform your mindset to be able to make more money?

Have you ever watched Salsa on T.V and wanted to learn how to do it and meet some new friends along the way?

Basically, I’ve described every single living person out there.  I’m convinced that in some form, there isn’t anyone who wouldn’t benefit from being under my care, or participating in my classes or coaching sessions.  

Please feel free to browse the many services we provide and send me an email and let me know what areas you would like us to work on.  Your life is waiting.

The answers can all be yours for 3 easy payments of $29.99, if you act now. 

(how’s that for a close?  I know… I’ll work on it.)

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First, the simple explanation.

In simplest terms, a subluxation (a.k.a. Vertebral Subluxation) is when one or more of the bones of your spine (vertebrae) move out of position and create pressure on, or irritate spinal nerves. Spinal nerves are the nerves that come out from between each of the bones in your spine. This pressure or irritation on the nerves then causes those nerves to malfunction and interfere with the signals traveling over those nerves.

How does this affect you? Your nervous system controls and coordinates all the functions of your body. If you interfere with the signals traveling over nerves, parts of your body will not get the proper nerve messages and will not be able to function at 100% of their innate abilities. In other words, some part of your body will not be working properly.

It is the responsibility of the Doctor of Chiropractic to locate subluxations, and reduce or correct them. This is done through a series of chiropractic adjustments specifically designed to correct the vertebral subluxations in your spine. Chiropractors are the only professionals who undergo years of training to be the experts at correcting subluxations.

Now, the detailed explanation.

Subluxations are really a combination of changes going on at the same time. These changes occur both in your spine and throughout your body. For this reason chiropractors often refer to vertebral subluxations as the Vertebral Subluxation Complex, or VSC for short. 

In the VSC, various things are happening inside your body simultaneously. These various changes, known as components, are all part of the vertebral subluxation complex. Simply put, these components are simply adaptations to spinal stress that the body has to go through to help you survive.   Chiropractors commonly recognize five categories of components present in the VSC. These five are:

• The Movement component is where the vertebrae are either out of position, not moving properly. This component is sometimes known as kinesiopathology.
• The Nerve Component is the malfunctioning of the nerve. Research has shown that only a small amount of pressure on spinal nerves can have a profound impact on the function of the nerves. This component is scientifically known as neuropathology.
• The Muscle Component is also involved. Since the muscles help hold the vertebrae in place, and since nerves control the muscles themselves, muscles are an integral part of any VSC. In fact, muscles both affect, and are affected by the VSC. This component is known as myopathology.
• The Soft Tissue Component is when you have misaligned vertebrae and pressure on nerves resulting in changes in the surrounding soft tissues. This means the tendons, ligaments, blood supply, and other tissues undergo changes. These changes can occur at the point of the VSC or far away at some end point of the affected nerves. This component is also known as histopathology.
• The Bone Component occurs when the vertebrae have had to adapt to these stresses for such a long period of time that jagged edges and bone spurs develop and change the shape of the vertebrae.  All of these degenerative processes happen over time.  

Your doctor will likely label these changes as “arthritis” or “degeneration”.  These are just labels.  We develop these changes over time, from neglecting to care for our spine, from stress, from injuries, from chronic lack of motion.  All these changes are preventable with the appropriate lifestyle choices.

All in all, a subluxation stems from a lack of motion.  This causes the body to have to adapt, and after having to adapt for months to years, the spinal joints become fatigued.  That’s when you get the pain and discomfort.  It’s the body’s way of telling you there is a lack of motion it has had to adapt to.  When we take pills, we are masking what the body is crying out:  ”I need proper movement and function!  Your lifestyle and way of sitting/standing, not exercising SUCKS!”

Chiropractic care steps in and corrects improper function by restoring movement in those stuck joints.  Motion is restored, and the adaptations that were listed above start to slow down and eventually halt.  The body restores balance, until introduced with the next stressor.  Regular chiropractic care, like regular dental maintenance, and maintenance of your car will ensure that your spine is not getting weaker with all the stresses we impose on ourselves.

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