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When was the last time you thought “wouldn’t it be great if I made more, if I just got my degree, if I just got that job, if I could only find a relationship,” and then you got it… only to realize that it wasn’t as glamorous as you thought it was going to be?

This is the entire story:  Even when you get THERE, there will be other factors, consequences, frustrations, challenges, drawbacks you might not have thought about.  That’s why the expression exists.  Because, as Anaxagoras said in 500BC “Nature never experiences one-sided events.”   Nothing is one-sided.  When my intentions came to pass and I experienced the “other” side, I used to think “oh, it’s not what I thought it was– I’m still not happy,”  and then I graduated to something else to desire and my never-ending pursuit of happiness continued.

When we put our dreams into perspective, we would be wise to foresee the downsides of making our dreams a reality.  You may think this is “negative thinking”, but deep down inside, you know there is truth to it.  Think of what your dreams would cost you—what area of your life needs to suffer to make your dreams a reality—and go for it anyway, if it’s TRULY a high priority for you.

Nobody ever accomplished anything magnificent without it costing something.  Remember, if it doesn’t cost you, it’s not valuable.

So you want to be wealthy?  Make it a priority and decide where you would pay the price to be wealthy.  Is your financial health worth the pain of saving?  For most people it’s not—that’s why they live paycheck to paycheck.  The cost of building wealth and saving money is much too high for a great number of people.

So you want to be healthy and vibrant?  Is your health worth the pain of exercising, eating right, making healthier choices (should I eat the watermelon, or the chocolate-chip banana bread my wife just baked for me?)  Is it worth the money for organic foods, the gym pass, the Chiropractic care, The colonics, the massages?  For most people, it’s not worth it—that’s why so few are healthy and chronic illness is on the rise.  The cost of living a healthy lifestyle is much too high for a great number of people.

So you want to be enthusiastic, hopeful, and fulfilled in your life?  Is your mental and emotional fulfillment worth the time and expense it takes to learn life-skills to deal with adversity and stress, to attend seminars that ask some difficult questions that might challenge your beliefs about who you are?  For most people, it’s not worth it—they just can’t seem to make the time to learn and study these tools– that’s why there are so many depressed and anxious people on medications, who aren’t aware of their purpose, who are deteriorating emotionally, who are victims to their environment rather than co-creators of their world.  The cost of emotional magnificence is much too high for a great number of people.

So you want a dream relationship?  Is having a fulfilling relationship worth the effort it takes to nurture, to spend time with your loved one, to plan “date nights”, to learn the priorities and “love language” of your partner, to study and learn communication and consultation skills?  Is it worth the pain of being truthful and authentic with yourself, with your shadow and sharing it with your partner so they understand the real you?  For most, it’s not worth it—that’s why there are so many unfulfilling relationships.  The cost of relationship magnificence is much too high for a great number of people.

If you want it bad enough, you will think about it and see and feel yourself as though you were in the present-time ownership of your dream. There are only a certain number of hours in a day, but you will manifest what’s a high priority for you—whether it’s health, money, or relationship/career fulfillment…. But be careful what you wish for, because you will get it, and it will still present it’s challenges.

Watch this video.  I just came across it from Esther Hicks, who believes that the prophet Abraham speaks through her.  I still think she’s a bit nutty, but again, her explanation here has wisdom, humor, and depth.  And her answer to the question the guy asks about why he’s not rich yet is so bang on.  I would add something to “Abraham’s” answer:

-Acknowledge that the reason why you haven’t made a lot of money yet is because it’s not a priority—you are not prepared to pay the price of becoming wealthy. (Believe me when I say there is a price to pay for it—this is not a limiting belief).

- Change your beliefs and values—and your life changes.

Would you agree or disagree?

Just an FYI—if you want to discover your values and learn how to take control of your emotions and your life—or you are already in the know but want to kick it up a notch or 3, check out my upcoming Stress and Life Skills events and join us if you are in the Greater Vancouver or Maple Ridge Area.  I get a kick out of teaching people how to get what they want and deal with the consequences of actually getting it.

Looking forward to your comments…

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I just finished a busy weekend at the Maple Ridge Home show.  We had a booth set up, and I met hundreds of people with a list of physical and mental symptoms like you wouldn’t believe, and all of them are under the care of a medical physician.   “My doctor knows about all of this, and we’ve been trying to deal with it for a very long time.”    Some would even tell me “he told me to stay away from Chiropractors.”

“And what is he/she doing for you?”

The response is always invariably “he’s sending me for an x-ray”, or “the x-rays came up negative, so we’re looking into an MRI”.  Each one left the office with a prescription for painkillers or something else.  In fact, if I was to show you how many people walking around are taking some sort of pill for one or more of their conditions, you’d be alarmed.  It’s official:  We are an overdosed, overmedicated society, and the saddest part is that we think it’s making us healthier.

I completely understand… growing up, every single time I would have an ache, pain, or a sniffle, my mother would take me to the Doctor.  Funny how most of us grow up with the perception that the Doctor will have “the cure”.   If the doctor can’t figure it out, then there’s nothing anyone can do.  This is the feeling I was getting from hundreds of (overmedicated) people this weekend.

It was an interesting observation for me that it seems that people equate going to the doctor with becoming healthy. Another interesting observation I made when it comes to most people who go to the doctor, I wanted to share with you because it could mean the difference between you taking control of your own health vs. you leaving it in the hands of someone else.  Let me explain.

It’s all about the diagnosis, baby!

To medicate or not to medicate? That is the question.

When seeing a patient, the Medical Doctor is concerned FIRST with coming up with a diagnosis.  Doctors spend years learning about patterns of symptoms that they can group together and come up with a label for your condition called a “diagnosis”.  From there, they are taught in medical school which course of action to take.  In the field of MEDICINE, what is usually the first line of defense?  MEDICINE.  Their focus is entirely on the disease and how to fight disease.

The main tools that are taught in medical school are Medicine and Surgery.  That’s why all the people who I saw who are still suffering despite our “free” medical system here in Canada have started out with Pharmaceuticals.  And it’s making us sicker and sicker as a society.  It’s all in the focus:  Focus on fighting disease, and you create more disease, the same way that focusing on fighting terrorism brings about more terror.  Deaths from adverse drug reactions are among the leading causes of death in the world.

How we view the body is important

The reason why I’m so dead against starting with Pharmaceuticals first is because of the fundamental way that I view the body.  And I’m on a mission to teach this to the world:   Instead of being a weak and stupid, I see the body as a wise, intelligent group of cells that are energetically bound together and created to function at a high level, provided we give it the essentials in movement, in nutrients, water, in a balanced mental focus, and a clear nerve system.  If we started with that, Drug companies would go bankrupt.

The problem with most people walking around with a diagnosis is that instead of using it as feedback for how we’ve been eating, moving, thinking, or how out of balance we are so we can make the changes, people wear their diagnosis as a badge or label and they remove all personal responsibility.  They make statements like:

“I can’t work because of the Fibromyalgia”

“I took 3 weeks off because of the Anxiety Disorder I have”

“I can’t exercise because of the Diabetes”

“My doctor says I have Arthritis”

“I was diagnosed with Osteoporosis”.

Each and every time I hear someone say something like that, I can’t help but cringe.  While the symptoms may be real– people are completely in the dark about how they got there in the first place.  They think it’s a disease they caught because of bad luck or bad genes.  Chances are, it’s not.  That’s why I created “What your doctor won’t tell you about your symptoms” class to shed light on why your body speaks out to you in those ways and what you can do about it.

In the mean time, all I can do is to help show people a different way.  It first comes with a different way of looking at yourself and the amazing way your body responds and reacts to the crap you are throwing at it.

The simple-yet-effective way to start your journey towards health (notice the focus is on HEALTH not the disease)

The way that you remove disease is the same way it’s been done for centuries… it’s the same way you remove darkness from a room.  I’ve dedicated my life to taking my patients and clients through a journey of healing with 3 simple steps:

1) Clear the Nervous System of interference.  Depending on how imbalanced you are, this could take days, months, or even years.  While we do that it’s important to add in step number 2…

2) Feed the body with essential raw materials, nutrients, water, and REAL food, while curbing your food cravings and addictions slowly to help detoxify your cells which make the building blocks of who you are, and if the client is up for the most difficult, yet most critical component of the healing journey….

3)  Taking charge of your emotional health.  Our resentments, fears, guilts, or incomplete emotions from the past and our inability to deal with adversities of the present prevent us from truly being healthy in the mind and body.  As Hanz and Franz of Saturday Night Live fame used to say… “HEAR ME NOW AND BELIEVE ME LATER”.  At the root cause of almost every single chronic illness is an emotional charge that hasn’t been properly dealt with.  This is not up for debate any more.  Period.  You hear me?

It’s my mission to tell people the truth about why they are sick and in pain in the first place, and what they need to do to become healthy.  Something that isn’t available in a pill form:  Health from within.  I’m sure that if we start with this approach FIRST, we’d be able to save many more lives, reduce our debt and dependence on the medical system.

After meeting hundreds of people this weekend who are walking around with a dark cloud of pain, resentment, fear, and who simply aren’t living to their potential, I can see I have a lot of work to do.  I’ve decided:  I’m bringing healthy back.

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Have you ever been so pissed off that you wanted to become angry and violent?  I admit, I’m human and feel the same way sometimes.  Lately I’ve been turning my feelings towards my patients, of all people!  Here we are in society, thinking that the Doctor is a gentle, loving, caring human being that has no real “negative” emotions whatsoever. 

The reason behind the diseases of civilization: We've stopped moving, we watch advertisements for products that we don't need and that make us even sicker, and we feel incomplete and depressed when we compare our reality to "the american dream" that isn't real, and happens to be an illusion.

News flash:  Nothing can be further from the truth.  We’re just as judgmental.  We like a lot of the people we work with… we even love some of them.   We also hate the people we work with too.  I live in a family of doctors of all varieties, from dentists to cardiologists, to neuro-radiologists, to General Practitioners, and then there’s the black sheep—me.  Every time we get together we swap stories (of course leaving names out) of interesting cases. 

Most of the time we sit back in awe of the thought process and belief systems of our patients.  Lately, as I research to find tools and lifestyle changes to make people well, rather than just cover up their symptoms, my frustration and anger has been steadily on the rise. 

I feel that I have been lying to people.  Not exactly LYING, per se, but not telling them the full story about why they’re even there in the first place.  Every time I have an opportunity to tell the truth about someone’s health even when it’s as plain and simple as the light of day, the fear of a reprimand due to a board regulation, or the “morals and ethics” of my colleagues stops me.

I’m working on resolving that one.  This blog entry is also about me facing that fear, as it is about you getting healthier.

Please watch this video.  It is actually NOT A JOKE, but a true story.  Special thanks to my colleague, Dr. Stephanie Galanis for introducing this to me.

I’m willing to bet money that some of you I bet actually marked down the name and location of this place because it’s somewhere you would like to visit.  I’m not going to lie.  I do too.  But it’s not to go for a meal.  It’s to shake the hand of the creator of the concept.  He’s a genius.  He understands human nature, the same way drug companies and cigarette companies do.  People will go for the short term gain of the “high” created by using products and won’t worry about the long-term cost to their health. 

When we take a pill, we KNOW it’s not dealing with the cause—it just makes us more comfortable in our illusion that everything will be fine as long as I don’t feel any pain RIGHT NOW.

When we smoke a cigarette, we KNOW it’s going to kill us, but satisfying our nicotine pang is more important NOW.

When we watch that video, we look at the condition of the people who dine at restaurants like that but we need our sugar and fat fix NOW.

We’re all the same, and that’s why he created this burger joint.  And news cameras and “angry” bloggers like me will only make them more successful.  I’m of the opinion that if you can create, communicate, and deliver a perceived value, then you deserve success.  From one entrepeneur to another, that’s genius.  I want to take the owner out for lunch (at an establishment that serves real food) and shake his hand and learn from him, because I believe I have something of value as well that will save people’s lives—simply my understanding of what the body requires for health, in movement, in food choices, and in our thoughts.  Even though we are at opposing ends of the game, we can still respect how each other plays.

Want to know how to get heart disease, diabetes and cancer?  Go to places like that 2-3 times a week for 30 years.  Drink soda pop instead of water.  The only vegetables you ingest should be in the form of French fries, and the only fruits you get should come in flavors for ice cream (ex.mango, strawberry, and raspberry flavors).  We instinctively know this to be true, ya ya ya, but… there’s another factor that we don’t really consider– a factor that has just as much to play as the way you eat and move.  More on this later.  

I saw a patient last week who came in for me to “fix” his upper back pain.  He was diabetic, and on “metformin”, a wonder drug that helps stabilize blood sugar levels.  GREAT SUCCESS!

He was obese, didn’t exercise, obviously didn’t look like he got any raw whole foods in his diet, and his job was particularly stressful.  Now he wants me to fix a back problem that was caused by a lack of proper movement, exercise, and a lack of proper function in his spine (his last adjustment was 7 years ago and he gets the pain on and off).

When I asked him about his diabetes, he had the nerve to tell me that his “disease” he caught was genetic.  I was sympathetic to him up to that point. 

Hidden belief system:  It runs in my family, there’s nothing I can do about it.  My choices don’t matter.

I’m here to tell you that you’ve been lied to.  I’m going to go out on a limb here, and risk ridicule and criticism and tell you that your GENES ARE UNDER YOUR CONTROL.  The genes to produce diabetes might exist, as they exist within all of us if we keep going to eat in places like the Heart Attack Grill… but our LIFESTYLE is what switches those genes on or off to produce the results.  If you don’t believe me, just watch the show “Super Size Me” where a guy goes and eats nothing but McDonalds for 30 days and does all the blood work before and after to prove that a healthy individual can develop pathology just by what he puts into his body and by stopping moving.  His mood, depression and anxiety levels were also affected by his lifestyle.  Try proving to HIM that his mind and body are separate.  His lifestyle switched on his “illness physiology” genes.  He was healthy prior to that experiment!  Guess what… after it was done, he switched his lifestyle back, and his genes expressed health again.  Your body’s natural state is that of health.  It’s CRAVING healthy lifestyle habits to switch the healthy genes back on.  It craves it so much that it keeps producing illness so we can go back to the right way of living like our hunter/gather ancestors did.

If you don’t believe me and think I’m nuts for saying our genes are under our control, watch THIS video by Dr. Bruce Lipton, Phd. He’s a highly respected researcher from Stanford School of Medicine who has scientifically proven that our genes are entirely under our own control, simply by switching our perceptions.  I don’t want you to take it from me.  Take it from someone who is way smarter than me and you combined.  I encourage you to take the time to watch it.  He explains it in a way for the lay person to understand.  The implications of what he is saying will revolutionize how we look at our health, and the information he is sharing is the irrefutable proof that hasn’t yet made it into medical textbooks, but will be there within the next few years.  He is the catalyst for me to take my career to the next level and spread the truth about why we get sick in the first place:  OUR PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS. (3 part series– watch it when you have time and it will blow you away)

Almost my entire family on my father’s side is on cholesterol medication.  It’s “runs in my family”.  Can I tell you what else runs in my family?  Completely stopping exercise during adult life.  Eating an abundance of sweets and rice. (even though Persian food does have a lot of healthy components to it when you lower the amount of rice).

The most important one of all:  The “Rahmany trait” that all the cousins get together and laugh and joke about at family get-togethers:  Fear.  An insane amount of fear.  Fear of “what will other people think about me”.  Fear of what will the rest of the family think.  Fear of not getting enough appreciation or recognition from the family.  The “what ifs” that rule our lives.  Any middle eastern or asian family who has the same value system will be able to relate to mine.  Apparently my family is not alone.  The more we hold onto our fears that take up time and space in our minds, the sicker we get.  I have the research to back that one up too.  A lot of doctors would say I am a high risk to get a stroke simply because my grandfather died of one, and my family has high cholesterol.  I disagree with that one whole heartedly.  I think the greatest risk factor for my “inevitable” heart disease is because I adopted the “what if’s” from them.

I guess I have been acting on that trait by not telling people the truth of all this before when I first discovered it 5 years ago—how our beliefs are the root cause of all chronic illness.  I’ve been holding onto it that long, and in my own way, I’m slowly developing heart disease myself.  After all, what is fear but an illusion and misperception?  If you don’t accept me for what I say, and think that I’m a quack for saying this, is my life in any real danger?  The question is WHAT’S THE THING THAT’S CAUSING ME TO REALLY CARE?

That’s what I mean when I say I’m working on it.  The truth of this is more important to me than your opinion after I say it. When I say that when we are treating these disorders with medications rather than getting to the real cause, we are committing medical malpractice, I can say that with certainty now, thanks to solid MEDICAL research.  I’m saying we should be looking deeper than that.

“But Dr. Nima, if I get cancer, are you saying its because of my negative thinking?” This is the question I often get in my stress and health seminars.  I like this question, because it means I’ve struck a nerve and got people thinking.

It’s a bit more complicated than that, but in a nutshell, the rules and beliefs that you hold onto with all your might are the source of your greatest stresses when this neutral universe we live in goes by its own laws and breaks your rules.  What happens to you then?

Imagine I hold a belief that everyone should be prioritize the things I think are important (like prioritizing your health and eating right, exercising, getting your adjustments and dealing with your resentment buttons as they come up).  When met with people who do the opposite of all these things (as I do every single day), depending on how hard I hold onto these beliefs, I will emotionally react.  Amplify this by 20-30 years of holding onto this belief and I could easily run into heart disease.  I’m not talking about “new age” stuff here.  This is science.  Argue with me all you want.  I have been feeling resentful every single day in my practice lately because I’m met with people with belief systems incongruent with health.  My own beliefs that they should be living the same beliefs as me have been stressing the hell out of me.  My patients are not the cause!  I am!  (Aha moment there for me) 

As soon as I recognized that the stress created by my expectations of other people are slowly killing me (my wife even recognized it), that’s when I started doing more teaching and writing.  I hold seminars about this truth every month, and I even started a “Life skills for a stressful world” course that helps people overcome the fears and belief systems that are making them sick, keeping them from attracting wealth, and destroying their relationships.  The course is saving my life, too.

So this blog is just as much for me, as it is for you.  If I don’t make the entire world aware of the truth about health, then I probably will end up like my patients with chronic problems.  Those with chronic degenerative diseases are the ones who hold onto their beliefs and fears the strongest, and it runs their life so much that it affects their choices in how they eat, move, and think.   You try to help someone who comes to you for help, but refuses to change the belief system that caused it.  Imagine what that’s like.  It’s maddening.  That’s why I’m here writing.   You can consider this blog a big part of my “Cancer Prevention Strategy”.

Please understand:

What I’m saying is that if you get cancer, other than taking a good look at your diet and increasing the raw fruits and vegetable content, supplements, increasing your exercise,

This is ONE way of dealing with it....

 and putting all sorts of chemicals in your body, I would take a good look at what guilts, fears, and resentments you are holding on to, because they have contributed just as much, if not MORE to your dis-order than anything else.

And if we look at the major killers of civilized countries– heart disease, diabetes and cancer as unwanted, evil horrible things that we need to eliminate, we’re not getting the message that the body is giving us—and the disease will NEVER leave our bodies, no matter how many pills you throw at it… If you cut it out of your body, it grows back.  Scrape the plaque off the walls of the arteries– it grows back.  The lesson it’s giving us is to take a good look at how we eat, move, and think and make the changes to living a life that we KNOW a healthy organism needs.  What better way to tell you that you’re off track with your life than by making you extremely uncomfortable?

Or if we really want to be crazy—how about start living that lifestyle NOW rather than wait for a message from the body?  Like brushing the teeth BEFORE the cavity sets in?  Exercising BEFORE you start getting heart attacks?  Get your adjustments BEFORE the degeneration sets in?  Crazy concept, I know.  Controversial as hell.

The most revolutionary idea in today, one that I’m putting out there, that will no doubt get me in trouble, after my “Jerry McGuire Memo Moment” is that your health is entirely under your control, with how you eat and move, and those two aspects are controlled by how you think and what you believe.  I’m up against a system that wants to convince you that it’s all in your genetics and all about evil germs that are running rampant in our world.  I share my research with you because I know in my heart that if I don’t get over my fear of sharing the research with you, my heart will not be able to handle it.

Bring it on. 

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