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Chiropractic Change for your Community

In your neighborhood and in thousands of communities across the nation, Americans are answering our country’s call to service & are making a change. You have been taking amazing steps toward change by optimizing your health & wellness. This week our nation will come together in a shared spirit of community, and I wanted to support you in continuing to improve your life and health.

We can help rebuild our country by starting with ourselves. Gandhi’s statemement “Be the change you wish to see in the world” rings so loud & true in our day & age. We know what can happen when ordinary people turn their hopes into real action, something extraordinary blossoms.

One of the focuses for this presidential team is to improve our health care system. One of the ways in which they hope to do this is to increase access to chiropractic care. President Obama stated, “As we shift our health care delivery system towards a culture of wellness & disease prevention, I believe that Chiropractors must play an integral role in expanding access to preventive care & strengthening our public health system.” This statement puts you & Chiropractic at the forefront of health care. The grassroots movement that was created was always about more than an election. It’s about bringing much needed change to Washington and our communities.

Monday is not only the eve of an inauguration that brings us so much hope; it is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day in which we honor the power of one man to bring about change by serving his country. You can help kick off an ongoing commitment to serve your communities by taking part in this extraordinary day of service.

Congratulations in taking action for your health, family, community & our country!

A Higher Vibration for Mind, Body & Soul!

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Good Vibrations Family Chiropractic

What is the #1 cause of pain, sickness or disease? =Stress

Emotional stress is what we generally think of when we think of stress, but there are two other types.
It’s a well known fact that stress can rob you of your health and happiness. In fact, eventually it can even kill you. Most of the time when you think of stress, you think of the emotional kind, the kind that comes from too much to do, or a deadline you’re in danger of missing etc.

But that’s only one kind of stress; there are three different kinds.

Physical Stress

We are all prone to physical stress based on our lifestyle choices. You sit at a computer all day. Your child watches too much television or plays video games for long periods. You are overweight. Your posture is less than supportive. You’ve been involved in an automobile accident. You’ve been through the birth process.
All of these situations cause physical stress to the body that may compromise your nervous system and interfere with the ways in which your brain communicates with your body.

Chemical Stress

What are your eating habits? Soda & chips rather than water and fruit? How about where you live? Is there a lot of pollution, smog, unclean air, water with heavy metals? Do you eat a lot of fast food? Smoke cigarettes or drink too much alcohol? How about recreational or prescription drug use?

Frequent exposure to chemical stressors wreaks havoc with your nervous system and places continued “wear and tear” on your nervous system and your entire body, right down to the cellular level.

Emotional Stress

Economical problems, relationship problems, aging parents, a tyrant for a boss, death of a loved one, a new job, moving to a new location – all of these cause emotional stress. How you handle these situations?
The best way to cope with stress is to be aware of the three kinds, how they affect your life and how you choose to respond to them. You can choose to eat better, get more exercise, see a counselor, join a support group and come in for regular chiropractic care. One of the best ways to minimize the effects of stress is to increase your body’s ability to adapt, heal & grow by keeping your nervous system healthy – the goal of your chiropractic care at Good Vibrations ?.

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Good Vibrations Family Chiropractic

The Healing Process

It’s a unique process. Healing is a process you go through. It’s not an event that happens to you. It’s not something someone else does to you. You are your own healer and the way you heal is to participate in your process as fully as you can. Chiropractic supports your healing process by enhancing the communication of energy from the Central Nervous System to your whole body.

Everybody’s process is different. No two are the same because no two people are the same. Everybody’s experience of life is unique. We may do similar things to bring about healing but our experiences of them may be very different.

There are many different options for healing. What you choose to do may be different than what other people choose. It doesn’t matter. There is no right or wrong way to heal. Do what resonates with you. There is only your way. It’s a choice & a healthy lifestyle that you create. Whether it is Chiropractic, yoga, eating healthy, meditation, thinking positive thoughts etc, one of the keys to the process is to be consistent , this is where you will see results & transformation.

Sometimes things happen in life over which we have no control. Sometimes we make unhealthy choices of the past that lead to not so great outcomes. Whatever the adversity, and however it was caused, it’s up to you to decide how you are going to respond. Each adversity is an opportunity to heal & grow on many levels. Healing is one of the most important reasons we are here. Ultimately healing is the reconnection of the body, mind & spirit.

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Daily Self-Care

Putting Yourself First

We have all heard the instructions of an airline attendant reminding us to put on our own oxygen mask before we help anyone else with theirs. This advice is often cited as a metaphor for self-care because it so accurately expresses why it is important. It seems to say, ironically that if you can’t take care of yourself for yourself, do it for others. Few situations in our daily lives mimic the wake-up call of an airplane emergency, so it’s easy to keep putting self-care off, that is, until we get sick, overwhelmed, or exhausted, and suddenly don’t have the energy to care for the people who count on us. That’s when we realize we haven’t been getting the oxygen we need to sustain ourselves. We begin to understand that taking care of ourselves is neither selfish nor indulgent; it’s just plain practical and necessary for thriving in life.

Putting yourself first means that it may be necessary to say no to someone else in order to say yes to yourself. For many of us, there is always something we feel we could be doing for someone else, and it helps to remember the oxygen metaphor. You can even encourage yourself by saying “I am caring for myself so that I am better able to care for others” or some other mantra that will encourage you. It also helps to remember that self-care doesn’t have to be composed of massively time-consuming acts. In fact, the best to take care of yourself is probably small, daily rituals; for example, taking one half-hour for yourself at the beginning and end of the day to meditate, going to the Chiropractor, writing in a journal, stretching or just being. You might also transform the occasional daily shower or bath into an opportunity to just relax.

Whatever you decide, take some actions where you put yourself first every day and it will pay off ten-fold for you and the ones you love. The oxygen you need is all around you; sometimes you just need to be reminded to take care of yourself and just breathe…

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Living Potential

It’s time to FLIP  the SWITCH on your HEALTH!

Wouldn’t it be easy to just FLIP the SWITCH for better health & life? It is in our human nature to want things A.S.A.P! We want it all to change overnight and that just is not realistic,it is a process. Life & health are one of the most amazing journeys possible.

Yet we spend the majority of our first 40 years of life doing very little for our health and then spend the next 40 years wishing we would have! Be focused on your potential for amazing health through out your lifetime.

The gifts of life & health we are born with and those that we work to develop throughout our lives vary in form and function. Some we find use for every day while others are only useful in specific circumstances. Yet many times we overlook opportunities to share our potential with others. It may be fear of criticism that holds us back or the paralyzing weight of uncertainty. Ultimately, we doubt that our innate talents and practiced skills can truly add value to others’ lives. But it is the world as a whole that benefits when we willingly share our gifts. Whether you have been blessed with the ability to awaken beautiful emotions in others through art, athletics, communication etc. your gifts are a part of who you are. Your potential for life is expressed in your potential for health.

Your personal power is defined in part by your gifts & your health. To use your talents is to demonstrate to the world that you understand yourself, your health and are attuned to your capabilities. Life provides you with so many opportunities to explore your purpose, to utilize your skills in a life-affirming way, and to positively touch the lives of others while doing so. Every gift lying dormant in your soul has the potential to fill a void in someone else’s life. Just as your existence is made richer by the love, support, friendship, aid, and compassion of others, so, too, can you add richness to their lives.

FLIP the switch of motivation today. Make changes now. No one has a guarantee they will be here tomorrow and no matter how good yesterday was you can’t have it back, so today is the day to LIVE! As you embrace your health & your gifts you realize how you can live the potential of your life. Keep turning on the light for a healthy & happy future!

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In the quest to create a gentler, more loving world, kindness is the easiest tool we can use. Though it is easy to overlook opportunities to be kind, our lives are replete with situations in which we can be helpful, considerate, thoughtful, and friendly to loved ones and associates, as well as strangers. The touching, selfless acts of kindness that have the most profoundly uplifting effects are often the simplest: a word of praise, a gentle touch, a helping hand, a gesture of courtesy, or a smile. Such small kindnesses represent an unconditional, unrestricted form of love that we are free to give or withhold at will. When you give the gift of kindness, whether in the form of assistance, concern, or friendliness, your actions create a beacon of happiness and hope that warms people’s hearts.

The components of kindness are compassion, respect, and generosity. Put simply, kindness is the conscious act of engaging others in a positive way without asking whether those individuals deserve to be treated kindly. All living beings thrive on kindness. A single, sincere compliment can turn a person’s entire world around. Holding a door or thanking someone who has held a door for you can inspire others to practice politeness and make already kind individuals feel good about their efforts. Smiling at people you meet—even those who make you feel like frowning—can turn a dreary encounter into a delightful one, for both of you. Every kind act has a positive influence on the individual who has performed said act as well as on the recipient, regardless of whether the act is acknowledged. Kindness brings about more kindness and slowly but surely takes a positive toll on humanity.

Weaving the thread of kindness into your everyday life can be as easy as choosing to offer a hearty “Good morning” and “Good night” to your coworkers or neighbors, a stranger on the street, or the grocery store clerk. When you commit a kind act, you are momentarily disconnected from your ego and bonded with the individual who has benefited from your kindness. Being fully present in each moment of your life facilitates kindness as it increases your awareness of the people around you. You’ll discover that each act of kindness you engage in makes the world, in some small way, a better place.

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What is Innate Intelligence?

A woman had been suffering from Migraines for decades. She now has absolutely no pain, no dysfunction,  and leads a normal drug-free, happy life and actively participating in every activity she and her family undertake.

A nurse is not sure if he is going to be able to continue the career he loves because of the debilitating pain he experiences daily. Now he has taken a full time position in the department he has always wanted.

A man had been having trouble swallowing and had experienced a feeling of tightness in his chest and at the base of his skull for several years. He thought he was literally having a heart attack. Many doctors had told him that nothing was wrong, that it was stress and yet, after just a few adjustments, these uncomfortable feelings were gone.

A man in his eighties was having difficulty walking.  He used to love jogging & dancing but the pain and weakness in his feet and legs had gotten to the point where he could now only walk slowly and for short distances before having to stop.  He now goes to weekly dance class.

A baby was unable to nurse or even drink from a bottle.  He had been this way since his birth four days earlier.  After just one adjustment, he latched on and began nursing normally.  He also had his first bowel movement immediately afterward; something his parents described as a “major infant mudslide!”

A 17 month old toddler was not walking, & within 2 weeks of adjustments for pelvis & spine she began walking.

A pregnant Mom came in because she thought she was going to have C-Section with her daughter because she was breech, her daughter was born naturally & safely just like she had always wanted.

A man in his seventies tells me how much better and more relaxed he is feeling since beginning care.  His four-year-old Granddaughter is in the corner playing with her doll and says, “Yep!  And Grandpa doesn’t smack me anymore either!”  The man begins to cry.

How can all of these things happen from a program of chiropractic care you ask?  It is actually very simple.  Each one of us (including you) has an Innate Intelligence within our bodies that knows exactly how to run, regulate, adapt, heal and grow our bodies from conception until death.  But, if the communication pathway in the nerves between your brain and your body is compromised by what we call the subluxation process, this Intelligence cannot comprehend and respond to all of the stresses you encounter in your environment, and cannot maintain normal function, so things begin to break down.  This will eventually affect every single system if allowed to progress and can result in every kind of physical, mental, emotional, social or spiritual problem you can imagine.

By restoring the NEUROLOGICAL CONNECTIONS between your brain and your body through the chiropractic adjustment process, your Life Energy is able to once again flow easily from inside-out and restore you to the whole and happy being you were meant to beJ

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Finding Gifts In All

When we have good days, we often find ourselves going over the details later, enjoying them a second and third time as we feel the joy of our good fortune. When we have bad days, we may find ourselves poring over the details of our misfortunes. However, we can reframe those bad days by making it a daily practice to spend some time before going to bed each night to review the gifts we received that day. Regardless of our evaluation of the day—good, bad, mediocre—we can call forth the many blessings that were present. This practice transforms our consciousness as it reveals the fullness at the heart of our lives.

Some days it’s easy to recount the gifts we’ve received; on other days, we have to look harder for the offerings of the day, but once we do, we will find there are always quite a few. We can keep it simple and be grateful for the fact that we have a roof over our head, nature, food, and our health. Once we have fully experienced these gifts, we can move outward to the gifts that may require a little more thought such as the gifts of forgiveness, tolerance and acceptance that we may have learned that day. We can also always be grateful for the people in our lives who support us, no matter how bad our day may have been.

Just reviewing the many positive offerings in our lives provides a context for our difficulties that puts them in proper perspective, but we can also make an effort to see the gifts even in adverse circumstances. This can be challenging and may require some practice before it feels authentic, but we have all had the experience of a disappointment or loss leading to a surprising gain. Just remembering this and trusting the give and take of life can help us to remember that sometimes the best gifts of all are the ones we don’t recognize right away. In addition, the lessons we learn in the face of adversity are gifts allowing us to create patience, wisdom, and fortitude alongside the other gifts of the day.

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Centering And Expressing
Communication

When we are in a relationship where we feel listened to and understood, we count ourselves lucky because we know how rare that experience is. We reserve our most intimate selves for the people who, along with us, cocreate an open space where we feel free to express ourselves and listen without judgment. These relationships, which thrive on open communication, can mean the difference between existential loneliness and a deep sense of belonging. We all long to feel heard, understood, and loved, and clear communication makes this possible.

Sometimes problems arise in the process of expressing how we feel, but it is always worth it to do the work. Even in our less intimate relationships, expressing ourselves honestly is essential to our sense of well-being. Whether at home with family or in the outside world, successful communication requires some forethought; otherwise we risk blundering through our relationships like the proverbial bull in a china shop. However, too much forethought can stifle us or cause us to pad our words so extremely that we end up saying nothing at all or confusing the matter further. The good news is that there are many methods that can come to our rescue, from meditation to visualization to journaling.

If the person we need to communicate with is open to sitting in meditation together for a set period of time before speaking, this can be invaluable. When we are calm and centered, we can count on ourselves to speak and respond truthfully. We can also meditate on our own time and then practice what we need to say. A visualization in which we sit with the person and lovingly exchange a few words can also be a great precedent to an actual conversation. If writing comes easily, we can write out what we need to say; it may take several drafts, but we will eventually find the words. The key is to find ways to center ourselves so that we communicate meaningfully, lovingly, and wisely. In this way, we honor our companions and create relationships in which there is a genuine sense of understanding and respect.

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Have Fun And Save The Planet
Think Globally, Eat Locally

We all know that our planet needs our help right now, but we often feel unsure about what to do, where to make an effort, and what will really help. The good news is that we can heal the planet on a daily basis simply by buying and eating food that is grown locally. Food that has been transported long distances doesn’t contain much life force by the time it gets to your kitchen. Making a commitment to shop, buy, and eat locally is not only a very important part of creating positive change, it can also be delicious fun.

One of the best places to begin the adventure of eating locally is a farmer’s market. Stalls brim with fresh fruits and vegetables grown on nearby farms. Not only is this good for the environment, it’s good for the farmers since they benefit from selling directly to the consumer. The consumer benefits, too, from the intimate experience of buying food from the hand of the person who grew it. In addition, the food is fresher and more diverse. In supermarkets, particular varieties of fruits and vegetables are favored due to their ability to survive transport to a far destination. Alternately, at a farmer’s market, you will find versions of the fruits and vegetables you know that will surprise and delight your senses—green striped heirloom tomatoes, purple cauliflower, white carrots, and edible flowers, just to name a few.

Make an effort to buy as much of your food as possible directly from local farmers. You will become one of a growing number of people eating delicious food to save the planet and having fun doing it.

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The Chiropractic View of Healthcare Reform

Healthcare reform is one of the most frequent areas of discussion and concern among people in the United States right now, and the recently enacted laws and programs are doing little to alleviate our fears. In fact, many people are now more worried than ever and wondering what can be done to remedy the situation long term. The problem with trying to create any new plan of action can be summed up in a quote from Albert Einstein who said, “We cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that existed when we created it.” Einstein is basically saying we need to actually change (“re-form”) our entire level of thinking before trying to take new actions in order to effectively re-form healthcare for our future.

One thing most people need to re-form their thinking about is HOW our bodies actually heal. All of the various tissues, organs, and other structures in your body are really just groups of individual, specialized cells. When your body needs to repair itself, it does so by destroying the individual cells that are old, damaged, and have lost their normal function, and it completely REPLACES them with new, healthy, fully functional cells. In other words, your body quite literally “RE-FORMS” itself! In fact, this process of renewal never stops.

For example, every second, your body makes 8 million new red blood cells to replace the old, dying, dysfunctional and damaged ones. You make an entirely new stomach lining every 3-5 days, a new skin every 30 days, a new liver every 6 weeks, and new lungs every 6 months. What’s more, you completely replace every single atom in your body every 13 months or so! This replacement of your cells as they lose their ability to function ensures that your tissues and organs always have an optimal potential to keep you healthy. So it’s true; your body quite literally, constantly “RE-FORMS” itself!

There are 3 things you will need to “re-form” in your life in order to optimize your health & body.

RE-FORM Your Focus: Most people focus on what’s wrong in their life and in the world, what’s missing, and what they DON’T want to happen. Re-form your focus onto the opposite three things; What’s RIGHT in your life and the world, what you HAVE to be grateful for, and what you WANT to see happen. This creates positive emotions and HEALING, CONSTRUCTIVE biochemistry to help re-form your cells and therefore your body.

RE-FORM Your Lifestyle: A healthy lifestyle includes two crucial aspects. It both minimizes poisons, and maximizes nutrients and everything else your cells need to function optimally. Re-forming your lifestyle will help you re-form your body, cell by cell, tissue by tissue, and organ by organ.

RE-FORM The Neurological Connections Between Your Brain and Body: In order for the Innate Intelligence that runs your body to be able to properly identify when cells need to be replaced and correctly replace them, you require a clear connection in the nerves between your brain and all the cells of your body. Because of the numerous intricate connections between your nerve system and your spine, maintaining a clear brain-body connection requires an aligned and fully functioning spine! Because your nerve system is the master control system of your body, re-forming and maintaining your spinal function and neural connections is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of helping your body consistently re-form itself correctly.

By re-forming your focus and lifestyle, and seeing your chiropractor every week or two to re-form and maintain your brain-body connection, you can continuously re-form your body without ever worrying again about what the government is doing with healthcare reform! Health is an amazing journey

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A Health Lesson from a Basketball Team

As I was watching a basketball game this weekend, I became aware of some similarities between what is required to be a strong, winning team, and what it takes to be really healthy and be your best physically, mentally and in every other way.

The strongest basketball teams all have three things in common;

1) They always play to win, rather than employing a “prevent-defense” and trying NOT to lose.

2) They are the best prepared and conditioned so they can handle whatever comes their way.

3) They have the best communication both between the individual members of the team, and between the players and the coach.

This allows them to be the STRONGEST they can be. And more times than not, they come out on the winning end of their contests, which also means they end up having the most fun!

The same can be said of you and your body. YOU and your body are the strongest when you;

1) Play to WIN, rather than using a preventive and defensive strategy, trying to NOT lose. This means mostly focusing on the positive things in life including;
a. What’s going right, rather than what’s not.
b. What you HAVE to be GRATEFUL for, rather than what’s missing.
c. What you WANT to see happen, rather than what you fear and DON’T want to see happen.

2) You are the best prepared and conditioned because of your healthy lifestyle. This has two very important parts;
a. It minimizes poisons, pollutants, chemicals, and things that weaken you.
b. It maximizes nutrients and other things your body needs so that it can do what it is asked to do as efficiently as possible.

3) You have good communication within your body. In order for your Innate Intelligence to be able to keep you on top of your game, it must be able to correctly comprehend and respond to everything both internally and in your external environment. This requires a clear neurological connection between your brain and all of the trillions of cells in your body.

Because of the intimate connections between your spine and your nerve system, the only way to maintain a clear brain-body connection is to make sure your spine is correctly aligned and fully functioning. Chiropractic care can not only RESTORE normal alignment and function to your spine and RE-ESTABLISH your brain-body connection; it can KEEP you functioning at your best all through your life, so that you too can experience what it means to “play above the rim” and be happier than you’ve ever dreamed!

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Good Vibrations Family Chiropractic

An Inner Choice
Peace

“There cannot be peace in the world until we have it in our own hearts and minds, our own families and neighborhoods.”

Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder. We feel compelled to transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are often disappointed in our best attempts to do so. One reason for this is that we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Peace starts in our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally. Once we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and the whole wide world. Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our own relationship to peacefulness.

Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within. We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict. We begin to see our thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness.

When we find that we are able to locate ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves. Until then, we help the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within.

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In San Diego!

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Acorns into Oak Trees

Inside of every acorn exists the potential and the ability to become a mighty oak tree.

It just needs a few things to realize its potential. It needs some sun, air, water, good nutrition from the soil, and one more thing…

It needs to be free from interference so that the innate processes that grow it from acorn to oak tree can progress.

Chiropractic says that we are all just like acorns too. It says that each of us has a very special purpose and potential of our own. And, just like the acorn, in order for us to reach our potential, we require a few things as well.

We need some sun, air, water, good nutrition, and one thing more. We also need to be free from interference in our nerve systems so that our Life energy can flow normally and we can adapt to all the physical, chemical and mental stresses we encounter in our lives, heal any injuries we may have and continue to grow and unfold into whatever we are meant to be.

Because of the intimate connections between your spine and your nerve system, whenever you lose normal alignment or function in your spine, you also partially lose the CONNECTIONS between your brain and our body. As a result, you no longer have full expression of your “Innate intelligence” or “Life Energy.” This causes a loss of normal function and the ability to adapt completely to the internal and external stresses you continually encounter. In turn, your body functions at less than optimal levels. This loss of your natural state of health (ease) is referred to as a state of “dis-ease.”

The specific chiropractic adjustment process helps restore normal alignment and function in your spine and re-establish the neurological CONNECTIONS between your brain and your body. This in turn allows for the free flow of your Life Energy and therefore restores the ability to function more normally and adapt more completely to both internal and external physical, chemical and mental stresses, as well as to heal and grow.

The result is an ever-increasing realization of your potential in life!

The most important thing to realize here is that chiropractic is not a “treatment” for anything. It is, a way to help maximize the expression of your Life Energy in your body. It is a way to help ensure the greatest possible chance of fully expressing your purpose and your potential in life.

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