Desert Dove / Holistic Chandler Chiropractor, Chandler Chiropractic, Arizona Chiropractor

In our practice we have found that stressful thoughts are the most toxic producers in our body and affect the nervous-digestive-hormonal systems directly. Excess proteins, hormone laden produce, and junk food take second place. People usually eat foods they enjoy; taste, consistency, family, geography – all cater to our food preferences. We eat to satisfy physical, emotional, and social hungers. A health option, since we ware going to eat many times a day, is to include into our normal diet things that are healthy (veggies, fruits, nuts, seeds, oils, wholegrains, R.O. water) and keep the treats for special occasions.

When our diet is imbalanced it will present a special challenge to recovery from any symptom pattern. Diet and nutrition plays the foundation role in the body’s ability to maintain homeostasis.

At our office with nutrition, diet, and supplementation we alkalize to detoxify, which revitalizes and normalizes body function. The best way to do this is to decrease excess meat and protein, junk food, and stimulants while increasing fruit, veggies, and other produce that comes out of the ground (if it has a face it is meat/protein). Most clients find within six weeks of whole foods and alkaline supplementation they have more energy, better digestion and sleep, and major changes in moods. This itself becomes the reward for habits that are naturally right and self honoring.

Your goal for healthy eating is to average your daily faire so that about 75% of it provides the vital nutrients necessary to handle the other 25%. Most Americans and other cultures that eat the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) skew the percentages the opposite way and then wonder why we have heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic arthritis, digestive syndromes, all hormone related problems and immune related problems – in spite of the billions of dollars spent annually on disease care.

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What we have found in our office and in offices around the world is that it is how I respond to life, when it doesn’t go expected, that can be the key to a healthy, happy life. We have our clients review the day before going to sleep at night. Ferret out instances where I or others did or didn’t do or say something as I would have. What did I resist, who did I resist? Resistance is any negative thought, word, deed, or even tension in my body. I could be on the giving or receiving end of the distress. The key to remember is that if it is in my life there is some lesson I can lean from it. Typically what I judge in another is an aspect of myself that I have not fully accepted, loved, learned & lived from. The situations you may initially look for may be serious physical attacks, traumas, or as innocuous as a snide remark. The key is if I have a repeated thought about myself, others, life, etc. The mind is suck and needs to be readjusted.

For each incident there is a five step process: write it out!

1. Forgive the other person for what they did or didn’t do.
2. Give the other person permission to forgive me for what I did or didn’t do or would like to do in retaliation, or fix them, or prove to them, or change them.
3. Forgive myself for what I’ve been doing and not doing to myself: the false beliefs, the endless story of victimhood, the sabotaging, self-betrayal, self-deception and justification that keeps me stuck in a never ending rut of suffering and symptoms.
4. See the good and learn the lesson. As I write out these steps a theme will become clear, a virtue will show up, to be practiced and grateful for. All virtues like love, joy, patience, forgiveness, peace, start with an internal picture and feeling that manifests to an action.
5. Wish them well. Be grateful for the struggles, challenges, traumas and dramas, for it is in these experiences, these great teachers, that I begin to look inward for the grace and strength, returning to discover who I really am and manifest this externally.

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Anxiety is an insidious, health destroying emotion. It is similar to the feeling that “something bad is going to happen to me,” or “I just don’t feel safe.” Another common emotion clients report is frustration. Inevitably when I question them they are frustrated with something beyond their control. A person, place, circumstance or even that they believe they had control of, yet this belief was erroneous, an illusion carried over from childhood.

Anxiety and frustration can develop on the job or at home through personality conflicts, perceptions or expectations, various fears: of making a mistake, being fired, embarrassed, shamed, etc. Over time frustration and anxiety take their toll on our minds and bodies leading to inflammation, pain, general discomfort, and eventually exhaustion and disease. These factors combined with poor diet, lack of exercise and unfulfilled sleep can lead to a health time bomb.

Most stress on the job or at home (which really translates to resisting the lessons life is giving me), is triggered by how I see things rather than actual events like threatening problems. How I perceive or see life is a byproduct of past events, beliefs, traumas and dramas. This is demonstrated by an event occurring and ten people giving ten different emotional perspectives on the same event, some even perceiving an entirely different occurrence from the rest!

Defense physiology is a stuck perspective that life is out to get me like before, basically stuck in fear and lack. Blame, control the need to be right – all are cover-ups for old unreconciled feelings. In B.E.S.T. we have the technology to identify these key patterns and stuck perspectives and update them through homework and forgiveness such that what was once perceived as a threat (only to my ego) is now seen as it is in reality, another experience in my life’s journey of health, happiness, and success.

For more information call 480-899-3683, or attend one of our continuing education classes listed on this site.

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A common question from clients seeking to change their diets is how protein is healthy. There are many weight loss programs out right now and many weight loss products. Many help people lose weight quickly by adding excess protein to their diet. Most experts agree to lose weight we need to reduce junk carbs (white flour, white rice, corn products, white sugar, etc) and junk fats (transhydrogenated fats, fried foods, etc.) What most experts disagree on is the protein: how much is enough, not enough, or too much?

Current high protein diets like Atkins, Zone, etc, recommend in excess of 12-14% of the Daily Total. The thinking behind this is the body needs protein to rebuild itself on a daily basis, therefore the need for excess protein. What they fail to understand is that the body recycles itself, keeping a vast majority of amino acids (protein building blocks) every day. This combined with the meat, dairy and egg lobby serves to increase protein into our daily diet beyond what we can process. The long term cost is the body must deal with this excess protein somehow, and on an extended program this creates many symptoms which are not health enhancing, but disease contributing.

What we have found in our office over 27 years of clinical practice is that 6-7% of body totals in diet serve well as a daily protein requirement. This would be the amount of meat you could fit in a deck of cards. Remember, nuts, seeds, grain, vegetables, and fruits all have cell walls, which are also made of protein. The average American is rarely protein deficient. The larger problem is protein excess leaving us with the same diseases as the kings and queens of Europe in the 1700-1800’s. See the Pottinger Cat Study and T. Collin Campbel of Tufts University study on excess protein consumption for some eye opening data.

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