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

In working with clients since 1982 I have seen just about every known malady. A common question is “how can this ‘bad’ disease happen to such a good person?” To understand our bodies and how they react we need to acknowledge we have two minds.

The first is the conscious mind where I think, discern, reason, and understand time. This mind is educated through multiple sources: education, experience, parents, clergy/religion, media, peers, etc. By the very fact that our conscious mind is educated implies that it is fallible, as all knowledge is incomplete through always growing. This means that at best our decision making abilities are fraught with error and mistakes. This is not negative, just something to be aware of, a very valuable insight into learning life’s lessons, for to not learn is to resist. Resistance is any negative emotion: pride, anger, desire, fear, grief, guilt, apathy, shame; or any negative behavior: aggression, addiction, projection, avoidance, etc.

The second is our subconscious mind which governs all autonomic functions of the body: digestion, muscles, heart, hormones, circulation, immune system, etc. The subconscious mind does not think, discern, reason or understand time, it just responds to our five senses, by memory, for the purpose of survival. It does not consider that today’s reactions could be setting up a potential time bomb, overloading a system to the point of breakdown, exhaustion and disease. The subconscious mind does not distinguish between seeing a tiger through the five senses and reacting in fight or flight (sympathetic dominance), or seeing a person, place, circumstance or event through the five senses triggering a fear of failure, loss, identity, value, rejection, abandonment, shame, etc. The brain responds in the exact same way.

People are, to some extent, aware of experiences in their conscious mind and attempt to deal with them; occasionally they do deal with the experience and reconcile all on their own. It is the rare individual, however, who is aware of what is stored in their subconscious mind, being triggered consistently through the five senses and memory, leading to the proverbial “bad thing” happening to a good person.

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Attitude

There are an estimated 4.2 million people in the US 85 years or older, an estimated 40,000 of them living to reach 100. Census projections predict 1 million Americans will celebrate their 100th birthday by 2050.

Evidence suggests good genes are only a small part of the longevity experience. Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of “The Biology of Beliefs,” has scientifically valid evidence its simply our habits and choices that create our physiology – how our bodies feel & work. Researchers now believe that chronic illness is not an inevitable byproduct of aging but a direct result of our lifestyle choices, choices that we are perfectly free to embrace or reject!

Here are some suggestions to move forward with Health, Happiness, and Success:

Embrace a positive attitude

According to research and my clinical experience an attitude of gratitude for all of life’s experiences is the key to longer and more vibrant living. Positive emotions trigger neurological and hormonal responses that have healing benefits to the whole body.

Challenge your mind – try something new

Research shows the more we educate and try new tasks and skills the longer we live! Take advantage of opportunities that may not have been available in the past. Travel, volunteer activities, a second career, musical instruction, writing, various classes – all serve to stimulate brain activity.

Reduce resistance and stay connected

• Understand that anything I have a negative emotional reaction to is a deeper reflection of myself that I have not loved, learned from, and released
• What I resist tends to persist and/or reoccur over and over in my life.
• I can choose to forgive. I can choose to view movies, entertainment, and life with humor.
• Prayer/meditation/exercise are self-nurturing activities that help me to reconnect to the internal and external now; they are natural relaxants and grounding activities.
• Maintain touch with family, friends, and mastermind groups that encourage us to take care of ourselves and challenge us to risk, stretch, and grow.
• Begin to decrease stimulating products like smoking, drinking, junk food, white flour, white sugar, white rice products – these are a sure way to accelerate aging and produce ill health.

Embrace exercise

Find any way you enjoy to move. Movement will increase muscle tone, cardiovascular health, bowel & immune function, to name a few benefits.

• 5 to 6 days a week of aerobic (if you can still talk while doing it, its aerobic) exercise, 30-40 minutes long.
• Include 2 to 3 days of mild to moderate strength training, seek a trainer, Pilates classes, etc.

Make healthy nutrition choices and choose whole food supplements

• Reduce organic grown protein to 40 grams a day (you’re getting protein from all your other food choices already)
• Increase veggies and fruits to 60-70% of diet. Within 3 months you’ll be leaner and healthier.
• Choose reverse osmosis water to remove toxic chemicals; sweeten with Stevia and add lemon juice to revitalize the water.
• By reducing junk food we reduce devitalized, nutrition lacking substances.
• Choose a supplement that directly comes from food, not mega-supplements that are highly stimulatory. Morter Health Systems “Alkaline” and Standard Process both fulfill all natural & whole food requirements.

Choose quality health care

• Find a quality holistic physician that can guide you in making a healthy balance plan.
• Be regular for the purpose of wellness, not disease symptom care.
• A B.E.S.T. practitioner can be found on Morter.com to help you look at your health care needs and rebalance the mind-body for more optimum wellness

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Attitude, Exercise, Nutrition & Diet