Health Is Your Greatest Asset

Our individual health is the most valuable thing we possess. What is the one thing that can keep us from enjoying or even having the opportunity to experience our lives to the fullest? Our health! By creating and maintaining optimal health we are literally ensuring the greatest chance of being able to do the things that we value and love. So how well are you taking care of this asset? How well are you taking care of the health of your family? Are you making the appropriate lifestyle decisions in order to support your and your families goals? Maybe you do not have health goals. Only 10% of the population actually have health goals that are written down on paper. Are you part of the 10%? If not, it only takes a couple of minutes to make your intentions concrete. By writing down what you plan to do and how you will feel, you are challenging your mind to come up with solutions that will take you from where you are today to where you want to be! Become a part of the health solution in your community by actively modeling for others what it means to be healthy. As we all know, actions speak louder than words. Please call (858) 668-1700 or check out www.sheafamilychiropractic.com to find out more about protecting your most valuable asset!

Constant Coaching!

Can we pretty much agree that Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world currently. I believe so. So that must mean that he does not to be coached any more right? Well, actually Tiger has three coaches. So if the best golfer in the world has three people reminding him about his technique, educating him further about golf and keeping him motivated, how many people do you think it would take to do all of these things for you in regards to your health? Especially if our health is our greatest asset that must be protected at all cost. I would argue that having at least one person monitoring your progress, keeping you motivated, teaching you the latest information and improving your health techniques would be the very minimum. Sadly, most people in our population today do not have a health coach. As a chiropractor, this is one of my main responsibilities. In order to create and then maintain optimal health year after year it is absolutely vital to have someone supporting you along the way. If you are interested in a health coach please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/

Sitting For Your Spine!

Did you know that sitting to your spine is like sugar for your teeth? If you do enough of it, you end up with decay and degeneration. The sitting posture has been scientifically shown to place more pressure on the low back than almost any other position. In fact, they did an experiment in which they placed probes into the discs of the lower back and had a person take on different postures while measuring the pressure at each position. What they found was that the sitting posture places over two times the amount of pressure at the low back in comparison to laying on your back or standing. What this means to us, is that jobs or school that have people sitting for 8 hours of the day is actually encouraging degeneration and dysfunction in the spine. The only way to improve this situation is to take mini-breaks every hour and to receive chiropractic care in order to maintain the function and alignment of your spine in order to fight the degenerative process. For more information on chiropractic care please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/

What If?

What if the healthiest and most productive days of your life were ahead of you? How would you change your activities and choices in order to make the most of those days? This is a question that I try to ask each of my patients. Every single one seems like that could not be or if it is they definitely were not planning on it. In fact I would argue that most people feel that health is something that is experienced as a young person and is progressively lost over our lives. I would argue against this belief. My personal goal is to be healthier tomorrow than I am today. We know that the more experienced we are the greater the likelihood that we can make better decisions. Why does this not usually take place with our health? Or, if it does, why do the changes only come after the diagnosis and treatment of something like a heart attack, cancer or diabetes? What if your healthiest and most productive days were ahead of you? The best way to live our lives today is with this in mind. Wouldn't you be more likely to eat a little healthier, get a little or a lot more exercise, manage your stress a little more, get a little more sleep, take better care of your teeth and your spine? All of these are choices that we have control over today. I challenge you to take the proactive measures that are appropriate for making your days to come the healthiest you have ever experienced! If you would like to learn more about creating this type of lifestyle please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/

Spreading The Good News!

For anyone interested in hearing tons of great information regarding how to create the mandatory environment and lifestyle in order to create health I would like to offer you my speaking services! Over the past year I have done over 25 public speaking workshops/presentations. The groups I have spoken to include public service groups like the Rotary Club or BNI, private talks to groups of families at their homes, photography groups, professional businesses like the Best Western Country Inn Poway and at schools like the Beauty Academy Poway. I am willing to speak to any group of 10 people or more. I have also provided lunch for many of these groups so if you would like me to do this I would be happy to do so. The best part about these talks is that they are FREE! There is no catch! My goal, as you can tell from my blog, is to improve the quantity and quality of life within my community and doing public workshops is one of the best ways to impact large quantities of people in a short amount of time. If you like what you have seen on the blog and want to know more about natural chiropractic care and how to create a healthy lifestyle then today is your day! Please call (858) 668-1700 and ask for the next available time for a health talk at your location. You can also email me at drdevinshea@gmail.com if you have any questions or you would like to speak to me directly. I will be posting videos of recent talks that I have given at the website http://www.powaywellness.com/ and click on "Programs" and then "Weekly Workshops".

Building Blocks of Health

Let's say you are going to build two houses from scratch and both houses have the same blueprint. For the first house you try to spend as little as possible so you purchase the cheapest materials you can find. For the second house on the other hand you spare no expense and buy all top of the line materials. At the end of construction for both homes will they be the same? Absolutely not!!! The house that was build with quality materials will be stronger, more resistant to weather and fire damage and much more functional. This same process applies to your health. The key is that your genes are like the blueprints to your body and your environment supplies the raw materials for building. So if you want to build a healthy and strong body you must give your body the proper diet, sufficient exercise, manage your stress, obtain adequate amounts of sleep, and receive dental and chiropractic care. Simple!

Being Abundantly Present!

Have you ever noticed how some people have an incredible ability to handle multiple tasks, projects and problems all at the same time without being stressed. Do you want to know their secret? They are abundantly present! This means that they have created incredible habits that enable to accomplish tasks in their subconscious mind while working on still others in their conscious mind. How can you create these positive habits? Practice! The universe rewards action. There are no negatives only results. When you are working on a project and things don't go the way you expected, notice what happened and how you can change your approach in order to get the outcome you are looking for. Continue to do this and your troubles and challenges will fall away. When you are abundantly present you can take on more tasks and be more efficient and not increase your stress level. To find out more about making the choice in your life to be present at all times please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/

Habits and Efficiency

The definition of a habit is "A repetitive unconscious response to a certain stimulus." By creating positive habits within your life you are able to take on more projects, more responsibility and become more efficient. How this works is the thing that you do habitually is now able to be run in the "background" rather than in the front of your consciousness. This opens your mind up to taking on new or more tasks at the same time. The beauty of this process is that good habits are just as hard to break as bad ones. So if you can create a positive habit like exercising on a daily basis or saying your affirmations then these become hard wired into your system and you are able to do these while thinking about new prospects within your life. Something that I am very excited about beginning is a morning ritual. This is a way of making some of the most important things in my life a habit. This includes doing some positive reading, writing in my blog, stretching, exercising, eating a healthy breakfast, and last but not least, telling my wife I love her. For more information about how to create healthy habits in your life please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/

Timing Is Everything!

One fact that I have learned recently is that although everyone needs to learn how to take care of their body's, the timing of when they are ready to receive the information is often tricky to navigate. At times I feel as if I am speaking to a brick wall and at others I feel overwhelmed trying to keep up with the demand of people are are so turned on by the chiropractic wellness philosophy. There does not seem to be a middle ground. It seems that the turning point for people who are disinterested into very interested is when they begin to experience symptoms. Maybe it is their neck begins to hurt or they begin having digestive problems. Whatever the instigator, they transform into a bottomless pit that can only be filled up the health related information. Although it is good that their interest is finally peaked I would argue that it is always much better to learn a little bit each day or along the way and keep yourself without symptoms rather than waiting until the symptomatic phase and the need to know it all right away. For information that you can digest at your leisure please go to www.powaywellness.com

Living Congruently!

One of the most difficult things to do in life is to know the correct answer or correct path and actually follow through with it in your actions. To often it is easy to fall into the trap of eating poorly, staying up to late and not getting enough rest, placing other projects ahead of getting your exercise or allowing stress to take over your mind. We all seem to know the answers to these problems, yet actually doing what is necessary to remedy these troubles is often very difficult. One thing that I have been using lately is an affirmation to help keep me living a lifestyle that will promote and maintain a healthy body. When ever I am tempted to deviate from what my body needs in order to express health I tell myself, "I am ecstatic about living congruently!" Although this may sound lame or contrived I would argue that it has been very effective so how it sounds does not matter much. An affirmation, especially one that begins with "I am" is interpreted by your brain as a command for your body to carry out. This makes a simple statement extremely powerful. To find out more information on affirmations please attend our workshop on stress management at A+ Family Chiropractic in Poway, CA or go to http://www.powaywellness.com/ to find out more.

Symptom Based Care vs. Wellness Care

Symptoms are our body's way of letting us know that we have been living a lifestyle that is not congruent with what we need in order to be healthy. Symptoms can also arise due to a trauma that is so severe that we are consciously made aware of the problem immediately. Symptom based health care is designed to start when symptoms occur and end when symptoms subside. This of course makes sense to a lot of people because if they cannot feel a problem then they must not have a problem. I would argue that this is a dangerous belief. If how we feel dictates how healthy we truly are, then why is it that often the first sign of a heart attack occurs when you are actually having the heart attack and not when you begin to have plaque build up in your arteries? Why does the first symptom of a stroke occur when you are actually having the stroke instead of when the problem actually begins many months to years earlier? Wellness based health care is designed to not be symptom based. Instead wellness based care is carried out on a regular basis regardless if symptoms are present or not. I like to think of wellness based care as "proactive health care." This way of taking care of your body is always more effective, more efficient and almost always cheaper financially to the patient in the long run. Not to mention cheaper in the sense that it is expensive emotionally and physically to the patient and to their family when that person has a health care crisis. To learn more about how to live a wellness/proactive lifestyle please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/ immediately.

Chiropractic vs. Massage Treatments

Many people ask me if it is appropriate for them to receive a massage while under chiropractic care. In order to understand my answer it is important to understand what are the specific goals of each treatment. Massage works specifically with the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the body. It is designed to increase blood flow, lymphatic flow and healing of the area being worked on. It is also designed to help relax the muscle tissue and make the patient feel better. There are many different types of massage out there with many other treatment goals, however the general spa style massage is focused on these aspects. In contrast, chiropractic works with the joints of the spine, pelvis and extremities in order to improve the function, range of motion and alignment of the affected areas. Chiropractic also strives to improve the function of the nervous system which is housed and protected by the spine. When this is accomplished, the body's in born ability to heal itself is able to be expressed or enhanced.

Now that you understand the goals of the respective treatments the obvious answer is "Of course!" Chiropractic and massage used in conjunction with each other are a great tool for improving the quality and quantity of life for all people. To learn more about chiropractic and massage please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/ or http://hubpages.com/hub/spinal-health