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