by Dr. Matthew | Jul 30, 2013 | Chiropractic Care
Change is inevitable. Change can be seen in all aspects of life, sometimes fast, and other times slowly. A newborn child changes rather quickly. Check this video out of one second of every day over one year of a child’s life: 365 days in 365 seconds
On the other hand, the changing of an oceanic reef takes thousands of years. Still changing, however unnoticeable to the human lifespan.
Here’s the important part of change. I see that we can decide to change, or we can have change thrusted apon us. I have had it both ways in my life. Both ways work, however making the decision to change on your own is much more empowering than changing by force.
What is the one thing that you need to change right now?
by Dr. Matthew | Jul 13, 2013 | Chiropractic Care
Right now my town is in a drought. In fact the rain is so hard to come by, that the city has decided to place us under a moderate water restriction. In fact, I will take a picture of my yard today, and again in 2 weeks. I can guarantee the difference will be considerable.
It’s easy to understand: the less water, the less growth. More importantly: the less water, the more death.
Invariably the first thing that will happen, is that in the sunniest areas (the areas most effected by dryness) will start to turn brown. Then, it spreads like a domino effect. Soon the brown will be everywhere the shade isn’t. It’s not a pretty picture, in fact for a guy from New Orleans, where it rains daily during the summer, it is hard to watch. Everything that I worked so hard to plant, cut and trim will soon turn to dead, loose hay.
I can imagine your innate (that healing power within you) feeling the same way about your cells not getting the nerve impulses properly. Disappointed that it’s not being fed the right ingredients to keep it healthy. Your innate intelligence knows what to do to keep you healthy, and to return you to health, should you get sick. If your innate intelligence could talk, would it say, “Hey there. Remember me? We started out great. I had you working like a fine Rolex…and all you had to do is not interfere with the process!”
by Dr. Matthew | Jul 10, 2013 | Chiropractic Care
It is interesting to me what people remember from the past. When getting together with friends from the “good ole days”, listen to what they remember about those days. What you will find is that while there will be some similarities, most of the information that they remember will differ from the way you remember. This doesn’t mean that someone is embellishing a story (although this does happen with my stories from time to time lol). It means that everyone has a different perspective.
One way that your your life experience is all in your perspective.
If you would like a great life experience, then change your perspective. On a deep, cellular level, your perspective is formed mainly by your brain and nerve system. If you have a poorly functioning nerve system, your perspective will be completely different than someone whom has a clear nerve system.
Don’t like a perspective that a friend may have? Then refer them to your chiropractor!
by Dr. Matthew | Jun 12, 2013 | Chiropractic Care
Have you ever seen the work that goes into a really good cup of cappuccino? I once visited an establishment, and had the best cup that I have ever experienced. Nothing was needed to add, or take away from the 6 oz that was served to me. In fact, adding anything would have changed the creation of the artist. There simply was no way to make this cup of coffee lover’s nectar to a better cappuccino. The artist in this fine establishment was a machine valued at $20,000. That’s right, a machine to create a cup of coffee, cost 20K.Thank goodness they expected the life of this machine to last a while, or my coffee could have been pretty expensive!
It reminds me of the human body. Except, we were not created by a machine. We know that the human body is a complex thing. It can self heal, self regulate, and then produce another. Much more impressive than a cup of coffee! Yet, with this cup of cappuccino I had in my hand, I truly respected the “artist” that could create it’s wonderful taste.
When is the last time that you truly appreciated all of yourself? Better yet, do you respect the artist by not adding, or taking away pieces to try to manipulate a different outcome?
Going deeper into this subject would truly add or take away from the subject manner. I suggest that you take a step back and look at your life, your beautiful body, and decide right now whether there is room for the artist to truly work.
by Dr. Matthew | Jun 11, 2013 | Chiropractic Care
My grandfather, Charlie, or Paw-Paw as I knew him, was an accomplished carpenter. In fact, he was responsible for building many of the bar tops that still operate in New Orleans today. He was a man that knew what his purpose was, and he lived it religiously. Paw-Paw would get so involved in his work, that he even lost a few fingers in his time! Of course that was in the day of less safety equipment, with guards on saws, or even eye protection. One of the things I remember so clearly about my grandfather, was that he couldn’t see clearly at all.
This was for a couple of reasons. For one, my grandfather had an accident as a child when he lost vision in one of his eyes. It was a firearm accident, in which gun powder found it’s way into his left eye. As tragic of a story this is for his left eye, the right eye has a more humorous reason for decreased clarity.
You see, the right eye worked rather well. Charlie did need prescription glasses for a simple case of nearsightedness, however the true cause for his lack of clarity in his right eye, was that he always had sawdust on his glasses. Let me explain…
Not just a little sawdust, it would be obvious to anyone within 20 feet. The sun wouldn’t need to hit the lens just right to see the dust, and grime. No, this layer of dust would require the type of cleaning that would need much more than a shirt-tail to get the job done. To clean his lenses would require moisture to get through the soiled lenses! The phenomenon truly would baffle me, and still does to this day.
Imagine this:
You have one eye that you can use to see, on this one eye, you have to wear glasses. One would think that this last eye would be seen for what it truly was: The last opportunity to be able to see the world in which you live! I’d venture to say that I would pamper this right eye beyond all measure. I would treat that eye like it was the most vulnerable part of my body. And yet, Paw-Paw would literally get into his life’s work of carpentry, thus ignoring this main form of input to the human experience. Paw-Paw would deny his only hope of sight, a clean lens in which to see. His life experience, already dulled by 50%, would decrease even further.
Do you see a comparison to your life?
So many of us experience life with dirty lenses. The lens I am referring to is your nerve system. The truth is that your nerve system can work dirty. In fact, it can get quite a bit done, if it has a little dirt on it. But here is where your life becomes limited. You get acclimated to the dirty lens. Slowly throughout your life, the dirt and dust and grime of your life’s work builds up. Your confused, you never “saw” it coming. Your life was limited, and you didn’t even notice.
Sometimes it takes a different perspective. Sometimes it takes a friend to tell you to clean your lens. Believe me, they can’t see the dust. You will have to wipe it off for them. And when you do, they will be so very thankful, but that’s not why we do it. We clean the lens because it’s the right thing to do. We clean the lens because we care, because we know that only through a clean lens can the body actually work the way it was designed.
