 On Jan 1 of this year, I joined a group of individuals who committed to doing something every day for the entire year. We wanted to see, who we could become if we really stuck to something and made no excuses. My goals were to meditate daily and do something for my business. I made it all the way until this past week and then I forgot to do one of my goals. I didn't realise I had forgotten until the next day when I became aware that I had not meditated the previous day. I froze in place. How could I have gone on for so long and then forgotten? I purposly did both goals as soon as I woke up in the morning so I wouldn't forget. But, I did. So many emotions and thoughts ran thought me. What if I don't tell the group? As we self-report our goals, this was an option. But, I knew that this wasn't authemtic and congruent with the person I want to be. Relief. I don't need to be perfect anymore. Sure, I broke my streak but now, there's a freedom of not being bound to it. Anger. Do I really want to start this again? What will others think of me? Acceptance. I told my group and started again. Perspective. Once I accepted that I did not meet my goal and got the more neagative thoughts out of my system, more positive ones flowed. Wow, now I will be ahead of next year's goals! You did so great stucking to your goal for so long! I'm so proud of you. Let's celebrate how far we've come on this journey. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.
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 Whether through work, friends or our own families, we have a certain level of influence with others. With your influence, what information (physically, emotionally, mentally, spritiually) are you passing down? Are you spending your precious time with others by passing down your wisdom or your wounds? When you speak from a place of wisdom, what do your words sound like? You'll notice that your tone of voice and your actions will be more loving and you will have more patience. What happens when you speak from a place of hurt or wounding from a past hurt? You'll likely hear that you are more angry, likely to react negatively or say something that you wish you didn't. Before engaging with other people, it's important to check your state. This is expecially important if you are around young children. They really are like spongse that soak up everything that you say and do. Remember, you're words have the power to harm and also the power to heal. Choose them wisely. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Last week, my son had his first day at school as he started kindergarten.
It was probably just as stressful for me to watch him, as it was for him to go. We dropped him off at the fence with his teacher, my brave little guy turned around and waved goodbye. How does one prepare for this moment as a parent? How does a child grow up so fast? I picked him up after school and he did great. He said he wasn't sad all day. He did get angry when he had to stop playing with the toys to eat. This made me laugh. He made it through his first day at school, and so did I. September is a great time to start something new. After all, it's already ingrained in your nervous system that school starts, there's a new routine, and the weather begins to shift. Is there something that you've been holding off on that you've wanted to try? I know I've got to recommit to exercising again. Let me know in the comments below what your "first day" of a new routine will be. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  When you say "I am happy. I am sad. I am angry.", does that mean that you are the emotion that you say you are?
What if I told you that you are not your emotions? You may be wondering, "who am I, then?". You are a person who is experiencing emotions. Emotions are designed to pass through us, and create change in some way. They are short term and usually less than a few minutes. If you notice that your emotions are lasting longer, it's because you are stuck in a state. A state of anger, a state of fear, a state of sadness. You either keep replaying a circumstances or the words someone says, over and over again. You then keep experiencing the emotion. When you experience an intense emotion, often, your body goes into an unconscious state and you react to your emotions. Once activated, your sympathetic nrvous system (fight/flight/freeze) takes over and tries to defend you. There is another way! If you fully expericenced your emotions and allow them to move through you, you could have a different reaction in your body and in your life. Try observing your reactions and being conscious of your emotions. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Being mindful means: “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” – Jon Kabat Zinn In our current world, we are always being bombarded by information that is trying to get our attention. It could be the ads we watch on TV, social media or even well meaning family and friends. If we are constantly reacting to everything around us, we jump from one thing to another and our mind lacks mindfulness. We have been so busy multitasking, we haven't stoped to ask if this is a skill that we shold get good at. So, how can we begin to change this? Here are two questions to ask yourself: 1. “What is happening now?” This question tunes you into the present moment awareness without engaging it or becoming distracted by it. The experience of watching and simply being aware of your emotional spectrum as “information.” 2. As you watch and are aware of your emotions say to yourself, “this is just information.” If you can receive what is coming in as simply information instead of a threat, then you can choose how to engage instead of reacting. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Disconnection in our body happens during a traumatic or chaotic event or loss. We disconnect as a form of protection. Most times, we aren't even aware of it in the moment. This is done because there is too much for us to process. Signs that you may be disconnecting are:
Numbness if the most common manifestation because it's too painful to feel. Disconnecting is a normal process, however, most of us, stay disconnected and never reconnect with the lost parts of ourselves. Here's a short exercise to reconnect to your body. Lie on your back with your arms on your side. Breathe in through the most and out through your mouth. Think of a past experience that was mildy traumatic or chaotic in your life. If you're just starting out, don't go for your most painful experience right away. While you are going back to those moments, notice where your body starts to tighten up. Where do you start feeling uneasy? Wherever the area, put your hands on it. Take 10 full breathes with your hands on that area. Say to that area, "someone I feel disconnected." This acknowledges this part of your body. Take your hands off your body and once again place them to your sides. What is the same? What is different? Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  When we are feeling stressed and overwhelmed, we’re told that we need to seek self-care. Our well meaning friends and family tell us that we need to take care of ourselves. This is NOT what we need. Taking care of everything and everyone by ourselves is probably what led to the feelings of stress in the first place. We do not need more self-care. What we need is community care. Going way back to the neolithic period, we lived in communities. This was imperative to our survival. Certain members of the tribe would be in charge of gathering and hunting food while others would look after tidying, watching the children and defending the tribe against predators. The only way to survive and thrive was to work together. If someone committed a terrible crime, their punishment would be to leave the tribe. This was essentially sentencing someone to death. Now, in the North American culture, our families consist of the members of the same household and our tribes are those same people. The burden of all the tasks now rests on the shoulders of only a couple of people. It’s no wonder that mental illness is at an all time high. Throw in a pandemic and you’re setting up a society for failure. Luckily, the tribe concept is not all lost. Various cultures and communities still live multigenerationally or near each other in order to help out. This can often be seen in Indian, Asian, Muslim and Italian cultures where a family consists of many families getting together along with members of a community. If you were at your limit and stressed, do you need to add meditation, exercise, cooking, etc. to your list of things you need to do? No, that would make you feel worse as you already feel like you don’t have enough time in your day. Instead, you need your neighbours to make a meal for you, a friend to take your children for a few hours or cleaners to come to your house. May the post pandemic world be filled with communities that come together in order to help support each other. The world does not need more isolation, the pandemic has shown it. It needs more “family.” Would you like to be part of a healing community? Join in one of my free monthly workshops. We meet on Zoom and you can connect to others who are forward thinkers, learners and who want to heal and help others. Need help on your healing journey? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Let’s face it, we have all had unpleasant experiences in our lives. Most often, they involve other people. I’m repeatedly asked, what is the best way to move past a hurt that you’ve experienced? What I have found is to remember the kindest version of what happened to you. A few months ago, I had a disagreement with some family members. They had their version of what happened and I had mine. So, how did I move forward? I chose to look back on the conversation to find the positives:
When you can look back on an event and see what you can learn, it will be stored differently in your body and your nervous system then if you simply harbored the emotions that you experienced. Feel and experience your emotions, then go back and find the opportunities for growth. Take a look back on the last time someone upset you. What was said and what was exactly done? Take inventory of what you have learned. Take action to make changes if necessary and remember the best possible outcome of an event. We are all doing our best. If everyone experienced the same situations and circumstances that you did, perhaps they would have empathy and understanding. Differences of opinions happen because others have not walked in your shoes. Need help getting past a past hurt? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  We are aware of many ways that toxins can enter our bodies. Whether it's pollution from the environment, chemicals in our food or even mold in the house. One source of toxins that we aren't usually aware of is that coming from toxic people. Toxic people bring negative emotions, chaos and drama into your life. While you may not be able to stop talking to all of them, you can try to limit your contact. Negative emotions like anger and resentment causes your body to react with stress which in turn decreased your immune system. They also rob joy from your life. When you spend time thinking about your past experiences, it keeps you from enjoying the present moment. So, what do you do? Go through your contacts and decide if they bring positive or negative energy into your life. Now, we all have up and down times in our lives and can't be happy 100% of the time. We want an average experience to be on the positive side. Observe your body because they it will react right away as you think of the different people in your life. If they don't add to your life, they are either neutral or they take away from it. Limit your interaction and contact or even eliminate those that take away from your life force. Spend time with those that add to it. People can also switch categories. It's up to you to determine how much energy you have and want to give to the relationship. Instead, focus on yourself and the things that bring you joy. What are you passionate about? What would you wake up early for? Remember where your focus goes, your energy flows. If you are currently trying to heal from a chronic medical condition such as lyme or an autoimmune disorder, it is especially important to keep what energy you have for healing. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.   Believe it or not, our body is designed to bring inspiration and pleasure. Ever watch olympic athletes and marvel at what is possible for our human body? Those athletes push their body to the maximum and to new limits, breaking records and dazzling audiences. Billions of people around the world are inspired to cheer or get involved in athletics themselves. A 100m race is over in less than 10 seconds and each athlete is so fine tuned and aware that they know what each body part is doing at any given moment. There exists within us a great intelligence. This innate intelligence allows us to heal ourselves. Dr. Christiane Northrup says “It is possible to thrive in a body instead of simply waiting for disease to happen. It boils down to this: Regardless of our individual circumstances, each of us has inner guidance available that we can tune in to in order to create vibrant health- now. We are born with this inner guidance, which comes in the form of the emotions and desires that lead us toward things that feel good and are good for us, and away from things that feel bad. It is that simple.” Our body is in a constant state of flux. Cells in our body die and regenerate all the time. Our red blood cells live about 120 days while white blood cells live more than a year. Skin cells live about 2-3 weeks and colon cells die off after about 4 days. If we cut our finger or break a bone, our body can heal from it. We don’t question this. So, why is it that we don’t believe we can heal from low back pain or neck pain, or even cancer? If our body has a healing intelligence, why is it we only believe it works for the “small” things and not the “big” things? Cut and bruises are ok, headaches are not. There is a limiting belief here. If our body is always regenerating, why is it that we still have the same hurts we had years ago? Patients come in all the time and tell me that their neck has been hurting since the car accident they had 15 years ago. The individual cells of the neck have already regenerated and so were not the same ones that got into the accident, so why hasn’t your body healed from that yet? It’s because it’s our consciousness that does the remembering. Our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, structures and behaviour patterns give off a certain vibration or frequency in the cell and that’s what is remembered. A cell must forget who it’s been and move beyond for healing to occur. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. 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AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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