 Albert Einstein once said “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” This is true of your pain and symptoms. The knowledge you have acquired so far has gotten you to where you are today, what shift will need to happen so you can get you to where you want to be? The truth is, if you want to end your pain and what you’ve been doing so far hasn’t been working for you, the first thing you’re going to have to do is open your mind to changing how you think about your pain! So, what does pain mean to you? Pain can mean different things to different people. For some, pain is seen as an annoyance, nuisance, something you have to “deal” with or get through. For others, it is something to be scared of and when they’re in pain, they feel powerless or like a victim. Some people believe they have nothing to do with the pain at all and that their life was going along “just fine” until the pain showed up to ruin it! There are others that get a sense of significance because when they are in pain, they get more love and attention. There once was an elderly lady who got sick often. Whenever she was ill, her family and friends would come and visit and do things for her and make her feel better. For her, she found out that being sick meant being loved. When she became aware of that, she simply told her family that she needed to spend more time with them and she got sick less often. So, what does pain mean for you? Need some help with your pain? 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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 When we get a signal from the external world, our senses receive and perceive it. It is then picked up by our nervous system which causes us to react. When a signal comes from our internal world, we experience the sensation as pain, pleasure or an emotion and we react to it. In either case, when a signal is received, we (our body) has a response. How do we (our bodies) know how to respond? Well, we respond with the behaviours that were learned the first time the signal was experienced....usually, this dates back to our childhood. Have you ever observed a grown adult acting like a child? Or, told someone to “grow up” or “act their age”? That “adult” person is on “autopilot”. Whatever emotion, sensation or pain they are currently experiencing is causing them (their body and emotions) to “re-live” the time when they felt the same way in the past and “re-activate” how they reacted to the situation, sensation, stimulation at that time. For example, if at the age of 3, you wanted a big red bicycle from your parents for your birthday and you did not get it. You may have taken this to mean that your parents didn’t love you, you weren’t deserving, or some other negative thing reflecting your disappointment and hurts. You didn’t consider another “truth”. You developed a perception or “a belief” at that time, along with its associated body chemistry reaction and emotions. The truth could have been very different - maybe your parents did not have enough money to buy you a bike or the stores were all sold out, or there were none available in your size, or….? . Whatever the reason, you perceived this experience of not getting a red bike when you were 3 years old as not feeling loved and being disappointed, and that hurts. A lot. Your body remembers and stores your life experiences in your nervous system and they show up in a certain posture you do, behaviour patterns, breathing patterns, energy and movement, expressions, etc. Later on in life these “stored” emotions, reactions and patterns surface whenever something comes up or triggers you (it could be a taste, smell, song, etc.) that has any link or resemblance to the past event or situation. You end up reverting back to that past first experience, how you felt (those 3 year old feelings) and how you reacted. When in your adult life have you noticed that you reacted like a child? Need some help with your limiting beliefs? 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 react to something, there is a deeper meaning than the emotion that you are experiencing in the moment. Your reactions are like symptoms. Imagine that your lawn is filled with weeds and you wanted to get rid of them. If you simply mowed down the weeds, what would happen? The weeds would come back a couple weeks later. This was because you never got down to the root of the weed. If you instead pull out the weed at its root, it wouldn't come back again. If you never get down to the root of your symptoms, then your illness, dis-ease, etc will continue to come back. If we simply put a band-aid on the symptom and don’t look deeper down at the root cause, we will never heal fully. If you notice that you keep reacting emotionally to people, things, situations, etc. in the same way, you will continue to react like that until you find out the root cause of your problem. Think back to the last time you were angry. Who was there? What were you talking about? If you examine it fully, you probably weren’t mad at the person you were talking with but what they represented. What was the underlying cause that you were reacting to? Were you angry because you were not being heard? Not feeling valued? Not feeling good enough? Was there an injustice of some sort? Remember that our reactions are our perceptions. We react because we have a rule that was broken according to the way that we see the world. When else have you reacted similarly in the past? Why did you choose anger to react then? All these questions are designed to help you figure out how to go deeper to find the trigger for your emotion. What did you find out about yourself? 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.  The emotion of anger often gets a bad rap. When we are growing up, we are often told not to show your anger, or to control your anger or even to suck it up when we are angry. This is most often by well meaning parents, teachers and people we look up to. Instead of the negative side of anger or more so, the negative actions that stem from anger. Let’s look at anger and how it protects you. Anger is protective. It makes others not want to associate with you when you are angry. It keeps people away. This can be a good thing if you are in danger. You can shout and use your voice to save yourself. Anger gives you more energy. Ever notice how difficult it is to fall asleep when you are angry? The saying, don’t go to bed angry probably comes from the fact that you can’t actually get sleep when you are angry. Anger can give you power. If there’s an injustice that you want to stand up for, getting angry for the oppressed can help fuel you to take action to help make a change in some way. When you say "Enough of this!", your angry brings you power. When you use anger as a shield, it can ward people off. This is most likely needed at the time that you put up your shield. The challenge is, most people never examine themselves to see if the anger shield is still needed. Imagine having your anger shield up and keeping people away from you and at the same time, feeling alone and wanting to connect to others. Something that serves you well on one level of consciousness will not on another. Anger gets a bad rap and it doesn’t have to. At the same time, when you are done with your emotion of anger, make sure to examine if your shield is still needed. Need help to take down your anger shield? 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.  What do you do when there’s not enough time in the day? You need to feed the kids, feed yourself, find time to exercise, work, do household chores, meditate, journal etc. etc. etc. The answer is NET time. NET is an acronym for no extra time. This is where you try to bundle some of the things that you are doing so that it doesn’t require extra time to do them. Here are some suggestions of some of the things you can bundle together:
What are some of your ways that you save time? Need some help? 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.  Today I feel great but I didn’t yesterday. I wasn’t even aware that I didn’t feel great yesterday. It was only through contrast that I knew truly how lousy I had been feeling. It had been 2 months since I last saw my chiropractor. It had been my longest stretch that I had gone without seeing them. It started when I noticed over and over again that I had stiff neck, some pain and some sore muscles. Because we were locked down, I couldn’t go to my chiropractor as were are only supposed to see emergencies at that time and I was not in an emergency situation. I noticed that as soon as I got on the table, my body started to relax. When I finally received my first contact, I realize how truly unwell I had been feeling. I had stress from the lockdown, from being with my two young children all the time, from my practice having to stop, from my husband working at home, worrying about friends and family... everything that everyone else was dealing with but I didn’t know how much I had actually taken on. As a treatment continued, I started to notice my nervous system come back online. My muscles started to relax in my jaw and I started to stretch my body and I could breathe again. I could fully breathe again. After I got off the table, I exclaimed that I felt like myself again. When I went home, I knew that I could be a better mother to my children, partner to my husband and a better person for humanity. I am so grateful for the work that I’ve been entrusted to do. I am excited to see my patients again and for them to feel the same things that I felt. Sometimes breaks allow us to truly see how important some things are in our lives. Excited to get some Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic done? 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.  Infertility is a difficult, multi-layered and multi-faceted subject. There’s so many emotions that go along with it. At first, people get excited at the prospect of being a parent. As the months turn into years, every time you get your period, you go down into a web of despair. The challenge isn’t with 1 single month of not being pregnant, it is with the months and months of disappointments that are piled up over time. Recently, I’ve worked with several women about their emotions associated with infertility. Most commonly, people are angry because they feel that their body has failed them in some way. I often hear, "my body was designed to do this and now it’s not. I am so angry with my body. Why doesn’t my body work properly?" Then, somewhere along the way, not working properly is equated with not being of value. Sometimes, I hear, "I'm not good enough because I am not a mother. " Others, play the “if only” game. If only we had tried sooner, if only I were younger, if only I ate better…. then I could get pregnant. Many feel the disappointment not just for themselves or their spouse but that of their parents and family as well. This can be an extra burden for them to carry. Not only do they feel they are letting themselves down, but others as well. When they hear that somebody is pregnant or see a pregnant person they wonder why can’t that be them. This can be really hard emotionally for somebody. Most often, people will react negatively towards learning that others are pregnant, leading to further isolation. It is not because they are not happy for the newly pregnant person but because they so badly want to be that person. The above are only some of what a person is dealing with in regards to infertility. If these emotions stay in the body and are not fully processed, it can lead to discomfort and dis-ease later on in life. The emotions of what you are feeling need to be felt. This is why I’ve also heard from several of my patients that they got pregnant after we worked to release their emotions and get rid of neuro abnormalities in their spine and nervous system. For those that did not get pregnant, they were able to let go of the emotional weight that they have been experiencing. Either way, patients learned to surrender to what is. This is extremely hard. When you have had a single focus for years, tried everything you can think of, surrender seems like giving up. When your mind is occupied with tracking cycles, fertility treatments, timing intimacy, eating a specific diet, it can be too much stress. Feel and experience your emotions, accept the present moment and surrender to what is. Need some help? 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 Chiropractic Click HERE.  Are you a person doing or a person being? “We stay busy so that the truth about our lives doesn’t catch up to us.” - Brene Brown When you have more time on your hands, you can observe more of who you are. With everyone being told to stay at home, you get a chance to see who you are without the distractions of the normal day to day life. Personally, I’ve noticed that I am always trying to find something to do. Running my own business, I can always find more work to do or more things to learn. When I’m not working on my business, I have the kids to distract me, along with household chores, etc. When I’m bored, I turn on the TV, listen to a podcast, or read. I try to fill my day with things to do. I have checklists for the day and I write so many things down that I can’t possibly do them all. Recently, I wondered why I do things all the time. I came to understand that I VALUE doing. Somewhere along the way in life, I have equated doing things with being valuable. I am of value to others if I do things and if I’m not doing something, I have lost “worth” in my eyes. Now that I know this belief is FALSE. I can practice being more. The irony is that worth and value come from being. Being a nice person, being grounded and connected, being with one’s self, being with spirit, being the person you were meant to be. I don’t simply want to be a human doing….. I want to be a human be-ing. Curious to see if Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic can help? 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 Chiropractic? Click HERE.  This morning my son accidentally hurt me. He was walking backwards while I was lying on the floor playing with his sister. He didn’t see me and ended up stepping on my head. I exclaimed “Ouch!” and sat up to see if I was hurt. I then turned to my son and asked for an apology. Instead of hearing “Sorry Mama”, I heard ‘No!”. I proceeded to tell him that I was not mad at him, that he was not in trouble and he did accidentally step on someone and when we do that, we say sorry. He still refused. To me, it was a simple “sorry” and that was all. Instead, he cried and ran away and made things harder than they should’ve been. How many times have we made life more difficult than it should be? If a simple “I’m sorry” was all you had to say to make everything better, why do we choose instead to run away? Why is it so difficult for us to admit when we are wrong? It was also interesting to watch my reaction. My first instinct was to punish him in some way (turn off Paw Patrol) for not wanting to apologize. I learned that my reaction when my feelings are hurt is to punish and withdraw love. I observed my first reaction to hold back on love and I chose to react differently. He still needs to apologize or acknowledge that it is not ok to step on people’s head but he will not be getting any less hugs or less love from me as punishment. The lesson is to teach that there are actions and consequences to certain actions. This does not have to be taking away love which is one of the hardest things for a child. Interestingly, when I told my husband about the situation, my husband said...he’s just like you!....urgh, it appears that I have more work to do. How do you react when you are hurt? Where did this programming come from? Need some awareness? 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.  Times are tough right now. We are experiencing something that we never have before and on a large scale. Whatever you are feeling, it is OK to feel the way that you feel. It is OK if you are having a tough day, week or month. Some people are at home trying to work, look after the children and homeschool them at the same time. You can’t expect to do all of these things. Even if you are able to (good for you), you are probably feeling pulled in many directions. It is OK to feel burnt out, overworked, stressed out or sad. Some people have lost their support network. Your family is not around to help. You can’t see your friends in person and some people are missing social interaction. Acknowledge what you were feeling and what you are missing. Others are missing freedom. Freedom to go outside without being scared. Freedom to see other people. Acknowledge how you are feeling. This is a time of fear and worry for a lot of people. Acknowledge what you feel and really feel the emotions that are coming up in your body. Know that this is all temporary and that the sun will come out again. If you would like to talk or are you having any trouble please contact my office. 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. |
AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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