 Imagine that your body is in a state of constant stress and it feels as if it’s a constant battle each day? Your body will then only allow you to keep experiencing the signals needed for survival. As long as you are in a protected or defended state, your body won’t release the other stored experiences. This then, creates tension throughout your body as more and more emotions and events accumulate. The body will compensate and adapt until it can no longer do so and then eventually, it will snap. You’ve heard the expression of the straw that broke the camel’s back? That how some people end up in my office. They bend over to put their socks on and their back gives out on them. It was not simply that one event. Our bodies are meant to have flexibility and range of movement....putting our socks on alone should not cause that kind of pain. People Don’t Mind Pain Can you think of a situation in which someone could experience pain and be happy about it? What about a mother who is about to give birth? They are in pain and yet they know that there will be a good outcome for the pain. I had a friend who suddenly developed a virus in her brain. She ended up paralyzed from neck down and couldn’t feel anything. One day, she felt excruciating pain in her toe and she was ecstatic and overjoyed. It meant that she could feel again. For a lighter example, have you ever been to the gym and the next day was so sore from your workout and also feeling great? These examples show that it is not simply about the pain. People do not mind being in pain! People mind having pain and being fearful of it! 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.
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 How often have you heard someone say “My mother had it, my aunt has it, and my cousin has it, I am destined to get it too” or “It’s all in the genes”? The truth is, according to Dr. Bruce Lipton, 80-90% of all diseases are actually stress and lifestyle. Even in the case of identical twins, 70% of diseases that result are environmental and related to lifestyle. If we take cancer alone, an article published in the NCBI shows that only 5-10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects whereas the remaining 90-95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle. This is great news! While it’s hard to change our genes, it is possible to make changes to the way we think and feel about life. It also means that we get to take more responsibility for our health. The Bioterrain The bioterrain is the environment inside your body. It contains the fluids, nutrients, minerals, etc. Each cell is made up of a membrane that surrounds it. This cell membrane controls the internal environment of the cell by allowing fluids, nutrients, etc. to flow in and out. It is therefore important to have both a good, healthy environment inside your body and cell membrane layer. What makes up your environment and your membranes? The building blocks from your cell membrane come from the food you eat. Your cells use the nutrients that you feed it to replicate and grow. Cells made up of deep fried french fries versus a green salad will be created differently simply because of the raw materials you use. You literally are made up of what you eat. The reason that diseases “run in the family” is because beliefs, behaviours, and structures run in the family. An interesting study found that people who were considered to be the “black sheep” of the family, tended to not suffer the same diseases as the rest of the family. Ill health occurs because you did not make the change in your life when you needed to make it. Change could be physical such as in exercise and diet, stress related, work, relationships, speaking up, etc. When life is calling you to be or do one thing and you resist, tension starts to build up in your body and your spine and if not resolved, your body may start to get signals. 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.  Too often, we give up our control or power to someone external to us, who we think may know more than us. You may say, my medical doctor is an expert and studied medicine, they must know what’s best for me and my body. This is not entirely true. Your medical doctor has studied diseases and knows a lot of information, they are not however, an expert on you. Sometimes when I ask someone “tell me what you think is wrong with you.”, they will answer, “you tell me, you’re the doctor”. We’ve been trained to look outside ourselves for the answer instead of searching within. The truth is, you are an expert in your own body. No one is more knowledgeable about your body than you. If you’re thinking, “oh, no”, then it’s time to now get better acquainted with your own body and start to become aware of the messages that it’s trying to tell you. When I went through chiropractic school, I was taught how to recognise all types of diseases, illness, pathologies and how to treat them. What they did not teach me is how to help someone who is well. We didn’t look at people who were doing well, without symptoms and ask, how can they function at an even higher level than they are now? Doctor’s learn to identify and treat disease and they are well trained in what they do. They don’t know if you are well. Wellness is your domain. When people go to the medical doctor for their regular checkups, they are not looking to see if they are well, they are looking to see if you are “sick” in some way. It is possible to have a disease and to be well, emotionally, mentally and spiritually as wellness is not merely the absence of disease. Next time someone gives you health information, do your own research and inform yourself before making your decision. Remember that there are no ‘side effects’, there are only effects. 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.  When we try to remain the same even when it’s not appropriate, this creates tension in our body. The tension builds and builds and then either drives us towards change or to pain, dysfunction and eventually, disease. Dr. Donald Epstein says that disease happens when we did not make the change in our life that we were supposed to. This could be a change in diet and exercise habits, it could mean speaking up, getting out of a bad relationship, etc. Life is supposed to hurt and be painful if you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing. If you are not joyful, if you’re not following your passions and your purpose, it is supposed to hurt. Questions to ask yourself: In what areas of my health do I currently feel stuck? In which areas of my relationships am I feeling stuck? Treatment without changing If we treat the disease and don’t change our lives, we simply try to restore ourselves to the way we used to be. Remember, our old selves is what got us to the pain in the first place! Instead, we need to change who we are being and upgrade ourselves for the future. Rather than trying to be who we were in the past, we evolve into the person the future requires us to be. Need some help evolving into the person that your future requires you to be? 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.  Imagine you are a postman and you had a letter that you had to deliver. You go to the house and knock on the door. No one is home so you decide to come back the next day. The next day, you see a car in the driveway, so you knock on the front door again and perhaps you go around to the back door and knock there. On the third day, as you’re walking up to the house, you see the curtain move in the window...now, you know that someone is home. You knock on the front door, side door and no one answers. Because you know someone is home, you knock louder and louder until finally, the door opens and the person shouts “what do you want????” You hand them your letter and you leave.
Pain is your letter, and the message has to be delivered. It will start off subtle and keep knocking at your door until you decide to answer. The good news is, once you open the door and receive your message, the pain goes away. But, what do most people do instead? They numb out the messages from their body. They eat more food, sit on the couch and watch TV, go shopping, or take drugs to distract themselves from experiencing and feeling. In general, when a pain or body signal comes up, people turn to over-the-counter medication, such as Advil or Tylenol. They try to numb the pain so that they don’t feel it anymore. If that doesn’t work, they turn to something stronger, such as prescription drugs. Imagine you had hurt your knee running and decided to take Advil or Tylenol to numb the pain. If the Advil “worked” and your knee pain stopped, does that mean that your knee is no longer damaged? No! It means that you have successfully “tricked” your brain into thinking that everything is ok when it’s not. What would happen if you now continued to go running on your injured knee? You’d probably hurt yourself even more. How does the medication know where to go? When people take a pill, they imagine that the pill knows exactly where to go in order to relieve them of their symptoms. This is not true. Imagine you had a backache and took Advil for the pain. The pill does not have little massagers that go directly to your back pain to relieve it. The medication does not have a GPS system on it nor does it know how to locate only one area to create an effect. When taking medication, it works on your ENTIRE BODY at the same time to numb it all out! Medication is also tough on the liver that needs to detoxify the chemicals that are now in your body. Now, I’m not saying that all medication is bad. Medication has its place in healthcare and it needs to be used with caution and care. By developing your body awareness, you can receive your body’s messages at an earlier stage and avoid the suffering altogether! Need some help with developing your body 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. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  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.  Have you ever gone to a circus and seen an elephant being held in place by a thin piece of rope around its ankle? Think about this for a second. An elephant is one of the strongest animals in the world and can move entire trees. Why then does it not simply break this thin rope and run away? This answer lies within its limiting beliefs. When circus trainers first get a baby elephant to train, they start by tying its leg up with a heavy chain. The baby elephant will pull and pull to try to get away because that’s its natural instinct. It will pull day after day until it exhausts itself, all the while, not being able to break free. One day, it will give up hope and think it’s impossible to get away. Eventually, trainers can tie a thin rope around its ankle and it will never try to escape, simply because it doesn’t think it can. This very thing happens to us all the time! When we were little kids, we thought we could be, do and have anything. Somewhere along the way, we started to believe what other people told us. We forgot about our dreams to become Prime Minister or an astronaut. We soon settled for less. Now, we don’t believe we are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough, etc. But, this does not have to be the way! We can challenge our limiting beliefs! Our first step is by being aware of them. Look at the following areas in your life. Write what you would like to achieve, no matter how crazy you think it is. Next, write down why you can’t achieve your goals...these are some limiting beliefs. Areas to examine:
What are some of your limiting beliefs? Let me know! 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.  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. |
AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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