 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.
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 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.  Summer has officially started with the summer solstice! Congrats! We made it to summer. The sun brings warmth, fire and growth energy to the earth. Within this energy, there’s an opportunity to transform your life….do you know what you want to create? Here are a few questions for you to ask yourself to take advantage of this sacred time.
Happy summer solstice! May you be blessed with abundance throughout the year! 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. |
AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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