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Toxic People = Toxic Life

1/15/2021

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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.

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Focus On Who You Are Becoming

1/9/2021

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​One of my coaches, told me last week, focus on who you are becoming with respect to your goals.

 
I have been setting goals for many years now. Some I achieve and others, I don’t. Either way, I find myself waiting for the day that I achieve my goal and I sometimes forget to focus on the process. This is difficult because we spend a lot more time in the process than at the end goal.
 
Instead of focusing on a number, i.e. when I lose 10 pounds, focus on the person that you are becoming in the process. In order to lose 10 pounds, who would you need to be? Would you need to be someone that is mindful of what they eat? Would you need to be someone who exercises? Would you need to stop emotional eating? The answer for me would be yes.
 
If you owned a business and you needed to have more clients than you have right now, who do you need to be? Would you need to be someone who focused on marketing and making new connections? Would you need to practice your craft in a different way? Would you need new procedures?
 
Whatever your goal, you will be a different person once you reach it then when you started. Focus on who you will become in the process. Get excited about the little changes. 
 
Remember it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey and who you are becoming.

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It's Not What You Are Eating, It's What's Eating You

1/2/2021

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I was reading an article that reported almost 50% of people gained weight during the pandemic. The survey stated there were many factors including people being more sedentary in nature and stress: financial, emotional, physical, mental, health, etc.

I fell into the 50% that gained weight which is why I'm doing to do a 28 day cleanse.

Why you eat is more important than what you eat


The reasons behind why you are eating will determine what you eat.  

Have you ever examined what triggers you to eat? 


Some questions to ask yourself:
  • Why are I eating?
    • Am I hungry?
    • Am I bored?
    • Is it because I’m stressed in some way?
  • What am I eating?
    • Something healthy?
    • Junk food?
  • If I put off this meal for 1 hour, how would I feel?
  • What would I do if someone took this food away from me right now?​

Your reactions will tell you why you are really eating. If you are not attached to something emotionally, it would be easy to put off your meal for an hour. If someone took your meal away, and you want to bite their head off, there's probably an emotional component.

When it comes to stress and life, we often take ourselves too seriously.

An incident happened a few weeks ago where a family member said something that upset me. This one thought that one person said caused me to change my state for a few hours.

Of all the thoughts that my mind has in a day, I chose to focus on this one.

So, how did I stop my mind?

I took a bigger view on things. This was only one thought. One out of the many that I have in a minute, hour, or day. It would be like comparing one snowflake on the car windshield to the rest. Such a small thing.

If I expand out further, I have this one thought and there are the thoughts of the people in my family, neighbourhood, city, province, country, world, solar system, galaxy...the entire cosmos.

When I compare my one thought to that of the entire cosmos, I have to laugh at my mind, move on and enjoy the rest of my day.

I am hosting a free webinar called “It’s not what you’re eating, it’s what’s eating you.” on Monday, Jan 11 at 8 pm. Send me an email: info@biohealottawa.com to register.

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So, How Do We Heal?

12/20/2020

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Healing means that we leave our old stories behind us.

Our body is always healing and regenerating itself.  We get a brand new body every 7-10 years. People often come into my office and say that they are still hurting from an accident that they had from 15 years ago. Since then, every cell that’s been in the accident is no longer there. They have a whole new body, so why is it that the body still remembers the accident?

Our cells need to forget who they are being in order to reset themselves. In other words, some pattern in their life, physical, emotional, mental or spiritual, is being repeated over and over again. The cells need to break this pattern.  


Recovering health involves being fully present to our experience. Going fully into the pain and saying to it “tell me more.”

Health has the word “heal” in it. Healing is the outward manifestation of a inward discovery.

Einstein said that insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. For example, if you lose your car keys, you’ll go look for them in spot #1. When they are not there, you move onto spot #2, if they are still not there, you move on to spot #3. Now, when they are not in spot #3, you go back and search spot #1,2 and 3 again, thinking you missed something. If that happens over and over again, that’s insanity. This also happens in our health. 

We keep eating the same things, thinking the same thoughts and experiencing the same emotions and we expect our body to change, heal or do something that it has never done before.  What we need for change, is to be somebody that we’ve never been. New energy and actions, behaviours and structures need to be added to the system (body) in order to get something that it didn’t have before.


Healing takes responsibility.  It means acknowledging that we may have had a role in getting to where we are. It means not blaming anyone else or playing victim. Many people will not heal because they are afraid of hearing the truth. As long as healing comes from the outside or someone else outside of us, does the healing for us, our outside world doesn’t have to change. This is the easier path as everything gets to stay the same.  It’s the harder path is responsibility because once you know the truth, your life changes.  

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.
 
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Do Doctor's Do The Healing?

12/12/2020

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The only person who can heal you, is yourself.  No one else can do it for you.  Doctor’s can facilitate the healing process but you need to take care of the rest.  

Your essence, being and life are the result of the choices, tensions and habits you have made until now.  Your body and the world of the future will be the result of the choices you make now and from today on.

Illness and Wellness are Simply Habits

A habit is a routine behaviour that one does over and over again until it becomes a part of you and ingrained into your subconscious.  Common habits we think of include: exercise, brushing your teeth, saving money, etc.  But, did you know that illness and wellness are habits as well?

A person in pain will follow certain behaviours that a person who’s well, will not.  For instance, if someone had low back pain, they might want to rest in front of the tv and not do anything, complain to those around them, expect to be waited on hand and foot, not be able to get to the gym, be more fearful of their movements, victim role, etc.  This is known as illness behaviour.  They may say, I just want to fix my pain or get rid of it, don’t ask me about my stress or my life.  I just bent over to tie my shoe and my back went out.

On the other hand, wellness behaviour is when someone chooses to exercise regularly, eat well, go outdoors and enjoy nature, have a positive outlook on life, have goals, contribute to their community etc.  Wellness does not mean that one does not have symptoms.  Rather, when they have a symptom, they look for the message from their symptom.

Every small decision leads to toward illness or wellness, where are your habits taking you?

“Your days are your life in miniature.  As you live our hours, so you create your years.  As you live your days, so you craft your life.  What you do today is actually creating your future.  The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny- shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for.  Small choices lead to giant consequences- over time.  There’s no such thing as an unimportant day.”- Robin Sharma

I would add, there’s no such thing as an unimportant decision.

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.
 
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Stress and Your Immune System

12/5/2020

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Stress impacts your immune system  

According to Bruce Lipton, when your body is in  stress mode, your adrenals release hormones and these adrenal hormones directly repress the action of your immune system. This is in order to conserve energy for your ‘emergency’ system. 

The stress hormones are so effective at decreasing the body’s immunity that when a patient undergoes an organ transplant, they are given the same hormones so they do not reject the new tissues. 

When people get stressed out or after they’ve undergone a stressful period in their life, their immune system is weakened and their body is less able to fight and thus, they become sick or end up with a disease.

How stress affects thinking

The fight and flight system stimulates the hindbrain or reptilian brain.  It is the most ancient part of the brain and it is considered to make up the entire brain in reptiles.  It monitors our functions needed for our basic survival such as breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure.

The forebrain is considered the most evolved part of our brain and is what is said to distinguish humans versus the rest of the animal kingdom.  This area is responsible for complex information such as critical thinking, logic and reasoning.

In an emergency, the faster we can process information about our surroundings and ourselves, the better chance we have of survival.  The  hindbrain receives information quicker than the forebrain so the blood vessels get contracted in the forebrain so that more blood can be sent to the hindbrain. This diminished blood supply leads to a decrease of conscious awareness and reduced intelligence. 

What would your life be like if your body had more access to your intelligence and consciousness throughout the day?  How differently would you react in your relationships with others?
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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.
 
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Adaptive Physiology

11/28/2020

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Imagine you were walking in the jungle and suddenly came across a lion.  What would happen to your body?

Your body would kick in to fight or flight mode. Your heart rate would increase to pump more blood into your body so you could fight or run away, your blood pressure increases to get more blood to your muscles, your breathing would increase to get more oxygen into your body, your muscles would tense and you would be more alert and your digestion would slow down. Fight or flight is for emergencies and your digestive system is not needed at that time. The blood to the digestive system is then shunted to other areas of your body to help you fight or get away. 

How long do you think it would take to find out the outcome of your challenge with the lion?

The flight/fight syndrome is supposed to be used for short term. It’s for your protection from predators and your body's attempt to move away from pain or threat. Let's rewind to the caveman days and the encounter with a lion.  Imagine that our friend survived their encounter and found his way back home. When he went to bed and woke up again, his body would be back to normal. He’d go about his day walking around, gathering food again.

In our present day, stress is no longer only used as a short term response. Now, our stress becomes the car, our computers, traffic, kids, work, multitasking, etc. and stress is present all the time. So, a body protection system that is supposed to be used for short term is now being used for long term.  This is leading to lots of health issues seen today.  

Looking back at what happens to our body during the fight and flight response, let’s see how it relates to present day signs and symptoms from our body.
  • Heart rate increases: What is one of the leading causes of death?  Heart disease 
  • Blood pressure increases: How many people do you know that have blood pressure challenges?
  • Breathing increase: Rate of people suffering from asthma, allergies and other lung and breathing issues are increasing
  • Muscles tense: Most people have some sort of muscle tension in their body even if they aren’t aware of it
  • Digestion slows down:  When watching T.V., how often do you see commercials advertising digestive aids?

When a body system, in this case the fight/flight response is designed for short term and is being used long term, this over taxes our body and challenges in our health can occur.  

Other common signs of stress in the body can include:
  • Not eating or eating too much
  • Feeling like you have no control
  • Needing to have too much control
  • Forgetfulness
  • Headaches
  • Lack of energy
  • Lack of focus
  • Trouble getting things done
  • Poor self-esteem
  • Short temper
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Upset stomach
  • Back pain
  • General aches and pains
  • These symptoms may also be signs of depression or anxiety, which can be caused by long-term stress.
​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.
 
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Body Parts Are Not Separate

11/21/2020

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“In the end I find I can’t separate brain from body.  Consciousness isn’t just in the head.  Nor is it a question of mind over body.  If one takes into account the DNA directing the dance of the peptides, [the] body is the outward manifestation of the mind.” - Candace Pert, Ph.D., former chief brain biochemist, National Institute of Mental Health

When we take medication, we believe that the body functions separately.  If I have low back pain, the medication will go to my low back area and fix it.  This is not true. We now know that medications are a full body interaction which involve the liver, stomach, etc. 

Illness is looking at our body separate from our life.  I can put a drug into this part and not have it affect something else.  Wellness is experiencing the connection.  The connection between your body and your life.  

I had a patient who had perfect vision during the first 35 years of her life.  One day, she started to notice it was slowly getting  harder to see clearly.  When she went to the eye doctor, she was told that she was in the age range where she would need reading glasses and it’s normal.  Most people would then buy glasses and go on with their lives.  Instead, this practice member decided to search for why this was happening now.  This lead her to look at her relationship with her husband, which had been going downhill for a while.  They had stopped communicating and things were not getting any better and this was something she was not willing to see.  Because there was something she did not want to acknowledge and see, her body made it so she didn’t.  She has since separated form her husband and her eyesight has not deteriorated any further.

The body is all connected, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.  The body does not perform as a cluster of separate mechanisms instead as a cascade of events that starts with proper control by the nervous system.  

The brain sends and receives messages through the spine to every cell, organ, tissue, gland, muscle and joint of the body.  The spine also provides structure and flexibility to the entire body.  

When the brain and body connection become impaired, tension, disease, stress, disconnection become the filters through which we interpret and react to the world in and around us.  There is no disease that isn’t emotional and mental as well.   This malfunctioning connection in turn creates tension patterns that get anchored into our nervous system and stored into our bodies.

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How Does Stress Get Stored in My Body?

11/7/2020

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When a traumatic event occurs in life i.e. accident, loss of loved one, and the number of messages that our body receives is too overwhelming, we create tension to protect ourselves.  

Take a car accident for instance.  When someone gets into a car accident, every single cell, tissue, organ, body part moves on impact.  All these movements are all registered in your body.  Now, because there are so many signals at one time, your body does a triage system where the most important for your survival will register first.  So, when the ambulance came to check on you, the paramedics will ask what hurts.  At that moment, they may say their head.  The brain is one of the most vital organs for survival so it would register first.  So, they are taken away to the hospital for further examination.  

A week goes by after the accident and suddenly, they notice that their right knee is hurting.  It occurs to them then that their knee also hit the dashboard during the accident.  Had their body known this the entire time?  Yes, yet the knee wasn’t as critical as the brain for survival so the body ignored it until a later time.

When your body has too many signals to handle, it will choose what you need in the moment for survival.  This can also occur for cases of emotional or mental trauma.  Certain feelings will be experienced first that are needed the most to defend yourself i.e. anger and then later, other emotions may creep in.  The emotions that are developed are for moving away from things. i.e. danger, fear.  

Increasing Your Range of Emotion

Imagine that when you were 6 years old, I gave you a box of 6 crayons.  Whenever you coloured, you would only see the world through those crayons.  Let’s say for you 7th birthday, I gave you a box of 64.  You now have a whole new world.  If you currently respond to the world in 2 emotions, anger and fear, whenever something happened to you, you could only respond with anger and fear. 

Now, what if we gave you angry, irritated, annoyed and bothered?  Now, you can choose any of these emotions to experience your world.  On the other side, instead of good, how about exceptional, outstanding, joy, gratitude, benevolence?  The more range of emotion you can in your body, the more range of motion you have.  Emotion equals motion.


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Healing is About Connection NOT Correction

10/28/2020

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There are many reasons why a person first comes into my office for care. 

It could be because:


• A nagging pain
• Recurrent ailment
• A new pain
• A stressful event (physically, emotionally, mentally)
• A desire for more ease in life and joy
• A ‘persistent’, yet loving family member, friend or co-worker said so.  

Regardless of the motivation, the underlying hope in most of us is that we want our individual problem fixed and we’re looking to someone else to do it. 

In order to be fixed, you must first be broken.  You are not broken.  Read that again: You. Are. Not. Broken.


“What?” you may ask.  “Then why am I not healing???”

Imagine you are talking on your cell phone with someone and in the middle of a conversation, the signal is dropped. 

​Do you think your phone is broken or have you simply lost your connection?  Healing is not about correction because you’re broken.  It is about connection between your body (spine) and brain.


​​​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.
 
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