Historically this question implies that there’s something wrong with you and you’re looking for something to take what’s wrong and make it disappear. For example, researchers are looking for the cure for many types of cancers. And what they’re specifically looking for is some sort of chemical compound or procedure that will eliminate cancer cells. Another example can be seen …
As well as chiropractic is known in the world, when you think of chiropractic most people think of the bones of the spine, and how a chiropractor moves the bones and sometimes there’s a cracking or popping sound. Hopefully most of you know that at the Happy Spine, we focus on the nervous system: the brain, spinal cord and nerves. …
We take our ability to move and to be flexible for granted. It’s usually when we challenge our mobility that we realize how stiff or immobile we really are. It’s why you “feel it” a day or two after exercising for the first time in a while. When we get injured, it can be even more demoralizing. A few years …
Pre-Existing Conditions (PEC) really came into the public consciousness with Covid. PEC’s are also known as comorbidities. PEC’s can be any health condition you can imagine – common examples are cancer, diabetes, asthma and depression. What makes a PEC a PEC is that it is an unresolved, unhealed situation, condition, illness; something that was there before a new health concern …
Maybe you’ve heard me use the term before in regards to your health. Maybe you’ve never heard of it before. I’d like to write to you today about it because it’s the single most important predictor of your overall health: physical, emotional and mental. How many times in your life have you known something to be true because you felt …
Over the years, I’ve heard many versions of “the proper way to breathe”. Some say to breathe into your belly. Others say that the proper way to breathe is to breathe into your belly until it spreads up into your chest. And there are other versions. What I think that is much more important is not how you breathe, but …
“In your attempt to be an ‘adult’, you lose touch with your inner child. In your rush to be the ‘expert’, you disconnect from the amateur in you,the inner lover, innocent and wild. In your quest for security,you run from your insecurity,bury your anxiety, crush your doubts. (Until one day they explode all over the place.And make a mess of …
I’ve been furthering my studies with respect to the health of moms and babies and I’ve been reviewing something called primitive reflexes. Primitive reflexes are reflexes that we all have before and after we are born. They exist to help us survive the birthing process mainly and usually diminish and disappear some time after birth. Sometimes, for various reasons, babies …
The other day I received an email from Karen asking me for some advice. She said that she had just experienced a very strange reaction to a conversation that she had just had with a coworker. The conversation was slightly contentious but her reaction afterwards was way out of proportion. Afterwards her voice was uncontrollably shaky and her arms and …
How do we feel pain? I don’t mean the sensation of it. I mean, what do we do with the sensation of pain? Because not all is as it seems. In the movie “The Matrix”, the main character discovers that he’s been living with a false sense of reality. He thought his life was one way while it was really …
