I have spoken much about this topic recently - the ability to find physiological stillness. This is based on your autonomic nervous system. 

Managing your Autonomic nervous system is vitally important because it controls and coordinates the function of every organ and system in the body. This sits at the heart of allowing your to adapt to your stressors. 

Because all of us face stress (from different sources), we all have the ability to lose control of our Autonomic - leading to a condition call Dysautonomia (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/6004-dysautonomia)

If you are constantly managing your Autonomics this leads to the confidence that you are dealing and adapting to your stress. 

How to do it? 
Be able to control and regulate your breathing and your heart rate. Which gives you heart rate variability.

Slow full regular breaths should allow your heart rate to slow; focus your mind solely on your breathing...eyes closed yet wide awake for 30 minutes every day. 
This is one reason we ask our patients to lie face down breathing before their adjustment.

There are some great apps that help you know more.

In 1947, the World Health Organisation defined health as an optimal physical, emotional and social well-being and not merely the absence of pain and symptoms. 

This leads me to question how big is the gap between your optimal state and the absence of your pain and symptoms? 

Do you have the physical, emotional and social mechanisms in place in your lifestyle to achieve your optimal health? 

Do you know what your optimal state looks and feels like? 

Keep striving forwars

https://nimrodweiner.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/not-worth-the-turf-were-f…

Great article about the philosophical distinction (skip through the first three paragraphs; article gets better from 6th paragraph)...we are not anti anything we are rather pro your greatest life!

n 1947, the World Health Organisation defined health as an optimal physical, emotional and social well-being and not merely the absence of pain and symptoms. 

This leads me to question how big is the gap between your optimal state and the absence of your pain and symptoms? 

Do you have the physical, emotional and social mechanisms in place in your lifestyle to achieve your optimal health? 

Do you know what your optimal state looks and feels like? 

Keep striving forwars

I have spoken much about this topic recently - the ability to find physiological stillness. This is based on your autonomic nervous system. 

Managing your Autonomic nervous system is vitally important because it controls and coordinates the function of every organ and system in the body. This sits at the heart of allowing your to adapt to your stressors. 

Because all of us face stress (from different sources), we all have the ability to lose control of our Autonomic - leading to a condition call Dysautonomia (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/6004-dysautonomia)

If you are constantly managing your Autonomics this leads to the confidence that you are dealing and adapting to your stress. 

How to do it? 
Be able to control and regulate your breathing and your heart rate. Which gives you heart rate variability.

Slow full regular breaths should allow your heart rate to slow; focus your mind solely on your breathing...eyes closed yet wide awake for 30 minutes every day. 
This is one reason we ask our patients to lie face down breathing before their adjustment.

There are some great apps that help you know more.

I have spoken much about this topic recently - the ability to find physiological stillness. This is based on your autonomic nervous system. 

Managing your Autonomic nervous system is vitally important because it controls and coordinates the function of every organ and system in the body. This sits at the heart of allowing your to adapt to your stressors. 

Because all of us face stress (from different sources), we all have the ability to lose control of our Autonomic - leading to a condition call Dysautonomia (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/6004-dysautonomia)

If you are constantly managing your Autonomics this leads to the confidence that you are dealing and adapting to your stress. 

How to do it? 
Be able to control and regulate your breathing and your heart rate. Which gives you heart rate variability.

Slow full regular breaths should allow your heart rate to slow; focus your mind solely on your breathing...eyes closed yet wide awake for 30 minutes every day. 
This is one reason we ask our patients to lie face down breathing before their adjustment.

There are some great apps that help you know more.

Find 5 to 10 minutes every day this week, to practice some movement even if it is simply to practice spinal flexibility movements using your abdominal activation:
- Bend forward touch your toes
- Bend backwards and straighten your spine
- Lean you either side and reach your fingers along your outer thigh...do not bend forward
- sit as tall as you can and twist your upper body without moving your lower body. 
- focus on your body and your breathingTravis Mitchell: We have a yoga class every Tuesday evening and we are looking at other time options. Please let me know if you would be interested and what time would best suit you.
 Have a great week

Had a great fun theoretical conversation with a patient today. 

We know the function of the neurohormones: 
Dopamine - gratitude and motivation
Seratonin - feeling of satisfaction and wellbeing
Noradrenaline - alertness
Adrenaline - stress, fight, flight, freeze
Glutamate - memory enhancing
GABA - relaxation
Acetylcholine - activates muscle strength
Histamine - regulation of pain, body temperature and appetite
Endocannabinoids - master neural and immune system controller
Eicosanoids - cellular communication (not cellphone but cell to cell!)
Orexins - higher cognitive processes
Vasopressin - body hydration
Oxytocin - unconditional love
Endogenous opiods - natural pain killers, emotional attachment
Neurotrophic peptides - survival, growth and differentiation

If you could bottle one of them and inject yourself with it daily without addiction; which one would you choose and why? 

Have a great weekend and thank you always for responding (even if you just think about responding😜)

For many Chiropractic is a reactive therapy...only to be used when in pain to attempt to get out of pain. 

However Chiropractic is designed to improve the neurological flow and connection from brain to body helping the body to heal and adapt. 

So once you out of pain there is a whole world of exploring your body and finding out how effectively you can function and deal. 

I understand that achieving your optimal health for many is a completely foreign concept...so when you go to sleep tonight imagine for a moment what you could be if your body was completely connected? 

Look forward to your thoughts

It is so often that I come across a person who is spending time and money exercising and yet not receiving the return for investment. 

So ask yourself - if you exercise, are you happy with the results you have achieved through your exercise program? 
Is your exercise program dynamic and multidimensional movements? 
Is your exercise program drawn up specifically for you or is it just some generic program? 
Have you achieved an adaptive state through your exercise? 

Exercise short and smart

There are three main categories of stress we face daily - physical, emotional and chemical. 

Each type of stress creates tension, torsion and strain. Long term inflammation and decay. 

Understanding your stress and doing it differently is the key to sustainable health and Happyness. 

What is your stress? 
Why is it stressful to you? 
How do you do it differently? 

I look forward to your answers.

We move to the end of Quarter one. Tomorrow marks the start of the new...now is a great time to: 
1) review your goals, resolutions or focusses you had for the year
2) look at the pros and cons of quarter one; where did you do well and where did things not go according to plan
3) now set your intentions, task list and focuses for quarter 2
4) finally look at your weekly schedules; where can you utilise time better and plan out your daily routines.

Have a great 3 months; achieve what you deserve!

I believe a basic human right is to find and use your Authentic Happyness. 

Martin Seligman states "a good life is using your signature strengths everyday to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification!"

That does not mean life is easier or simply happy...however you are willing to use your own God Given ability to make it better! 

Happy human rights day

Hope you enjoyed your public holiday

From a Chiropractic StandPoint

All our pot plants have names; please greet them on your next appointment.

Very few people know that their abdominal function directly related to their metabolism. The better your abdominal function works and the more consistently it works the more positive stimulation it gives your metabolism. 

Your abdominal muscles should be switched on day and night and active on each and every breath. 
That makes your metabolism work stronger and stronger! 

Can your pull your belly button in towards your spine without your back muscles engaging?
Can you hold that in place for prolonged periods of time?

Last two weeks of quarter one 2019! 
Wow, how well have you done? 
What were your focusses, goals and intentions? 
What have you actioned and achieved? 
What were your challenges and what did you learn? 

Look forward to your answers!

https://youtu.be/SELWtQpcy1A

I love the concept. I have my own non negotiable morning, lunch and evening ritual. What a benefit to life! 

As the speak mentions: 
1) that everything has a reason to be done
2) that you do not always get through everything depending on time
3) that setting the time up allows you to be more effective with the remainder of your day. 

Have a great weekend

PS this was sent to me by one of you. I am so grateful for the info you share with me. #ConstantlyLearning

"Health is an optimal state of physical, emotional and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease" - WHO definition of Health; 1947