RESISTANCE

Dr. BJ Palmer said that if the germ theory were true we wouldn’t be alive to talk about it. In the upcoming weeks we are going to undoubtedly hear more and more about the pending flu season. The fear mongering has started and many people have forgotten about their bodies incredible ability to adapt. Pile on top of that the stress that many are feeling because they are constantly reading the headlines about how bad things are and how much worse things are going to get.

STOP!

The germ theory is not true! The whole deal is about host RESISTANCE. Germs, bacteria and viruses are constantly surrounding us; we breathe them in, we swallow them, we rub them into our eyes and we constantly dance with them. They are like the seeds of a dandelion looking for a nice patch of fertile soil to drop into, germinate and grow. IT IS NOT ABOUT THEM IT IS ABOUT OUR RESISTANCE!

How do we maintain optimum resistance? Research shows that those under regular chiropractic care have lower levels of oxidative stress in their cells, (that my friends is a very good thing) and have up to 200% BETTER IMMUNE FUNCTION THAN THOSE WHO DO NOT GET ADJUSTED. Dandelions cannot penetrate lush, rich and healthy lawns!

Couple this regular care with a healthy lifestyle and you are giving your family the best possible protection they could ever hope for.

Chiropractic is simple – a person functioning without the nerve stress of subluxation can optimally adapt to its environment as the life flows from the brain to the cells unimpeded. Do not let the simplicity of this truth distract you from its power. It is the biggest idea I know of!

Join us for hot chocolate and popcorn during the Christmas parade on Tuesday night and we’ll see you in the office this week.

Dr. Brian

HOW “THE HOLIDAYS” CAN KNOCK 25 YEARS OFF YOUR LIFE

Once, a large truck was driving through one of the busiest tunnels in New York City. The truck was so large, in fact, that it got stuck in the tunnel and could not back up or move forward. Traffic eventually got backed up for miles and miles. Dozens of traffic, accident, bridge, road, and truck experts were on the scene for hours trying to figure out what to do. Just as the situation and the frustration of the experts were beginning to get out of hand, a 10 year old little girl poked her head out of the window and said, “Why don’t you just let the air out of the tires.” The dilemma was resolved.

THEME: When life and the world are not working out, re-assess everything!

Even though Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years make up a total of 3 days, most people just call November, December, and the first part of January “The Holidays.”

Since it is “The Holidays,” you can be irresponsible and careless. You eat can mass quantities, put all sorts of horrible “Holiday” items in your body, stop exercising, miss adjustments, spend too much, and put important things off because, after all, it is “The Holidays.” In total, you end up with a 6-10 week reign of terror on your life and body.

If you add to these two months to all of the other times you tend to abuse or ignore your health, such as parties, anniversaries, other “holidays,” birthdays, weddings, weekends, secretaries day, etc, you are basically being irresponsible for your health (and many other areas of your life) conservatively three months out of every year. (25% of every year)

By the time you are 40 years old, you will have spent 10 years doing serious, possibly irreparable damage to your body, your finances, and possibly your whole life. This is another reason why people are supposed to live to 100, but only make 75. (25% off)

“The Holidays,” are a time designated to celebrate and appreciate God’s blessings. However, they have become a time dedicated to shortening life and falling short of your God-given potential. Clearly, it is time to look at “The Holidays” from a new perspective.

Of the thousands of sick and suffering people I have met, examined, and consulted, not once have I heard one of them say, “I wish I had done less for my health all of these years.”

What they do say, in every case, is “I wish I had met you_______ years ago.”

WELL, you have met me, please take advantage of it.

Enjoy the Holidays (6-10 days). Yet, keep you and your family alive in the process

NEW HOLIDAY RULES:

DUE TO THE EXTREME MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND CHEMICAL STRESS BROUGHT ON BY “THE HOLIDAYS,” PLEASE ADD, DO NOT SUBTRACT FROM YOUR CURRENT ADJUSTMENT AND EXERCISE SCHEDULE.
OTHERS NEED CARE NOW MORE THAN EVER. SO DO NOT STOP REFERRING. IT IS A TIME OF YEAR TO THINK MORE ABOUT OTHERS SO, REFER MORE.

We look forward to seeing you and your families in the office this week to get checked. We hope you will also have a GREAT Thanksgiving. We are sincerely thankFULL for each and every one of you.

Dr. Brian

A Blonde Walks Into a Library…

A blonde walks into a library(sorry to all the blondes reading this). She walks up to the counter and tells the librarian loudly, “I’ll have a big mac, large fry and medium soda.” The librarian gasps and says, “Mam, this is a library.” The blonde says, “I’m sorry” and whispers, “I’ll have a big mac, large fry and medium coke.” I know. Not that funny, but it makes a point that relates to our office. Nobody is mad at the library for not serving fast food. That’s not what they do. No reason to be upset.

Our office has one goal: serve SPECIFIC, SCIENTIFIC CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS to remove the interference to the innate intelligence within your nervous system. This allows you to live to your God given POTENTIAL for health, happiness and peace. LIFE flows over that nerve system. Do you want 100% LIFE flowing to every part of your body???

We do not try to be all things to all people, constantly changing our story as the times or the individuals demand. Since 1997, LFC has been telling the same story. If anything we have only gotten better and stronger at it. Since 1895, chiropractic has been telling the same story as well. I once saw a debate between an MD and a DC where the MD said, “if you looked at medicine today compared to 100 years ago it looks nothing alike. 100 years ago the treatment for an infection in the leg was amputation, we used leeches and bloodletting, yet chiropractic has not changed.” To this the chiropractor simply stated “you don’t change what is TRUTH and RIGHT.”

The nervous system, skeletal system and every other system in the body have not changed during that period and neither has chiropractic. When you are ALLOWING for the bodies natural, INNATE healing to occur without interruption, there is nothing to change. Yes, some chiropractors have tried to change the story, saying we are back and neck pain specialists and you should see a chiropractor only for your ouchies. This is a small group. Most chiro’s understand that healing is an inside job which is orchestrated by the nerve system(brain, spinal cord and nerves). Misaligned bones can interfere with this system and improper function is the inevitable result. We call this dis-ease, or lack of ease or harmony within the body. Left long enough, and combined with poor diet, lack of exercise, too much stress, etc. the result will be a diagnosable DISEASE.

Why wait for a DIAGNOSIS to find out if the system in the body that could heal that diagnosis is in proper working order. You deserve better than that. Your family and friends deserve better than that. True healthcare is doing things consistently that contribute to better FUNCTION of the body. That’s where we come in and that’s what we are MASTERS at. Finding out if you are SUBLUXATED and then ADJUSTING to remove subluxations. Without subluxations, you are clear, and when you are clear, everything’s gonna be alright. Just like that song by Bob Marley says.

This is why we don’t do physical therapy, don’t sell vitamins or herbs and don’t attempt to chase your symptoms around. We won’t sell the latest juice only to find out next year that this other juice is better. In short…we don’t sell big macs!!!

Get yourself and family in this week to get checked for subluxations. If you haven’t been in for a while, call to set up an update exam and get back on track. This is not the time of year to put your HEALTH on hold for the holidays. STRESS(physical, mental or chemical) is the number one cause of SUBLUXATION so stay regular with your exercise, nutrition and CHIROPRACTIC. YOU’LL THANK US FOR LIFE!

Love and Appreciate you.

Dr. Brian

THE PRESENT

Where is your mind? Kind of a funny question, but throughout the day, on a moment-to-moment basis, where is your mind. Is it FOCUSED on the current situation you are involved with? Is it lost in another task, problem or situation that you have been in or are going to be in? Too often our thoughts are somewhere other than where they need to be. We spend so much time in guilt and regret, which is actually the past. Can you change the past? NO. Can you learn from it? YES. Should you dwell negatively on it when it can not be changed? Absolutely not. Other times we are in worry. Worry is the future.

So, we tend to spend the majority of our mental time either in the past or in the future, but very little in the PRESENT. God lives in the present. Buddhists call it being MINDFUL. Being very AWARE of what you are actually doing right now. Whether that be chewing food, talking to a friend or family member or spending time in prayer. How present are you. Are you able to control the thoughts that come flashing into your mind at any given moment. Mindful breathing, meditation and prayer are great ways to attempt to keep your mind in one direction and in the present.

Practice staying present, in the moment, throughout your day. When you eat, focus on the food and how it will nourish your body. When you talk with someone, really listen. Don’t think of what to say next or how they are wrong and you are right. Attempt to just be there, actually listening to what they have to say. Be willing to HEAR what they are saying. If you are at work, don’t just watch the clock, look up your stocks or figure out a way to get by with doing less. “If you never do more than you get paid for, you will never get paid for more than you do.” If you truly stayed focused on performing your job to the best of your abilities the opportunities will eventually open up for you. It’s based on natural laws and, like gravity, always works.

The key is FOCUS. Not just any focus but PRESENT TIME FOCUS. Being 100% committed to whatever the task at hand is, and doing it MINDFULLY, and not just going through the motions. My goal in the office is to be truly PRESENT and FOCUSED with every patient, everytime, on every table. You deserve nothing but my full undivided attention. One time we asked that patients try not to talk with Dr. Pat and myself when we were adjusting and some people were offended. I assume we didn’t do a good enough job at explaining this concept of being PRESENT. If we did, they would have understood that whoever was on that table deserved nothing less than perfect PRESENT TIME FOCUS.

BJ Palmer said, “To adjust the subluxation, then, is to advance mankind, step up his efficiency, increase his ability, make him more natural and more at peace within himself; for all things are possible to him whose body equals his Innate.” This is the BIGNESS of the specific, scientific, chiropractic adjustment. To remove the physical barrier to proper function, communication and connection to the SOURCE. When you understand the enormity of our job it is easy to see why we need to remain FOCUSED and PRESENT with every patient. We are adjusting you as if your lives depend on it…because it does!!!

I once heard, “The past is done, the future uncertain but today is the gift and thats why they call it the PRESENT.”

Have a great week. See you in the office for your RECONNECTION.

Dr. Brian

YOUR GIFT

Two chiropractic friends of mine(Stan and Tim) were talking on Facebook the other night when the conversation turned to Luciano Pavorotti. Stan said, “I wish I could sing like Pavoratti.” To this Tim replied, “God gave you a gift as beautiful as Luciano’s. Just adjust like he sings and the music that comes out will be so profound it will make you and many others cry with joy!”

How true. How profound. How many of us overlook or take for granted the gifts we HAVE been given. So many times we focus on what we can’t do well rather than what we can do well. Everyone has gifts that are of extreme value to themselves and others. It can be as simple as your smile, personality, artistic ability, singing, dancing, laughing, loving, etc. Don’t only look for the gifts that you would like to have or that may be easy to see. I know people who with their smile can make people feel completely at ease or others who are such hard workers that they can get what needs to be done, done.

Whatever it is, be THANKFUL for it. Let’s start trying to live in a state of GRATITUDE and LOVE. Lets focus more on our positives than our negatives and do the same for others around you. This is a great way to start changing your life and the lives of others. Remember, what you focus on grows. If you focus on LACK, DOUBT AND NEGATIVES, you can expect to attract MORE of those into your life. But…if you focus on ABUNDANCE, GRATITUDE AND POSITIVES, you will attract more of those into your life. Its up to you. Which do you choose. Who do you want to be. Would you rather be the person that people can’t wait to be around, who makes people feel better about themselves just by being in your presence. Or…do you want to be the person people try to avoid because you bring them down with your negativity.

Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can or you think you can’t…YOUR RIGHT.” So start believing in yourself and the gifts you have. Focus on them and watch them grow and flourish.

“Just ______ like he sings and the music that comes out will be so profound it will make you and many others cry with joy.” You just fill in the blank! I will ADJUST like he sings because when LOVE and SKILL come together you can EXPECT A MIRACLE!!!

Your AWESOME and I LOVE YOU!!! I’ll see you this week.

Dr. Brian

What Can $609,000 A Day Buy You?

Could you imagine how much money you would have to have to be able to spend $609,000 a day? What would you expect to receive for that amount of money? Who has that kind of money to spend, especially during a “recession”?

According to the latest issue of Time magazine, in the first 6 months of this year, the pharmaceutical industry spent about $609,000 a day to influence lawmakers. Can you imagine the financial payoff they must expect to get to be able to spend that kind of money. This does not include all the money they spend on advertising as well.

The drug industry has 1,228 registered lobbyists. This equals 2.3 lobbyists for every member of congress. Obviously, the pharmaceutical industry does not want to be left out of the current healthcare reform debate and are willing to pay handsomely to make sure they aren’t. The return on that investment has already been considerable. As drug lobbyist Jim Greenwood says, “we’ve done very well.”

So…is there any connection between the incredible hysteria over the swine flu and the profitability of the vaccines created to fight this. I certainly don’t know for sure but as my father always told me, “follow the money trail.” This week, President Obama declared a State of Emergency concerning the swine flu. This, they say is a proactive attempt to fight the illness. It might be, but realize that many of your rights can be bypassed in a “State of Emergency”. Are forced vaccinations in the future. At this point everyone is saying no, but in a “State of Emergency” it seems that they could do this. A bit frightening to say the least!

So lets all take a collective deep breath and remember again where health and healing come from…FROM WITHIN. Your body was created with an inborn, INNATE INTELLIGENCE. It was present from the time you were 1 cell and remains with you to this very second. Without an innate intelligence you could not live. Think about the processes that are occurring continously to keep you alive and the overall miracle we call LIFE. Heres a peak at some numbers:

-In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
-Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
-We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
-Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day.
-Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
-Our DNA would stretch to the moon and back 8000 times.
-We have around 42 billion blood vessels

Incredible!!! Thankfully God gave us an internal, inborn intelligence to create and control all of that. We need to begin to trust this innate intelligence to help us stay healthy and happy. Innate needs no help, just no interference. Interference comes from a Subluxation which is a misaligned bone that puts pressure on the nervous system. Chiropractors are trained to locate a subluxation and correct, it allowing for the full EXPRESSION of the nervous system and therefore your own INNATE INTELLIGENCE.

Lets begin looking within for health. Get you and your family in this week so we can make sure you are CLEAR. “When you are clear you are connected and when your connected everythings gonna be alright.”

Love and Light,

Dr. Brian

Reconnected

Our entire office spent the past weekend in Atlanta at a Dynamic Essentials meeting. This is the conference we go to 4 times per year and Dr. Pat and myself are honored enough to speak at. Hundreds of chiropractors, spouses, staff members and families come from all over the world to rekindle and reconnect to the PRINCIPLE of chiropractic. Somtimes I know I am not doing a good enough job of truly explaining what it is that we do in the office. So many think chiropractic is about neck and back pain but it is so much more than that.

Chiropractic is about getting RECONNECTED. Reconnected to what you might ask? To your INNATE INTELLIGENCE. To the God within man. There’s an old saying we use that says, Chiropractics main purpose is to reconnect the physical part of man with the spiritual part of man. Dr. BJ Palmer said the primordial subluxation is the seperation of man from God. Gods wisdom flows from above-down and from the inside-out, controlling and coordinating all the various functions of this physical and spiritual body. It uses the nervous system, within the body, to transmit this intelligence and misalignments to the spine(especially the upper neck) can INTERFERE with it. The misalignment is called a SUBLUXATION. This subluxation DISCONNECTS an individual from their own personal source of health and healing…their CREATOR.

An ADJUSTMENT removes the INTERFERENCE to allow for 100% LIFE to flow from ABOVE DOWN and from the INSIDE OUT. We call not having SUBLUXATIONS being CLEAR. Our vision is for a subluxation free community and eventually world. If more people were clear we would have a much better society. People would listen to that inner voice and make better, more LOVING decisions. My friend Dr. Eddie Martinez said this weekend, “When you are clear, you are connected. And when you are connected, EVERYTHINGS GONNA BE ALRIGHT.” We would be able to TRUST in our bodies God given abilities for health, happiness and sanity. That is the only true HEALTH there is.

So make sure you and your family get in this week to see if you are subluxated. If you are lets get you RECONNECTED!

Love and Appreciate You

Dr Brian

Getting Well: It’s About Time

I’ve put the excerpts from the article in bold and italicized!

An article in the Wall Street Journal on September 22nd talked about concepts that chiropractic has been pushing for over 114 years. It discusses where health and healing actually come from.

What cures colds, flu, sore throats, sore muscles, headaches, stomach aches, diarrhea, menstrual cramps, hangovers, back pain, jaw pain, tennis elbow, blisters, acne and colic, costs nothing, has no weird side effects and doesn’t require a prescription?

Plain old-fashioned time. But it’s often the hardest medicine for patients to take.

“Most people’s bodies and immune systems are wonderful in terms of handling things—if people can be patient,” says Ted Epperly, a family physician in Boise, Idaho, and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

“I have a mantra: You can do more for yourself than I can do for you,” says Raymond Scalettar, a Washington, D.C., rheumatologist and former chairman of the American Medical Association. But, he says, “some patients are very medicine-oriented, and when you tell them they aren’t good candidates for a drug they’ve heard about on TV, they don’t come back.”

This is incredible to see in the mainstream media although they are becoming more and more common. People are waking up to the fact that health is a normal state of the body. It is a common heritage from God that we all have. Even chiropractors and the adjustments don’t CAUSE healing… they ALLOW healing.

Look at what else the article says:

An estimated one-third to one-half of the $2.2 trillion Americans spend annually on health care in the U.S. is spent on unnecessary tests, treatments and doctor visits. Much of that merely buys time for the body to heal itself.

Americans also spend an estimated $1 billion on unnecessary antibiotics that don’t even relieve the symptoms of viral infections, and contribute to antibiotic resistance. But some patients are so insistent on getting antibiotics that doctors give in.

“I have colleagues who say, ‘You can take this pill and get better in two days, or do nothing and get over it in 48 hours,’ ” says Dr. Scalettar.

Well that sounds good but surely these docs aren’t referring to the swine flu as well…

Even H1N1, or swine flu, for all the uproar, almost always resolves in a few days with no treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging physicians to use Tamiflu, an antiviral medication, sparingly to prevent shortages and avoid antiviral resistance. Only people who are hospitalized or at high risk for complications should get Tamiflu, according to the CDC.

Oops! Maybe they are. What about sinus or upper respiratory infections. Those must definately need antibiotics…

Almost all viral infections resolve on their own, unless you have a compromised immune system. As a rule of thumb, Dr. Epperly says, infections in the nose, throat, stomach and upper respiratory tract tend to be viral.
Yeah but the kids…

Parents are often extremely eager to “do something” for children who complain of sniffles, stomach aches, scrapes and fevers. Yet kids are generally very resilient, writes Lara Zibners, an emergency pediatrician, in her book, “If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay.”

Hopefully you will start to really TRUST that the body is a self healing, self regulating organism that needs very little help, but no INTERFERENCE. One such interference can occur in the form of a SUBLUXATION. Pressure on the nervous system causes DIS-EASE within the body from a disruption of proper FUNCTION. This eventually will lead to DISEASE.

Chiropractic is the most practical and safe way to keep you and/or your childrens bodies FUNCTIONING at 100% capacity. Tell a friend!

Dr. Brian

Source Disconnect

Dr. PJ Amlinger, DC Thought For The Week(TFTW)

This weeks thot is life changing. Along with living with a nervous system free of the interference caused by subluxation; this message will have more impact on your health, peace of mind, joy and success in all areas of your life, than any other strategy that you could consider.

Subluxations are devastating because they separate us from our innate intelligence, our source energy, as Dr. Wayne Dyer refers to it. Subluxations can be physical or structural and these types of subluxations cause QUANTITY nerve interference and are best dealt with via a chiropractic adjustment. BJ Palmer also talked about QUALITY interference or mental/emotional subluxations. These types of subluxations are very common and just as damaging, perhaps more so because they also cause structural subluxations. I divide emotional subluxations into four types. As you read these next few paragraphs be open minded and open hearted and resolve to let go of the quality subluxations that have been preventing you from being the real you.

Are you subluxated by:

1. GUILT. If you carry guilt, it means you are holding on to your past. Your past then controls your present and the future never changes. Guilt; is essentially self judgement. The only way to release guilt is by FORGIVING yourself. A cousin of guilt is resentment, which is driven by old wounds which have yet to heal. If we choose to hold onto resentment both the “perpetrator” and the experience hold power over us and shape our present and future thoughts and actions, thereby limiting our growth. Resentment robs us of the ability to trust, among other things. It blocks us from loving which is the ultimate subluxation. To overcome resentment you must FORGIVE the other person and find the lesson in the experience of the past. Both guilt and resentment show up as anger in our lives. Buddha said holding on to anger is like holding a hot coal; who does it hurt?
2. FEAR. If you carry the mental subluxation of fear, you disconnect from your Source Energy, by shifting your consciousness from the present moment into the future. Fear is often referred to as “false evidence appearing real.” What drives fear? Conditioning from the past, past experiences, which we have just released and the need to CONTROL! To free yourself from the grips of fear; realize that there is an incredible intelligence that governs the universe and which resides in you, as your innate, your Friend Within. Know that the universe is unfolding exactly as it should for you as long as you are free of quantity and quality interference. Trust your gut and do it anyway! Worry is a mild form of fear and living in this disconnected state often shows up as incessant negative mind chatter.
3. LIMITING PATTERNS AND BELIEFS. Beliefs and the behaviours they drive cause habits to form. If we are living from habit we are really just a robot. This quality interference can take the form of addictions, being overly dependent on rituals and simply having unconscious beliefs that have been installed in your nervous system by media, parents, teachers and preachers, which shift you away from your greatness and the path you are supposed to be walking. These unproductive patterns coupled with the sac of crap we drag along from guilt and fear cause self sabotaging behaviours and block our ability to listen to our gut.
4. LACK OF SELF LOVE. If you loved yourself completely and unconditionally, the way in which the Great Spirit loves you; then you would be your Innate. You would be totally present and free of guilt, resentment and fear. You would respond to life intuitively, in a flexible and appropriate way. You would live in the moment and be very aware of your life purpose. Living in this state and being love would automatically allow the people around you to do the same. I believe the primary purpose of our walk on this earth is to learn to love unconditionally, ourselves first and then all others. It is why I say: “When love and chiropractic come together; miracles happen!”

If you want to live fully connected you must choose to lead a spirit driven life. Living “in spirit” means living inspired or inner directed. The only way you can live this way is by living in the here and now. Buddha said the past is a memory, the future a dream and the only thing that exists is the present. It has also been said that there is a lot behind you and a lot in front of you but it is nothing compared to what lays within you. The native elders talked about walking the red road, the inner directed path of spiritual enlightenment compared to the black road of outer directed, materialistic living. As you start your walk down the red road you will notice that fear, guilt and resentment will fall away as you automatically gravitate towards the calm inner peace that this path brings. The path to unconditional love is the red road.

Take some time reflecting on this weeks THOT and be prepared to release those patterns that bubble up. Finally, find a mirror, look yourself square in the eye and tell yourself out loud and with feeling; I LOVE YOU!

GENERATION RX SYNOPSIS

For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children. GENERATION RX presents “the rest of the story” and unveils how this era of unprecedented change in Western culture really occurred – and what price has been paid by our society.

International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller (Let Truth Be The Bias, The Promised Land) “delivers a jaw-dropping emotional ride,” and “weaves a terrifying tale of criminal conspiracy, the mass abandonment of medical ethics, and the routine betrayal of an entire generation.” By employing the expertise of internationally respected professionals from the fields of medicine, ethics, journalism, and academia, GENERATION RX investigates collusion between drug companies and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA and focuses on the powerful stories of real families who followed the advice of their doctors – and faced devastating consequences for doing so.

GENERATION RX is a film about families who confronted horror and found nowhere to turn for help – and how scores of children have been caught in the vortex of mind-bending drugs at the earliest stages of their growth and development. This powerful documentary also questions whether we have forced millions of children onto pharmaceutical drugs for commercial rather than scientific reasons.

Ultimately, Generation RX may help parents decide whether the perceived benefits of these medications outweigh the serious risks to children.

“GENERATION RX is a film that every parent should see,” says Jason Buchanan of ALL MOVIE GUIDE.