With Every New Beginning

After quite a bit of deliberation, I want to inform you that I’m going to discontinue the “Let Health Happen” column (at least for now).  For one thing, after nearly 300 columns, quite frankly, I’m running out of things to write about.  More importantly, I’ve decided it’s time to come out of my safe zone and get out doing more talks in the community in person rather than writing it in from a distance.  So for this last column, I’d like to reflect on a few of the concepts I believe are most important.

This column has been called “Let Health Happen” because you were genetically designed for health.  If God made us in his image and that image is perfect, then you were created in perfection.  The trick is to let that perfection express itself and get out of the way.  Getting out of the way is all about lifestyle.  Controlling your relationship in regard to what you eat, how you move or exercise and how you manage stress or think, has absolutely everything to do with your physiology expressing health naturally or expressing a state of dis-ease or illness.  In the end, there are only two real causes of disease – deficiency and toxicity.  Deficiency is when we are not providing our body with the essential components it requires.  This includes vital nutrients from real food, adequate movement and physical exercise, and positive thoughts or emotions.  Toxicity is when we are putting components into our body that simply don’t belong.  Obviously this includes all the junk, fake, processed food, but a sedentary lifestyle is toxic as well.  Most importantly, negative thoughts, feelings, and self-talk are all toxins that lower our vibrational energy and change the expression of our hormones to what I’ve commonly referred to as stress-physiology.  The New England Journal of Medicine states that 75% of all disease and the associated expenses are preventable.  This means the nearly all disease is related to lifestyle and not something that is acquired as the result of bad germs, bad genes or bad luck.  And because your body is innately intelligent, it also means that you can begin to change your outcomes.  In fact, we see amazing outcomes in our office even with bloodwork in just 8 weeks’ time when you begin to address these critical lifestyle factors.  When it comes to your health, you are not a victim, you are in control!

We will be reposting all the old articles on our website blog every week and I will commit to including some new posts at least a couple times per month.  Please go to www.rivertownchiro.com to check our blog and while you’re there, sign up for our free newsletter as well as information on upcoming events.  To receive these articles via email, click on the title (With Every New Beginning), enter your email address and hit submit.  I would like to thank the Madison Courier for working with me on this column for the last 5 ½ years.  But most of all I would like to thank all of the local people who supported this column and let me know that they looked forward to reading it – that the information made a difference!