Every day of our lives we are given 86,400 of them!  We cannot carry them forward until to tomorrow.  When they are gone, they are gone!   We cannot hoard it, save it, store it, invest it or give it away.    It is only ours to use.

Time!  86,400 seconds every day!

The question is – “how are we investing it?”

Time cannot be managed, however, we can manage those things that take up our time.

• Time is perishable – it must be used by midnight!
• Time is measurable and we all get the same amount to use each day.
• Time is irreplaceable – we cannot get it back once it has gone.
• Time is a priority – we always make time for our priorities.

This leaves the question “What are our priorities?”

Are we taking the time to be healthy?

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison

That future is here!

Chiropractic IS that future!!!!

Thomas Edison was absolutely correct, the things that your doctor should be pointing you towards for your health are not drugs and surgery, but care of the human frame (your spine), your diet and your mental/emotional health – these are the corner stones of true health and vitality and can be summed up in one word – LIFESTYLE!

If your doctor is not supporting you to make changes in these areas of your life, we suggest you look for a doctor who will.

Our Doctors of Chiropractic are vitally interested in helping you make sustainable lifestyle changes that will influence your health.

Consult us today to create the future Mr Edison spoke of!

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The perfect Valentines Day tale to warm your heart on a cold February day!

Watch the amazing story of love and friendship between an orangutan and a hound dog.

Click here - Love is having a friend to share your life!

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We may do many things to enhance our health such as eating well, exercising, dressing warm in cold weather, taking vitamins, practicing good hygiene and making sure to get that all important regular Chiropractic Checkup but after taking all these precautions, many people still jeopardize their health by having consistent negative thoughts.  Feeling and expressing disappointment is part of the pattern of life, however – “the dark threads are as needful in the skillful weaver’s hand as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern that is planned.”

If negative thinking is a habit, try some of the following questions to help channel thinking into a positive form:

• What can I learn from this?
• How can I make this fun?
• What am I grateful for?
• What is perfect right now?
• Am I willing to change something to create a new reality?
• Can I create an exciting adventure from this?
• What can I focus on that brings me pleasure and joy?
• And sing – any happy, positive tune.    This is my personal favourite – singing helps to transform negative into positive.

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Spontaneous giving produces joy and delight – a most unusual gift to these Christmas shoppers!

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2010 batch of Gingerbread made by Elise in New Zealand this week.

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We don’t normally suggest eating sugary treats, but Christmas certainly has to be one exception!  As well as Eating Well and Moving Well,  – Thinking Well is a vital part of the Lifestyle Wellness programme to help ensure ongoing health and vitality.  One of  the ways  that this contributes to “Thinking Well” is by being connected to others and sharing special times.

See below for The McMinn Gingerbread Recipe to share and enjoy, during the festive season.

The lead up to Christmas is as exciting as the actual event and each year I love the anticipation of the gingerbread making routine accompanied by “Rockin Around The Christmas Tree” and lots of frivolity.  Making gingerbread has been Elise’s specialty (Third Generation Chiropractor) and we all enjoy getting into the spirit of Christmas by making (or eating) gingerbread for friends and family, however we have a struggle to hide them long enough in our house so that some will survive until Christmas day.  I love gingerbread and love the process of seeing lots of little people emerge all gloriously brown from the oven.  You may even have to run, run, run as fast as you can to catch these little gingerbread men before they disappear from your kitchen too!   This is one gingerbread recipe that you will want to catch if you can but first a little history………. and then the recipe!

Gingerbread first appeared in central Europe in the Middle Ages, made from sugars and spices that had been brought back from the Middle East by soldiers returning from the Crusades. In England, gingerbread only meant “preserved ginger,” referring to the preservative effect of ginger on breads, cakes, and other pastries. It wasn’t until the 15th century that gingerbread referred specifically to the sweet cake made with treacle and ginger. And it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that the treat became associated primarily with Christmas.

Save your money and save your sanity – stay home and bake Gingerbread for presents this Christmas – this will help restore some of the real spirit of Christmas and help to reduce much of the stress!

Gingerbread
half a cup of golden syrup
half a cup of butter
4 cups of SR flour
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 level tablespoon ginger

Cream butter and sugar.  Add other ingredients .  Mix well.   Place on floured board and knead.  Roll out thinly and cut into shapes.
Place on greased oven tray.
Bake 7 – 10 mins in a moderate oven

Most importantly – Enjoy!

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Researchers have discovered that approximately 90% of visits to doctors are caused by stress!  It is not uncommon for people to present in our clinic with stress related pain.

During periods of stress the body’s adrenal glands produce hormones, such as adrenaline, which also increases blood pressure.   Chronic stress keeps these hormones at dangerously high levels. However, studies suggest that severe cases of stress extend beyond the temporary increase in blood pressure and begin to injure cells of the body – which may accelerate the aging process, leaving people susceptible to various diseases.

For a long time psychologists have been aware of the impact stress has on the body’s ability to fight infections, but now a study has shown how stress also plays a major influence in altering the functions of the immune system.

Researchers have concluded that the stressors that most negatively compromise the immune system were the chronic stressors – stress of enduring duration.  They also discovered the longer the duration of stress or perceived length of the stress, the less the body’s ability to adapt to the stressful situation. It was determined this kind of stress could lead to serious negative health repercussions beginning with attacking the immune system at the cellular level then going after the overall broader functions of the immune system.

Clearly we need to do something about stress before it takes it’s toll.  Chiropractic Care is care of the nervous system – through which we experience our stress.  It makes such good sense to ensure that our nervous system is getting the help it needs to keep stress at bay.

There are also some simple things that we can do for ourselves:

• In our last blog post we mentioned writing a gratitude journal every day for a few minutes.  This is a powerful exercise.  I have done it myself and continue to do so from time to time,  however I believe the best form of this is when it is done everyday!
• Many find comfort in prayer.
• Take ten deep breaths.  As you inhale first let your abdomen swell then take further breath in as you lift your rib cage.  Exhale by deflating your abdomen first and then your upper chest to release all the breath.   This can be done standing, sitting or laying down and is perfect to begin the day and end the day or to use at anytime during the day.  Yoga can help with this breathing exercise which is not hard to perfect.
• Practicing having positive mental thoughts and images.  This takes persistence. Viewing the glass half full rather than half empty!
• Taking time out to walk in nature.
• Doing a good deed.
• Giving.
• Listening to beautiful gentle soul music.
• Sitting by a fire.
• Lighting a candle.
• Sharing.

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Most people who own a car have it serviced regularly.  Most people who drive a car put the correct fuel in the fuel tank.  Most people who own a car treat it like it must last forever, but most people give scant concern to the vehicle we were born to inhabit for the rest of our lives!

Imagine if you didn’t service your car, didn’t put the correct fuel in the tank and didn’t get the wheels aligned during an MOT!  Wheels come out of alignment and cause wear and tear on the tyres which if left uncorrected may even cause a blow out!

Misalignments of the spine left uncorrected cause wear and tear (degeneration) too and also prevent the body from working the way nature intended.  Misalignments prevent clear messages from travelling from brain to body and body to brain which over time begins to show as dis-ease.

Putting oil, or water or orange juice in the fuel tank of your car would have it’s problems too!  When we put food in our body which is not healthy our body won’t work so well either!

Washing and polishing the car and running it regularly to keep the battery charged up are also things that preserve our cars.  Our body is no different – it responds well to being cared for and taken for a run too!

When your car wears out you can replace it, but when your body wears out – where are you going to live??

Does it make more sense to service your car or your body?????

Call us for your MOT!

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Eat, Move and Think Well - Your Best Defense!

During this past week our clinic received an email offering us flu vaccinations for our staff.   This email said – “getting a flu vaccination is the best way to protect yourself from flu”. I wonder how many other businesses received this email and believe what it says.  Thankfully, we know that getting the flu vaccination is not the best way to protect yourself from flu or any other illness or disease, for that matter!  Having a strong and healthy immune system is THE VERY BEST WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLU AND ANY OTHER ILLNESS OR DISEASE.  The way to a healthy immune system is to EAT WELL, MOVE WELL AND THINK WELL and without these things as part of our lifestyle we will have a compromised immune system.  Your Chiropractic care is contained within the “move well” part of the equation, as spinal fitness is essential to the function of the nervous system which controls and co-ordinates virtually every cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in your entire body.    Remember the words of Socrates – “if you would have health, look FIRST to the spine”.  It seems most people have not been told this one vital piece of information.

Do your research and choose to Eat Well, Move Well and Think Well. This is your best defense.

Dr Richard McMinn has five children all born at home and these children have never been to a medical doctor.  Their combined ages is one hundred and thirty years.  They have had Chiropractic Care since the day they were born.

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Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting well and keeping well! Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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What Are you Thinking?

Cutting-edge science has proven that YOU are the master of your own health.  How empowering is that!

An interesting study was done on hotel maids by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer. Eighty eight maids were divided into two groups. One group was educated on how much exercise they got when they climbed stairs, made beds and went about their job. The other group was the control group and was told nothing.

By simply telling forty four of the maids that what they did each day involved some serious exercise, Langer was apparently able to lower the women’s blood pressure, shave pounds off their bodies and improve their body-fat and “waist to hip” ratios. Their bodies were doing the same work. Their minds had been simply made to think of it as “exercise”.

Apparently our mind/body responds to images and stimuli whether it is “real” or not and that’s where the value of visualisation comes in and the importance of keeping positive pictures in our minds – especially of our health, but unfortunately most people think sickness, rather than health.  Even if you are healthy, your body can become diseased simply through the inappropriate unconscious control of your mind/emotions.

But with healthy belief systems, you can use your conscious mind to create a life of health, happiness and love and avoid unnecessary drugs and medical interventions.

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Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting you well too!  Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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