The Starfish

A young man from Nebraska, who had never seen the ocean, decided one night that it was time to do it. He packed a bag, went to the airport and flew to a tropical island where he checked into a hotel on the beach. It was still dark when he arrived and the young man remembered that someone had told him that the sunrise over the ocean was incredible so he dressed and went down to the beach and sat in the sand, waiting for the sun to rise.


The sun came up and it was, in fact, the most beautiful sunrise he had ever seen. As he watched the sun rising over the ocean, he noticed a group of people following a man who was dancing down the beach. He rose from the sand and went to join the group to see what was going on.

As he joined the group he saw that the man was not actually dancing but was picking something up from the sand and throwing it into the ocean, but with so much joy and enthusiasm that it looked as though he was dancing. At a certain point, the crowd dispersed and only the young man from Nebraska and the man throwing starfish remained.

The young man walked up to the man throwing starfish and asked, “Pardon me, what are you doing?” To which the man replied, “Oh, it’s very simple. I walk this 2 mile stretch of beach every morning and pick up the starfish that have washed up during the night and throw them back into the ocean before the sun comes up and kills them.” The young man, somewhat confused said, “Well, I’m from Nebraska and I don’t know much about the ocean, but isn’t there a tide that will simply wash them up again? What does it matter?”

With that the man bent over, picked up another starfish and said, “It will matter to this one.” as he threw it into the ocean.

Each One Matters

 

Sometimes we can look at our health the way the man from Nebraska looked at the starfish on the beach. The little things we do for our health may seem inconsequential. What difference does one healthy meal, one day without a cigarette, one good long walk, or one adjustment make? By itself, maybe not much, but when we make a habit or commitment to better health, the results speak for themselves. Each thing we do to enhance our level of health and well being is a statement to ourselves that we are important; that we are worth taking care of; that we matter and that what we do matters to bring us where we want to be in the future. So, although healthy habits take time, effort and repetition, they are worth it for both our current and long-term health.

The number of starfish the “dancer” had to deal with was huge. Sometimes, the number of different things we feel we could or should be doing for our health appears just as daunting.

How will we fit in 3—5 workouts per week? What exercise is best—cardio, weights, stretching or some combination? What exactly is a healthy diet? Is Atkins right about low carbs or is it Pritikin”s low fat plan that’s right? If I eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, but they’re not organic can I be hurting myself? What vitamins should I take and where’s the best place to get them from? These and endless other questions keep some people from acting at all.

The best way to tackle the huge question of our health is to just get in action and be proud of ourselves for each thing we do. By just changing one thing at a time on a regular basis, at the end of a year, we will have done so much more for our health. It’s also important that when we add other healthful habits, we don’t drop the ones we’ve already started.

That’s why it’s so important to keep regular with our adjustments. EACH ONE MATTERS!!!!! The effects of the adjustments are cumulative, meaning that each one will just enhance the one before, assuming that there’s not too much time, stress and additional subluxation between adjustments. Thus, in the early stage of care, when visits are frequent, keeping close to your recommended schedule will give you the greatest change in the least amount of time. Once the subluxation patterns in your spine have begun to improve, regular visits will allow this improvement to continue into the future.

Regular adjustments are also a great buffer against the waves of stress which we are bombarded with daily and which can serve to undermine our best efforts at better health.

You can be a “starfish dancer” for someone else by helping them to understand and experience the great benefits Chiropractic care offers. By your own commitment to getting adjusted, you already serve as a positive role model, but there’s more you can do:

Be the One that Matters

1. Refer someone to our New Patient workshop, so they can learn all about the great benefits of Chiropractic.

2. Bring someone along for your visit, so they can see for themselves what the office and getting adjusted is like.

3. Share this hand out, or some of our other literature with friends or family so they can understand better.

4. Give us their name and number and we’ll invite them to the office for a complimentary Chiropractic evaluation, to see how they can be helped.

Courtesy of:

Chiro-Works Bayside
Dr. Alan Corin
17 South Concourse
Beaumaris, Vic 3193
9589 0076

http://www.chiro-works.com.au/
 
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Small Things are Large

A slip on the sidewalk, in winter is a small thing. It happens to millions. A fall off a ladder, in summer, is a small thing. This happens to millions. The slip or the fall subluxates the vertebrae. That specific subluxation is a small thing. The vertebrae produces pressure upon the spinal cord, with its trillions of fibers. That pressure is a small thing. This specific pressure produces interferences and reduces the flow of life force. That decreased flow is a small thing. That decreased quantity flow of mental impulse produces a specific dis-eased brain or body. That is a big thing to that person. Multiply that person by 40,000 and you shape the physical and mental welfare of a city. Multiply that person by 10 million and you shape the physical and mental welfare of a state. Multiply that person by a 100 million and you forecast and prophesy the mental and physical status of a nation.


So, the slip or fall; the creation of subluxation, consequent pressure, reduced flow of mental impulse and dis-ease is big enough to control the thoughts and actions of a nation.

Now comes another person; and any one person is a small thing. This person gives a specific adjustment upon the specific subluxation; and that adjustment is a small thing. The adjustment releases the subluxation and that is a small thing. The adjusted subluxation releases pressure upon nerves; and that is a small thing. The released pressure restores health to a person, and that is a big thing to that person. Multiply that well person by 40,000 and you step up the physical and mental welfare of a city. Multiply that well person by 10 million and you increase the efficiency of a state. Multiply that well person by 100 million and you produce a healthier, wealthier, better nation.

Man is a small thing, worlds considered. A vertebrae is a small thing, man considered. The neural canal of a vertebrae is small. Yet, the vertebrae, small as it is, acts as a governor to man’s thoughts and functions; for it, in a normal position, permits a free flow, or in a subluxation interferes with a free flow of all that force with which man thinks and acts. A person lives when they can think and act. A person dies when they cease to create thought and perform motion. A person becomes sick when thought and function are below par. Therefore, alignment of the vertebrae and the nerve openings may be a small thing, but they are the biggest thing in that person.

B. J. Palmer, D.C.

THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE

 

Living on Earth is expensive,

But it does include a free trip around the sun every year.

How long a minute is

Depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on.

Birthdays are good for you;

The more you have, the longer you live.

Happiness comes through doors

You didn’t even know you left open.

Ever notice that the people who are late

Are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?

Most of us go to our grave

With our music still inside of us.

You may be only one person in the world,

But you may also be the world to one person.

Some mistakes are too much fun

To make only once.

Don’t cry because it’s over;

Smile because it happened.

We could learn a lot from crayons:

Some are sharp, some are pretty,

Some are dull, some have weird names,

And all are different colors...but

They all exist very nicely in the same box.

A truly happy person is one who

Can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Courtesy of:

Chiro-Works Bayside

Dr. Alan Corin

17 South Concourse

Beaumaris, Vic 3193

9589 0076

www.chiro-works.com.au

The Butterfly

A man found the cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther.


So, the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But, it had a swollen body, and small shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly. He expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly.

What he had done in his well intentioned kindness and haste, what he did not understand, was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly to its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometime struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been...And we could never fly…

Have a great day, a great life, struggle a

little….Then Fly!!!!!


There are many ways in our life that we’re like the man with the butterfly. We want to help, and think we know a better way to get the end result we want. Yet, by assisting nature, the results often are disastrous.

Nowhere is this attitude more apparent than in children. First, we intervene with the birth process, thinking that it won’t have a negative long term affect.

However, it often does. Birth trauma, resulting from forced births due to doctors on a tight schedule, hospitals’ arbitrary time lines and the myriad of interventions most mothers face is a major cause of subluxation and other problems.

Another area where we sometimes hurt more that help is with “germs”. The recent explosion of anti-bacterial products, over-use of antibiotics in the general population and the wide spread use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry industries has sped bacterial evolution to a point that many bacteria are no longer resistant to common antibiotics. Many more are becoming resistant to the strongest antibiotics science has to offer. When we take antibiotics, we are setting ourselves up to become more and more resistant. Antibiotics also destroy the “normal flora” or good bacteria in our system. These are responsible for helping us digest our food properly. Each time we take a course of antibiotics, it takes 3 months or longer to re-establish normal levels of good bacteria when we actively work to repopulate them (with products like yogurt and acidophilus).

Taking pain pills or muscle relaxers when there is an injury can also backfire.

The body produces spasms as a protective mechanism. When we relax the muscle or cover up the pain response, we may temporarily feel better, but we’re interfering with the protection. We slow or stop healing and then often go out and do more than we would have otherwise. Now, we’re doing things with an injury we can’t feel and less protection than our body wants to give us. This is a recipe for disaster. Plus, remember that when you take any medications, they don’t just affect the injured area. They work throughout any similar tissues in the entire body.

The examples could go on and on. The point is You can’t fool mother nature.

We possess a limited understanding of how the body really works. So, when we try to jury rig a solution or try to hurry along a remedy, we’re inviting trouble.

We may win the battle but lose the war, as nature has her eye on the big picture and we can’t always see it. Our best bet is to do all we can to nurture and protect what we have.

We’ve long had a saying in Chiropractic that Nature needs no help, just no interference. By keeping our spine free of subluxations and thus our nerve system free of interference, our body will be able to best adapt, respond and heal.

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Who do you listen to ????

There once was a bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition.

The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.

A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants…

The race began….

Honestly, no one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as:

“Oh, WAY too difficult!” “They will NEVER make it to the top.”

Or: “Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!”

The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one…

Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher.

The crowd continued to yell, “It’s too difficult!! No one will make it!”

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up…

But ONE continued higher and higher…

This one wouldn’t give up!

At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower, except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it.

A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal.

It turned out….that the winner was DEAF!!

The wisdom of this story is:

Never listen to other people’s tendencies to be negative or pessimistic.

They may take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you—the ones you have in your heart.

Always think of the power words have.

Everything you hear and read will affect your actions.

Therefore: ALWAYS BE POSITIVE

And above all: Be DEAF when people tell you that you cannot fulfill your dreams.

Just like the frogs in the previous story, there’s always someone out there telling us what we can and can’t do. Maybe it’s a spouse or family member who is influencing us with their opinion. Maybe we hear our parents in our head. Sometimes it’s societal pressures which can steer our decisions.

Whatever the source, outside opinions can unduly influence us and can sometimes keep us from achieving our potential.

We see this a lot when it comes to people’s health. Other people can often influence us negatively. Think of a person who has decided to clean up their eating habits. When they go visiting or to a party, many people will push food on them or tell them why the plan they’ve made won’t work. This can be discouraging and make a hard job even more difficult.

The most serious example of negative influence comes when a person has a major illness. Countless times people have had their hope taken away from them by a harsh opinion and died shortly afterward, even when their medical condition might not have been that serious. Our thoughts ALWAYS influence our reality. This is why it’s so important to take charge and control our thoughts.

How can we do this? By being proactive and taking charge of our own health. Our bodies are our own responsibility. We have to learn how they respond best and what they need.

One person may do well on a low carb diet, while that type of eating plan may be harmful to another. Certain people benefit from one form of exercise over another. It’s our responsibility to research the options and find what works best for our individual body and our lifestyle.

This is why we spend so much time in this office educating people about Chiropractic, the importance of taking care of the spine and nerve system and about the true nature of health. We find that an educated practice member is truly our best customer. When you understand the devastating impact of subluxation on your health and the outstanding benefits of keeping your body subluxation free, it’s much easier to commit to taking care of yourself. We truly believe that your health is your responsibility, so that when we make recommendations, we honor your decisions about how you choose to care for yourself.

Yet, at times the influence of the crowd can get in the way. Maybe you have a friend or family member who doesn’t understand the true nature of Chiropractic and how the spine functions. Maybe your spouse is a voice in your ear telling you that you don’t need to be adjusted regularly. Maybe you are afraid to talk to your physician about the fact that you’ve benefited from your care. Whatever the negative influence, remember what you know is possible for you. If someone hasn’t yet come in, seen the exam process and experienced a chiropractic orientation, they really don’t know as much as you do about this subject. We’ll be happy to educate anyone and help you to be surrounded by positive voices instead of detractors.

With Chiropractic, as with all other areas of your life and health,—tune out the negative and focus on the possibilities!!

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