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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jul 7, 2015 | Health Articles
Visions of our grandparents in their rocking chairs or stools are becoming more and more of a myth. Extinct is their acceptance of getting old gracefully. Do not let their gray hair fool you. This generation of seniors is not taking age lying down; so take a moment learn from their wisdom on how Americans...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jun 25, 2015 | Health Articles
Recently walking through a supermarket, I overheard a middle-aged man say “My son gave me this stupid cold and I feel horrible” as he rubbed his eyes and sniffled through his words. Unfortunately a totally common occurrence!
When we are “sick”, we naturally want to complain and list all our symptoms. As a loving doctor and friend, I have sympathy and compassion. However, I also have a duty to teach you what symptoms really are and how to better understand them and why they occur. Ultimately, by understanding how your body works you can better understand how to achieve the best of health.
Fundamentals of Language
Fundamentally, the language you use can do one of two things: it can either sabotage your health or build new levels of health. The language you use does not always serve you.
When you have body signals or symptoms of a cold, the flu or even back pain, they can all make you feel tired, grumpy and frustrated. However, the most important thing is not to sabotage your health and healing processes even more by choosing certain words or language that adds strength and conviction to your minds focus and energy of the pain or discomfort.
For example: “I feel like ….!”, “I feel horrible”, “I am sick”, “I’m tired”, “I am not well”, “I hate feeling like this.”
While this may seem true for you in the moment, what are you actually telling yourself? By continuing to remind your brain and overall physiology about how bad you are feeling, you are doing even more harm by driving more negative mental impulses from your brain into your body. Does that make sense? The good news is true too, reminding your brain and overall physiology about how great your body is functioning, you are affirming and driving more positive mental impulses from your brain into your body about how well you are doing. This, in turn, has a positive effect on pain, healing and recovery.
Create A Health Expression
A better way to refer to a healing process is as a “health expression.” For example: “My body is having a health expression right now. “My body is adapting.”, “My temperature is protecting me by killing off the virus so it doesn’t harm me”, “My body is aching because it is trying to heal”, “My body is working efficiently to overcome everything it needs to”, “I have everything I need to work through this health challenge”.
Be mindful, your children and those around you will start “picking up” on your language. Children will repeat what you say word for word and if the language is left as a long term saying it will develop or become learned behavior through repetition and environment. Adults around you that are negative will attract to this negative language while more positive adults may may physically begin to repel or move away from you in this current state.
What Do You Want to Create?
The question is: what language and state of mind do you want to instill into those around you?
There is a saying “Your thoughts become you”. We can make this even more practical by saying “Your words become you”. Be careful what you say because it will become your reality!
Your will body always attempts to heal. Instead of seeing your body as failing you, honor your wonderful healing intelligence, starting with your words. Words have power. So as your body is healing either from an injury or an illness simply say “It is healing” which positively reinforces your understanding that the body heals itself.
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Suffering with an injury, or pain such as back pain, sciatica, or neck pain that is physically debilitating and emotionally exhausting?
If so help is near! Our team is ready to help you heal faster in a safe positive healing environment.
Watch Out Healing Optimally Could Be Contagious!
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Mar 19, 2015 | Health Articles
As a Chiropractor, I listen to many people's versions and definitions of health. Unfortunately our opinions are formed by what our parents told us and all the information that is provided by general medical practitioners, drug companies, athletic clubs, infomercials and all the superfluous information we can search on Google. In all of this extremely...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jan 13, 2015 | Health Articles
When making any lifestyle change, whether getting started on a new dietary regimen or a new exercise program, it is always better to start by adding good or positive things first, and then discontinue the bad habits later or simply let them fall away. By taking the “add positive first” approach, there is not the psychological aspect of self-deprivation slowing you down. For example, if your goal is to get in shape, then going to the gym on your way home from work or going for a walk after dinner is better than beating yourself up by saying, “I have got to stop sitting on the couch watching TV so much.” If you start going to the gym, by default you will sit around watching TV less when you fill that time instead with positive actions and activities.
STEP ONE: Adding Good Habits
When it comes to making dietary changes, adding positive habits are just as important, and for the same reasons. Rather than beginning a new nutritional regimen by trying to stop eating all the bad foods you enjoy and feeling deprived of your favorite mid-morning soda or candy snack, it is better to start by adding a good breakfast, eating large salads at lunch and dinner, and bringing fresh fruit and raw nuts as snacks. You will find that your cravings for the bad junk foods decreases naturally.
One main concept that should be well understood is that of whole foods. So here are some basic steps to start getting more fruits, vegetables and nuts into your diet. Remember, you want to begin any change to your health regimen by adding something positive first; then later, start removing the negative lifestyle habits you may have adopted. Eat a large salad with lunch and dinner. This does not mean iceberg lettuce drenched in Ranch dressing. This means a salad made with green leaf, red leaf, and romaine lettuce, and vegetables such as carrots, celery, cucumber, tomato, avocado, radishes, green beans, legume beans (navy, garbanzo, kidney, etc.), miscellaneous greens (kale, chard, mustard, dandelion, etc.), cabbages (napa, savoy, Bok choy – Chinese cabbage), etc. Make the salad the main dish for your meals. The protein, if there is one, should be smaller or secondary. Start to minimize how many starches you eat (i.e. pasta, breads, etc.). Plus, have steamed vegetables every night with dinner. This is one of the easiest things to add, even while eating out – almost all restaurants will accommodate your request to add or substitute steamed vegetables to your meal instead of rice, fries, or some other starch that typically comes with a dinner.
STEP TWO: Stopping the Bad Habits
As with nearly every aspect of our lives (diet style, marriage, finances, exercise, etc.), success comes not only from doing positive, successful, proven vital behaviors, but also from stopping known negative, destructive behaviors. When it comes to the food you put in your body, this input and its corresponding impact on our health cannot be overemphasized – it’s critical!
So, one of the first concepts to adopt is “out of sight, out of mind”. This means potato chips, soda pop, candy, breads, or whatever it is that you will eat if it is in the house.
These may include the following (or if it has any of the following as an ingredient):
- Artificial sweeteners: Aspartame (i.e. Nutrasweet and Equal) and Sucrolose (i.e. Splenda)
- Hydrogenated oils (also known as trans-fats) and partially hydrogenated oils
- Potato chips, tortilla chips, and other savory fried treats
- Fried foods (this includes french fries)
The Question of Moderation
We have all heard of the adage, “everything in moderation”. The truth is, that much of the toxic poisoning that we are self-dosing ourselves with through our food supply is being done over years in small doses. The fact that it is slowly poisoning in small doses, does not negate the fact that it is still poison and that it will ultimately have adverse effects on our health. This same principle applies to the over-consumption of cereals and processed grains in our culture, which is causing a horrendous obesity epidemic and its knock on effects of heart disease and diabetes.
Unfortunately, our measurement for moderation and portions have become seriously out of proportion.
Need Some Help?
A chiropractor understands that true health and wellness can be achieved when the habits needed to achieve optimal health are built into your lifestyle Only then will this allow new eating habits and proper views on food to be formed. Taking charge of your health now is the best way to reduce your risk for long-term health problems and chronic conditions, including diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
When you follow a specific and well designed plan exactly as recommended, significant change is almost always the end result. So definitely remember that chiropractors do more than simply treat pain or manage symptoms – they treat the entire body.
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jan 1, 2015 | Health Articles
The word on the streets is that the most abused drugs these days are found not being creatively cooked or grown but dispensed or bought at a convenience store near you. The drugs that are most often misused are not for recreational use but for the reduction of pain. The same pain that is the...
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Recently walking through a supermarket, I overheard a middle-aged man say “My son gave me this stupid cold and I feel horrible” as he rubbed his eyes and sniffled through his words. Unfortunately a totally common occurrence!
When making any lifestyle change, whether getting started on a new dietary regimen or a new exercise program, it is always better to start by adding good or positive things first, and then discontinue the bad habits later or simply let them fall away. By taking the “add positive first” approach, there is not the psychological aspect of self-deprivation slowing you down. For example, if your goal is to get in shape, then going to the gym on your way home from work or going for a walk after dinner is better than beating yourself up by saying, “I have got to stop sitting on the couch watching TV so much.” If you start going to the gym, by default you will sit around watching TV less when you fill that time instead with positive actions and activities.