New Paradigm

“You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup.

Only in the present, can you savor the aroma, taste the sweetness, appreciate the delicacy.

If you are ruminating about the past, or worrying about the future, you will completely miss the experience of enjoying the cup of tea.

You will look down at the cup, and the tea will be gone.

Life is like that.

If you are not fully present, you will look around and it will be gone.

You will have missed the feel, the aroma, the delicacy and beauty of life.

It will seem to be speeding past you. The past is finished.

Learn from it and let it go.

The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it.

Worrying is worthless.

When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment.

I wish the material absorbed into my head by osmosis. :(

That is, in our attempt to remove one memory, we lose many.

This doesn't mean we need to dwell on a past experience or situation or moment (remembering) to the point that it adversely affects our present or future.

If we put our selves in a place of no longer resisting what is, we have the chance to come out of denial.  Denial shows up predominantly as TMJ disorder, but as plantar fasciitis, astigmatism, hormonal imbalance, needing to get up in the middle of the night to pee (sorry, drawing a blank on the medical term) as well, and many other ways, too.

Judging shows up in the splenius capitis and I need to put a link here since I know a wrote a post about that already.

My clinical experience has never shown with any definite pattern where being too attached to someone or something affects the body.

A Google search of this quote credits Neale Donald Walsch.  I haven't ready any of his work, in fact, I had never even heard of him until I did the Google search just now.

I agree with his statement wholeheartedly because of much of what I've seen in patients.

Getting out of our respective comfort zones means dealing with 2 umbrella emotions that I will call Fear and Courage. 

It makes no difference whether you believe fear is a good thing or bad thing.  It makes no difference what I believe.  What I have found in patients though is that fear causes problems in the body, most commonly as frozen shoulder, and therefore, I classify fear as negative.

Living in our comfort zone makes us have to admit we have a comfort zone.  Having a comfort zone means we have fear.  Just because we are comfortable right now doesn't mean we don't have fear.  It's there, and we're avoiding it.  Since fear is a negative emotion, it means Life can't be started until we start pushing the boundaries of our comfort zone.  So yeah, I agree with this quote completely.

The medical profession really has no idea what brings on frozen shoulder and has no idea what to do about it.  The typical prescription is rest, painkillers, anti-inflammatories, and "It'll go away eventually."  This makes perfect sense because fear doesn't show up in their blood tests, urine tests, and xrays and MRIs.

The chiropractic profession isn't really doing a whole lot better, if at all.  Popping that shoulder causes some temporary relief, just like a painkiller pill.  And when it eventually fades, because the patient's fear fades away, we like to take credit for 100 shoulder adjustments having been the cure.

Finding the patient's positive emotional strength works much quicker in freeing up that shoulder.  Obviously, these are different in each patient, but what comes immediately to mind is that Courage is the minimal place to start.  There are much stronger positive emotions but not everyone possesses them. 

Have the courage to make only positive statements.  The way we would like our life to be IS feasible. 

Modern fishing vessels catch staggering amounts of unwanted fish and other marine life. It’s estimated that anywhere from 8 to 25 percent of the total global catch is discarded, cast overboard either dead or dying. That’s up to 27 million tonnes of fish thrown out each year — the equivalent of 600 fully-laden Titanics. And the victims aren’t just fish. Every year, an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die entangled in fishing nets, along with thousands of critically-endangered sea turtles.

All modern forms of commercial fishing produce bycatch, but shrimp trawling is by far the most destructive: it is responsible for a third of the world’s bycatch, while producing only 2% of all seafood.

Shrimp (and many deep-sea fish) are caught using a fishing method called bottom trawling, which usually involves dragging a net between two trawl doors weighing several tons each across the ocean bed. This has a destructive impact on seabed communities, particularly on fragile deep water coral – a vital part of the marine ecosystem that scientists are just beginning to understand. The effect of bottom trawling on the seafloor has been compared to forest clear-cutting, and the damage it causes can be seen from space. The UN Secretary General reported in 2006 that 95 percent of damage to seamount ecosystems worldwide is caused by deep sea bottom trawling.

If a patient reports low back pain and you ask her/him to point to the pain with a finger, and it lands on ONE of these dimples, then what I've found every time is an IN Ilium. 

What is odd is that you will find bilateral IN iliums but the patient will be symptomatic on only one of them. 

Check for an inferior occiput and a superior C1.  Occasionally you may need to adjust temporal bone subluxation due to collagenization of occipitalis minor and or splenius capitis hypertonicity.