Posts Tagged ‘advocacy’
Getting cut-off from the flows
The quintessential example of the modern day saber-toothed tigers is the person who cut you off in traffic. To understand why the nervous system responds with such intensity to this act, you have to become interested in the needs involved. Driving involves forcing a mass of metals to travel at velocity. It’s inherently powerful. Need…
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Compounding Self-Interest
If you saved a penny today and two pennies tomorrow, then kept doubling your investment every day, you would have saved $1 Million in 21 days. Imagine the equivalent impact of healthy decisions. Move a little better today. Move and eat a little better tomorrow. Continue increasing the quality and modifying the quantity of your…
Read MoreThe Weak End
When starting a new diet, the easiest part is typically the first few days that lead up to the first weekend (aka the “weak end”). This is when you start to think, “this diet is hard.” In the days leading up to the ” weak end”, we have the structure and routine of our work…
Read MoreContribution
When your ancestors traveled in tribes, it’s hard to believe that the equivalent of the modern day couch potato would have been allowed to suck up resources without contributing to the lives of the other tribe members. Multiply this over millennia and you have the need for contribution built-in as a survival mechanism to the…
Read MoreI hope you fail.
You’re trying something new. Something healthier. Something you hope makes your life better or improves the lives of others. Since this is new, you will fail at some point, I hope. THE FAILURE is the sign that you’re doing something right!!! It’s a milestone that you must achieve if you are truly pushing yourself beyond…
Read MoreThr heroics of empathy
Two people in a conversation are standing in almost the exact same place in the world with almost the exact same set of environmental influences on their internal experience of the moment. Both people are looking into the other person’s eyes. Both of them are squinting. Both have a furroughed brow. One of them has…
Read MoreYou’re doing it wrong.
That’s how people let their loved ones know that they care, of course. That’s why so many people have a hard time maintaining new habits that they know are healthy when they are around their oldest friends or family. Culture that has developed over a long period of time within a peer group or a…
Read MoreIn service of the long game
A good starting point for the long game of any endeavor is to identify who it is that you want to spend your life serving. What change do they hope to make in their lives? What promise can you make to them when they experience your service? What beliefs do they have? Continue to become…
Read MoreInviting emotional expression
As a chiropractor (person), having an intention to serve the person you are with is profoundly influential. It creates changes to your posture, facial expression, tone of voice and softness of touch. The person can see, hear, and feel your loving care. Often, this level of presence helps the person feel safe enough to express…
Read MoreThe advocacy of influence
At 4AM in a labor and delivery suite of a recently built hospital, a midwife says “Relax your shoulders.” The laboring mother screams “I can’t. ” The midwife’s voice carries decades of wisdom and her hands the caress and confidence of 1,000 births as she affirms, “Yes, you can”. She lays her hands on the…
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