Festa Chiropractic

Lessons & Blessings

The season of gratitude should be all year long if we knew what was really good for us. We’ve been told to count our blessings everyday, but did you today? Do it with your prayers every night and/or every morning. Do it with your exercises, morning tall glass of water, or while brushing your teeth. Just pick a regular time of the day that you always do the same thing and add this very simple and profoundly, beneficial activity. Count things like your family, a roof, a full stomach, your ability to move around, see, hear, and speak. Then move onto the things that you would like in the future. Ask as if it’s already been given and give thanks for it in the future. This is an awesomely rewarding mindset to gain.

            Once you’ve gotten really good at being grateful for all of your blessings, why don’t you consider giving thanks for more troubling things, your lessons in life? I am sure there have been times when you had initially thought that something that happened to you was not so good, even bad; and then you later realized that it wasn’t so bad after all. It was actually pretty good.

            A good measure of wisdom is how quickly we can see the good in each of life’s events and conversely, how quickly we can the “negative”, or the balance when we only see a benefit in something. Strangely ironic as it is; there is often just as much good in something as there is bad- a bitter sweetness if you will.

            The longer I live, the more often and the more quickly I see this in just about everything. I suspect that it is truly in all things but my human emotions play tricks on some of the more severe scenarios for a while still.

            I urge you to give it a whirl; start being thankful for your lessons, your trials, your errors. You may just find this the most beneficial and truthful thing to be thankful for in your life. Thank you for your time and may God continue to bless you and abundantly the rest of your days.

 

Who Takes Care of Mom?

Mom runs the show. She takes care of just about everything important at least, but who is taking care of her? What would the world be like without her? Sad, I can tell you that for sure! Moms do so much with so little credit and, to make matters worse, they do it at the expense of themselves and their own health. Moms are notorious for putting everybody else in front of themselves.

           

It is time to change this eventually destructive mindset. Moms unite and appreciate your true worth! You are the keystone that holds it all together. You must be strong but to be strong you have to be healthy. Too bad you don’t get healthy by happenstance; you have to work at it but, who’s got the time?

                       

You know how the flight attendants instruct us, “in the unlikely event of losing cabin pressure, put the oxygen mask on yourself first then on your child.” Fortunately, you can do things with your family to help keep everybody healthier. Simple things like eating a little better. Buy that non-GMO off-brand that is a dollar more; choose the organic bananas and apples that are a little more but free from herbicides, pesticides and modified DNA.

 

Exercising together; we don’t have to have ridiculous sports/work out schedules. How about family hikes in the hills. Pick a “mountain” and climb it, together. So far we’ve went from Memorial Park to the Aluminum City Terrace 5x and we’re working our way up to “Bokay” hill. If you don’t know, that’s the hill on the Springdale side of the NewKenBridge. Walks around the lake at Northmoreland, bike rides, kayak adventures, family sled rides, there’s plenty to do together.

           

Healthcare should be the most obvious thing to do together to stay well but its often overlooked, until it’s a necessity. We have literally hundreds of families that use us as their natural primary care providers and come in weekly or biweekly to stay well. Optimal wellness care is designed to not only keep you from getting sick but to allow you to function at your genetic potential- free from nerve damage and interference that develops from poor posture, injuries, and stresses.

 

As my favorite mentor Dr. John DeMartini puts it, “We align spines and minds with the Divine, so you feel fine!!”

 

So, let us help you help your family! We are here for YOU!J

How Do It Know?

One of my favorite people ever was my “Uncle Jim”.  He could tell you that your house was on fire and make you laugh at the same time.  One of his favorite jokes was something about how a thermos keeps its contents either hot or cold and the punch line was but “how do it know”!

 

That line sticks in my head and comes up in many different situations, such as how does your body know when and how to raise or lower its blood pressure, body temperature, cortisol level, blood glucose level, adrenal levels, etc.

 

These are great questions but they are largely ignored by western medicines men and women who prescribe drugs. These drugs decide for you how much and which chemicals are going to be in your system.  These drugs were never intended to even be on earth in the first place, let alone in the delicate 60,000 chemical complex soup inside of your body.  There is an innate intelligence beyond all of our “doctors” finite wisdom that does all of this “knowing” for us.  Chiropractors recognize the innate wisdom of your bodies’ ability to do this on its own.  We work WITH that wisdom, not against it, and strive to allow the easiest pathway for this to occur.  We remove the interference that causes the dysfunction in the first place.  This can allow a natural balance, ebb and flow, of chemical balance as only your body knows how.