Victims Of Routine

Many people are victims of circumstances, victims of wind and weather, victims of flood and famine, of war and many other hazards. But, one of the worst is becoming the victim of routine?

What is routine? SAME STUFF, DIFFERENT DAY, pretty much defines the "beast". It's somewhat a habit, doing things in a constant way, adopting some regular mode of action in business or pleasure. "Pursuing a given course with little flexibility," states the dictionary.

What is wrong about that? Nothing really, unless the habit becomes static, unproductive, or stale.  I personally lived that scenario in business, and sadly also in my personal life for over 15 years. Going to my office, doing the same fixed tasks, and over time feeling sorry for myself because I was becoming a miserable failure after enjoying a once successful career. Then, change became apparent with my funds depleted and my practice seeing fewer and fewer patients. My routine was attempting to run a medical practice solo. I could not imagine doing anything else. My common sense was departing slowly and my health problems became a serious issue with trips to the emergency room.

It was then my life changed dramatically. I was evicted from my office of 27 years. With no money and no place to practice, Downtrodden, I felt sorry for myself and excused it me being the victim of misfortune. When in fact, I was totally responsible for all that occurred. I was a "victim of routine".

Discover good habits and you will find they aid in accomplishment, they guide you in a regular course, making things come easy or quickly, all to the good. More power to such a positive routine. That is exactly what I unearthed - good habits and a positive mental attitude. Both needed to succeed.

There is always chance of becoming a victim of negative routine, constantly doing things the hard way, being unwilling to change, holding fast to an antiquated pattern, giving too much attention to time consuming, unprofitable details. Such routine needs to be modified and brought up-to-date.

In a broader sense there is also routine in politics, in religion, and health methods. Voting for the same political party, regardless of policies, holding fast to one political group or to fixed methods. Religion likewise becomes more or less static with many people. Prayers are sometimes routine, asking the blessing is a good example. People in general follow fixed patterns; even the Lord's Prayer is more or less a matter of note without giving thought to it's true meaning. Have you thought of that?

And what about your health methods? What is your pattern when ill? Do you rely on aspirin, pain killers, anti-depressants shots, MLM products, vitamins, without thought about side effects and the consequences to your overall general health? Are you a victim of treatment routine?

"Think, for the mind tells the body what to do."

The End May Be Your New Beginning

Do you realize that what seems to be the end of the way in your life may very well be the beginning? You set a goal but it doesn't materialize. You have dreams for your life, but they have gone awry. Those whom you have trusted prove to be false. So you feel down and out. Where shall you go from here? What shall you do?

Get your butt up and start all over again. Set a new pattern. Use those shattered hopes as stepping stones to a new life. Sometimes the stone that the builders rejected in your life pattern becomes the head of the corner, to paraphrase a biblical term. Believe in yourself. You can do anything that you put your mind to. And, most of the time, do it better than before.

Has business failed to come your way? Has the career that you hopefully began crumbled and left you empty handed? Has your health broken down under the drain of living? Are you beginning to turn to drugs and pain killers? Are you depending more and more on sedatives?

THEN STOP! Change your course of living. There is a better way and a new help ahead. Wake up and live. Your health is independent on how you live and what you do with your life. Begin anew - you can do better. I have personally failed in business. And yet, I found the strength to dust myself off and begin anew, If it can work for this "old" man, it can work for you. Keep the faith and all things are possible.

So, if you are feeling bewildered and perhaps feel like quitting, don't. If you have reached that plateau, you may be approaching the new beginning in your life, but you must hang on.

Your health is a natural state of being that comes from within outward when nerve channels are clear and the life force within a normally expressed through the nervous system. The spine is the strength and support of the body. Take care of it! You only get one ....

"If you can take defeat sweetly, you are already on the high road to success."

Take It Easy

Are you worried or perplexed? Do things seem to be going haywire in your life? Does the world seem to be upside down, and nothing like it used to be? Take it easy. Nothing is falling apart. Of course, nothing is quite like it once was, and to be honest, you wouldn't want it to be that way.

You want your children to grow up and to go to college. You want a better job, a better way of life and new opportunities. Well, take it easy. No good in this life can come about without change. The old must give way to the new, and subsequently upsetting old plans. Sometimes confusion can take place in ushering in the new good, often times making things change with as little conflict as possible. Isn't that what you really want?

Well, take it easy. Change must come from within you, from how you take it, from what you give, from how you think, and what you do about that much needed change. Think about it.

But you can't do everything. You cannot stop war, you cannot bring peace, you cannot even make people think the way you do, or even change their attitudes. Well, of course not, so take it easy. Maybe you are not altogether right all the time. You and your relationships with others may need to change. Jesus said, "Love one another as I have loved you ... Love your neighbor as yourself." Have you analyzed yourself in regards to that great quote? Remember, sometimes you could very well be wrong.

You might think that is beside the point. You can't create jobs, you can't keep spending when you have nothing to spend. You can't go deeper and deeper in debt as the government is doing.You can't keep borrowing and pay it back with taxes. So. you just keep borrowing and worrying about your debts. When is it all going to end? And suppose you get sick. How can you pay the doctor?

Take it easy. Do you realize that illness comes from within and that health, likewise, comes from within outward. This happens when you are in tune with the natural laws of life, providing you avoid negative thinking that ultimately upsets the balance of everything.

What are you doing about your health? Are you depending upon shots, aspirin, tranquilizers and pain killers? Does this method make any credible sense? Have you ever considered Chiropractic as a logical way to health, minus the use of drugs and surgery?

 Take it easy, give much needed attention to your spine, and live a more abundant life.

"When we were borrowing customs from older nations, who was the idiot who passed up the siesta."

Look For The Good

No matter how dark the day, or how uncertain the future, there is always good to be found somewhere. Observe and look for the good. Be optimistic and use whatever good you find as a steppingstone to something better.

Regardless of how surly an individual may appear to be, that person has their good qualities. Praise them. Let them know you admire within them that which is good, and they may be encouraged to respond in kind.

The same diplomacy applies to nations. People are not all bad, in fact most people are good, even as we think we are. Circumstances, education and environment make the significant difference.

As a result of fear propaganda, nations may be moved to the brink of war, as we are now witnessing. There may appear to be no outlet short of conflict,,but when we appeal to the good in man, the whole atmosphere may change. No peace can come until this factor is employed. Why not use it first, before war and its destruction have taken their toll. Sadly, there is evil in this world that no diplomacy can cure. This we bear witness to daily, and we as individuals suffer the emotional and physical trauma.

When your neighbor, or someone within your organization, or even a member of your own family, is out of sorts and cross, look for the good in them. Perhaps they are ill, or there is illness within their family or group. Attempt to be of help. Be a good Samaritan ... it works!

When you are sick, are you not also inclined to be crass, short spoken and a bit irritable? There is always good within you. Don't let your feelings get you down. Find something to remove that frown and you will feel better. Most people, including myself, will exercise those "demons" away. Exercise is great medicine. Drugs are a shortcut to failure within the mind and body. Junk food is another culprit which the mind craves when you're down and out of sorts.

What is disease? Is dis-ease not want of ease? What is ease? Is it not a condition wherein function is normal? What does abnormal mean? Does it not imply that glands, organs and muscle are not functioning as they should? What regulates function? We must seek the basic cause, the source, the good, and the normal.

Emotions play an important role in life and function. As you think, so you are, to some extent. Thinking brings out the good or the evil. However, actual bodily function is regulated and controlled through the nervous system. Locating and correcting the spinal cause of disease is important, so that health returns naturally, and will bring about a more abundant life.

"Life is what you make it, and what you make it often depends on that you make."

Take A Good Look At Yourself

Did you ever become aware of a self-image, in particular, your self-image? If so, what do you see - success or failure? The image you keep before you determines your future. The Late Dr. Harry Fosdick put it way":
   "Hold a picture of yourself long enough and steady enough in your mind's eye and you are drawn to it." Jesus confirmed this stating, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

How true this is. One tends to achieve the thing that is clearly visualized. Golfers state, "Keep your eye on the ball. See its course as you prepare to putt; then transfer thought into action."

Reverend Harleigh Rosenberger observed, "The person who pictures himself as a failure will fail. the one who sees himself as a success will succeed." This being true, keep your vision clear and work toward your coveted goal.

Parents often unconsciously contribute toward their children's failure in school by nagging at them because of poor grades instead of praising the child for their good points. Never, ever say in the presence of a child that he or she is a poor scholar. Praise their good qualities and say, "now let's work a little harder to bring up the poor grades." Impress upon any person what they can become and they will make a greater effort to reach that goal. You are in the same class whether you realize it or not.

Perhaps you will say ill health is your stumbling block that keeps you down. Ill health may contribute to some degree your shortcoming, but bear in mind that picturing ill health sets up a wrong standard. The emotions are quick to pick it up and unconsciously influence the state of your health. For that very reason, keep your emotions under control.

There is another factor, however, that may be basic in relation to your health problem. That factor is your spine and nervous system. Had you thought of that? When you finally realize that pain killers and aspirin will not reach the cause of your problem, consult a chiropractor and perhaps in a very short time you will be well again and enjoying a more abundant life.

"You may drift into hell, but you must choose to row into Heaven."

Nature Is Kind

Nature is rugged and unforgiving at times, but generally nature is kind. Nature has her laws that must be obeyed. Violate them and you may be harmed, either emotionally or physically. Obey and all things good and great may be yours to command.

Nature reveals herself to the wise, the thoughtful and the generous. However, she tends to hide her secrets from the foolish, the sluggard, and the selfish.

It is true that the wicked sometimes use her laws in a hurtful manner, only because nature's laws are impartial. They work identically for the just and the unjust, even the wise or the foolish when they have eyes to see and make use of truths revealed. On the other hand, the foolish sometimes stumble along and blunder onto truths overlooked by the wise.

Nature reveals the elements of wealth and beauty, the source of strength and power, and the paths that lead to splendor and abundance. But this happens only as mankind becomes capable of understanding and appreciating these things. Nature points the way. She provides the laws, partially opens the gate, yet leaves to you the thrill of discovery and the joy of accomplishment. Nature is truly the handmaiden of God, as she gives or withholds, she tantalizes and restricts, she builds or destroys, yet only in accordance with basic laws that are impartial in application.

Nature is kind to your body which has been called God's masterpiece. Your body is a house of clay formed of bones and muscles, glands, and organs, blood vessels and nerves. These are all arranged in systems that function according to natural laws. Each system serves a purpose and together they form a unit that grows to maturity, functions with perfection, and finally dies and disintegrates back into the elements from which it came.

Nature's laws are constantly at work nourishing, making repairs, filtering out poisons, utilizing foods, and harmonizing functions. She provides pain as a warning, repairing hurts, and with it all, sustains life as best she can, even with the crippled and maimed that have run afoul of nature's laws.

How does sickness and health intervene regarding nature's laws? The answer is simple and logical. On occasion, the emotions get out of control and run counter to nature's laws. Bear in mind always that love builds as hate destroys; courage is uplifting; fear undermines and is severely harmful. You are the captain and are responsible for your soul. You must keep your emotions under control, especially when so many around you are constantly attempting to control your life.

The other element vital to health and function is the nervous and hormonal systems that stem from the brain and spinal cord. The spine IS the key to health, but it also is subject to shock and strain due to nature's laws. This disturbs function, lowers resistance, and subsequently leads to dis-ease. Correcting those problems can clear nerve channels and Mother nature, being ever so kind, restores health and makes possible a more plentiful life for you to enjoy.

                 
                      "Everything in nature acts in conformity with law." Immanuel Kant

Salute The Morning

The morning is the resurrection of day accompanied by all its promises, its opportunities, its joy, its sorrow, its beauty, its enchantment, its encouragement, and at times its disappointments.

The morning comes after a night of rest, a period of oblivion, silent and dreamless at its best, and on occasion following a night of horrid dreams and misery. Nevertheless, in either case the morning awakens to the song of birds and the sound of industry. The witnessing of the approaching day as it sends its shafts of light over the hills and through the valleys. Then follows the rising sun and the glitter of dew diamonds upon the flowers and grass, or in the winter, the sparkle of frost or snow. How wonderful a gift from God! Those who do not arise early miss something of enchantment that can be found at no other time or place.

Perhaps your excuse is that you work late and must have your rest, or are ill and wakeful, dozing off at the break of day. How can you be expected to thrill with the coming of the morning when so often it bodes only troubles and disappointments, work and struggle to make ends meet?

Does this note of pessimism throw a wet blanket on the joy of living? Well, sometimes there is an excuse for it. All people do not get the same breaks in life, nor do they have the same opportunities to enjoy the wonders of the morning, especially when they live in crowded quarters or are surrounded by smoky, noisy industry. There are surely occasions when one may feel gloomy or entertain thoughts of resentment, with the wonders of nature often becoming obscured by the greed of man and his striving to achieve or to acquire wealth.

Then again illness may play into the picture. The strain and struggle of the day are disturbing and distracting factors, especially when the spine and nervous system are involved thus forming the basis for physical and mental problems. These problems may be diagnosed in  many different ways and treated with endless so-called cures that do not cure.

Science teaches that there is a cause for every effect. This is also true respecting the health of the body.

Health is a natural state of being that is the normal expression of life and function within the body manifest through the emotions and the nervous system. The emotions are yours to command. The thoughts you think and your attitude toward life play an important part in how you feel, but by no means are they the entire answer.

Anatomically, the spine encases the spinal cord, a great bundle of nerves that extends from the brain throughout the length of the spinal column. Between the vertebrae are openings through which all nerve trunks emit to separate into millions of fibers forming a direct contact between brain cells and tissue cells, a fundamental essential factor to life and health.

Kindness is one thing you can't give away ... it will always come back!