Well, the reality is that we all need guidance in anything that we are not experts at ourselves, and I don’t mean knowledge experts. I mean application experts. You might have all the knowledge of how to land a fighter plane, but until you have spent hours in the simulator, then hours actually landing one as a passenger, I doubt anybody would willingly go with you on ride.
So utilizing that illustration as our foundation, you probably need guidance. Until you are ready to land the plane. So for now, the guidance is in lifestyle habits.
Sleep – don’t let me guide you quite yet. I have said it time and time again, these last couple years, and this will continue until I am complete… I have neglected sleep under the notion that I will sleep when I am dead. Actually, the real notion is more like Nehemiah re-building the walls of Jerusalem. He basically said “I am busy, don’t bother me, leave me alone to complete my work”. Which is what I am saying. But I will tell you how important sleep is, I just know I am sacrificing that piece right now.
Nutrition – HUGE. You need guidance, which is why you need to come to my event this Wednesday. How do I know you need guidance? Remember, 500 ptnts a week for over a decade. You have all taught me something.
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Exercise – I think this is one of the most important investments you can make. At least for several months, I believe everyone should try receiving instruction in your workout. Whether a personal trainer, or group exercise class, or CrossFit, or martial arts. Having someone to lean onto for the first few months, is huge, which then turns into the knowledge you need to go it alone, or better yet, to feel comfortable in an ever progressing class. The reality is that you won’t even know what you are missing, until you have spent about 4-6 months in a CrossFit class. Go do it, it is worth it.
Chiropractic – of course you need someone else to perform the adjustment, but better yet. You need to know you need it. Did you ever have a relief care chiropractor, and think you were getting all there was? No focus on correction, no re-x-rays, no change? This is a lot like everything else above this point, you will commonly have no idea how good it can be.
Lastly – PEACE – I don’t know that we are the best to guide you in this pursuit, though we have done it many times, and will do it all again in September with the 60 Day Turnaround. But in the meantime, submit to someone who can lead you to peace. Stress is a killer. Number one leading risk factor of heart disease. You need to take it seriously, it is serious.
The list is short, but concise. You need a leader, and we are here to lead. Be sure to check the calendar online or the white boards around the office! Be well and Be blessed! – Dr. E
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I think we have all heard, at one time or another, that peace comes from within. I took this to mean that we are all our own source of peace, and that it just exists in each of us. And if we want peace, it comes from that place. The image I put to it in my mind was of a fountain, bubbling and flowing. While I could imagine it, the reality was, I had no fountain. I had no peace. Ever. And silence was the most debilitating thing ever because I was always searching for a place that didn’t exist in me. and it made me sad.
Several years ago I did something funny though. I was washing dishes, and in the silence of the kitchen, but complete chaos and destruction of noisy thoughts in my head, a little voice rose up. It was my voice. I had a thought of praise for myself for washing the dishes. So I said it out loud, “You have done good by washing the dishes tonight rather than putting them off until tomorrow. Tomorrow you will appreciate yourself for that.” And then I laughed. I was embarrassed. No one was around to hear me talking to myself, and even if they were, talking to myself wasn’t what I was embarrassed about, as I do that often. I was actually embarrassed for saying something nice to myself. Those words sounded and felt so foreign.
What happened after that was truly a changing point in my life. Outwardly I was laughing out of embarrassment, but internally I was defending myself. I was defending my worth, and fighting with my own negative thoughts to force a place of peace. Forcing the positive thoughts to be louder and hold more weight than the negative became easier, and the habit of self hatred faded away.
In the following months I found that not only did I have a fountain, it was trickling with water. My fountain had been buried so far beneath a pile of dirt that there was no chance it would ever flow on its own. I did nothing to build the fountain, nor put water in it, nor turn it on. All I did was stop being the reason why it couldn’t flow.
Since that time I have also opened my heart back up to God and the goodness of others, and by letting that love in, and believing that I am deserving of peace and happiness, my fountain grows and continues to flow strong. There are still times when I find myself throwing dirt, but even when the water, and my thoughts, are slightly muddy, my peace still flows.
Indeed Michelle – you have fought the good fight that is necessary to get to a place of peace. It never comes easy, and I would say, it always requires God. Thank you for sharing!
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