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When you learn something new and you take ownership of that knowledge, you now have within you the authority to declare those truths and establish those truths, act on those truths, and, by this principle, you produce results. The strength of a grounded and established principle is in the thoughts you have, the words you speak, and the actions taken, all resulting from what you are taught and apply.
Your “I Ams” are the two most powerful and strongest words determining success in your life and health. What follows your “I Ams” will determine the kind of life and health that you express. We must always remember our “I Ams” are as close to us and follow us just as our shadow. We are blessed with the ability to choose our very own “I Ams.” For example, every morning upon waking and every night with your head on the pillow before sleeping, declare your “I Ams”:
Acknowledge that you are blessed with life, health, wellness, knowledge, understanding, love, family, and friends. Declare all your “I Ams” of skills in guiding people to health, good communication skills, insight, and wisdom of the causes of health. Recognize that your life is heaven on earth. Declare your successes in correcting spinal subluxations, success in helping patients to be and stay healthy with proper nutrition from Standard Process. Your “I Ams” are the seeds for a future harvest of successes that will greatly bless you and those you serve.
As Doctors of Chiropractic, we are knowledgeable leaders and coaches on a mission with the “Team of Natural Health.” Imagine if our mission were that of a Navy SEAL’s mission. The elite Navy Seals are extremely successful in their missions. They take extreme ownership of their skills with mental and physical rehearsal and practice. Seeing complete accomplishment and success in every mission at hand plants the seed for victory. Their extreme ownership and knowledge of the mission and its goals are imprinted in their motor cortex, producing the desired results. Throughout the chain of command, all the goals needed to complete and take ownership of the mission are preplanned for success. These positive outcome goals and skills are imprinted in the warrior’s brain in their motor cortex, which functions to facilitate voluntary movements from learned behavior that will produce positive results and the completion of a successful mission.
Practice makes perfect, as they say, and our motor cortex functions to facilitate voluntary movement in learning any skill, in a skilled warrior, and in a skilled spinal adjuster and nutritionist. The motor cortex controls the acquisition of skills, fine muscle coordination, and sensory information and memory that then produce complex voluntary motor functions and movements. Our learned skills from boot camp and clinic interning to mission graduation then accomplishes our desired goals of victory. The motor cortex assesses appropriate body movements by evaluation, anticipation-strategy, and responding with appropriate body responses. This is the result learned and remembered from past living history and the emotions these events elicited that produced biochemical neuropeptide markers of memories.
The motor cortex’s comrade-in-arms is the prefrontal cortex. It relays information to the motor cortex with information about the surrounding environment and spatial awareness in preparation for action. Intimately joined to this is the corticospinal tract fibers that are the dominant nerve pathway from our brain down into the entire length of our spinal cord. This is the express freeway of communication between brain and body. They carry signals related to the movement or biomechanics of the body’s joints and organ position. Do we ever say, “My neck or back just doesn’t feel right.” “My jaw just needs to pop.” “My stomach seems out of whack! It’s all tied up in knots!” That is true brain-to-body communication, your inner knowing and senses speaking to you through your cellular physiology passed up to our brain through our spinal nerve tracks. Our inner voice, or those gut feelings of worry, lack of control, low self-esteem, over concern, nervousness, distrust, stifled, and despair, occur just by thinking and feeling, Something is really wrong with me.
A Navy Seal, just like you or me, may have felt these same emotions when he was in third grade before a test, or when thinking of asking that special girl to sit by him on the bus, or prior to his deployment to the mission, or jumping out of an airplane. This response is a natural and self-protective release of neuropeptides to get our attention to change. Our battle in life will generate symptoms of distress in our stomach, spleen, and pancreas, and in our neck and back as well. Stomach, spleen, and pancreas receive nerves from the 1st dorsal vertebra down to the 12th dorsal vertebra. Emotional stressors related to these three organs create tight muscle tension in the shoulders and trapezius muscles, and at the back of your head, along with sweaty yet cold hands. Stomach pain, vomiting, ulcers, loss of appetite, to name a few reactions. Also, tight TMJ jaw pain extending up into the temporal skull bones with headache. Chiropractic adjustments to your neck, shoulders, TMJ, wrists, and elbows, for example, help to restore joint balance. And they release the abnormal mechanical stressors that cause inflammatory movement in our joints. Spinal and body extremity joint adjustments stimulate the release of positive neuropeptides that promote healing and positive body physiology and function, a must in today’s stressful world.
For whole food nutritional support for the brain’s motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, and corticospinal tract, Standard Process has available Neurotrophin PMG, Cataplex B2 (known as Cataplex G), and E-Z MG. These whole food nutrition formulas support the essential functions of our nervous system. Also, Organically Bound Minerals supports our nervous and musculoskeletal systems’ adaptation to stressful situations physically, mentally, and emotionally.
We live in a body designed to take ownership of health. We own our bodies. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our Innate Intelligence, that Life Force that permeates every cell, cries out for balance, for real food, producing real health so that our life, our body, is able to express all that we are created to be and do to take ownership of our health. That is just common sense.
- J. Palmer D.C., Ph.C. stated in As A Man Thinketh, “Common sense gives power to knowledge and makes wisdom in the process.”
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