Develop Courage Thru Risky Play

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Develop Courage Thru Risky Play

Much of life, is unpredictable. To do almost anything interesting is to put yourself into a situation where you can’t be sure what will happen next. Society continues to put restraints on opportunities for children to experience risky play, out of concern for safety. It is no surprise children today are suffering record levels from anxiety, panic attacks, feelings of helplessness, and poor physical fitness. Something stressful activates the sympathetic nervous system, so heart rate increases. Risky play helps to normalize physiological arousal so it is not itself a source of fear.

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The Terrain Is Everything

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The Terrain Is Everything

Therefore, the strength of the host, not the presence of the germ, was the true causal factor of disease. Abundant health and vitality for a lifetime are your nature and your birthright, just as they are for the germ. All there is to fear is that interference, that toxicity, that deficiency that would disconnect you from your healing source, weakening your defenses, and distorting the fullest expression of your inner life potential. You are built to be well!

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Increase Your Attention Span

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Increase Your Attention Span

Our brains are not designed for this amount of information overload. The brain is a memory organ that rewires and reorganizes itself based on our daily lifestyle habits. Our minds have been trained to expect to take in information in the same way that the news distributes it.

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Give Your Brain An OS Update

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Give Your Brain An OS Update

National Institute of Mental Health did a study for a simple motor task - finger tapping exercise. As the subjects tapped they did an fMRI to see what parts of the brain were being activated. In 4 weeks after finger tapping exercises were performed, a repeated fMRI of the brain showed that areas of the brain expanded by recruiting new nerve cells and had rewired neuronal connections.

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STRESS MODE: GOING 0 TO 100 MPH

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STRESS MODE: GOING 0 TO 100 MPH

Why do so many of us feel like we're going 0 to 100 mph everyday? Why do so many of our children do the same. Lets dig into the science behind getting “STUCK” in stress mode, and how to get “DETOXED” if you are! Every day, there are changes or challenge that bring stress. It causes parents to become overwhelmed and even feel toxic under stress.

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Slides or Steps Toward Health

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Slides or Steps Toward Health

True health is like climbing stairs. It’s not easy but more work always ends up in a better place. The sooner we start, the easier it will be to maintain that overall wellness than to regain it once it is lost. This is why we have a saying in our office “it is easier to grow healthy children, than it is to mend broken adults”.

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Natural is Always Better

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Natural is Always Better

We often weaken our neuroimmune system by over stressing the body, not getting the proper nutrients or proper recovery time, and by using our educated mind to undermine it’s natural ability and send in artificial robot cells that appear and act like the real thing to do the job. The problem is the brain no longer learns from the experience or maybe the battle is prolonged, which isn’t sustainable. Chiropractic adjustments help the body recover and function optimally so the Innate Intelligence can live a life of full expression.

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Plant the Right Seeds

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Plant the Right Seeds

Healing takes time and repetition. Just because we aren’t seeing the results on the surface in six weeks doesn’t mean healing isn’t happening underneath. Neurologically based chiropractors use state of the art technology to assess the state of the underlying function of the nervous system in order to get to the root cause

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Chiropractic + Brain Neuroplasticity

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Chiropractic + Brain Neuroplasticity

Chiropractic care removes obstructions in the nervous system and restores the neurological pathways necessary to ensure proper flow of blood and information, which has a positive effect on neuroplasticity. And what we see is that the life of a child improves.

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