Choose Life- Chapter 3

Chiropractic Can Change Your Life…I’ve Been Asthma-free Since 1984!

The question was asked of me recently…”Why should I go to a chiropractor? I’m afraid of them hurting me. I’ve also heard that sometimes you end up feeling so good that you have to come back for the rest of your life.”
Here’s my answer: I was once in your shoes, not knowing what chiropractic was. I was a patient first, before I became a chiropractor, because of years of horrible asthma. I got a few hours relief from inhalers, and that was it. That was no way to live.
During my first visit to the chiropractor in the summer of 1984, I was shaking like a leaf for two reasons. Number one, because I was so scared, based on all the notions of what I thought chiropractic might be. Number two, because of all the asthma medication I had been on for years and years and years. You see, nothing had helped me in the fifteen years previous to my first chiropractic adjustment. This was my last ditch effort to save my life. I had given up hope and figured I’d just have to take pills and puff on inhalers for the rest of my days. I feared the day I’d forget my inhaler and die somewhere alone.
This chiropractor that my mother dragged me to gave me hope. For the first time in my whole life, someone actually gave me hope. He said, “Maybe we can help you,” then asked, “If the master communication system isn’t working at a hundred percent, how could you?” He said if chiropractic reconnected me with the glorious healing power that is within me, that I could watch my life change right before my eyes. My first chiropractor challenged me, stating: “You can walk out of here and never come back and always wonder, what if, or you can give chiropractic a chance. If it works, if a miracle occurs, you could have a whole different life, a whole different destiny.”
Whoa. That was a unique way of looking at things. A lot more positive than I was used to. Then my first chiropractor said the most profound sentence anyone has ever said to me: “If you keep on doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep on getting what you’re getting. If you want something different, you’ve got to do something different.”
Zoinks! Talk about a paradigm shift. I never thought of that before. I had been taking drugs for 15 years, expecting something to change, but now there was a new thought: If the drugs hadn’t gotten rid of my asthma for 15 years, they probably weren’t ever going to! That was profound!
I gave chiropractic a chance. He told me my lungs knew how to breathe but they were not getting a hundred percent of the message from my brain. He said anything less than a hundred percent is not enough for God’s perfection. God wants us to be healthy, but we can’t be healthy if we have interference with the master communication system.
And lo and behold, my asthma began to disappear after three months of chiropractic adjustments. It’s been 25 years now since my last asthma attack. That’s 25 YEARS!!! Every breath I take is a good one, because I am living at a hundred percent due to chiropractic care. Nobody can take that away from me. I am no longer dependent on drugs, or inhalers, or anything. I am dependent on God within to heal me. And, dear reader, all I ask for is a chance to allow chiropractic to do the same thing with you and your family.
You may ask: “Does that mean you’ve been getting adjusted for 25 years?” Yes, I have been getting regular chiropractic adjustments now for 25 years and will do so for the rest of my life. It is the same as dieting or exercising…once you get to your ideal weight or have the perfect figure, do you say, “Ok, now I can stop all that dieting and exercising!” No---you keep it up to maintain the new you that you have become! You can always be healthier! You can always get stronger! Make those deposits and your bank account will continue to go up!
What have you got to lose? Especially with the gentle version of chiropractic that we offer, using the Activator Adjusting Instrument. It is the mildest, calmest way to receive a chiropractic adjustment (check out www.activator.com for more information). What would your life be like if you got your health back, and then your life back? Don’t live the ‘what if’. Live the now. It’s time to go for it. Live the chance that chiropractic could be the thing that is the catalyst for your reconnection to living at 100%. As I always say, ‘if you haven’t tried chiropractic, you haven’t tried everything.’ Positive thinking was the first key in the Choose Life Plan, and Chiropractic is the 2nd key. Stay tuned next month for number 3.
Please post comments here on the blog or email them to rubinchiropractic@gmail.com, or visit our website at www.theadjustment.com.

Choose Life Chapter 2

Choose Life Chapter 2

The Farmer in You

The actions you take in your life will be determined by the thoughts you have. One of the most dangerous thoughts is to keep on doing what you are doing, expecting different results. As the old saying goes, "If you keep on doing what you're doing, you’ll keep on getting what you are getting! If you want something different, then you have to do something different!

For example, say you were a farmer and you wanted to plant corn. You wouldn't wait until the end of August then and say "Okay, I'll plant corn now, and in a few days, I'll have a full crop?" It is not possible to plant seeds today and reap the harvest in a week. Also, if we desire to grow corn, we must plant corn seed, not tomato seeds. If we sow tomato seeds, then we are going to get tomatoes, no matter how much we want to pick corn come harvest time.

Nor would you plant corn seed and think, "I'll just let the corn grow all by itself. I won't weed it, water it or fertilize it. See you in the fall." What would this sort of action, or inaction, produce? The weeds will take your garden! Remember that: “if you don’t make a plan for your life, someone else will.” This is so important that it bears repeating…left to its own, the weeds will take your garden! Action is the key to results!

Zig Ziglar paraphrases the Bible when he states, “As you sow, so also shall you reap.” It is time for us to take responsibility for our actions and our thoughts. If you focus on what you don’t want, I guarantee that you will end up with what you don’t want! On the contrary, if you focus on what you do want, then chances are far more likely that you will end up with what you do want!

Stinking Thinking

Why do so many of us fall into the trap of focusing our attention on what we do not desire? Is your focus on how fat you are, or how eating a new way will bring you that much closer to being thinner? Is your attention on how poorly your child is doing in math, rather than how well he is doing in all his other subjects? Is your mind on how broke you are and how you have more month than money, or how you are going to start cutting up your credit cards, and saving 5% of your income every week to start your abundance account? What are your dominant thoughts on? If they are on fat, poor grades, and lack of money, that you will keep on receiving fat, poor grades, and lack of money. The answer: you switch your thoughts, even in mid-sentence, even if you have to catch yourself and yell “cancel, cancel” and bite your tongue or pinch yourself. Change from the negative thought of lack to the positive, attractive ideas of abundance, and you can free yourself from the trap of ‘stinking thinking,’ (another Zig Ziglar saying).

That which you think about comes about. If you want to lose a few, or a lot, of pounds, the worst thing to say to yourself over and over again is "I'm so fat. Everything I eat turns to fat. This will never work. This next bite will go right to my hips." Guess what, you will prove yourself right. If you want to lose weight and you focus on your bulges, guess what you will get more of? More fat. That which you think about comes about.

Likewise, if you want to make more money but you focus on how you can’t pay your bills or how broke you always are and how you are never getting ahead, you will get more of not being able to pay the bills. That which you focus on comes about, in either direction. That’s right… if you think about what you want, you will get what you want. If you think about what you don’t want, you will get what you don’t want. Might as well think about what you want!

Creating Your Field of Dreams

Remember the movie, “Field of Dreams?” The immortal line from Kevin Costner that is so applicable at this juncture is, “If you build it, they will come.” That doesn’t mean just build it physically and sit there and wait for success to happen. That means build it physically and then work on it, both in your positive mental attitude and on the streets. When you think positive about something, there is an energy that is formed around this thought that produces more of the same thoughts, and attracts other people who like that kind of thought. The ‘field’ of dreams is truly your fertile mind, which is connected to every other mind in what quantum scientists call the ‘field of possibilities.’ When you enter into this field by positive thoughts, it is the equivalent of turning on a giant magnet that will attract to you more of your desire.

When you are negative and pessimistic, just the opposite occurs. You turn off this awesome connection with the infinite, and will actually repel what you want since your dominant thought is on what you don’t want. So the attractive magnet is either on and sucking things in to you like a magical vortex, or off and repulsing things away from you like a skunk in a crowded subway station.

What thoughts are you planting in your head, the fertile ground of your mind? The farmer knows if you plant nothing, you will harvest nothing. Hence, you've got to plant something, and it might as well be something you want, not something you don't want.

Why not tend to your farm? What else do you really have to do if you are a farmer, (and all of us are farmers, we are all thought farmers and action farmers)? Your mind is the most fertile soil there is, so plant something there that you want to grow, tend to it and watch your fields become “white with harvest,” (a saying from Dr. Sid Williams).

For more information, contact us at rubinchiropractic@gmail.com, call us at 770-937-6300, or post a comment on the blog.

Choose Life--How to Create and Live the Healthy Life

CHOOSE LIFE…by Dr. Drew Rubin

A Blog about Creating and Living

the Healthy Life

Chapter 1

Your Body is like a Bank Account

Modern science has documented that every year you get a brand new body. Every cell, all 700 trillion of them, is replaced. The kind of new body you get depends on what you do with your body right now. It’s like a bank account. If you put money in the bank regularly, you wouldn’t be stunned when the money multiplies, due to the miracle of compound interest. Conversely, if you don’t put money in the bank regularly, there should be no shock when you go to the bank account and it’s empty. The same holds true for your health and your life. These are like bank accounts too. If you don’t put regular deposits in your health and life accounts, why be surprised when your health and your life are overdrawn? If you don’t put deposits in, don’t expect returns back. But if you choose life, and with it choose health, expect incredible rewards to come your way.

Today, in the 21st-century, people are so stressed about money that they are terrified of their future. With the stock market’s erratic behavior, countless large businesses admitting to fraud from one degree to another, thousands of people facing layoffs and downsizing, and the threat of terrorism still looming in the air after 9/11, America has become highly agitated tense and stressed out. Like Donkey says in the blockbuster movie, Shrek, “I’m a donkey on the edge.” We have been driven to such excess that we are on the edge all the time.

We are asked, while at work, to do 3 people’s jobs because of recent lay-offs. We have 10,000 errands to run every day, while being taxi service to our children, who are so over-involved because nobody plays in their own neighborhoods anymore. We are sold by the media all day, every day, to buy this, that and the other thing. We lay out our hard-earned cash for momentary pleasures or major purchases that suck away huge portions of our income, and still end up feeling like it’s not enough.

Do Saber Tooth Tigers Cause Stress?

Hans Selye, the father of the research on ‘stress’, uncovered that it was the fight or flight response that, when harnessed improperly, causes stress in the body. Thousands of years ago, when Saber-tooth tigers were lurking around our villages, and when snowstorms meant many of your tribe were going to freeze to death in the next few days, this fight or flight mechanism served us well. We either fought the Saber-toothed tiger or ran like heck away from it. Either way our muscles got involved, and when faced with danger, we physically did something to change the situation. That is fight or flight!

Today, sitting behind a computer for 8-12 hours per day, with your boss breathing on top of you about the deadline for his project which takes precedence over the deadline for your project which now makes you late to pick up your kids and get them to cheerleading practice and to gymnastics which are on the opposite sides of town and they were both already warned that being late again will prevent them from being in the competition this weekend (whew…isn’t this how it feels?), your body activates the fight or flight system. It is the same system that goes to work when encountering a life-threatening problem, only sitting in our cubicle doesn’t require us to engage in combat or run.

The problem with this kind of stress occurs because we don’t fight or flee; we just sit and fester, madly cursing away, attempting to get everything done while wondering what you are going to say to your boss, your kids, your kid’s coaches, and your spouse, who is also stuck working late. ..this is pressure!!!

The anxiety we face today in the 21^st century is not the like it was years ago, with a Saber-tooth tiger potentially having our family for a meal. It’s our own bodies eating itself up due to improper management of stress. Stress hormones are being manufactured when we are in this fight/flight mode, WHETHER WE GO INTO MOTION OR NOT! If these hormones aren’t utilized properly because we don’t respond with a physical evasive action, then we open ourselves up for eventual heart attacks, cancer, strokes, and diabetes (the top four killers in this country).

Now, in the 21^st century, it is time to get a grip on this rampant murderer called stress, and unfortunately, it is not possible to sling hand-carved spears into the Saber-toothed tiger. As a matter of fact, we cannot slaughter it at all. Rather we must embrace our stress and redirect it, much as a large stone placed in a stream redirects the flow of water.

Water and Stress

Water doesn’t get stressed out when it meets opposition. Water will not stop in front of the rock and say, “I can’t believe it. You are blocking my way. I’m late to meet the water molecules down the bend. I really don’t need this headache.” Water, in a mere fraction of a second, finds a new path, and an instant later, has circumvented the obstacle and is on its way.

That is what Choose Life offers you; a new way to embrace and redirect your stress by building such a strong body and mind that, although the stress may still come at you from all different angles, you become resilient to it. It bounces off of you rather than absorbing it. Choosing life asks you to make your life a prioritized one.

It is time to realize that our very security lies not in the almighty dollar, but in the vastness of the universe. There is 'abounding prosperity' available to each of us, if we choose life. We can be 'blessed or cursed' depending upon our choices (paraphrasing some biblical phrases).

Einstein said years ago: “The only thing that is constant is change”, and change begins one choice at a time and will eventually encompass everything we do. Every choice we make matters. Together in this blog we will journey as we take choosing life to a whole new level, a 21st-century peak in which ‘everything matters.’

The Big Decision

There is one thing you must do to make the Choose Life plan work. You've got to make a decision. A decision that will affect the rest of your life.

Like a freight train with 100 cars going 70 mph: if you want to turn that big train around, you can’t stop it on a dime. You've got to slow that mountain of train cars down; those thousands of tons of steel may take a mile or more to stop completely. That is called the principle of Negative Momentum. It is based on Newton’s law that states: A body in motion tends to stay in motion; a body at rest tends to stay at rest. To change something going in one direction, you must first slow it down and stop it. Then and only then can its course be redirected.

But the decision to stop-- that happens in an instant. What do you have to decide right now? You must answer the question: do you choose life? If you do, join me on this path of discovery.

This blog is designed not to just be read, but as an open dialogue, a creation in progress, that YOU get to contribute to. Comment on the posts. Put links in your posts that support your point. Let’s create a living, breathing blog on how you used Choose Life, or your own version of it…

The Mission of this Blog

In one word: empowerment. That is the key to living a healthier life, to choosing life. Being empowered. Trusting in your (and your children’s) innate, inborn wisdom. But first we have to build that body strong. When the child is weak because he’s had 6 ear infections a year, every year, first we have to stop that negative momentum. Then, once the pattern is interrupted, a new healthier pattern can be overlaid over the old, not-healthy one and a new child emerges.

Ultimately, I want to see a healthier planet, one person at a time. Our present health care system isn’t doing it for us. Maybe this blog might start you in a different direction. Then it has fulfilled its mission.

For more information, email us at rubinchiropractic@gmail.com, call us at 770-937-6300, or visit us on the web at www.theadjustment.com.

Please note: The chiroblogtic, Choose Life series will have a new chapter posted once per month, by the end of each month (ie, Chapter 2 posted by 9/30/08).