Are You Willing And Able To Change For a Better Life?

You start another year and sense an inner drive to make some changes in your life. Have you clarified your resolutions and initiated your change journey? Are you already slipping off the path and back into the old habits that are failing to fulfill you?

James Prochaska in his book Changing For Good states that there are four levels of orientation toward change as follows:

1. Obliviousness or outright resistance
2. Contemplating a change at some vague future point
3. Ripeness to formulate a plan
4. Readiness to take action

Where are you in this process? You can be contemplating a change relative to your work but be oblivious or resistant to a needed change at home at the same time.

You may currently be sensing a shift to the next stage in an important area of your life. You may be ready to formulate a plan or take action. The demand for change is ongoing if you are to grow toward greater fulfillment of your purposes and creative potential.

Do you recognize a need or desire to enhance your health this year as part of your commitment to a better quality of life? Are you sensing an urge toward action but find yourself stuck? Are you out of shape and overweight? Have you begun efforts toward greater activity only to suffer pain in your back, neck, knees, or shoulders that stops you from moving forward? Do you have enough energy beyond the daily demands to even try to expand your vitality and health?

I have concluded through caring for thousands of patients over the last 22 years, that your outlook on life and your enthusiasm for a fresh start is directly impacted by the collisions you have had with people and circumstances throughout the years and the accumulated blockages that have resulted! These blockages, whether of physical, chemical, or mental/emotional origin, are stored and memorized in your spine/nervous system interface.

They are compromising your physical mobility, emotional wellbeing, and overall health. The most tragic element can be that you won't even know that your life force is being stolen away, as with heart disease and cancer, until extreme and often irreversible damage has been done.

Are you free to change or are you wrestling with feelings of anxiety, anger, fear, worry, or depression that you can't seem to shake? Are you experiencing the repercussions of stored stress but have since forgotten what triggered it in the first place?

I contend that this has happened frequently over the years, causing the layers of stored disturbance to be so deep that many muscles in your neck, shoulders, and back are loaded with fibrous knots.

These same repeated and often unnoticed distress messages are also likely producing compromises in your immune system, various hormonal imbalances, and disharmony in your business and personal relationships.

If you would like to learn how to spend more time in the joy of mental/emotional flow, have less pain, and have more positive energy course through your body, then take advantage of the Quality of Life Enhancement Opportunities in the section below.

More on "Are You Willing And Able To Change For A Better Life" in Healing Hints below.

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News & Events

1. Do you want to get back in shape? Are you determined that this is the year you're going to lose weight? Do you want to get more active but your knees ache and your back hurts or have you already given up all hope because you simply have no energy?

   If any of the above is true for you, then invest in your health by signing up for a fascinating, startling, eye-opening 1-hour tele-seminar entitled:

   "What's Blocking You?
   A Chiropractor's Insights To Releasing Energy And Increasing Overall Health"

   From the comfort of your own home you can find out what could be blocking your energy, causing your pain, and keeping you feeling old before your time. You will identify underlying causes that could be keeping you from the quality of life you want, need, and deserve.

   You will also learn what can be done to break through those blocks so that 2005 is finally the year that you wondered if you would ever have again. This hour will focus on specific suggestions and real-life stories of people just like you who have now been set free to a life of greater vitality without debilitating pain.

   This tele-seminar will be held on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 from 7-8 pm (PST). The registration fee of only $25 includes a CD and written transcript of the seminar.

2. Explore the possibilities of optimal wellness and performance and take charge of your health by attending the first annual WELLNESS FAIR 2005- Sunday, January 30th from 10-6 at the LaRyan Event Center at 4277 N. West Ave. (at Ashlan). Sponsered by Wellness Connections (providing health care and healing arts in the Central Valley).

   Learn strategies, enjoy interactive classes, and find answers to stress, chronic pain and illness, etc. Visit and sample over 40 booths with powerful healing information and win prizes!!

   The entrance fee is only $5 and advance tickets can be purchased at my office. Advance tickets will enter you into a special drawing for a grand prize worth approximately $200. CALL today at 435-5640 or 490-9550 for more info.

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Healing Hints

1. Samuel Johnson said, "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome". Realize that your life is passing faster than you think and that those days cannot be retrieved. Wake up and sense the changes that are necessary to make to keep expanding into more of your potential self.
2. Determine not to waste time stuck in outright resistance toward change needs being presented to you. Hear the truth at the message level before it moves into a lesson, then problem, and finally a crisis. Move early and swiftly before you get shoved into change. Don't Worry-Just Do It!
3. Clarify your vision, formulate your plan and start to take action now! Bruce Barton said, "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances"
4. Eliminate Blockages! Unfortunately, most of the time there are blockages in your body, mind, and spirit from past collisions with people and life circumstances that have not been integrated and released that are depleting your vital change energy.
5. Have your nervous system computer evaluated ASAP to assess stuck blockage patterns by a doctor of chiropractic skilled in these advanced methods. Then develop a game plan for correcting this problem and verify its correction by follow-up computer assessments.
6. Explore! During the process of releasing blockages through precision spinal adjustments, also be willing to explore the areas of your physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual life that could be sources of overwhelming distress that continue to sabotage your nervous system function and overall well-being.

About Dr. Norton

Dr. Norton unites his passion for learning, teaching, and healing with a compassion for those who are struggling with pain and illness or not performing at their peak. He brings to his work a high level of academic achievement and cutting-edge bodymind research. However, he also brings a deeply caring heart transformed by difficult personal life experiences. Read more.