Creeping Along On The Freeway Of Life?   (Part 2)

Last month I pondered the rapid passage of our lives with Paul McCartney as my star of reference. As thoughts of this nature have continued to percolate through my brain, I look around at the people traveling this Earth journey with me.

I don't live inside the minds of others but it appears to me that many are acting casual as though this lifetime lasts forever. The offer of a lifetime warranty with some purchases seems synonymous with eternity.

We get caught up in the repeating cycles of seasons and lulled into partial wakefulness by the routines of life. There doesn't seem to be any urgency. A Spanish proverb says that "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."

The clock, which ticks away the heartbeats of our lives, is racing down the road but we often seem to be caught in stop and go traffic when it comes to the progress of our growth, health, and joy.

We seem to be creeping along on the freeway of life! How about you?

According to Woodrow Wilson, "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

If you allow your health to spiral downward ever so subtly until crisis arrests your attention, how will your ability to discharge the responsibility President Wilson referred to be diminished?

I still find myself amazed, even after 22 years in practice, at the level of both denial and toleration in my fellow human beings regarding their health needs. This week my staff and I had a booth at the Women's Network evening trade show which was interestingly titled "It's a Jungle Out There." Danger and potential threat are indeed everywhere.

We had our computerized diagnostic equipment and we were offering an opportunity for attendees to have a brief nervous system stress assessment. We dialogued with them regarding their symptoms and health concerns and related those to the computer findings.

Most people have pain or other symptoms of functional decline and health loss. Many are taking medication to control them and many are dedicating their efforts to ignoring the warnings. The pain is an indicator that their cumulative collisions with the people and circumstances of their lives (likened to an auto accident disrupting the smooth flow of busy traffic on a Los Angeles freeway) are taking a toll on their wellbeing.

I asked each of them if they were seeking a solution to these indicators of problems. An approximate dozen during the course of the evening were, but the vast majority said it wasn't really that bad. I gently pressed further and asked how much worse it had to get before they acknowledged their need for help. Must they wait until a crisis? Most said they would act before a crisis but is that really true? Does that reflect what you see in the world?

There is wreckage piling up in their lives from the intermittent collisions on their freeway of travel reducing their flow of growth, health, and joy. This is true of you as well if you are not regularly releasing those blockages through chiropractic spinal/nervous system adjustments. You will receive messages which if ignored become lessons, then problems, and finally crises.

The distress and loss of vitality and quality of life is evident in their symptom complaints, on their spinal x-rays, and in their computerized nervous system stress assessments. Many people with great need took a card and walked away until another day when they might take action to improve their health.

Will you wait until the quality of your life flow comes to a stop and go halt? Pablo Picasso said that "action is the foundational key to all success." Will you take action now or is not really that bad yet?

Will you schedule an appointment to measure and then correct your accumulated nervous system distress before a crisis? Will you continue to invest in ongoing adjustments which clear the wreckage from your life collisions and restore your self healing capacity? Or is getting by the extent of your vision?

"The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way."
  ­Anonymous

More on "Creeping Along on the Freeway of Life?" in Healing Hints below.

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Healing Hints

1. Be thankful every day for the gift of life and health that you have been given! Continue to seek for and be sensitive to your life purposes, talents and abilities, and passion. Look for opportunities to develop and express these more. Your time is passing quickly!
2. Live with passion and consider this truth: "Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.” ­Napoleon Hill There is an urgency when it comes to the use of your time.
3. Life will continue to throw you curve balls of difficulty, threat, and even tragedy. Commit to ongoing personal growth, the daily cultivation and expression of joy, and regular action steps toward health enhancement in spite of and even because of the stress!!
4. Know that you will absolutely need all of the energy, vitality, and deep health reserves you can accumulate and store to live a long, productive life of significant contribution! Don't live by borrowing continually against your health bank account and find it empty later when you desperately need it.
5. Don't live in denial of your health needs or in toleration of a substandard quality of life and health and say that it's not that bad!! Have higher standards than that and reach for peak performance.
6. Understand that you have daily collisions with the people and circumstances of your life and that these excessive stressors block the smooth function of your brain and nervous system through spinal dysfunction. A real correction of your spinal problem for once is the true beginning of a new life of greater energy, vitality, and ease.

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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.