BeDoHave

Be Do Have or evaH oD eB

The essence of wholism.

The only true freedom anyone ever has is the freedom to choose their own thoughts. There is a choice in syntax or order to our thinking as well.

People have a choice of two basic syntactic modes; Be-Do-Have [BeDH] or Have-Do-Be [HDB]. Our cultural default is HDB. So what the heck does that mean?

Let's suppose a person has a vague abdominal pain. A tummy ache. Person's self talk goes something like this;

“my tummy hurts. I feel sick, I think I'm coming down with something. I'm sick”

“my tummy hurts” is an observation of what I HAVE.

“I feel sick, I think I'm coming down with something” is an action, a DO. [sometimes much ado]

“I'm sick”, is to Be. This is the step where the person identifies with and takes possession of the reality of illness.

Sound familiar? If we haven't had that same internal experience I'll bet we've heard someone say almost exactly those words in that order. If you think you haven't heard it then you are just not paying attention. It's the add copy for every cold and flu remedy advertised on TV as well as a multitude of other medications with only minor variations.

It's also the creative process running backwards.

We have a choice. So let's BeDH from the same starting point.

“my tummy hurts” observation, so what! [say that out loud]

“I am a healthy person” Be

“It is normal for my tummy to work just fine because I'm so healthy” DO

“I'm feeling better already”. Have

We just created health in our lives.

So, You can have whatever you can be

Or, you can be just what you see,

the choice is your's but take a care

of how you wish or what you dare.

On a practical level, focus on your present emotions. If you are feeling a negative emotion you are probably Doing a Have. You saw something or heard something and now you are Doing the feeling of it. If you think about it [accept for the moment that my two proposed choices are true and exclusive] why would you ever choose to: Be a wretch and feel baD and Have an illness. So the middle step, the -feeling- is our guide to what is occurring in our self talk, it is our guide to what we are choosing moment to moment.

Are we choosing to feel baD, thus Being only what we already Have? Or, are we choosing to Be what we want and thus feeling gooD and Having what we want [Health].

So what if I already don't feel good? Well then make a choice to Be something that feels just a little bit better and you will have started. If you keep Doing that you will have Health.

“Oh you're just a Pollyanna” I hear people exclaim in response. But if you read that story you will find out that Pollyanna got what she wanted and enriched the lives of all those around her so; Thank you very much, yes I am.

My prescription for you. Yes this is the specific cure for the vague disease, whatever ails you.

I challenge you to Be healthy and Do this:

Make an 'abracadabra' using the letters “BeDoHaveevaHoDeB and hang in on a string and wear it around your neck for a week. People will ask you what it is and you will tell them and they will laugh at you and it will be fun.

There, see? You feel better already don't you?

It doesn't matter what you Do as long as it comes out of what you are and not what you already have.

People ask me what diet I follow. I say; “I eat whatever I want”. I am healthy and It is normal for me to find healthy foods to be appetizing so what I want to eat is healthy and it feels good when I eat the right proportions of those foods so I eat whatever I want.

BeDoHave is the essence of wholism.

So you don't have to Do the latest thing from the latest health guru. Ignore what you already have and choose to Be all that you can Be and you will Do whatever is consistent with that and you don't have to join the army.

Chiropractic is a thing people Do when they choose to Be healthy. However some people come in and say;” I have this pain....... if you just pop it I will feel better.” I know from experience that these clients aren't likely to experience health. Most of them get relief from their symptom but it comes back or some other disease overtakes them soon because they are Doing chiropractic from Having a pain instead of Doing chiropractic because they have chosen to Be healthy and chiropractic appealed to them as a way to Do that.

Be Healthy, have fun.

Balancing your wholistic Health Books.

I know, Let's play....... banker! 

It's not what I said to the girl next door when I was 8 but more to the point on this blog.

Managing health is like managing a checking account.  If your debits total more than your deposits you get a negative condition and  you get symptoms like overdraft notices and penalties.  If your daily negative stressors (debits) total more than your health resources (deposits) you get symptoms like pain or swelling and penalties like indigestion.

Negative stressors can be: Physical, chemical or emotional. In the end it doesn't matter which they are because they add up just like bills.  Your account will overdraw whether the bills are: gas ,water, electric or dining out. Once you reach the threshold or 0 balance you suddenly get symptoms of being overdrawn. Until then, everything seems fine. 

Negative stressors also have an intensity (cost) and duration (term). Like a car may be too costly to buy with one payment but can be budgeted over a long term without bankruptcy.  You can't afford to lift 1000 lbs in one shot but you can lift 20lbs 50 times in a few hours without -Back-ruptcy.

It's obvious how we can have too much of a Negative stressor but paradoxically we can have too little. A perfect example is weight bearing or gravitational stress.  If you were to go into space for a year without gravitational stress your bones would loose calcium and would break when you returned to earth's gravity.  If you have a lot of money but you don't invest it wisely [a monetary stressor] you will loose it to taxes and inflation.

Our bodies were made to move.  But our busy modern lives are spent sitting. We sit in the car to go sit at the office and then sit in the car to go home and sit and watch TV or read.  Even if you are an active person you still sit a lot more than you realize and when you aren't sitting you are often standing in a stressful posture or doing a repetitive task.  So the people who end up in my office need chiropractic followed by exercise to balance their health accounts.

A chiropractic adjustment [treatment] is like someone forgiving a debt that has not been fully paid; the energy [ money] that was committed to the debt suddenly becomes available for investment. In your spine; the Segmental Dysfunction [ It's what chiropractors fix] was squandering energy on spasm and depriving end organs of proper nerve signals. If you exercise before getting adjusted you just put more stress on rapidly dwindling resources.

When we exercise after an adjustment we are investing our energy so it grows. When we: dance and play and run and jump and climb, we build: 'muscle and blood and skin and bone'; and we rejuvinate our brain (in spite of what the song says; guess the song).

“But Doc,..” a clients says; “I _____________ [fill in the blank; for example “deliver mail”] and I exercise all day long”.

“No”, I say. That's 'work'. Exercise is 'play'. Oddly, Both are stressors; but 'Play', uses a different part of the brain and has a different effect on physiology. 'Work' also tends to be a repetitive stressor with all it's negative side effects. In his book; “Keep your brain alive” by Lawrence Katz & Manning Rubin [ see; www.neurobics.com ] which I highly recommend, Dr. Katz explains how; by -playfully- altering our daily routines, we can actually cause our bodies to make “neurotrophins” which are natural growth factors that help the brain stay young.

So,,,, get adjusted and then…..... GO PLAY ! HAVE FUN! BE HEALTHY! STAY YOUNG!

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

What you see is what you get. In health care we call this Wholism. Wholistic health care is what you really want when you go to the doctor.

Do you constantly worry that your PGe2 may be unbalanced? Do you have a burning desire to know if ALA levels are inhibiting delta-6-desaturase in your life? Are you concerned that your wife may find out that you are secretly converting DGLA to arachadonic acid and making bad eicosanoids?

Probably not.

But those are the stories that scientific reductionism has to tell. If we scientifically 'reduce' your biological functions down to the chemical explanation for your discomfort we get stuff that you don't really care about.

Nor should you.

You want to: feel good, have energy, be happy, love your family and feel loved.

THAT'S health.

Sometimes 'science' say's; "oh that treatment couldn't possibly be of any benefit". Yet people unmistakably feel better and are happier if they recieve the treatment. Or science says;'you should not eat that'. but you feel strongly that eating it does not affect you adversely. So who do you believe?

Yourself, your own body and soul. Believe your body as the final authority on what is healthy and what is not. Believe yourself and ask:"does this make me feel good, energetic, loving?"

Medical authorities are only here to give you advice not absolute truth. There is very little absolute truth in science. Most so called scientific facts are models of reality based on many many assumptions. A wax apple can be a convincing model until you bite into it. It has a purpose as a model to visually simulate an apple. but it cannot satisfy the purpose of nutrition.

Reductionism is the opposite of Wholism. Science as we know it is generally reductionistic. Reductionism has no place for love or god or happiness. But health is meaningless without those things. Reductionism says;" you are the sum of your parts." so we can take you apart and see what makes you tick. But when we take you apart we don't find love happiness or a soul evident so those things must be fantasy and unimportant."

Wholism says;" you are bigger than the sum of your parts." If we take you apart you won't tick anymore, so we can't figure you out from there. Love and happiness and a sense of soul is evidence that you ARE whole. Therefore they are fundamentaly true and ultimately important. They are definitive of the ideal human experience."

Current predominant medical science today is 'aimed' at producing models of health that are amenable to dispensing medication for solutions to problems. Sometimes for some conditions this is very effective, but it is not the only model or even the best one for all conditions. Sometimes it is a very poor model due to the side effects of medications.

Take the example of antibiotics. The medical model is that 'bad' bugs [bacteria] cause health problems so let's kill them. Antibiotics kill bacteria.

This is a good model if you have a virulent -bacteria- [not a virus] causing you a health problem. But this model conviniently leaves out the fact that the antibiotic kills the good bugs too. Good bugs? Yep, you need friendly bacteria in your intestines for proper function but when was the last time your doctor told you to take a probiotic for friendly intestonal flora? The reason they don't tell you is because probiotics are not a part of standard medical practice because they are not a part of the medical model of antibiotics. It is not the doctors fault it is the failure of the model that defines standard practice. Often in actual practice it conviniently ignores the probablility that your symptoms are caused by a virus in which case the antibiotic you just took ONLY killed the good bugs and did not benefit you at all.

Wholistically you would feel better and be healthier quicker if you actually took live good bacteria instead of an antibiotic. Why is that wholistic? Because friendly bacteria are part of who you are when you are healthy. You are not whole without them.

Put another way, if you are healthy then you are not sick. Mutually exclusive states. So doing something healthy, even though it does not directly counteract your illness can lead to health.

Sometimes wholism seems to be counterintuitive. One of the most important visits for a client in my office is the day they come in and I say;" there is no reason for me to give you a treatment today (and there is no charge for this visit). Wholistically I think this is very healing because it affirms the immediacy of health as a state achieved whereas it had previously been an abstract goal anticipated in the future.

Chiropractic is ultimately wholistic especially in it's simplest applications.

So listen to your body and explore wholeness.

Explore chiropractic.

WHAT THE HEALTH ?!?!

Well,  blog me over with a feather,  someone not only read my blog but gave me some good feedback as well [ You know who you are,  thanks]

And subsequently with the certainty of bees in a outdoor wedding bouquet all my previous blogs dissapeared from the site !

Oh, What the health, I shall repost at least one and begin to add  new ones.

So,,,,, without further ado  [oops too late]....................................

Dr. Tim