Ignite your passion

Last week we were blessed to share the topic of "Ignite your passion" for Wellness Wednesday. We literally had a packed house with 30 people joining us.

Here are some highlights from the talk. Stop, take some time out from that busy schedule of life and reflect.

• Where does your drive come from in life?
• Why do you do what you do?
• What is your purpose in life?

If you look deep enough it is always one of two things: stress or passion.

Passion comes from our core, our heart. These are the things that we love to do. Often times, we notice that we have lost track of time when we are doing these things. Passion is all about a process rather than something to achieve in life. When you are living your passion your life is full of ease, purpose, and flow.

Stress on the other hand, loads you up. When you are loaded in life your body works harder than it needs to. This is where chiropractic care comes in. The adjustment helps your body unload the effects of stress to ensure you are working at your best in life.

For more information on passion and finding your passion in life read the book Passion test. Live your passion, live your life to your fullest, get adjusted today.

Two hands of wellness

As I reflect on the topic of wellness, I can make it as shallow or deep as I choose. One one hand, it is a word. A word that I see misused and advertised in all sorts of different areas in our society. Some of these environments do not know the power behind the word that they put out to attract people into their environments. On the other hand, wellness is a life and lifestyle of wholeness, choice, and power.

Wellness in its essence is a choice on how each one of us choose to relate to ourselves, our loved ones, and our environments. It is multifaceted with seven different categories, all being a piece of the pie. These categories include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental, and occupational.

How we relate to each of these categories is the responsibility of our nerve system. We when have more clarity in our nerve system our body needs less time and energy to be connected with each one of the seven components of wellness.

When there is interference to the nerve system due to spinal dysfunction caused by stress, it compromises our ability to experience life to our fullest potential. When you address this interference through chiropractic care, you enhance your whole life experience. Get adjusted today.

Listen to people talking this time a year and you will hear nasally voices, noses being blown and coughs all around us. Look around and you will see Mother Nature showing off her beauty with colorful leaves and other plant life changing color. Are these two processes any different?

This time of year, every year, we as human beings go through a process of menstruation. Yes, men you do this too! This menstruation is a process of “sloughing” off layers of our upper respiratory system to renew for the winter. This happens every fall. How this looks on the outside is a runny nose, more mucus production, possibly a sore throat and cough.

Mother nature is also menstruating through shedding her leafs. This is a natural process for Mother Nature and for human beings. We can see it as this rather than some cold that signifies something is wrong with us.

Some helpful hints during this change of season: eat balanced, decrease your sugar intake, stay hydrated, and get adjusted.

Why are we in such a hurry?

"I have to go. I am too busy. I don't have time." I hear these sentences all the time and in my judgement they are far from the truth. I get it, really I do, the human race is on and if we allow it to take over our life it will.

Time is what we make of it and what we choose of it. One of the inevitable truths in our daily experience is that we always have 24 hours, which is 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds in every day. Too busy... we are always busy. No matter what we fill our busy day with, every second gets eaten up. Some days we choose to sleep in, others we choose to exercise or get adjusted, and some times we use our day by procrastinating. Yet, the one inevitable truth is that we use every second. And we always have time.

Schedules are starting to form for the fall and winter. What are you making of your time? Are you taking care of your life or are you letting life take care of you. In this season of transition, take time out to see what serves you in life and make the most out of your time. Slow the human race down to ensure the being part of life gets attention in your personal human being. Do your best to take life in and make it a great day!

Back to School

It's September and that means, for many people, a change in schedule and routine. As people get back into the swing of things, I have noticed this transition is a welcomed one as the family unit gets back on a schedule. For others, it can be a stressful time because life's pendulum swings in another direction.

When the body is not functioning at it's best, added stress and change can be difficult to integrate. We experience life through our nerve system and if there are disconnections or blocks to nerve flow due to spinal subluxations that decrease the function and movement of the spine, then the body struggles to maintain and achieve homeostasis. Signs and symptoms of this occurring in children and adults can range from emotional to physical expressions. Some such manifestations might be irritability, trouble sleeping, depression, lack of concentration, mental fogginess to pain in the body, digestive challenges or hormonal imbalances. Many people may not express any signs or symptoms and yet their body may be working hard.

We teach in our studio that it's essential to care for ourselves when we are feeling good and when we are feeling bad. This is wellness. What kind of deposits are you making into yours and your family's health on a daily basis?

The 5 components to a healthy lifestyle are:

1. A positive mental attitude. Practice with affirmations.
2. A healthy diet. Want to feel more alive, eat more live foods!
3. Rest and relaxation. Meditate 15 minutes every day.
4. Exercise. You gotta move that body 20-30 minutes every day!
5. A healthy nerve system. Get your spine checked by a chiropractor!

My rule of them in life is...more goods are better than less bads!

A Father's-to-be's perspective

As I reflect on my life and what is coming through my journey, it is easy for me to think about being a father. This is a point in my life that I cherish for many reasons. The further connection with Rachel, the joy from a baby, and the natural next step for our family are just a few.

Last weekend, Rachel and I made time to celebrate the pregnancy. We took our entire Saturday and filled it with intention. My wish is to pass this beautiful day on so maybe you too could enjoy some of the magic that happened.

The three major events consisted of meditating three times during the day with holding the intention of our family and more specifically the baby. We then went to "Beads and Beyond" and made pregnancy blessing necklaces. This is a symbol of the baby that both Rachel and I can have with us at all times. Not wearing a necklace on a consistent basis, I am very conscious of feeling this on my body and it gives me the gift of thinking about the baby frequently throughout my day. The final piece that we did was construct vision boards for our family. We made these to create several images of what we want to create for our life and for our family.

At the end of the day, I found myself totally connected to the baby, Rachel, and full of gratitude for what is in my life.

Keep the best players in the game

Our chiropractic practice is an enormous teacher for me in my life. Recently, we had a wave of people come into our studio concerned about their finances. Immediately, I could relate to them because this has entered my life in the past. We as human beings hold our money stress in our low back area. The chiropractic adjustment helps integrate this energy so you do not have to carry it around with you. Financial stress is one of the most prolific stresses that is spreading in our current society.

After talking with these people and hearing their story, an amazing analogy came to me. I explain to these people that in my "former" life I was a huge athlete. Being an athlete taught me so much about life and about myself, yet the biggest lesson it taught me was about abundance. Throughout my life my coaches always wanted the best players in the game. It only makes sense, in order to have the best chance at winning the game the coaches need the best players on the court or field. I view the Universe as the big coach and life as the game. When we as human being are coming from our heart and out of love we ARE the best players in the game. Remember, the Universe will always keep the best players in the game. Breath into this and trust in the Universe to win the game.

For more helpful tools visit Momentum: Financial Independence Coach.

At What Age Does A Child Experience Their First Spinal Trauma?

At a recent seminar taught by Dr. Claudia Anrig of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, we learned about when the first trauma might occur to a child. It wasn’t surprising to hear that research suggests micro and macro trauma can be detected as early as the fetus within the uterus.

Did you know that the fetus develops seven times more quickly than an infant? This is why a fetus is even more susceptible to spinal trauma through external biomechanical forces that will affect the molding of the musculoskeletal system in the uterus.

When might this occur during pregnancy? If the baby has not moved into the vertex (head down) position by the seventh month, Intra-Uterine Constraint can occur leading to bone, cartilage, muscle and ligament deformity of the fetus. There are four fetal positions that cause biomechanical forces leading to spinal alterations and they are breech, face, brow and transverse lie presentation.

What can a pregnant woman do to support healthy development of the baby? Dr. Anrig says, “Conservative Chiropractic spinal care during pregnancy may prevent or decrease the possible occurrence of Intra-Uterine Constraint and its associated birth risks to the fetus.” Dr. Claudia Anrig.

In our office, we have experienced that chiropractic care has not only decreased Intra-Uterine Constraint but also has kept mom at ease as the baby grows and decreases pain and length of “labor” and delivery of the baby. We suggest mom and dad keep their spines and nerve systems checked and in optimal health prior to conception and through the pregnancy.

Drs. Nick and Rachel Kapustka specialize in family wellness care at Serving Life Chiropractic Studio. 1040 Main Ave #2|Durango, CO. 81301|970-422-2032

www.servinglifechiropractic.com

Free your being during this independence season

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Wholeness: Clarity on this buzzword

Wholeness much like a lot of relatively new words is a buzzword. We see it everywhere, especially in advertisements, marketing events, and large stores. Yet many do not "get it," in my judgement. Below is an education piece on what wholeness is and how chiropractic is all about true wholeness.

Wholeness is from within and the organ which allows wholeness to reside in our being is our Nerve System. The word wholeness is a derivative of being whole and those aspects dealing with our whole being. At Serving Life, we deal with your whole being, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. As chiropractors, we adjust your nerve system to allow you to be the most connected in your body and your life.

As we adjust your nerve system, we allow your body to heal and regenerate itself through a process call cellular replacement. Every cell, tissue, organ, joint, and muscle in our body regenerates itself through this process. The clarity in our nerve system allows this process to be the most efficient requiring the least amount of time and energy to perform this function. This is how chiropractors support your physical being. Ensuring you are working at your best.

Our mental being is a powerful aspect of our life. Our minds can either work for us or against us in life. Take time right now and think about what you are feeding your being. What are you feeding your mind? What are you telling yourself on a consistent basis? Is this a message of life, growth, and higher vibration or is it of dis-ease, struggle, or lower vibration? We have all heard that thoughts are things and what we think about comes about yet let’s take this to another level: where our concentration goes, energy flows, and manifests in physical form. This means aspects in our life that we think about send energy into our life or body and hence manifests in our life or body. At Serving Life, we help you become accountable for your thoughts and help you use your mind to allow for your dreams to manifest.

Our society does a good job at introducing that our emotional health is crucial for wholeness yet often times the education stops there. At Serving Life, we explain how our nerve system performs one of two functions with every emotional event in our life. Our nerve system either integrates the emotion for positive growth and function or we store the emotion as potential energy. When our emotions are stored consciously or subconsciously they manifest into dis-ease in our body. The chiropractic adjustment allows stored conscious and subconscious emotion to be integrated for positive growth and function.

At Serving Life, we acknowledge the presence and importance of our spiritual being. Life force, which is Spirit, flows through our nerve system and allows life to be produced in our body. On the largest of scales, what the chiropractic adjustment does, is connect you to You. Everything in life starts and stops with how connected we are to ourselves. Our health, relationships, and awareness in life all depend on how connected we are with ourselves.

Is Your Baby Crying...A Lot?

I recently read an article published in Pathways, a family wellness magazine published by the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association about "Colic". I felt my jaw drop as I read that the average baby cries 2-3 hours per day! Being 16 weeks pregnant myself, that does make me a bit nervous, yet what about the babies that cry more than this?

In the magazine, they say it's the rule of the 3. If your baby cries more than 3 hours per day, more than 3 days a week for more than 3 weeks and, is otherwise healthy, is considered to be colicky. What does this mean? Well, it means we don't know why your baby is crying so much, yet the article discusses a variety of potential reasons and natural ways to soothe your baby from nutrition to chiropractic care.

My favorite bit of advice in the article: Keep mom relaxed during pregnancy! The author, Jen Allbritton, CN states that the emotional state of the mother can affect the infant and that it is known that stress and high anxiety during pregnancy can increase the risk of infantile colic. Also, several studies have shown that colicky symptoms may be linked to biomechanical dysfunction of the spinal joints affecting the nerve system which may be helped with chiropractic care. One study showed a 67% reduction in daily hours of crying in infants receiving spinal adjustments compared to 38% reduction in infants receiving a placebo medication.

Whether your baby is colicky or not, it's important to ensure your baby is growing and functioning at their best. Get your baby's nerve and spinal system checked today!

Want to learn more? Come to the studio for a free copy of the article or log on to Pathyways Magazine.

A health lesson from painting an old house

Last weekend, I had a chance to go back to Michigan for a whirlwind 36 hours straight of painting the old house at 290 S Almont Ave. It was tough on many levels physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Although I felt great while painting and refinishing floors for 36 hours, the big lesson was what came afterward. My body began to talk to me and even scream at me during the five minute breaks that I took between jobs, yet it didn't talk to me while I was in action.

This is just like life, we often do not feel the stress during the stressful times, yet when our body and life has a chance to relax it then chooses to talk to us through symptoms. There are people who come into our chiropractic studio saying I must of slept wrong or I slept funny last night. Have you ever thought about these words? How can one sleep wrong? Sleep is sleep, we cannot do it right or wrong.

It is these times of pure relaxation that our body processes stress from the past days, weeks, and even years. The symptoms that we are experiencing are from the past. It is a proven fact that symptoms are the last to show up in a disease process and the first to leave. Know this fact, we cannot judge our state of health purely on the presence or lack of symptoms.

I encourage you to take care of yourself whether you have symptoms or not. Treat your health like a bank account. We need to deposit more than we withdraw.

Be well, live to your fullest, get adjusted.