Take a moment and picture a pebble in your shoe. You are walking to your car or in the grocery store and that pebble keeps digging into your foot. You try and shake it out but your shoes are tied. So you try to wiggle it up to your toes and hope to God that you can just get it to a comfortable position until you can sit down and untie your shoe to take it out. Weโve all been there. Whatโs your state of mind like right now?
How about for the ladiesโฆ ever experience PMS? Your hormones are all over the place, the kids are screaming and your husband is wondering when dinner will be ready. You reach for your morning coffee hoping to get some pleasure into your day and BAM! The caffeine hits you and everything gets worse. Whatโs your state of mind right now?
Or this one, I know weโve never experienced this oneโฆ youโre having a glass of wine with the neighbors or out with the guys the night before and had a little too much Te-kill-ya. The next morning your alarm screams out that its time to wake up and get the day going. In the shower you hear the water drops, the electric shaver, โdaddy pick me up, make me breakfast!!โ Then as itโs time to leave for work, โMan, where did I leave my keys?โ โฆand you do the frantic run about the house all the while trying to keep your head from moving and turning trying to prevent the headache from getting worse. Whatโs your state of mind like right now?
The purpose of your brain stem is to control and coordinate the functions of your body. Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, digestion, sexual function, pleasure, pain, vision, hearing, you name it. But imagine a pressure on your brain stem like a pebble, PMS or hangover like the above scenarios. What do you think you brain stem is feeling from that pressure? What do you think your state of mind is at that moment? Now picture having that pebble in your shoe for a year, or five years of constant PMS, or a twenty year hangover. How is your state of mind now?
Thatโs what happens when you are subluxated.
We are committed to changing the health status of our childrenโs generation. Thatโs why we are called to teach the principle of Chiropractic to others. We donโt want kids growing up living their lives the same way our parents did. Check out the statistics; our parentโs generation isnโt healthy.
You are a pillar of life and health to those you love. They see the changes occurring in your body and life and are wondering what you are doing to be getting well. So tell them. Then we can change the lives of their kids and the health status of the entire next generation.
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