SOUTH SHORE FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC
Monthly News - October 2006

Are You Present or Future Focused?
Have you ever asked yourself where you want to be with your life in the future?  In these instant-gratification, quick fix, drive-thru days in which we live, people tend to focus on what is happening and how they feel right now.  Not feeling good?  Pop a pill to ease the pain.  Hungry?  Grab some fast food.  Bored?  Turn on the television.  Tired?  Get a cup of coffee. 

So many people make decisions and take actions based on a current event, without looking at the possible consequences.  Quick fixes may be comforting in the moment, but they rarely provide long-term solutions.  I am asking you about what you want to be, not in the present moment, but in the future.  Let's take your health as an example. 

Your health is based on many factors: exercise, diet, nerve supply, rest genetics, ect., but the key thing to understand is your health today is the result of actions you took (or failed to take) in the past.  You may think that how you are today is just a current event, but in reality it is the result of a process.  This may sound elementary, but if you take this concept to heart and put it into action, it can literally be life changing. 

Everything you do today is going to determine how you will be in the future.  In chiropractic there is a concept of "survival values."  Things that we do each day are either positive or negative towards our health and function in the future.  Positive activities such as eating healthy foods, correcting vertebral subluxations, ect., are referred to as "constructive survival values." 

Negative events like injuries, drugs, stress, and vertebral subluxation are known as "destructive survival values."  In this model, your life and health are determined by the accumulation of both constructive and destructive values over time.  When you look at things such as health as a process and not merely an event, you begin to realize the importance of constantly and continually adding constructive survival values to your life. 

Since health is just one aspect of human performance and human performance is in large part regulated by the nerve system, chiropractic plays a key role in your health over time. By having vertebral subluxations reduced you allow your body to better express information through the nerve system.  This leads to better performance and a healthier future.

-Dr. Bill