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2012-02-23T09:44:00.001-08:00

HOW TO HANDLE THE STRESS OF MOVING

2012-02-06T21:22:00.000-08:00

HOW TO HANDLE THE STRESS OF MOVING

As an expert in Stress Management Dr. Robert Pike from Pike Chiropractic Healing Center in Keswick shares with us some tips to improve our moving experience by reducing the amount of stress we feel. Wayne Winch and his team with comments by Dr. Bob Pike collaborate in this blog to elevate your moving experience to the next level!

Moving is a very stressful life event. Recent studies show it can be as stressful as divorce and dealing with the death of a loved one. These are a few reasons why we feel stress when moving:

1. Loss of Security: Moving disrupts your normal routine and generates feelings of uncertainty and insecurity. When we make a move we are giving up known levels of security and trading them for the unknown. A very common type of tension is FEAR of the unknown! We can defeat it by embracing it as a new friend.

2. Packing: As we pack up our years of accumulated belongings, we are forcing ourselves to review our lives. We may find old photographs, mementos, letters or clothing that remind us of years gone by that can trigger both positive and negative responses. Another emotional barrier that can be reframed as a kind of graduation ceremony. An initiation into your next chapter of life!

3. Loss of Support: Old communities provide stability and support. We know the schedule of local amenities and the location of places that are routine within our lives. We have developed relationships with neighbours and teachers. We have made friends.

This very strong foundation will actually provide you with the launching pad needed to successfully take off and navigate through the challenges in your move!

Moving is stressful, but it does help to become aware of the internal sources of your stress. Knowing the sources can help us find solutions to overcome the stress of moving as quickly as possible.

Tips to make your move less stressful with Dr. Pike’s perspective added!

1. Be prepared - Advance planning and organization will make your move go smoother. Make sure you have all your closing day paperwork with you in a file. Put aside a little money for forgotten little extras like bubble wrap and coffee for helpers. Acknowledge yourself for summoning the stamina and initiative to make the decision to deliberatly change your life. Recognize your self for being totally responsible to your ideal life vision! The biggest stress of life is our failure to consistently recognize our own value and uniqueness!

2. Don't forget to eat - Health and Nutrition plays a very big role in our ability to cope with stress. Know local dining options, you are not going to want to cook for your family on moving day, treat yourself to a meal out, or order a meal in, but do not forget to eat! What a great idea! My suggestion would be to do this on a regular basis to bond with each other and the new neighbourhood too! Family time is always a healthy choice!

3. Find care for Kids - Enlist in the help of family to watch children while you are sorting and moving boxes initially. Children should not be removed from the process of moving entirely, but perhaps a visit with Grandma during your initial loading can help keep you focused on the task at hand. Brilliant strategy!

4. Relax - Your mindset can really play havoc on your emotions on moving day and if you can't view the move as a positive experience you will have trouble shaking the tension that can build up. Seeing your move as positive evidence of your commitment to manifest your best life experience will empower you with inspiration for your personal journey...I very healthy state!

Stress Relief services at Pike Chiropractic Healing Center

Sometimes the stress of moving can linger for a few weeks to a few months depending on the length of your move or the distance of your relocation. These feelings of insecurity and anxiety can affect your everyday life and should not be ignored.

Dr. Pike has identified 7 key stategies to reduce stress by increasing life:

Have you ever thought that you live through your nervous system? Keep yours healthy with regular chiropractic spinal checkups
Good posture, proper spinal hygiene and regular spinal subluxation checkups are the secret to a strong body with full function including a healthy heart, immune and digestive systems.
Right thinking and a creative attitude is totally essential to success in your move and in life!

Be sure to have an consummate expert Like Wayne Winch lifting the load and doing the work

of thinking through your big move!

Proper nutrition reduces fast food chemical toxicity buildup and ensures proper cellular building materials are available for when you need them.
- Regular specific exercise is a discipline that will pay off big time! Just ask Wayne.
- Adequate rest is essential to allow needed repair and healing of the physical body during sleep.
- Proper hydration of the body means drinking half your body weight in ozs of water during the days activities.

Dr. Bob invites anybody seeking increased vitality to handle lingering feelings of stress after a move to call or visit him at his office. He offers The Health Orientation Class every Thursday night at 7:15pm: This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself and learn a little more about these 7 key health habits and how they can help you feel less stressed and improve your overall health and well-being.

For more information on stress management, visit Pike Chiropractic Healing Center in person, or visit their website at www.pikechiropractic.com

Real Estate Experience a must for a Stress Free Sale

If you want to keep your stress levels down, it starts with making good choices in Representation. Wayne's team of experienced agents help take the stress out of the Sale of your home.

Wayne Winch is a Sales Representative from Re/MAX Landmark Realty Inc., Brokerage and has 30 years buying and selling homes within Georgina. It's quite the different experience when you're working with someone who has seen it all. Wayne himself has closed well over 1000 homes in Keswick, Sutton, Pefferlaw and the surrounding area.

In August 2011, Wayne partnered his services with Christine Morielli and Brenda Brouwer, Sales Representatives. Together they put their combined 60 years experience buying and selling real estate to work for you!

Georgina Homes For Sale
Get in Touch with Wayne Winch directly, call his office (905) 476-7881
Or visit him at the RE/MAX Office at 430 The Queensway S, Keswick, Ontario, Across from the Scotiabank Plaza.

PRINCIPLE # 2: CAUSE and EFFECT

2012-02-06T05:31:00.000-08:00

This month we continue with the 33 principles of chiropractic and invite your feedback through whatever means works best for you.

Health and wellness is only possible for us when we respect the laws of cause and effect.
Every effect has its cause just as each cause will produce a specific outcome.

I don't wish to seem pedantic as I consider this Universal principle but I do deeply desire to share a frame of reference or perpective witth my fellow earthlings.

When considering the large topic of 'health', it makes sense to me that our most deeply held beliefs will in turn cause thinking and actions which either move us closer to or further from Life. As a health care practitioner, my primary intent is to assist others (those who honour me with the privilege) to stay as connected with Life as is possible. I invite all others who share this intent to contact me regardless of your approach to the reconnective process. We need to heal the 'healing arts' by reconnecting with each other. Each of us is potentially a source of healing and therefore responsible to consider this task.

When I give a chiropractic adjustment to another human being, my innermost dominant intent is to facilitate this reconnection process and so enhance their experience of life.

Please comment or e-mail me if you are moved to drpike@rogers.com
Thank you for visiting.

Back to Basics...Chiropractic's First Principle-The Basic Premise

2012-01-19T04:54:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! This year, one of our primary goals is to educate our community about the basic Philosophy of the chiropractic profession. Our January Newsletter's theme-Back To Basics contained the first of the 33 Principles. These ideas will help you to understand the simple Truth the chiropractic profession is based upon.

The first principle is our BASIC PREMISE. Let's look at it.

Principle #1: The Major Premise. There is a Universal Intelligence in all matter, continuously giving to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining matter in existence, and giving this Intelligence its

method of expression.

Please note..(It is essential, when learning about a concept that is new to us, to drop attachment to ideas we may be used to holding. After all we can always pick them back up after properly considering the new idea right?
There is considerable confusion about the concept of what health. The reason chiropractic is so contraversial is because it is a new concept that redefines and clarifies what health is and where it comes from). Ready?

Universal Intelligence (UI), is just what it sounds like. It is a BIG IDEA that relates to all of the physical matter in the universe including your body. For this to be true, UI must also be present inside every one of the 50 to 70 trillion cells in your body. In chiropractic we acknowledge this fact by naming the individualized aspect of UI...Innate (inborn) Intelligence (II). In this chiropractic concept of health, there is nothing else in the universe besides UI. It is an energy and being energy; can and does change states. But this fact doesn't make any of these various states different than or separate from their source energy-UI.

Now please read that paragraph again two more times.
For invisible UI to give or share its properties and actions with visible physical matter is significant oncept of health.

After all, here on Earth, it is because of the physical, that UI can move and without UI the physical cells there wouldn't be anything to express! (Better re-read that one too ;)

So there you have it. The Chiropractic meaning of Health is the full expression of Source Energy through organized matter of its own design. Life is the word we have to describe the special relationship between Intelligence and matter. The full release of Intelligent Being through the human matter is called a Human Being.

Disease is about changes in state caused by incomplete expression. Chiropractic adjustment removes the disturbances to allow for a more complete expression.
Thanks for visiting and see you next month.

How Is The Spine Like A Guitar?

2011-11-15T05:31:00.000-08:00

When chiropractic was first explained to me I knew that its principle was sound.
The principle to which I'm referring is LIFE itself.

The first chiropractor said..."Life is the expression of TONE".

What is tone?
Simply put tone is VIBRATION.
So it would be true to extrapolate that 'Life is the expression of vibration.'

To understand this better, think of the guitar mentioned above.
A guitar's strings vibrate when played.
The tone of the vibration is expressed through the wood of the instrument.

As a chiropractor who also plays a guitar, I know that to make music I must adjust
the vibration of the strings by applying pressure along the instrument's neck.

As a guitar player who also practices chiropractic, I know that to assist my patients to make the music of their lives, I must adjust the vibration of their spinal nerves by applying pressure along along the instrument's neck.

"There is a Universal Intelligence (vibrating) in all living things which is constantly and continuously sharing its qualities and actions with the instrument, thereby expressing through it as Life." ...(Chiropractic Premise)

True health and healing relates to this principle of invisible Intelligence vibrating into visible life expression. What, how or why a human being chooses to believe, think, say, do or eat is entirely secondary to the Truth of this basic principle. (chiropractic's purpose and practice is entirely unique.)

For a human being to experience the true value of their life unique potential ;the fundamental vibration of what they are must be expressed in the key of their authentic TONE.

This is the chiropractic meaning of Life and the individuals journey to know TRUE HEALTH.
When a guitar is abused or ignored, it's music is painful to the ear.
When a spine is abused or ignored, it's music is destructive to the totality of the human instrument and therefore threatens the species as a whole.
"Get the Big Idea and all elso follows."...B.J. Palmer, the developer of the chiropractic profession.
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Both the spine and a guitar are best played when IN TUNE.

Why Chiropractic Adjustment is the Ultimate Tune-up for your nervous system!

2011-11-01T06:44:00.000-07:00

Remember this.. health is simple if not easy. It is disease that may become complicated. Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton reminds us that 5% or less of humans are burdened with congenital genetic mutations - which means the vast majority of us are living with the absolute possibility of experiencing true health and wellbeing.
So why don't we? Once again, the answer for this majority of us is not complicated.
The basic forms of care are only three and include: self care, health care and crisis care.
They are self-explanatory really when you think about each type.

Being a chiropractor, my speciality is the optimization of my patient's central nervous system through the detection and reduction of SUBLUXATION. Subluxation is a neural-spinal condition which compromises the body's communication via its central nervous system. The specific adjustment is the unique chiropractic skill used for the sole purpose optimizing neural health in the people who use chiropractic care as a regular component of their 'health care' arsenal.

To more deeply understand how a dysfunctional spinal system can disturb the nerves, think of a stringed instrument like a guitar. The strings run from the body out along a fretboard to connect at the neck. Each one is tuned to a 'tone' or note. A player exerts pressure on the string altering the vibratory tone of the strings to make music. Your spinal cord is attached at point between the upper spine, skull and the sacrum. Each of us faces daily stressors of three types; physical, chemical and metaphysical (emotional). This repetitive onslaught of challenges results in misalignments of the core structures of the spine,,, affecting the intimate relationship to the delicate nerves as mentioned above in this newsletter. Spinal subluxation is similar to the change in the vibratory rate of a guitar string as it is compressed digitally. Because our nervous system controls and regulates all the body's functions the health implications of subluxation are massive and significant.

An adjustment is indeed the ultimate 'tune-up' because when performed on an ongoing basis to a health person, unecessary buildup of noxious effects of these contant stressors is defused allowing the body to communicate and function properly. Regular spinal checkups are necessary thoughout life to ensure optimal health in human beings of all ages.

"LET THERE BE LIGHT"

2011-08-29T20:12:00.000-07:00

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is and God the Soul.
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Principles are all good!
Everything in the principled Universe has this attribute of inherent connectedness....
...It's all good.
Scientific inquiry is beginning to awaken to its true role,,,that to be useful it must
ultimately recognize or acknowledge principle as the source of the Cause - effect dance.
Quantum physics innately respects the ordered chaos that is invisible Source Energy
This Force is also referred to as ''Quantum".
Newtonian physics honours the principles of objects in motion...the meaning of mechanics operating... an apple always falling downwards from the branch.
Light always dispells darkness and never is the reverse true. The realm of shadow owes its existence to the radiance of light...
Water flows downward, never up.
The paradox of Time as the one nonrenewable resource in an eternal Universe...
All true healing is simply principle in action.
Anything less complete is inherently iatrogenic...

2011-08-14T21:44:00.001-07:00

Summer 2011- Family Health Check

2011-08-14T21:27:00.000-07:00

Here's the thing - health is like anything in life... this what we put in determines the value of what we get back out!
I saw an excellent video today. Tony Robbins was speaking on the topic of what it takes to take our lives to the next level. One point was that we don't need a reason to feel and to be happy. The proof of this he offered was this: It isn't uncommon to hear someone say that they're not having the best day and the reason for this is "I woke up this way"...So if its possible to feel bad without any true reason; well then the reverse must also be true, we are desinge so we can feel awesome for no particular reason! Does this seem weird to you? How about the related thought that we are born to feel excited and to be happy and creative...and all for no reason. The behaviours we have learned that have the power to convince us otherwise are no more than bad habits we've adopted for no reason other than we believed something we've been told along the way by our parents, peers, teachers and preachers and anyone else we allowed ourselves to be exposed to.
The purpose of our Summer Family Health Check is to demonstrate to you how your family can enjoy unbelievable health just by not messing up a good thing. Your body comes with all the standard equipment needed to create the like of your dreams. Well, are you creating a life with enough pull to over come the untruths and misinformation you have been sold about your family's health and wellbeing. Doesn't this sound appealing to you. I hope so!
Visit our website and set up your Health Check and I'll show you how it works when you make up your own reason for living. See you next time.

Bob Pike...Unreal DC...Doctor of Cause for your Health and Wellbeing

ps: I know I promised to review how chiropractors help keep children in optimal health as they grow through the various stages of their lives...stay tuned!

What is our first life challenge?

2011-08-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

All of us have been born. This would be the first stress of a physical nature for each of us.
The first spinal area to check is the upper neck. My neck wasn't checked until I was 23 years
old! We know mucn more now than we did fifty years ago about the possibility of trauma during the birth process (TBS). I was pulled into this world with the assistance of high forceps. When studying cranial adjustment the instructor noticed the indentations in my skull that were caused by the foceps decades earlier.
One of the issues around TBS is need to check the newborn to check for the presence of subluxation.
Subluxation is the chiropractic term for disturbance of nerve conmmunication due to spinal stress of one form or another. On of the most common symptoms of this common condition is headache pain, but is can be totally asymptomatic. The reason for this is that our body is designed so well that 90% of our stress adaptation is hidden from us. I think of this as the stress threshold and we each have a unique tolerance for the stressor we must face each day of our lives
You might be wondering if your child may or even you have a subluxation disturbance in your upper spinal area. The upper spine is the area I've been fortunate to receive special training in.
If you'd like to be checked; give us a call to arrange for a free consultation and I'll be able to assess you with my computerized thermograghic scanner and show you exactly what's going on in this important area of your nervous system.
Next time well look at some of the other challenges the pediatric chiropractor can help with. See you next Blog. I'll be back on my regular Blog schedule now.

Yours for optimal health awareness,
Dr. Bob Pike

What stops us from living?

2011-07-03T19:56:00.000-07:00

I am here to be a chiropractor I teach it to my community and to my patients. I am here to perform specific adjusments to improve spinal function. These adjustments reduce "subluxation" of the spinal system which can disturb nerve impusles as they are transmitting vital information and lifeforce messages to every cell, tissue and system of our living bodies.

The protection of the integrity of this delivery system is the most basic element of health.
Without them we can't move well.
Without them we can't digest what we eat properly.
Without these impulses circulating in their purest form our potential is comprimised.
Our living systems enter a state of less than optimal existence known as DISORDER.

It is this state of disorder which 'stops us from living'.

How is this possible?
Most of us don't grasp the principle which life proves in the first few months of our lives in mother's womb. From two cells, trillions are created as our body is built according to a pre-existing design.
Is this design visible? No. How does the invisible become a visible living form capable of self regulation, self organization and self healing?

What is true health care actually about if the above is true?
For a chiropractor the answer is to optimize the flow of this invisible force as a delivery system of all that is needed.
Is it important we know how to eat? Absolutely.
Is it important we know how to move? Yes!
Is it necessary to breath properly? Ummhmm.
Is how we use our mind to think and our heart to feel and express emotion something we need to learn practice and train on? If we want to really live these are vital to us. But they aren' health care, they are lifestyle choices.

Is it acceptable to live any lifestyle while our life energies are subluxated and altered from their true state?
Is is accetable to play an untuned guitar or piano? Well IS IT?

What make us lose our tune?
Would STRESS be too simple an answer?

'Stay tuned' next time as I delve into this matter of maladaptation to life's curveballs.

Yours for health and Well Being...from inside-out,

Dr. Bob Pike

"That Something" A Full Functioning CNS Creates!

2011-06-30T09:30:00.001-07:00

How do we understand HEALING? Would it be accurate to say that healing includes everything which needs to happen at the same time, all the time, for a life time in order to Live fully? How about describing LIFESTYLE?

2011-06-02T22:06:00.000-07:00

I Love Thinking About This Stuff!

We live on a living planet...the dominant theme here is LIFE.
Health has to be about increasing access by the forces of Life Expressing through its vehicle.
What the hell does that mean?

In the last blog I stated that Chiropractic is a BIG idea.
I don't really care what we call the idea.
Chiropractic schmiropractic.
It's about the invisible becoming visible HERE & NOW.
Big enough??
Why can't we fully perceive the invisible until it manifests?
Is our brain set that way for a reason?
The best way for human beings to appreciate the science behind the Life Principle is...
by observing conception and the process of gestation as a human form
is created by the forces determined to express through this awesome form.
What the hell does that mean?

Why do so many of us use these capacities to doubt the magnitude and meaning of what is BEING HERE & NOW.
It's not about any particular religion...There are many.
It's not about any scientific method...There are many ways of seeing and measuring the one and the many.
It is about what is noticing all this and why.
See you next time.
Thanks for spending the time here and now.
I appreciate it.

Dr. Bob Pike
Chiropractor

Next time we get into the physics of life expression as a function of whole health

The Chiropractic Idea...It's big.

2011-05-23T21:43:00.000-07:00

There's a saying about the fate of new ideas. They face a vicious cycle of ridicule, opposition and eventual acceptance as being self-evident. Chiropractic is at the third stage. At this time 2% of the world's population uses the chiropractic approach in their lifestyle as a part of their personal care strategy.
The simple explanation of our profession's unique role is this: The brain is a master control of the trillions of cells and systems making the body's functions operate in the state of natural order. Nerve impules are sent at 300 miles/hr to and from the brain in response to the body's feedback through the central communication network - our spinal cord. Interestingly, both the brain and the cord are protected by bone. The fact that the verterbral bones forming a cable around the cord may misalign and disturb these nerves explains why chiropractors are mistaken for 'back' doctors. The art of chiropractic is the specific adjustment done for the purpose of restoring optimum connection within the spinal transmissions between body and brain.
If you have problems accepting the size of this ideal as a big one...Stay tuned to this blog as I will demonstrate the chiropractic theory of dis-ease as a provable one. Nerve connection = order. Loss of nerve connection (called subluxation) = disorder. Next time we'll expand on this vitalistic paradigm of health and wellness explained in scientific terms that are known and accepted.
To the best in all of us,
Dr. Bob Pike

The Triad of Health

2011-05-10T06:47:00.000-07:00

There are lots of triangles in the sacred geometry of the Universe. Three is a recurring theme, for example, the milking stool, the tricycle and the push-scooter where one leg compliments the two wheels in order for speed and momentum to be possible with some control. The principle in physics is W=FxT (work equals force times time)
The Triad of Health shows up in several different dynamics as this blog will illustrate. Today let's look at the different dynamics behind one of your body's articulations or joints. Take the elbow. If you want to have a drink of water from the glass you are holding in your hand several principles must coincide to produce the act of elbow flexion and bring the glass up toward your mouth.
There are three different components or forces involved if we simplify it: passive, active and interactive.
The bones of the upper and lower arm are passive and meet at the elbow joint, a sophisticated hinge-type articulation, similar to the knee in some ways. The term passive means bones cannot initiate movment on their own. They are functionally inert, making bone a passive player in the joint mechanism.
Muscle moves bone. But a muscle on its own isn't capable of either contraction (shortening) or relaxation (lengthening) without a nerve impulse to inform it which action to perform. Muscle is the active component of joint motion.
Interactive forces are signals broadcast from the brain to the muscle. It isn't possible to describe the interactive component of movement without some appreciation of the body's Innate Intelligence. For example, to contract one muscle and bring a glass of water to the mouth, the brain must simultaneously send an impulse to relax the opposing muscle allowing it to lengthen.
In chiropractic, the triad we use to address the sophisticated interactivities within our body looks like this:
Matter - Force- Inteligence. That's it for today.
Next time we'll explore the chiropractic model of health as order and dis-ease as dis-order. The meaning of subluxation will be much more clear now that we more fully appreciate the Triad of Health.

To the best in all of us,
Dr. Bob Pike

What's in a name, or password for that matter?

2011-05-07T10:02:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog entry.
The experience of facing the empty page with nothing but past esperiences and the unlimited potentials of my life to either express or not is both daunting and exhillarating.
Today is sunny and warm.
I choose to go out into these elements after an extended time of dim coolness.
Stay tuned for the next entry in which I will outline the triad of life at the core of true health and healing.
Understanding the mysterious synchronicities which coincide as true health or its apparent absence and communicating occasional insights is one of my passions.
I hope and intend for this sharing to be mutually beneficial in a huge way.

PCHC's 1st Blog

2011-04-28T08:14:00.000-07:00

Thank you for joining in the converstion.

We would like to invite you to attend The Truth Workshop being held at Pike Chiropractic Healing Centre on Tuesday, May 3rd at 7:15 - 8PM. This is a free event, open to patients and friends in our community.

Call ahead @ 905.476.6475 to reserve your seats!

Looking Ahead - PCHC is celebrating our 20th Anniversary on Saturday, June 25th starting @ 11AM.
We would like to show our appreciation to all our patients, friends and community. We will be having an OPEN HOUSE with a complimetary BBQ. We look forward to seeing you there!