HOW TO HANDLE THE STRESS OF MOVING

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!

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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

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

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?

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!

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"

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is and God the Soul.
                                                              Poe

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...