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What To Watch For! |
February is a great time to get outside! We live in Ottawa, its cold but embrace it! Ski, skate, snowshoe try something new this weekend!
In the office this month:
Ball / Core Fit Class Every Tuesday @ 7:15
New session started January 27th with our amazing trainer Kate ! Drop ins Welcome!
Monday Feb 16th is Family day!
The office will be closed for family day long weekend. Detoxification Workshop Feb 18th @ 6:15PM Learn the secrets of the
worlds top alternative doctors. Join us for one of our most popular workshops on how to simply and effectively detox. . Register by Email or at your next visit. Boat and Sportsman Show: Feb 26 - March 1 Come and see us at the Civic Center for the Ottawa Sportsman show. We'll be there talking about health and doing spinal scans.
Please Visit Our New Website!
If you have not seen it yet, take a look and let us know what you think.
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Relaxation Gift Basket
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Check it out! We have put together an amazing gift basket for February referrals!
Its
simple, refer a friend or family member for a check-up in February and
you will get a ticket for the basket draw taking place on February
26th. The basket is a collection of Blockbuster gift certificate,
chocolate, wine glasses, wine decanter, a bottle of Chianti and 2 day
passes for Le Nordik spa!
You can relax at home with a movie and a glass of wine or at the spa so enter today to win!
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How To Catch A Rainbow...
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 Legend suggests that a pot of gold can be found at the
end of a rainbow. That treasure can be cashed in to preserve your good health and ward off future disease. Society considers that which is
white, to be pure. Such a belief can be deceptive. By shining white light
through a prism, one is instantly blessed with the hidden beauty and
complex nature of our universe. A pure white beam of light reveals its inner essense; a spectrum of colour.
Most people can name the seven visible colours of a
rainbow. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and
red. Of course, there are two other colours, often forgotten, but always
present, ultraviolet and infra-red. Animals and insects feel these
colours. Plants sense them too. While we lack the same receptors and are
blind to their existance, our handicap cannot negate their influence.
The ultras and infras of plants are magical substances, indeed! They
include plant chemicals, or
phyto chemicals, such as isoflavones and
bioflavinoids. Science teaches us that plants protect themselves from
attack with their own secretions and chemical messengers. Vegetables
repel insects who would eat them, and plant blossoms attract other insects
with a perfume so that their pollens can be spread and their species self-
propagate. Plants protect themselves from too much heat, or cold, or
wind, or too much moisture, maintaining their own good health with their
specialized hormones. Plants can cure their own sicknesses and cancers by
secreting and bathing themselves with these enchanted essences.
When we eat the plants, we are similarly protected. Modern science
has confirmed the centuries-old traditions and lore from cultures that
refined the sacred techniques of using foods as medicine. We have often
heard that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Such wisdom!
Today's Perfect Rainbow can be found in the produce section. Eat foods of colour. The perfect colour
can be found right in the middle of our rainbow, the colour green. In the 1980s, scientists first began to
explore how phytochemicals found in plants prevent cancers. A great amount of emphasis
was placed upon the fruits and vegetables which contain vibrant colours. The
best known of these wonder drugs was recognized as beta carotene. That's
what gives carrots their bright orange hue.
In the 1990s, scientists
at the University of Minnesota (Steinmetz, et. al.) categorized different
groups of fruits and vegetables demonstrating life giving,
disease-fighting qualities. In doing so, they defined some of those
magic colours, and the phytochemicals so contained within those pigments. The violet, indigo and blues of the plant kingdom include phenols
and dithiolthiolnines contained in eggplant, cruciferous vegetables, grapes,
plums, and grains.
Eat onions and shallots, leeks, scallions and
garlic for cancer-fighting alliums. Those green leafy
vegetables contain
flavonoids, and inositol is found in beans. Green fruits and veggies contain
phenols, and plant sterols, protease inhibitors and saponins. Yellow
limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash have also been identified as
cancer fighters, as have the orange carotines in carrots, and my all-time
favorite vitamin pill, the cantaloupe. Balancing out the rainbow's
spectrum would be the red phenols in peppers, radishes, and tomatoes.
Tens of thousands of unique substances have been discovered, and
there are still plant hormones and enzymes yet to be identified. Remarkably, the one plant containing the greatest amount of these
wonderful phytochemicals is the soybean. The tiny white soybean contains
coumarins, flavonoids, inositol, isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant
sterols, protease inhibitors, saponins, and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils.
So, visit your local produce store once or twice
each week and treat yourself and family to a rainbow. Make this a tradition
never to be broken.
Adapted from Robert Cohen's newsletter available at notmilk.com |
Dreamers Wanted!
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Have ever traded in your dreams in for the fear that they
wouldn't come true?
All too often our dreams don't make
the list of what we will accomplish next.
We tend to trade in our dreams for a more standard (or safer) protocol.
Where do your dreams take you? Margaret Young once wrote: "Often people attempt
to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in
order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually
works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you
need to do, in order to have what you want." Our dreams can be the 'yellow
brick road' to who we really are. When we are thinking and acting in line with
our true nature, those dreams become our lives.
Each and every day is a chance to
live your dreams. As Chiropractors, Dr.
Pauline and I have big dreams. We dream
of seeing a world where the Chiropractic adjustment is the norm, rather than a
last ditch effort to rid oneself of various problems. We dream that people will truly understand why
interference to the nerve system (subluxation) is unacceptable and with this
understanding, more people in our community will experience the things we see
every week in our office. Why do we dream of such things? Because we know that life is better when there
is no interference between the brain and the body. Uninterrupted nerve pathways mean that we
function better: physically, mentally and emotionally. When people stay well adjusted, their lives
are better, they accomplish more and their relationships are healthier. This filters into our communities, our nations
and ultimately our world.
It seems pretty big, huh? That's OK, we've got a
lifetime to share our dream.
And so do you. You have a lifetime
to be and do anything your heart desires. Are you willing to take the steps
necessary to have your life be a representation of your dreams? Your dreams are
powerful: big or small, it doesn't matter. They're just daydreaming on how to
get out!
Only you can set them free...
"The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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