Being willing to see things differently
Is your pain real?
Good evening, New Day sunshiners! What an unbelievably beautiful weekend we’ve had here in Chicago. I hope you got some time to enjoy it!
I had a lovely time working with clients on Saturday morning, going for a nice long walk, a cookout in the yard with my husband and father-in-law, and finishing books and continuing to read books (more on this below!).
Oh, and getting ready for the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting this Thursday 💥✂️✨
As I’ve blogged about recently, an important part of the process of updating and upgrading New Day (and myself in it!) has been to consider deeply what I believe about this care and what I want it to be for all of us.
Always taking inspiration from everywhere and anywhere I can, I had a very helpful person over the weekend remind me of one of the lessons in A Course in Miracles. The lesson is, “Above all else, I want to see things differently.” ✨✨✨
The lesson has to do with helping us when we are locked in a perspective that is keeping us small and stuck (and away from the miracles that are said to be a natural part of life itself)
To say, even just to oneself, “I am willing to see things differently” or “I want to see things differently” is to open up a closed door (even just a tiny crack!) for the shift in perspective that gives us the breakthrough. It is being vulnerable, and being open 💖
Hopefully you can see that this could be really a helpful technique to practice in our relationships and in stressful situations where what we are saying to ourselves about what’s happening is causing or perpetuating the problem 😊
I know that as a chiropractor I’m biased, but I would say that there is nowhere else where an UNWILLINGNESS to see things differently could have a bigger and more negative effect on you than in your health and in your body 💥💥💥
Yes, I am “still” reading this book that I was also reading months ago! I am grateful that this book has provided months worth of inspiration 😂✨🌀
Just as we can become entrenched, defensive, and even downright attack-y in our relationships and our investment in our perspective as “right” or permanent, so it is also with physical pain and our concepts around a disease or a diagnosis 🙅♀️
Yesterday I was striving to “finally” finish up Quantum Healing from Deepak Chopra (so that I can start Donny Epstein’s new book The Seeker’s Code!) when I came across an important passage.
“When I teach people Ayurvedic healing techniques, I am not inducting them into a Vedic world, or into some mystery. I am trying to let them realize that their own awareness creates, controls, and turns into their bodies. When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help. . .
Any pain or disease you have is like an island of discomfort surrounded by an ocean of comfort, for in comparison to any one disease, your healthy awareness is as big as an ocean.”* 🌊🙌🌍🌊
*(If you’re distracted right now wondering what Ayurveda is and what this has to do with chiropractic and Network Spinal, try not to be! As Deepak also writes in the paragraph prior “Fortunately, nature has set up things so that mind-body approaches of all kinds will work” ie YOU and your awareness are the common denominator. Healing techniques, whether it’s chiropractic, Network Spinal, A Course in Miracles, Ayurveda, yogs, etc are successful to the extent that they help you access that shift in perspective)
When it comes to your pain, are you willing to see it differently? Even if you don’t know what the new way could possibly be, can you relax your attachments for even a moment? 💥🚪💥
All it takes is a willingness on your part because the innate intelligence in your body is ready and waiting, like an ocean of comfort, to transform your experience.
My adjustments to your spine and nervous system work not because they are some kind of special weird magic! They work because they help give you access to another perspective, and therefore another reality for you to live into ☀️☀️☀️
Through helping your nervous system break out of old, stress-based patterns of holding your body, your feeling, your thinking, and your experiencing, I bring you my care as an inspiration for a whole new you. Are you open to it?
I look forward to seeing you (differently!!) this week at your adjustments with me, and perhaps also the Intro to Care and/or the Ribbon Cutting!!💖
