The time for change is NOW
Embracing Instant Change
Good evening, New Day sunshines! Are you ready for SPRING WEATHER tomorrow??? ☀️🌱🌷💃 Are you ready for the eclipse?! ☀
As always, thank you for opening this message.
Tonight I am feeling massively creative! There has been a confluence of factors that are helping with this that I want to share with you 💗🌍✨
First, Donny Epstein, creator of Network Spinal care, has been having a 5 Day “Energetics of Instant Change 5 Day Challenge.” (It’s not too late to join– this is the link!)
I have been getting some real gems through listening to the 30 minute daily calls for the last few days 💎✨💎
So much so, in fact, that I played several minutes of one of Donny’s recent transmissions for the group that gathered with me at New Day yesterday morning for the Focused Breath workshop.
The big idea is this. Change happens in the moment, and instantaneously, when enough energy becomes available to you in your nervous system so that you can receive a different experience of reality ✨💥☀️🌍💗
This is a bold idea. And perhaps a controversial one.
And it is an idea that we may sometimes find hard to reconcile with what we often experience; change and improvement can feel hard, long, painful, and arduous.
You might even sometimes have felt that way in your care with me at New Day 😱😂😊
(By the way, I wasn’t trying to be hard on any of you with last week’s message (“Don’t kill the vibe”). I only meant to draw your attention to the fact that our preoccupation with our pain patterns is habitual, addicting, and many times keeping us stuck).
Me, with some of our Bright Souls at
Saturday’s Focused Breath 🌀
The Focused Breath workshop on Saturday morning proved to be the perfect labratory for working with these ideas about instant change and energy moving through our nervous systems 💥
Through discussion and through Focused Breath exercises, participants were able to experience instant change through the practice of complete awareness and presence ✨
Conversely, we also experienced, through the individual in the group, many other instructive moments where the healing process felt more like like “work” (definitely NOT instantaneous), and those were also just as instructive.
I want you to extend what I am writing about having taken place at the Focused Breath workshop to your experience in care with me– both on the table and outside of New Day as well.
There will be moments in my work with you when you experience that sense of instantaneous and liberating change ✨✨✨
And then there may also be periods of time when you feel like you are disconnected or languishing, times when you feel only “small” or incremental improvements, when you feel stuck or blocked, when you feel a simmering annoyance or frustration, and when everything you do to try to get better feels like work 😱😱😱
DON’T GIVE UP 💥💥💥
THIS book has me even more tapped into
WHY my care can work so well
I recently started reading “The Brain’s Way of Healing” by Dr. Norman Doidge.
In it, Doidge describes and discusses some real life experiences of doctors working with patients and helping them overcome chronic pain through approaches that rely on neuroplasticity (the brain and nervous system’s ability to grow and change).
While the book doesn’t discuss Network Spinal, or any chiropractic approaches at all (!), I am finding that it sheds light on WHY my care works, and even why it may work EVEN BETTER than some of what is being described in the book 💥☀️💓🌍🙏🌀
Here’s a vivid example. I was struck by a description in the early part of the book of a doctor who worked with a woman who had been completely disabled after a work-related lumbar spine injury.
After the woman was injured, she spent 10 YEARS languishing at home, unable to do anything except revolve her entire life around managing her constant pain (to little positive effect) 😥
Then, in a striking passage, the patient describes the innovative new approach the pain doctor took with her and the results she started to get:
“He told me to look at the pictures of the brain seven times a day. . . I would visualize the pain centers firing, and then I thought about where my pain was coming from in my back. Then I would visualize how it went into the spine and then into my brain– but with no pain centers firing. . . By the third week, I wa starting to have a couple of minutes per day without chronic pain. . . By the fourth week, the pain-free periods were up to fifteen minutes to half an hour. . . ” 🧠😂💥
I know this message is getting long, sunshines, but if you’ve stayed with me so far I want to tell you that I think you are really on the right path with the work you are doing with me. Here’s why ✨
First of all, this medical doctor had his patient calmly focusing and visualizing a change in the nervous system and body over a period of time.
Sound familiar???
Have you noticed that when you are on the table at New Day, or in a workshop with me at New Day, or maybe even when you’re READING MY WEEKLY MESSAGES, that you find yourself in a process of calmly visualizing and experiencing a different reality in your spine and body, and that this experience helps create a change? 🤔😊🤗
Second, notice how in the above passage from the book, as the patient retrospectively describes her experience and the results (though most likely at the time she was actually lamenting how this process “still” “wasn’t helping her” 😂), that as a result of these efforts she began to (occasionally) experience (mere) minutes of freedom from pain?
Again, this might very sound familiar to many of you with your experience with me and Network Spinal care 🤔😊🤗
Third, wouldn’t you say that this process being described involves what could be described as somewhat arduous periods of dedicated healing work, then punctuated by an increasing number of moments when the person feels change?
Starting to sound VERY familiar, I bet! 🤔😊🤗
But here’s the big difference. And it comes back to my point about supporting you to experience instant change; doesn’t this description sound potentially slower, and less effective, and definitely less enjoyable than the work WE do together at New Day??? 💥💥💥💥
I’m not trying to brag about my results with people, but I would be willing to bet that many of you were probably experiencing more than a few minutes of change every now and then after 3 weeks of my care ☀️
And instead of hammering away at your healing alone in an arduous process, you’re instead with a practitioner and surrounded by a community that is routinely nurturing you, engaging you, meeting you where you are at, AND seeing you for who you are becoming in the process 😍☀️🌀
Now I obviously haven’t done a research study on this, and I also haven’t finished the book and am eager to glean more from what Dr. Doidge describes, but I am thinking that these key differences in the care that you experience with me at New Day compared to the visualization process Doidge described are part of what have it work SO well– even faster and better 🥚🐣🐥🦅
More from Saturday’s cauldron of
creativity and breakthroughs 💥😊💓
This past Saturday morning we really got to practice getting to those healing moments where change happens, and getting to them faster and in ways that are personalized to those bright souls in attendance. And we enjoyed ourselves! I am so grateful for this experience 🙏
Some of the participants who were with me on Saturday have been in care with me for YEARS. I know that this experience of being together on Saturday has initiated a new chapter of change and growth for you and us together💥💥💥
And then there were some of participants on Saturday who are really brand new to care and me and New Day. We are off to a great start in our relationship that will result in a fruitful and amazing care process with me, I know it 🥚🐣🐥
I am also so grateful for the perspective and ideas the Doidge book is giving me.
And of course, Donny Epstein has created so many concepts and ways of focusing that make such a difference for people, myself included, in experiencing instant change and breakthroughs (Breath, energy, movement, Internal/External, the Triad of Change, etc) #sograteful
I am grateful for the continued process of creativity that Donny and everything else has inspired in me 💥
I look forward to seeing you at your adjustments this week and beyond, to enjoy a continuing process finding more and more effective methods and moments of finding instantaneous healing for you, as you participate in this nurturing and healing New Day community ☀️☀️☀️
