Core Wellness

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."  -Marcel Proust

After listening to Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Wayne Dyer’s conversation on "Science for Life Radio", (link to listen is below, please take the time to listen to this over the long weekend!  It will empower you and might just be the swift kick you need to change your mind and change your life!) I was reminded of what makes me so passionate about helping people reach their full potential.

Bruce’s book "The Biology of Belief" was an "epochal event" in my life because is solidified a esoteric concept that I have come to believe for the last 5 years…

YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM OF YOUR GENES, BUT 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EVENTS OF YOUR LIFE!

Yes, I know that you’ve been "wired" to believe that your genes determine your biology but Bruce’s book and his experiments as a cell biologist have blown that idea out of the water.

If you choose to live your life by the rules of the "old paradigm", you will forever be a victim looking for pills, potions, and patches to heal your ills.   And you will continue to be disappointed.

BUT…if you open your mind to the possibilities of what quantum physics has proven, namely  "as you believe, so you see".  You have the power to change your beliefs and see a whole new wonderful world.

That my friends, is the ultimate FREEDOM!

Have a safe, fun 4th of July and be LIBERATED from the prison of your limiting beliefs!

Here’s to new wiring!

-Dr. Hoffman

Enjoy this audio program from "Science for Life" With Wayne and Bruce.  Lots of other good stuff there, too!  Scroll down to the "Listen on demand" area and you’re off to the races!

http://www.scienceforlife.net/

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LA Times Article (Left) Raises Controversy Over The Right Way To Train Your Core.

NO SIT UPS?

I can hear the cheers from across the globe!

But I can also hear the steam coming out of the ears of the millions who do theirs faithfully and swear by them.

So what gives?

Here’s the deal…Sit ups where you curl up with a rounded back put a TON of pressure onto your discs.  That’s the main reason my teacher, Dr. Stu McGill, is so against them.

He’s been sticking electrodes in back muscles for decades at his lab in Waterloo, Ontario and has VOLUMES of literature about the causes of disc injuries.

So if Stu says no sit ups,  I agree!

Well sort of!

Here’s what I mean.  You should always look at an exercise and say, "Does this help train and protect my body during my activities of daily living?  In other words…"IS IT FUNCTIONAL?"

Well, the answer to the sit up question is, "Of course it’s functional!"  If you’re lying down, you should be able to "sit up", right?

So yes, you should be able to do it…BUT to do it 25, 50, 100 times?  That’s way too much disc load and even if you have no pain with them right now, why risk the repetitive injury??

So, what to do instead?

There’s a series of a few exercises on video that go along with the article that we’ve been implementing here at Core Wellness for over 10 years!

As a matter of fact, our thinking here at Core Wellness has evolved even beyond these "man made" exercises to the "neurodevelopmental model" that’s come out of Eastern Europe the last few years.

I mention it in my comment I left of the LA Times blog (copied below) and wrote about it in the first post ever on this blog.

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COMMENT #290:  Well written article. I’ve worked with dr. mcgill personally several times over the last 10 years and the man’s amazing with his detailed science.

the “belly button to the spine” for most people, tends to create a flared rib cage in the front and a loss of intra abdominal pressure which creates an “energy leak”.

so for human FUNCTION, you must train FUNCTIONALLY!

here is where we must look to infant posture development as the model of how to train the “deep core stability” system. this system is automatically triggered by reproducing the environment encountered by the infant as posture is developed fully at four years old.

this new model has emerged from prague and is the only one that’s ever made PERFECT sense. this is because it’s how we were designed.

there’s a blog post about this and several self test videos at http://gettoyourcore.com/the-origin-of-your-core-revealed

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What do YOU think about sit ups and core training?

Any questions, Comments?  Leave a comment here on the blog!

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Have you ever seen a 40 year old who looked like a 60 year old?  Or vice versa?

Of course!  But how does it happen???

ONE WORD…STRESS

Stress draws you in and closes you down.  And as you’ll see in the video, it’s the same pattern that someone with cerebral palsy or post stroke might exhibit.  VERY PREDICTABLE!

The exciting thing is that since we know these patterns, we can identify them early and teach you how to avoid the stress induced accelerated aging program that can sneak in on you during your life’s journey!

So the FIRST WAY to reverse your body age is to learn how to re-awaken your youthful posture patterns by invoking the thought or INTENTION of moment to moment peace with a feeling of constant growth and expansion. This intention alone can instantly make you look 5 to 10 years younger.

But the trick is MAINTAINING that moment to moment feeling of peace, growth, renewal, and expansion!

Not so easy if you have a habit of worrying, or you’re constantly living in fear. These THOUGHTS come from the wiring in your brain (also known as beliefs) which you’ve been developing from conception forward.

And until you change these beliefs…intentional posture correction will always be a struggle because your thoughts of worry, scarcity, shame, sadness, and fear will always draw you back to the downward and inward spiral that makes you look and feel old and broken down.

To that end…The SECOND WAY to reverse your body age is to RELEASE old limiting beliefs and REWIRE some new beliefs into the neural circuits of your brain through the variety of modalities available from affirmations to meditation to emotional freedom technique to Psych-K to create new experiences and new references for your new, more empowering beliefs.

And last but certainly not least…The THIRD WAY you can reverse your biological age is to nurture your cells with good nutrition full of colorful, raw vegetables and fruits that can offset the aging process of “oxidation” or “free radical production”.

If the process of oxidation is not balanced with anti-oxidants, aging speeds dramatically…especially if you’ve got poor posture and lots of worry on your mind!

So how do you avoid letting stress draw you in to accelerated aging pattern? RELEASE the limiting beliefs, poor posture, and poor nutrition and REWIRE some NEW PROGRAMS into your brain and nervous system!

That’s what the “Release and Rewire” Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Mini Boot Camp here at Core Wellness has been doing for over 4 years as we’ve been taking people’s “body age” back in time and getting rid of all that “stinkin thinkin” that so easily gets us all in trouble!

There are still some seats available for our next one this coming Saturday, May 30th from 10 to Noon.  It’s extremely affordable and will give you practical strategies you can apply immediately to your life.  Read more about the Mini Boot Camp and register here.   Of course you can call us at 812-280-8170 to register as well.

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Well, after a week of data loss through the “burning up” of a chip on my external hard drive (careful of big cheap Western Digital My Books, by the way) that held the video file I was going to post for you, I’m back up and in business with a new Seagate Free Agent storage device.

Just let this be a little reminder to do your appropriate backups…I lost approximately 40 hours worth of video and audio editing…

But learning experiences sometimes come in different packages… BUT that’s all in the past now…so ONWARD and UPWARD!!!

This is the video I promise you in the last post which was part 2 of this “Pain Free Weight Loss” Series…

So if you’ve ever wondered about WHY you need to get more Omega 3 Fats into your diet…this video excerpt from the nutrition section of a past Core Wellness Mini Boot Camp will get you up to speed!

If you don’t know how to balance your fats for optimal health…this clip promises to be one of the most important 13 life saving minutes you’ll ever spend.

“Pain Free Weight Loss – Part 3″ will be right behind this one giving you the lowdown on the how to keep your stress hormone levels from damaging your brain’s memory center while tearing down your muscle and turning it into the unsightly and extremely dangerous belly fat…YIKES!

So make the time to watch this video…it moves quickly and it will give you a core concept to ALWAYS follow to improve your diet, lose weight, and eliminate your pain.

drh

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