Health Goal for February: Affirmations
Affirmations
You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you. -- Job 22:28
Everything you want or need is trying to happen to you – and it will begin happening to you the moment you learn to say “yes” to things and conditions that have not yet become reality.
Affirmations are vehicles you can use to help you arrive at a “yes” position in your life.
Technically, an affirmation is merely a positive declaration (usually aloud) that a fact or idea is so. You can use that concept to influence you own thoughts and feelings and, therefore, your life.
You can affirm the existence of positive qualities about yourself and positive facts about your life – despite possible appearances to the contrary.
Affirmations have the power to bring about dramatic changes in your life.
Guidelines to create affirmations of your own:
· Be personal. Use “I,” “me,” “my,” or your first name. “I am a master goal achiever.”
· Be Positive. “I am intelligent and have a keen, sharp mind.”
· Use the present tense. “I radiate warmth and friendliness to all people I meet.”
· Phrase your affirmation as if it is already accomplished. “I am my perfect weight.”
· Change yourself (not the other person). “I am an effective parent.” salesperson.”
· Do not compare yourself with anyone. “I am an excellent, successful
· Use action words. “I take charge of my health.”
· Be realistic, but stretch.
Action: Write down your own affirmations on a piece of paper or 3 by 5 card. Try to read your affirmations three times a day. Read them aloud.
Examples:
Every day, in every way, my life is getting better and better.
I am a beautiful person. I have attractive physical features and a trim, healthy body.
I have the power to make the changes I need to make in my life.
I choose thoughts and words that support and enable me to create the life I really want.
My life is successful and full of wonderful, fulfilling experiences.
I move past all limitations into a no-limit life. I achieve my goals with ease.
Money flows freely and abundantly into my life.
Love surrounds me in all situations and conditions.
I joyously acknowledge and accept God’s will for me.
I do everything with a positive mental attitude. I look for opportunities to serve people without expecting anything in return.
I accomplish all I want to do today with grace and love. enthusiasm.
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Symptoms: Knee Pain
The knee is a complex joint where the upper leg bone (femur) and the lower leg bone (tibia) meet. The kneecap protects the joint. Repeated strain on the joint, an injury, poor posture, or a misaligned joint in the foot, ankle, or spine can damage the tissue in the knee. This leads to swelling, stiffness, pain, and sometimes locking or “giving way.”
A knee becomes injured by long term wear, overuse, or a sudden injury, such as twisting your knee, can cause the muscles or tendons to over stretch or ligaments to tear. The bones may twist, causing a misaligned joint. Often times running or excessive walking cause the bones of the knee to become fixated. This loss of joint play causes many knee problems and pain.
Most knee problems can be diagnosed very easily with a history of events leading to the knee pain, a few orthopedic test and motion palpation of the knee joint. Often X-rays can help to see if there is any pathological dysfunction, misalignment or degeneration.
Almost all knee problems can be helped by chiropractic adjustments. Other modalities can be used such as modification of aggravating behaviors, supplementation, stretches and exercise.
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Chiropractic Philosophy: Chiropractic
The Chiropractic system, revised on earth to-day,
Was known in ancient ages, in regions far away.
Sages and seers proclaimed it of origin Divine And practiced it in secret, at many a hollowed shrine.
The great, new light that’s breaking o’er all the widespread earth,
Is calling mystic knowledge to wider, further birth.
So, ‘mid the great revival of truth among mankind,
This truth, contained in Nature, must wide acceptance find.
We know that mind is potent, that thoughts are mighty things That soar and widely travel, as on expanded wings.
But ‘tho these thoughts are able to banish ev’ry grief,
We wish a perfect method by which to give relief.
Our minds are the directors, they should our actions sway,
Sub-consciously and consciously, thought must direct our way.
But, mind doth act through matter, a vehicle it needs;
And this we need to regulate to drive our noxious weeds.
The spinal column holds, we know, a most important place.
When normal, it is beauteous, a form of wondrous grace.
But when distorted, it becomes the seat of many ills,
Which are frequently, mistreated with ineffective pills.
Adjust the subluxations till crooked spines grow straight.
Take off from nerves the pressure which induce an evil state.
Thus many ailments vanish and health appears for all
Who, wisely, on Dame Nature for real assistance call.
No nauseous drugs or lancets we need to bring to view,
For Chiropractic action is always mild and true.
Our hands are wisely give to remedy the wrong, So let these useful members be praised in poet’s song.
Dame Nature is beneficent, her laws are wise and true.
To learn and then obey them, is all we have to do.
And when we wisely work and plan the better way to learn
No illness will exist, because its only when we turn
Away from Nature’s guidance we into error stray;
This is the only reason that you are ill-today.
The body is an entity, although its members share
The daily work it needs must do with faithfulness and care.
When all abide together and in harmony fulfill
Respectively, their duties, they reveal God’s holy will.
Should any member suffer, the other bear their part
Until the burden is removed by Chiropractic Art.
The Chiropractor teaches that all organs must agree,
That all must work together in most perfect harmony.
Thus, when all regulate the spine its functions to fulfill,
All other parts experiences alike responsive thrill.
The kidneys, lungs and liver and the spleen and heart and brain
Are organs linked together by the sympathetic chain
And from a common center, they one and all obtain
A regulative, guiding free that makes their duty plain.
Adjustment, regulation is all that we require.
It lifts the baneful pressure that smothers vital fire,
Gives freedom to the muscles that they may freely act,
And the body perfect liberty to functionate intact.
Away with drugs which poison and instruments that kill.
Let us use, in wisdom’s way, of mental, manual skill.
The hands, by mind directed, can drive our ills away
And bring us advantageous health for which we all shall pray.
No cruelty, nor torturing of animals we need
To point the way to conquest over ills of any breed.
Along the gracious pathway where justice kindly rules
We learn life’s useful lessons in the Chiropractic schools.
The happy day is dawning, it cometh on apace, When wisdom linked with kindness, will all wrongs and ills efface.
And whatsoe’r assists to bring about that blessed day
Will drive all hateful error to oblivion straightaway.
Set fee the trammeled spirit, take off the binding shroud.
Deliverance preach to captives by binding fetters bowed.
Let mind and body act as one, though each of them be free,
For only thus can we attain to perfect liberty.
Hail to the noble workers who firm and faithful stand
To bless earth’s suffering millions with heart, brain and hand.
Hail to the modern system which takes the ancient rule.
Ane well adapts its practice to the needs of modern school.
‘Twas in the land of freedom where the eagle soars on high,
That Chiropractic knowledge was brought to humans nigh.
And now to every continent and island of the sea
The welcome news is spreading to banish misery.
Life more and more abundant, is what we all require.
We then, can lift the barriers that interrupt the fire.
Give Nature perfect freedom, this only do we need,
The she, kind nurse and mother, will all requirements heed.
Arouse the latent energy! Innovate the frame!
Then no more enervation will put our hopes to shame.
Let’s keep our thots directed to all that’s pure and wise,
Then no ensnaring tempter will rob us of our prize.
Let all honor, then, be given unto that kindly man,
Our teacher, D.D. Palmer, whose Chiropractic plan
Has lifted many burdens, set many captive free
And whose very wise instructions are fruits from Wisdom’s tree.
As years glide swiftly onward, with added zeal and might,
Will this new school of doctors work zealously for right,
Till knowledge congers folly, till reason on her throne
Dispenses boundless blessings and claims all for her own.
September 24, 1910. W.J. COLVILLE.