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The pathway to power, the pathway to health, and the pathway to life. I think that would be something everybody wants. If there was a road that somebody could take and they knew that if they took that road, it would always equal better health, a better life and a pathway to the power that would help them have an experience, better health and a better life. Well, actually there is a pathway. There is a road that leads to better health and a pathway that leads to a better life. Many people find themselves as time goes on day after day, year after year, decade after decade that they become less active. They’re unable to do more. It’s harder to recover. I talk to people all the time and they’re saying it gets harder as you get older, and that’s probably true. Nothing is as easy as bouncing off the ground as a little kid and running back to playing or falling 5,000 times learning how to walk.
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I don’t think we could take one or two of those traumas in a day. So there is some things that come along with aging, but our ability to be healthy, our ability to be active and the need for suffering through that process can be diminished because there are two paths that a person can take. One road can minimize irritation, pain, aggravation, setbacks, and limitations to life. And another person can take care of themselves in a way that maximizes their ability to handle stress, reduce suffering, reduce pain, and get the most out of their life. So, let’s talk about that pathway to power. If you’re somebody who has low back pain, neck pain, leg pain, stiffness, anything that’s limiting you from what you want to do.
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When you take care of them, they get healthier and that leads onto a pathway of better health and more possibilities and ability to handle stress and avoid damage and injury and suffering. And there’s another pathway that abuses body parts and when you abuse body parts, what you’re always going to get is a less effective body part. And that body part isn’t on its own. That’s a member of a full functioning body. So it doesn’t only limit that area. It limits everything the body wants to do because it doesn’t only have individual parts. Those individual parts work together. So in our body, the pathway to power is the spine. You know, I’m going to say spine, or, you know, I’m going to talk about spine. I always talk about flexibility. I talk about strength. We talk about so many things in healthcare.
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We talk about nutrition. We talk about vitamins. We talk about water. We talk about sleep. We talk about rest, talk about positive mental attitude. We talk about reducing stress. We can talk about a million things and they’re all beneficial and they all work great together. The importance of what I’m going to talk about today does not eliminate or minimize the importance of any other factors that promote health. However, it’s one that does deserve the spotlight. This is the pathway of power of life and of health to your body. Your brain and nervous system controls and coordinates everything your body does from the moment you were born. The first thing that was developed was the brain and the nervous system that brain and nervous system went on to control and coordinate the development of every cell tissue, organ, body part, arm, leg, eyeball ear, tongue, tastes, everything that your body does was developed by your brain and nervous system.
When you were born that brain and nervous system, didn’t go on vacation. It continues every minute, every second of every day to control, coordinate, and meet the needs of your body. Healing, repairing putting resources to things that you use more and taking away resources from things you use less. We all know that to be true from muscles, right? You worked a muscle, your body grows a muscle. You stop working the muscle, your body stops growing a muscle. So that’s true for everything in health. We drink water, we get better benefits from water. We drink more soda, we get negative benefits from drinking soda. Our body is an achievement machine, it’ll do whatever we ask it to, and wherever we spend our time and attention. So that nervous system that does all those things goes through our spine.
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Now, everything in our life goes on top of our spine. It’s how we stand. It’s how we walk. Every muscle is attached to it directly or slightly indirectly. It’s levers for the muscles. That’s how our bicep moves up because it pulls on two bones, bringing them closer. We stand on our back. We sit on our back. We lie on our back. We run on our back. We play on our back. We do everything on our back. So, all those things go into our spine, but not only does everything go into our spine and on our spine, the foundation of all our movement, which needs to be taken care of, right? You want to take care of the foundation of a house. You want to take care of a foundation of your movement. So all your movement goes further because no matter how much flexibility and how much strength you have, if you don’t have movement in the spine, you don’t move.
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So it needs to be taken care of not only for the movement aspect, but equally, and I would even venture to say more importantly, is it protects the nervous system that goes through it. Let’s keep this simple. If you have a nervous system, and you do, and it runs through your body and it’s controlling and coordinate everything, which it is, and it has this power to heal, which it does, it is actually the fountain of youth in your body to keep you as young as possible, feeling as good as possible, and as active as possible. If you have that flowing through a spine that you’ve taken care of your whole life, and you’ve been fortunate enough that the bones stack on top of each other, the disc stay healthy, theres motion in the joint. That motion keeps the disc healthy, which keeps space between the bones, which keeps space for the nerves to come out of the hole of the side of the bones, but also the nerve, the main nerve channel for the nerves to go through from the brainstem right down into every part of your body. Healthy spine, healthy disc, movement in the joints, in the disk, keeping the joints in the discs young, preserving the integrity of the every area of the spine and everything that goes through the spine, most importantly, the nervous system is what we’re talking about.
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So the nervous system has a holes and pathways in the spine to go through, to bring life to your heart, to your lungs, to your arms, to your legs, to bring power to your heart, to your lungs, to your legs, so that everything your body does, it gets maximum nerve flow to a maximum tissue, built by maximum nerve flow, fed well, rested well, exercised well, and used well by that person, that tissue, that body, that life is going to experience their full potential and the best that life has to offer.
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Now, let’s just jump to the other end of the equation. When we have a spine that we never take care of, we never work on and we neglect, we may have muscles, we may have flexibility, we may rest well, we may eat well, but we have a nervous system going through a spine that hasn’t been moving, that’s been stuck, that’s been producing inflammation, the disc have become dry and brittle, maybe some disc degeneration, or some arthritis is starting to grow on it, now that spine, instead of protecting the brain and nerve system, it is irritating the nerves that go through it. So instead of 100% nerve impulses, being un-interfered with, getting to a tissue, bringing 100% life, now that message may be a little more fuzzy or travel a little slower than it’s supposed to, or a little faster than it’s supposed to. Any message that’s different or changed from the one sent from the brain is going produce less health, because the message that’s sent from the brain is already perfect health. So the spine can start to change that message traveling though the nerve system just by irritating it. It can irritate it by the inflammation it produces in the joint, it can irritate the nerve or the joint itself can actually get so bad that it puts pressure, whether it be through fluid or through the actual bones or discs of the spine that starts to irritate the nervous system, and the more it’s irritated, the worse it gets.
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The trickle down effect is that the body is less able to promote healing, health and wellbeing in the body because the spine in some way is contributing to changing a message that was already designed for better health. So sometimes I, I give the garden hose analogy. and we’ll use this. Now we’ll make this, our nerve. This is a round space that flows and has a nerve flowing through it, right? So all the messages on how to do everything, what the body needs to do, and what it has to do to heal repair and live its best life. If that message is wide open, that message will get everything it’s supposed to have. If the message gets compressed, it can change the message and even if it gets pinched all the way, it can stop a majority, if not all of the nerve flow from the brain to the body. Do you remember Christopher Reeves? Major traumas to the spine can completely cut off life, but it doesn’t always have to be that extreme to negatively impact your health.
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It doesn’t always have to be perfect life going through and then, bam, light switch off, no light going through it all. With the nervous system it is more often like a dimmer switch. So, it could be slightly irritated. So instead of that message, getting to the cell, giving it everything it needs at every second to do everything it does, it gets it there a (milli of a milli) second later, it gets it there with a second to early. It gets it there as a weaker impulse or message and weaker messages make weaker tissues, make weaker body parts and make weaker bodies, which lead to more limitations in life, more suffering, more irritation, less ability to heal, less ability to be active, less ability to repair, less ability to get through your day. So the power to your body, the pathway to power, goes through your spine.
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So we need to know where our spine is at, as far as health goes. Just like you would go and get blood work to learn what your blood is doing from the sugar you’re eating, or you would go to a gym to work on where you’re at with your body fat content or with your muscle tone and the things you want to do to improve your muscle health. In that way, you can also know what your spine looks like and know where problems are and how to work on them, so that you can get all the joints moving and all the joints as healthy as possible, one, and two,so great nerve flow goes through them. So you maximize spinal joint movement to keep not only the spine healthy, but also the body healthy and moving, because remember the spine is the foundation of moving. In addition to the benefits you get from having a healthier spine today, the healthier you keep your spine and the longer you keep it healthy, and the longer you have good nerve flow going through it, the longer and better and healthier your body will perform all its activities through every age and stage of life.
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So back problems go far beyond back pain. That’s just the smoke alarm on the dashboard, telling your body to get help, because if you get the help and give the body what it’s asking for, when you get a tightness or a pain, you’re actually unlocking the key to better health and preventing problems in the future of arthritis, disc degeneration and nerve irritation. Let’s face it. People can have muscles, people can be flexible, people can eat well, but if joints go bad, that’s the things that stopped them from living their lives, stops them from traveling, stops them from feeling good, stops them from enjoying anything. Joint health is one of the most under utilized and under cared for aspects of health, but yet it has the greatest impact, especially concerning the spine because of the flow of nerves that go through it. We already know how devastating it is for a knee or a hip or a shoulder joint to be injured, but they do not have the power of life, the spinal cord, going through it like the spine does.
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You only get one spine, you only get one nervous system. You can get another heart, you can get another lung, not that you would want to, but you only get one brain, nervous system, and spine, and you can’t go back and replace it, you have to work with what you have. So the sooner you start or starting right now to be specific, the better chance you have of keeping that spine healthy, protecting the power that goes through it, from now until well into your future. As long as you continue to care for it, you’ll continue to receive the benefits of a healthy back, spine, which provides a healthy pathway to the power that brings life and health to your body. Don’t wait another day, teach it to your kids. Show them that the spine is important. Don’t let 10, 20, 30, 40 years of damage and degeneration go on in their spines before they learn that they need to start taking care of their back, because of the same problems you had in your back over time.
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Because when they or anyone waits, that’s the place they have to start. They can’t go back and erase everything that’s been done to their spine, but they can take what they have and make the most of it. Any time, you make a spine healthier, you improve movement. Anytime you make a spine healthier, you improve the power that goes from the brain to the body. That will control and coordinate everything towards bringing you better health, life, immunity, and strength to every area of body. Because, the nervous system provides all those things to every area of your body.
So if you need help with anything, how to care for your spine, how to look after your spine, somebody in your area to help you with spinal choices and spinal decisions. What you can do is leave a comment in the section below or you can click on the link and connect with me.
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I want to make sure not only that you know, about how important the spine and the nervous system is, but that you know what to do, how to do it when to do it, and what to do next concerning getting your spine healthy, clearing that pathway for the power in your spine, for the power of your nervous system, to bring life to your body so that you can enjoy the life. All these thing are available and inside of you. It’s just waiting for you, but it just may be locked up or limited, because of your spine. But once you release your spine, once you have a healthier spine, that healing power will come through the spine and nervous system even better, like it is designed to and like it always has for thousands of years. It’s already waiting to do what it is designed to do, to bring power into your body and into your life. So reach out if you need any help, I’ve helped thousands of people with finding their spinal problems and getting their spines healthy, and as a result, having their life change in immeasurable ways. All because we reconnected them to the power that has the ability to heal, repair, and give them and you the life that you’re capable of having, your best life!
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