Dr. Raina's Health Tips & Thoughts

My son was in the orthodontist chair and advised that he would need braces.  The need for care was established, images and exam criteria were taken into consideration and then the financial plans were delivered.  For the most part it is cosmetic, it does not make your teeth more healthy though there may be ease in brushing and flossing in the future with less areas for food particles or bacteria to linger that would lead to less tooth decay.   Braces also can improve speach, chewing and the bite, but again all are not life threatening.  I had braces and so I can say it was a self esteem booster and a smile is like the sun that can lighten up a room.  However, a true smile comes more from within and does not entirely come from teeth showing, it is an expression of ebodying joy, health and happiness and it radiates from the inside out.  Where does that come from?  I want that kind of smile for myself and my kids.

A persons emotional state is always depicted in the appearance with posture reflecting back the image of that nature.  Depression, saddness of grief being the opposite of joy and happiness has a posture that reflects a sunken chest, rounded shoulders and a dropped chin.  Would that light up a room?  What if you gave that same posture a perfectly gleeming smile?  Is your self esteem enhanced by poor posture?  The ramifications of poor posture are much larger than poor tooth and jaw structure and yet as a culture we seem to deny that fact.  Without normal spinal posture preserving the nervous system, health declines and sickness and disease develop.  Posture safeguards your INTERNAL smile, your joy from within, your health and vitaltiy and how you are able to express it.   Good posture CAN light up a room! 

So what is proper posure?  Right now, I want you to stop what you are doing and look at anyone in your home and see if their ear canal is over their shoulders, and their shoulders are over their hips, and their hips are over their heels.  Then from the front, are their ears, shoulders, and hips level and do their feet point forward?  This is a rudementary look at the posture, but if there are distortions there are serious consequences to health.  A chiropractor is trained to detect and correct spinal misalignements and will do an even more progressive exam with images, or other exam criteria and will recommend care based on those findings.  Your posture is the non-verbal message that you are sending out into the world.  Does it say what you want it to say? 

Is Your Posture Smiling? 

Dr. Raina

Watch a child grow in the first few years of life and you will see the ultimate potential of a being that knows no limits.  Without even much encouragement a child eagerly has the drive and desire to rapidly advance into more of him or herself.  By the age of around one they barely flinch when they fall, they tend to just get right back up and they often don't want help.  We can learn a lot from children.  Even great sages and spiritual leaders have often been described as 'child-like' in a desirable way.

Although children are unfamiliar with the ways of the world for safety reasons, they sure know how to navigate the essentials when it comes to body wisdom.  They fall asleep anywhere they are tired, they eat when they are hungry and they don't when they are not, the insticltively know how to get food from the very first moments of life, and they know how to get their point across if they want something.  A kids favorite first words are 'no' for good reason, because they know what they know and they don't need you telling them anything different.  Before language takes over they are well versed on listening to their own inner intelligence that as chiropractors we call innate.  It is the intelligence that exists in all living things that knows all, does all and needs no help, just no interference. 

Children also love physical bonding and contact, they practically demand it by crawling up on your lap when they want to, they reach to be lifted when they need some face time, and if a boo-boo is not kissed, well...it's not good.  They instinctively know that physical contact is important to them, and we instantly give them what they need in the form of a back rub or pat, a stroke to the head or hair, and a smile of assurance.  Isn't it interesting that the back is the first place of contact to soothe? 

In my house, all hugs seem to lead to an adjustment to the spine, it would seem odd for me to reach around my sons back and not palpate their spine for misalignments.   My gift to them will always be their health through chiropractic by keeping them connected to their innate intelligence within using the most caring way that I know how.   Kids understand Chiropractic right away, as they have been living the chiropractic pinciples since birth.  You know it to, but have you forgotten?

I can help you to remember,

Dr. Raina