Wow, I rented the 1971 movie Harold and Maude (with Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort) last evening and really really enjoyed it.  I haven’t seen it since it played on my college campus in the late 1970’s.  What a wonderful movie about living life to the fullest, soaking up every drop, and never worrying about ...

Stop everything you are doing and focus totally on this.  Take five seconds and take a deep breath.  Then let it out very slowly.  That’s it.  Try it.  It can shift everything.  As always, everything is an inside job.  No better way to get your focus on the inside than breathing in. ...

I have noticed a common theme among patients conquering chronic disease and chronic pain conditions.  They have all moved their self-perspective of their bodies from hating their bodies to loving their bodies.  Many times when patients are stuck, they are in a state of despising their physical limitations, and also despising specific body parts.  No ...

I just read a great article on Dr. Carpenter’s Chiropractic website on the Placebo/Nocebo effect.  It’s got some great references to studies done to show the ability of the mind to create ill health, or a side effect from a placebo drug. A placebo is a sugar pill that is given to someone under the pretense ...