[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For many of us, the practice of meditation seems like a totally foreign notion. In an era of full-time, morning-to-night distractions and distractibility, the concept of quietly sitting with nothing else to do seems impossibly ridiculous. Why would anyone do that, we ask, as we text message with one hand and channel surf with the …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your chiropractor has many powerful tools at his or her disposal to help you get well. These powerful tools include chiropractic care itself and specialized knowledge in nutrition, exercise, and rehabilitation. There are some things that you, too, can bring to the chiropractor-patient relationship in order to get the most out of your chiropractic care. …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are awash in numbers, thanks in large part to the proliferation of personal mobile devices and the wrong-headed use of so-called big data.1 But applying statistical tools to the same set of data can support competing theories and lead to contradictory results. Such conflicting outcomes, known as antinomies if you remember Philosophy 101, cannot logically …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the classic 1944 film noir, “Double Indemnity”, insurance salesman Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray), gets into some pretty hot water involving his client (Barbara Stanwyck) and his co-worker (Edward G. Robinson). Neff tries to misuse the concept of double indemnity and he pays a heavy price. Surprisingly, double indemnity works very well for …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2240″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The variegated songs of the mockingbird. The crack of the bat on the baseball diamond. The screaming of little children at play in the community pool. Wherever we turn, the sounds of summer surround us in a joyful uplifting cacophony. Summertime may mean barbecue and it may mean the beach, but …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2236″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The recent school year has long been over, but the echoes of learning, striving, and achieving persist. We may, if we choose, apply these remembrances of ourselves when we were in school to the circumstances of our health and well-being. We all want good health for ourselves and the members of …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2231″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Everyone knows someone who has undergone hip or knee replacement. These surgeries are no longer exclusively performed on older persons and are now not uncommon procedures for many patients with persistent, significant hip or knee pain. Problems that lead people to be willing to undergo joint replacement surgery include ongoing intolerable …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2225″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In the film classic “The Empire Strikes Back,” the iconic Jedi master Yoda inscrutably refers to “the Force” during training sessions with his disciple, Luke Skywalker. Yoda informs Luke that he “must feel the Force around you.” Yoda himself is frequently seen assuming what may only be described as intergalactic yoga …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2220″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In this 200th anniversary year of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, each of us can increase our health and well-being by applying his guidance to our regular exercise activities. Thoreau, one of the United States’ greatest writers, naturalists, and philosophers, not only walked the length and breadth of Concord, his …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2215″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In baseball, hitting for the cycle means that a batter hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run during the same game. Hitting for the cycle is a rare baseball event, occurring about as often as a no-hitter by a pitcher. Certainly, a great deal of skill is …
