Maximize Your Wealth through Improved Health
• "Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country." – Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass
American Journal of Medicine. June, 2009. • Medical bills and illnesses are involved in over 62% of U.S. personal bankruptcies • Over 75% of these bankrupt families (most were middle-class, owned homes, well educated) had health insurance but still failed to pay their medical debts.
Tonight’s talk • Health: what is it, and how the nervous system plays a vital role in it! • Wealth and how being healthy helps you keep your wealth. • Three factors that stress our health • Practical tips • Inspiration
If you are a Small Business owner • Who runs the show if you are ill and unable to “work” for an extended period of time? • Even if you have insurance, it doesn’t account for new clients that you could have acquired during that time.
• Usually disability insurance covers “lost wages” • For some small business owners, we are not yet paying ourselves a wage…so insurance would be based on a % of zero! • Still have all the expenses to pay
Have no time off through work • What happens if you are too ill to go to work, but you haven’t reached the poverty level that would qualify you for MN Care or Medical Assistance?
• Health insurance is there when you are sick! • Best insurance is to do whatever it takes to be healthy.
• car insurance does not pay for maintaining your car… and Health insurance doesn’t pay for maintaining HEALTH! ** with the exception of the $20.00 a month reimbursement for gym fees!
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain
List 5 things you think‌ Healthy person
Unhealthy person
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Which list are you in? Healthy or
Unhealthy
What is Health? • Henry David Thoreau said – Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. – Could we say the same thing about health…. – To fully experience life. • The body working harmoniously.
Harmony • • • • • •
Integumentary (skin) Circulatory Lymphatic Nervous Excretory Immune system
• • • • • •
Reproductive Endocrine/Hormones Skeletal Digestive Respiratory Musculature
• The nervous system
Nervous system
Provides protection
Why wear a hard had or helmet?
Provides protection
Or damage can occur when not properly aligned
Christopher Reeve • What was not functioning…. – Breathing – Movement – Bladder and Bowel control – Died due to Cardiac Arrest and possible complications from a pressure sore.
Levels of misalignments • Complete dislocation • Partial dislocation • Subluxation
• Luxation • Sub= less than • Luxation= dislocation • Lux is latin for light, so you have less light
What is health?
Physical • • • • •
Birth process Learning to walk Learning to ride bike, roller skate etc. Posture Work environment – Sitting all day – Computer/ telephone/ gadgets
Check for signs of Subluxations
What I do… • Treat Subluxations before they become painful or symptomatic • Decrease stress on the nervous system • Allowing the body to be healthy – Fully expressing and experiencing life
Mental/ Emotional • • • • •
Relationships with others and with self Ability to deal with stress Anger, resentment, un-forgiveness versus Love, gratitude, hope Thoughts about finances, friends, family etc.
Chemical • • • • • •
Food Water Alcohol Drugs (legal, prescription, or OTC) Smoking Chemicals at work, at home… – Carpeting, fire retardant bedding etc.
Healthy by choice, not chance • Make choices based on what you believe • Change your beliefs, change your choices.
• “So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.” • A. J. Reb Materi
Dr. Jan’s practical tips for Healthy Living
What any Dr. would suggest‌.
Stop making excuses Stop saying try…JUST DO IT How successful would NIKE be with a slogan “I will try” – I don’t have time – I am too old – I have a bad knee, ankle, back etc.
• Before you eat or drink ANYTHING…
•STOP • Ask yourself what “nutritional value am I getting from this food or drink….
When you’re at a restaurant • Share your meal with someone else. • Understand the difference between – Hungry – Not full
MOVE MORE • The more you move, the more energy you will have…seems counterintuitive…. • Law of Physics… – An object in motion tends to stay in motion – An object at rest tends to remain at rest
Start taking care of your health NOW • And stop blaming genetics – Bruce Lipton Ph.D. • Stem Cell biologist
• 10% or less is genetic – Genes turn on and off based on the perceived environment
Don’t focus on weight loss… • Focus on being healthy – The fat will be “released” as a result – If you “lose weight”, you will often find it again! – “I am releasing fat” – Use your mind to your advantage, it’s very powerful.
Perhaps you need a little inspiration…
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9baGr99bvA&
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUp9v8A46dk • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piur92fH6jY
Nourish your spirit and your relationships as if you may die tomorrow, Nourish your body and mind as is you may live to be 100 years old!
Anyone have questions.