Olson Chiropractic
S.E.N.S.E
Spiritual, Energetic, Nutritional, Structural & Emotional Wellness
Newsletter – December 17, 2003
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Selections of the Month
Our educational selection this month is The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson. This incredible system offers a guide to psychological and spiritual growth, while explaining the depth of personality types. This is a transformational and developmental tool to help you realize your unique gifts and strengths, overcome your inner barriers, and discover your deepest direction in life. It also helps us understand others. It gives depth to their needs, behaviors, and attitudes. Once we understand them, we come to understand ourselves better.

It is available on tapes or in paperback. The book can be found on the second shelf and the tapes on the first shelf of the bookcase. If you would like to check these or other books we offer out, join the learning library for just $75.

Taste and Win!
Don’t forget it’s almost your last chance to enter the Taste and Win! drawing. This is the final week for the contest and the drawing of the grand prize: an Arbonne Aromatherapy gift basket and 2 teas of the winner’s choosing. To get your chance to win here’s all you have to do: taste one or more of our teas and decide on your favorite. Fill out an entry slip with your name, phone number, favorite tea, and what you like about it. Drop it into the present box and you could be a winner! We've already had two lucky winners; will you be next?

Thoughts to Ponder
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
~ Origin Unknown

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
~ Charles Darwin

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible."
~ Anonymous

The “O” Zone—Life comes from you, not to you
Great power comes to us in life when we learn to use this powerful principle. The recognition of the broad application of the law of the harvest is critical to deepen our spiritual development and physical healing capacities. The law of the harvest says, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” What we plant we must eventually eat. If we are wise and aware we will see in our mind the meal we choose to eat before we sow our seeds. Wild oats sown in folly are indeed bitter to eat. We must want the consequences of what we want. This means our behavior always tells us that which we want; we must make sure we are willing to accept the consequences that accompany that choice. Often we believe we can be irresponsible, enjoy the freedom of irresponsibility, but not have to suffer the consequences. If we want freedom, we must study carefully the path to true freedom.

When we learn to act and think in a way that brings the consequences we want we are gaining true power in life. Then the life that comes to us is exciting and desirable. Do you have the will to choose what will come to you this next year? Are you willing to behave and think in a way that will bring that quality of life your way? Always remember life comes from you—not to you. You are indeed in control of your life. Tony Robbins says, that in life there are no such things as victims, just volunteers. Be willing to see and use this incredible God-given power to create the life you want.We wish you and your family happy holidays this season.

Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia may be over diagnosed. In the past decade, fibromyalgia has become a common diagnosis characterized by reduced pain tolerance, diffuse musculoskeletal pain, sleep disturbances, fatigue and morning stiffness. This syndrome may be over reported while other conditions are overlooked. This may lead to the administration of improper treatment. At final evaluation, diagnostic accuracy for fibromyalgia by either the referring physician or the rheumatologist at initial visit was correct in only 34% of cases.

Diabetes in children set to soar if habits don’t change
One in three U.S. children born in 2000 will become diabetic unless many more people start eating less and exercising more.

The projected lifetime risk for diabetes is about triple the American Diabetes Association’s current estimate. The implications are frightening. Diabetes leads to a host of problems, including blindness, kidney failure, amputation and heart disease, and diabetics are getting younger and younger. Including undiagnosed cases, authorities believe that about 17 million Americans have diabetes today.

If the CDC predictions are accurate, some 45 million to 50 million U.S. residents could have diabetes by 2050. Diabetes, a disease caused largely by obesity and lack of exercise, has been an increasing worry for decades. From the mid-1960s to the mid-’90s, the number of cases tripled. The number of diagnosed cases rose by nearly half in just the past 10 years, and is expected to rise an additional 165 percent by 2050 and these estimates are considered conservative.

It doesn’t have to happen. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by losing weight, exercising and following a sensible diet. A study two years ago found that walking 30 minutes a day most days of the week and losing a little weight helped the people most likely to get it cut their risk by 58 percent.


Dr. A Rand Olson
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