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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to transform your health with one of Pennsylvania's
leading authorities on total health. Over the next hour, you'll
learn how to prevent and reverse disease, overcome common health obstacles,
and live to your fullest God given potential. This is
Maximized Living Radio with Doctor Greg O'Neil Healthcare on a
mission sponsored by lit Its Family Chiropractic.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, guys, welcome through another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neill. Today, I'm going to
be talking about enjoying the process of change that we've
all set it to ourselves. We've all heard it a
million times. Change is hard and our body can literally
resist change, especially a nervous system. Things like losing weight,
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adding in a new exercise program, starting going to the chiropractor.
Really anything that changes our rituals or routines is considered
hard because it goes we're going against the grain. I'm
going to be talking about ways that you can enjoy
the process and really leaning into it so that you can,
you know, get better, but not just be miserable while
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you're doing it. Because you hear people where they go
to lose weight, They're like, I feel like I'm starving myself,
or people go to do the exercise like I'm exhausted
on this. I'm that. So we want to change, we
want to change our focus, we want to change our
lens so that we can we can enjoy it and
it can be a good time, and then looking back,
you can see it not as a chore, but as
something that was not only worth it, like the ends
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justify the means, where maybe you see the scale go down,
or you see your spine change, or you get out
of pain, or you start eating better. But then you
also look back and you're like, you know what, that
was good? That really changed me as a person because
I put my mind to something, I did it, but
not only did I do it, but I had a
good attitude about it, and that's something that that's really
the important part. I want to brag on my son,
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one of my sons. So I have two I have
at the time recording the show, nine year old, six
year old and four year old, and my six year
old just completed his first season of ice hockey, which
is really exciting and starting out, he was in the
sixth and undergroup. Most of the kids started when they're
like four or five, so kids start really early. And
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so his name is Jake. Jake started when he was five,
just turning six, so he was in his last year.
We're in the six years, so he's although he's one
of the older kids chronologically, he was very beginner, like
knew how to skate somewhat, but then putting all the
equipment on and everything, it's difficult, Like hockey is a
difficult sport to learn because you have to learn multiple
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things at once. You have to learn how to skate forwards, backwards,
you have to learn your edges, turning, stopping. Then you
also have to have a stick in your hand, learning
how to handle the puck stick, handling, shooting, passing, even
before he even playing a game. And then with the game,
all the rules and regulations and cooperation and the pressure
and the teamwork and everything. It can be a lot.
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But you can look at it that way or you
can look at it another way of like this is
a challenge, and this is something with sports with kids.
I said this a million times. It's not really so
much about the sport. It's about doing something that's hard,
setting your mind to something that's difficult, and accomplishing it
and that's what changes you as a person. And so
for Jake, like I've noticed a huge change in him
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this season. You know, his coaches, my wife, his teachers
are just like Jake just seems more determined and just
more focused. And it just that's just what's really grown
in him. And at the time recording, if he doesn't
even know this yet, we're gonna be going to like
a hockey banquet. And his coach told me that he
nominated Jake for the Sportsmanship Award, So they give out
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one award per team, and he was nominated for the
Sportsmanship Award. And I was talking to the coach, He's like,
you know, I couldn't even think of another kid, because
Jake just has a great attitude and he tries hard
every practice and he's a good teammate. And that's still
cool because in sports we get caught up in the
in the skill. And don't get me wrong, Jake's improved
a lot and he's got a lot better. But it's
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not about so much your skill or your talent. It's
about your heart behind it, and it's about your attitude.
And I think it's taken me a few years to
realize that when you hear of like you hear like
the first overall draft pick that never got drafted or
never made it, and it wasn't because of their skill,
it was because of their attitude. And I see that
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in healthcare. It's it's the biggest thing. And I tell
people this, like, it's your willingness to change and your
attitude about it that determines how well you're going to
do with it. It's your willingness to change. You got to
be willing to change, number one. But then it's also
your attitude about it, and that can change. We all
can start out with a bad attitude and a poor attitude,
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and we can have every excuse in the book, and
there's gonna be days that are like that, and there's
gonna be days that are good and then are bad,
and you can be grumpy or sad or mad or
whatever else. But overall, the overall art is that we
want to have a good attitude about change because the
patients that I see that have a good attitude, those
are the ones that hit their goals not only faster,
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but in a more reasonable fashion and in a more
enjoyable fashion. So I want to you know, I'm going
to tell multiple stories today. But the first story, I
have a patient named Tracy and she just started care
and she's, you know, in her mid forties, dealing with
pretty bad neck pain. Works at an office job, sitting
most of the day so at a computer, and for her,
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when she started coming in, she was very nervous about
getting her neck adjusted because her neck was already in pain.
And that can be kind of the oxymoron people are
dealing with. They're like, I'm already in pain. I don't
want you to put me in more pain. And I
think people think of like the dentist or I don't
know what they're thinking of, but getting an adjustment is
actually enjoyable when your spine is in the right alignment
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and when you're getting the right when you're getting the
right care and you're getting the right space. Sophicity, Now
what do I mean by that? So you go to
a dentist and you have crooked teeth, they put braced
on your teeth, gonna there's gonna be a little bit
of residual soreness. You go to the gym and you
haven't stretched in three years and you go to do
a workout, Yeah, you might be a little sore so
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an adjustment itself feels good, it's just those muscles will
react to a new position. Now for ninety nine point
nine nine percent of people like the adjustments feels great.
And I'll always let people know if they have certain
things going on or they have pre existent conditions, I'll
work with them and I'll say, hey, just to let
you know you have X, Y, and Z going on,
I'm going to lighten things up. I'm going to do
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these specific tests so that we don't get to the
point where you're really sore. That's that's my goal, because again,
we want things to get better and we want it
to be what did I say, to start enjoyable as
you get there, So there's a balance of both. So
that's where when someone comes into our office, we take
specific X rays if necessary, and we come up with
with with what's called a listing where we're able to
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go through each verse to bray and the patterns of
what we call sublix station and come up with a
listing or a way in which that patient is adjusted
that's universal to our technique, meaning I can adjust you,
my wife could adjust you, and associate could adjust you
in the same manner and then it would be specific
to use therefore what you need and therefore going to
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be relieving because if your your top phone is out
on the right, it needs to be adjusted in a
specific way versus if it was out on the left.
If that makes sense. So for Tracy getting adjusted, I
got her adjusted and she's like, oh, like that's it,
and I'm like, yeah, that's it. She's like, oh, that
would like basically saying like that's not scary, Like no,
it feels good, and start feel a little better. But
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then you move into that what I call the murky middle,
where you're you're not quite You're better than where you started,
but you're not where you want to be. And this
is where the tension is for people. And this is
where I always say, like, listen, this is where you
want to buckle down and really focus on the things
that you're doing. Because the ingredients are there. You have
the ingredients of your adjustment and changing your nutrition and
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changing your exercise, you're helping your body heal. It's kind
of like putting the batter in the pan of like
the flour and the eggs, like the cake, and now
you've got to put it in the oven and allow
it to bake. Okay, So if you put something in
the oven, you wouldn't check it every five seconds. You
would know that there's a set amount of time. And
if there's been problems in your body for a long
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time and there's been issues there, it might take time
to correct it. And that's where patience comes in. That's
where positivity comes in. That's where the big word persistence
comes in. And you persist even when you're not getting
your result right away, even when the cake is not
rising after thirty seconds of being in the oven. You
have to realize it's like, okay, number one, this is
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going to take time. And under the guidance of your
chiropractice someone like me, your natural health provider, that's where
they can help give you an appropriate timeframe. And what
I'm going to focus on as I go to break
here in a minute here is that I'm able to
lay out like a certain number of visits and an
and a timeframe of where based on my clinical judgment
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and experience and what you have going on, of how
long things will take. So that's the best part is
like listen, I expect that you'll be feeling better by
this point based on my experience. I expect them we'll
make lasting change in your spine by this point, so
you get to see kind of the end before you
start and get an idea of what you're getting into
and what it's going to take to get better. So
after the break we'll focus on that. So stay tuned.
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All right, guys, welcome back to the show Maximize Living
Radio Doctor Greg O'Neill. Please check out our podcast and
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Check out our YouTube channel, let Its Family Chiropractic. Check
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out our website lit Itsfamily Chiropractic dot com. Better yet,
check out our office. Come see us in person like
I can. Everything so online, Like everything is like so online,
and I really love that. Our office is it's like
old school in a way. You come in and you
talk with with people. We help people. You'll sit with me.
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Not a video consultation, it's not a zoom consultation. We're
gonna sit down and go through what's going on with
you and see if I can help, and you will
see me. Like a lot of these other radio shows
and stuff, they're like, oh, come on in and you'll
see my associator. No, no, no, you're gonna see me directly,
doctor Greg O'Neill. Let Its Family Chiropractic. So come come
out to lit It's the beautiful town, beautiful area. Our
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office is newly renovated in the last year. I'm like,
it looks great, and yeah, it's it's exciting. It's really exciting.
We're moving and grooving and we're on a mission to
help people. You know, I'm not here to throw stones
or anything like that. We're not Joe Blow Chiropractic office.
We're here. We're here to help. We're here to make
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a difference. A lot of other chiropractors are too. I'm
not saying that, but we really, I believe, go the
extra step to make sure that you get better and
that I'm going to kind of explain that here because
I've been talking about enjoying the process. Today, i want
to talk about like what a process actually looks like,
because it's actually good to have a process. You want
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to have a plan, you want to have an idea
of what's going on. And this is where if you're
anything like me, having help with that is imperative because
coming up with my own plan can be difficult. Sticking
to my own plan can be tough because I'm not
one to necessarily make a plan, believe it or not.
I'm more one to kind of wing it. People will say, like,
I know friends colleagues that do radio shows. They have
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the whole thing scripted out. I'm not joking. I know
a guy personally, he writes out verbat and what he's
going to say. It must take him so long to
do this, and then he sits and reads it, and
people like you prepare for your radio show, I'm like,
I really I do. I guess I'm preparing throughout the week,
like I'm I'm gathering ideas and information. I was just
asked this yesterday, but most of it you can probably
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notice I kind of wing I go off the top,
because that's just just how my personality is. I'll have
it like a set idea of what I want to
talk about, like a topic, and I break it up
into four segments and then and then I go Now,
I can't do that with other areas of life, because
it works here you can be spontaneous and creative, but
that doesn't work with like I have young kids. That
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doesn't work with a school schedule, that doesn't work with
running a business having eight employees, being married, you know,
it doesn't work like that. You have to have a plan,
you have to have a process. And many of you
listening to this, and I hear this a lot people
will say like, oh, I'm just not good at a
discipline or sticking to a plan and this and that.
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Now they're just talking about their health, right, They're talking
about the health aspect. And what I reroute people too
is I'll basically say like, well, I'm going to call
you out on that because you are good at it
in other areas of your life. Like I know, people
come in they're like executives and businesses and business owners,
or it's mothers who are at home and they're homeschooling
their children, or fathers who are going off to work,
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or like grandparents who have all these social things going on,
or people who have a garden or people who go
play pickleball. People have plans and processes in their life,
and a lot of people listen to this, you're probably
a lot more diligent and disciplined and scheduled in many
aspects of your life. Than I am. But it's not
about your ability to schedule and process. Most people are already
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pretty good at that. It's about your priorities. Where your
priorities are. Wherever your priorities are, those are the things
that are going to get done. Where your priorities aren't,
those things aren't going to get done. It's just how
it is. It's just a reality. Like I have a
nine year old. He doesn't want to do his home
work right. It's not necessarily his priority. When I was
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that age, I didn't want to do my homework. It
wasn't my priority. But guess what, there's things in life
that we have to do that have to get done right.
Going to time, you become the adult. At some point
in your life, you become the parent. You become the adult,
and you start saying the things that you didn't like
hearing from your parents, you know, thirty years ago. It's
just funny how life works. But we can apply those
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same messages that we tell our kids, that we tell
players on the field, that we tell ourselves. We got
to apply that to our health, okay, And it's kind
of easy in a way. It's like you have to
have a plan, you have to have a process and
then you follow along because if you're just meandering willy
nilly going through it, yeah, you're more likely to fail.
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You're setting yourself up for failure. So what do we
do at our office that's different. So someone comes into
our office and we go through an examination and consultation,
go through someone's paperwork, So we have you feel paperwork
out ahead of time. I review that, I come into
the room with you. You know, we show you around
the office to come into the room with you, and
we go over what your concerns are, what you've been
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dealing with, your history, and then we go through your
most importantly, I believe your goals, what you want to
achieve with your health, and then a consultation how what
you could be dealing with can be related to your
spine and your nervous system, the thing that we focus
on in the office. Then we do an examination, the
examination your posture, range of motion, how well your spine
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is moving, how patient of your spine, feeling along your spine,
the areas of tenderness and UH and and issues like
muscle muscles out of joint or subluxation, mislignment of the spine.
And then if necessary. We take X rays and that's
the best way for us to tell where you're at
compared to normal, and then come up with a plan,
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a process to correct your spine. And then I lay
that I by a second visit, I get someone adjusted.
I see how their spine's going to move. That gives
me an idea of kind of where we're at, not
only with the extrays, but how their spine actually moves
under the under my hands. Then I come up with
a process. I come up with a plan. Okay, here's
what we're gonna do. I'd like to see you for.
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This is gonna be the number of visits. Here's gonna
be the exercise we're gonna have you do here at home.
Here's your X rays. I'm gonna show you those actually
show you what's happening. Here's how much everything will cost.
Here's how much your insurance will it won't pay. Here's
how you can choose to pay for it over time.
So I lay everything out for people, everything out, the
effort that will take, how often you'll be coming, the cost,
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the insurance, all those questions you have. I lay that
out for people, and then it's your decision from there.
Then it puts the power in your hands so you
can make the best decision for yourself, and then people
start care and then things start to change. It's really cool.
It's fun. I have a patient, just spoke to her yesterday.
She was super excited. Her name is Jane, listens to
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the radio show. Lives in the greater Harrisburg area. So
she's driving just over an hour to get to those
past cares west of Harrisburg. So she's driving just over
an hour to get to our office. Now, she's a
long time chiropractic patient. She's seen chiropractors in the past,
but she heard me on the radio show, wanted to
try something different. And she was dealing with pretty bad
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neck pain tension now unbeknownst to her, not thinking that
this would change. But she also dealt with well. I
would describe it as insomnia, not being able to sleep
through the night. She'd only sleep four hours at a
time and be wide awake. And this went on for
well over a year, if not more. Shed when I
asked her, because she's like, it's gon on so long,
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I can't even remember. So she would wake up magice,
waking up wide awake, you know, two, three, four, in
the morning, You're wide awake, and she would like be
soul awakes. She would do chores or do puzzles, like
busy herself and then maybe if she was lucky, fall
asleep again. But many times just be up and you know,
fell into that. Well, I just I just don't need
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you know, people say I just don't need much sleep.
That's not true. Your body does need sleep. You need
seven eight nine hours of sleep. Running on four hours
of sleep is not good no matter how you slice it.
But you get used to what you deal with. I'm
not saying she if I only had four hours of sleep,
I'd be grumpy. Now, Jane is a very pleasant person,
very nice. I would not be so nice I was
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four hours asleep, that's for sure. Well that's just me.
I'm a baby when it comes to that. I need
my seven eight nine hours a sleep, for sure. So
with Jane, you know, coming in, going through a specific exam,
taking X rays, showing her a plan, her agreeing to
the plan, going through the process, but then most importantly
working the process, and within a few adjustments her next
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started to feel better. She's in about two weeks of care.
I came around the corner that came into the adjustment
room and she's standing up. Most people are laying down
ready to be adjusted. She was standing out, so I
knew she had a question. She goes, question for you.
I'm like, yeah, She goes, does this help with sleep?
Is getting adjusted? Like this a helpless sleep? And I
was like, why what have you noticed? And I've learned
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not to answer a question. I ask other questions. You know,
why what have you noticed? And she's like, well, for
the last few nights, I've slept all the way through
the night. And she's like, and that I have not
changed anything else. I haven't changed anything else you told
me to do yet with the nutrition or anything. The
only thing I've done differently is started to come here
and get adjusted to do my exercises and I'm now
sleeping through the night. Does that have to do with this?
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And I was like, yeah, absolutely it does. Now, how
does that work? Is that? There's a few reasons, but
the main one is that getting adjustments takes physical and
chemical pressure off of the spinal cord and the spinal
nerves and allows your spine to move more freely. That
automatically is going to lower stressful amone is that when
your neck is out of alignment and your muscles are
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tight and there you have knots and everything. The reason
it gets that way is because your brain told your
muscles to get that way. So when you go ahead
and you get your spine moving better and the muscles
start to relax, guess what your brain can do. Your
brain can calm down and it can stop sending stressful
signals to the neck. So when it stops sending stress
signals out of the brain, guess what else happens. Well,
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if you have less stress signals in your body, you're
going to fe feel better, You're going to feel happier,
you're going to feel more wakeful. Like we've all been
stressed before, we've all been on the verge of maybe
a panic attack or something like that. When you breathe
your way through it and you come out of it,
you feel better, You feel more wakeful, you feel happier,
feel more alert. And the other cool part is you're
going to sleep better too. Your body's going to be
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more at ease, more less on guard, and more at ease,
more secure through the adjustments. So really cool story, and
that she's sleeping now through the night, And I said well,
how's your energy. She's like, my energy feels great. I
feel like wide awake, And I said, no doubt. I
mean like, if I was only sleeping four hours, I
couldn't even imagine. So now she's sleeping through the night
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seven eight hours, which is really cool. So shout out
to Jane for making the choice to come in. That's
the big thing, guys, is that the difference between her
and you and the problems that she was dealing with
is that she decided to take action. And that's the
operative word. Is that you can have a plan, you
can have a process. What I'm going to focus on
most of the rest of the show is you've got
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to put the plan. You've got to put the process
into action, action, action, action, and start moving and doing
and you're going to see change happening. So, if you'd
like to get a hold of us to make a
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five After the break a right, guys, Welcome back to
the show, Doctor Greg O'Neil Maximize Living Radio talking about
enjoying the process of change, you know, taking the first step.
We've talked about that a lot, getting in the process,
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taking action. That's what I want to talk about now,
is continuing and take action. We can be obsessed. You
can be obsessed with the checkpoints. An obvious one for
this would be stepping on the scale every day. I
beg gil of that, that's for sure. Oh my gosh,
that's a frustrating thing to do, isn't it. It's hard.
It makes it makes it hard. I should say that
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you make weight loss hard when you're constantly checking the progress,
but you're constantly comparing yourself to where you think you
should be instead of being present where you are. Isn't
that The human experience is we get ourselves in trouble
when we put our minds off into the future, back
in the past. You know, whether it's fear and anxiety
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about the future, whether it's shame and regret or guilt
of the past. And that's where we get ourselves in trouble.
And we want to we want to focus. You know,
in the Bible, Jesus said, you know, can you by
worrying even add a single hour to your life? No,
you can't. I would add on to that you can
sure take a few hours off your life by worrying,
that's for sure. So I'm talking myself here too. Don't
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get me wrong. You want to focus on where you're
at and just do the next best thing for yourself.
Easier said than done, right, But it's so true. I mean,
let's talk about weight loss for a second. The only
thing you can do now is the next meal or
the next snack, or saying yes to the next good thing,
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or saying no to the next bad thing. Yes or no.
That's your only thing, right. You can't change what happened
yesterday or over the weekend you went out and partied,
or you ate too much, or twenty years ago, whatever
happened then with your food or this that or your body. Like,
you can't change that. You can't, right, And you also
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can go off into the future, and you can say,
what if this doesn't work? You know, I have this
vacation coming up, or this this, this date coming up,
the wedding, the ceremony, whatever it is. I want to
be at a certain weight. How am I going to
fit into that dress? How am I gonna fit into
those pants? How am I gonna fit in that suit?
You can do that, but you're gonna drive yourself nuts,
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and you're going to detract from what's going on right now.
You're going to pull away from what's going on now.
And that's when that's when weight loss becomes hard. Okay,
that's when making a change like getting your spine healthier
becomes hard. Adding in an exercise program, doing all this stuff,
it becomes hard. When we move ourselves out of the present,
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we go back in the pastern into the future. And
that's the case basically for all of the human experience.
If we just stayed present, if we just stayed with
where we were, we'd be in a lot better shape. Right.
We come home from work and we're thinking about work.
We go to work and we're thinking about home. We
go to school and we're thinking about home or work,
you know what I mean. We're thinking about the money
or this or that. We're like, we're hardly where we're
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at now. Phones make it ten times worse because now
not only are you thinking about your own problems, but
now you're comparing yourself to someone who's not you, who
doesn't live the same life as you, who doesn't have
the same experience as you. So if you go on Instagram,
or you go on reels or YouTube shorts or TikTok.
All of a sudden, you start seeing all these beautiful
people who are skinnier than you, better looking than new
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six packs, all this stuff. You know what, probably most
of those people are like nineteen years old and on,
and they're juiced up or on like drugs or something. Okay,
you can't. I don't know if that's the case for all,
but you can't compare your own life to someone else.
They're not living the same experience as you. Like a
lot of those like fitness influencers and stuff, that's their
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full time job there. Maybe they don't have two or
three or four kids, Maybe they're not running a business,
maybe they're not doing anything else but working out. That's
that's their life and good for them, but that's not you.
You can't. You can't compare yourself there. But that's that's
the evil of the phone of the social media is comparison.
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It might have started out as something cool to connect
with people, and it could I guess it could still
be that way, But for me personally, I'm off social media.
In fact, recently I think I shared this. I even
deleted a YouTube app because I didn't like seeing the
YouTube shorts. So now I just use like music apps.
If I want to listen to podcasts or whatnot, I'll
just use music apps in order to do that. So
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I'm not getting that stimulation from video. It's it is addicting.
It is addicting. I can tell that from and say
that from personal experience. Like you're looking, I'm looking. I'd
be looking for my phone. I want to check this
or look at this, or what's the update with this?
And the notifications and the buzzes and the likes and
the all this pings and whatnot. It's playing on your
brain's chemistry in the worst way possible, and instead of
(26:27):
connecting you with others, it actually disconnects you from others.
And the worst thing that it does is it disconnects
you from yourself. Technology, I believe, in many ways, disconnects
humans from themselves. And you're seeing this whole thing now
where people are looking back and getting nostalgic. Oh, the
nineties were greater, the eighties are greater, or the two
(26:47):
thousands are great, all this time before phones. Life can
be great now, it can be great now. Okay, so
you can look at the at the past and think
it was better back then, or you can think it
was worse, or you're look in the future and be
worried about it this, that or the other. Thing. All
you can do is control your next step, your next breath,
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you're the next thing that you're eating. That's all you
can do. And so just do that. If you just
do that, you'll be in a lot better shape. And
I'm telling you that from personal experience. When I get
myself into trouble, when I get myself into self loathing
thoughts or depression or not feeling well or anxiety or
my nervous system is heightened, and I have trouble sleeping.
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Things like that. Every time is I've moved out of
my present life and either back in the past or
often in the future, thinking about things I shouldn't be
thinking about in the place that I'm at, like, for example,
think about work stuff while I'm at home with my kids,
or if I'm at work, i'm thinking about something else
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like I'm then you're not really there, are you? Then
you're not really there? So you want to be there,
And that's what being present is. And the way to
be present is to kind of you know, look around it.
It's so good for us, feel good for me. I
should say just to go for a walk like a lot.
That's like therapy for me. If if I can just
(28:08):
get out walk, move, you're getting your body moving, your
heart rate's going up, your muscles are moving through exercise.
But then also you're going for a walk, you're seeing
different different things, like you're stimulating your brain in a
different way that's not on your phone, and that's very
healthy for you. So if I already give and I
do give this advice a lot to patience. Maybe they're
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feeling down, they're feeling a little blue, or they're feeling
like frustrated with their goals and things like that that
they wish they could hit. I say, you know what,
one of the best things you can do is just
go for a walk. And you wouldn't believe when I
say that to people. You wouldn't believe the number of
people that are like, you know what, that I used
to love doing that, or I miss doing that and
once the weather gets bad or this happens in that
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I get away from that, and once you get back
to doing that, it makes a big difference. But the
walk for you could be different. Maybe it's reading, maybe
it's prayer, maybe it's meditation, maybe whatever, or it is.
We have to take those steps to reregulate ourselves to
be able to enjoy the process, which I'm talking about
today at the title of the show, so that we
can enjoy the moment that we're at now. Enjoyment is
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a lot different than words like happy or sad, like
those are kind of in the moment, Like you can
still be in enjoyment but have feelings of like sadness
or happiness or excitement or nervousness. To what I'm saying,
it's like the overall, the overarching thing. It's like I
can still enjoy life even though things are going haywire.
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And this is like the where wisdom comes in. Like
you know, when when you have young kids and anytime
you pass like an older person, they're like, oh, oh,
enjoy every moment. Enjoy every moment. You know. They say that,
like when you have the young kids. They're not saying
be happy about every moment, be content about every moment,
be glad every moment is happening. They're saying, enjoy the moment.
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And what I think they're really saying is this, they're
not well. First of all, I'll tell you what they're
not saying. They're not saying like, oh you like, oh
the baby just pooped everywhere and you have poop all
over your hands, or the kids are up crying in
the middle of the night, you're exhausted. That's they're not
saying that's fun. They're not saying that's fun at all.
But they're saying enjoy, meaning like, be there because those
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days are going to go by quickly and someday you'll
look back and wish that you were more present. Right,
But then that could be its own problem. You don't
want to look back and wish anything. You just want
to I could tell them enjoy. Here's a good one.
The next time an older person says to me, enjoy
every moment instead of saying I will, actually I'm gonna
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say I will, and I'm going to say you too. Hey,
just come up with that. See the spontaneity of the show.
This is fun. So when an older person comes up
to me and I have my three kids and they're
gonna say enjoy every moment, I'm gonna say, I am
going to enjoy it, thank you, and I want you
to enjoy your moment too, because wherever you're at in
your life, it's easy to look back and think that
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your best days are behind you. And I think that's
one of the biggest lies out there, from either the
flesh or the evil one whomever is saying it that's
a lie, is that you want to enjoy where you're
at now and give the effort where you're at now. Okay,
that's my doctor Griggs mindset ten minutes here, let's switch
gears in a little more practical into taking action and
(31:23):
being on the process. Okay, so let's say you have
now I was talking earlier in the show, getting the
plan in place, having someone to help with that. So
for me, I do best, like for exercise, when I
have like an exercise regiment that's mapped out for me.
That's kind of dummy proof for me. Like I do,
I have an app with all the workouts, so I
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just go on and I click on the workout and
it starts and then I follow along, and that's that's
great for me because if I had to do it
myself and come up with the whole routine, I wouldn't
do it to the same extent. I wouldn't do it
to the same intensity. I certainly wouldn't do it to
the proper length of time. That's just that's just how
it would happen. Okay. So for you having that process,
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having that plan in place, whether that's a plan to
get your neck out of pain, your back, your hips,
your knees, whatever's going on, whatever symptoms, headaches, migraines, engine stiffness,
whatever's going on, having a plan in place to get
that corrected. Not just like wait till you're seven years
old and cut your knees out and put a put
(32:27):
a fake knee in, a put a fake shoulder in,
a put a fake hit in. That's not a plan.
That's not a plan at all. You're just standing on
the sidelines. You're not playing the game of life. You
want to have a plan in place to do that,
and that's where we can help you. So coming to
our office, we can help put a plan in place
to get the things in your life, you know, moving
in the right direction, get those issues corrected. So stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Hi, it's R. J. Harris. I've been listening to doctor
Greg O'Neil from Lidit's Chiropractic for years. He makes so
much sense I've become a patient. His adjustments have made
a big difference in my life. If you're in pain
at back or neck issues, or just want to feel
and function better, call doctor Greg today. He'll give you
fifty percent off your first visit and any necessary X
(33:12):
race like you did for me. Call Lywitz Family Chiropractice.
Seven one seven six two seven zero three six'.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Five all, right, guys welcome back to the. Show we're
going to close out the week Here Maximize Living. Radio
Dr greg O'Neill talking about enjoying the.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Process as this show has moved on and, Evolved i'm
realizing that the word and enjoy IS i might as
well just say being present in the, process not putting
yourself off in the future too, much not putting yourself
in the past too. Much that's where my PATIENTS i
see where they get themselves in trouble met from a mental,
(33:53):
standpoint and that can really derail your action steps because
you're the unhealthy thinking style is that you start to
want to prove yourself. Right there's a story that every
person's telling themselves all the. Time there would be many different.
Stories Tony robbins talks about. This Tony, robbins a famous motivational.
(34:14):
Speaker he's just, like what's the story you're telling? Yourself
he talks about changing your. Story so your, story your internal,
monologue it could be a good, Thing like you, Know i'm,
Capable i'm, healthy i make good, Decisions i'm. Confident those
are always the stories that were really working on with our.
Kids it's like really getting in, that like what's their?
(34:36):
Story because as a, parent if you're not telling your
kid what their story is or helping them develop their,
story then someone else is going, to you, know think
of bullying or other things like, that or you, know
what their peers say or their friends, say and the
kids can say those, things but that's not the. Story
WHAT i always say to my kids is, Like, okay
they can say, that but is that? True is that?
(34:59):
True and they'll be, like will. Know, well then then
it doesn't matter if it's not the, Truth and it doesn't.
Matter that's just something that that they're. Saying that's their
opinion and it's. Wrong so the person that's the most
influential to you is. You you're the most influential person
in the world to, yourself and so the story that
you tell yourself can either empower you or derail. You
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and there's this thing in your, brain your subconscious, brain
where it's always wanting to prove you, right and it's
part of. It it's called the reticulating particular activating system
in your mind where you're going to see the things
that you subconsciously are focused. On so if you, LIKE
i could tell, you, like think of a why just
(35:45):
a gray cyber. Truck it used to be when they
would share this analogy years, ago twenty years, ago they
would say a yellow a yellow. Hummer, remember like hummers
were kind of like the cyber trucks of the, Day
like you'd see when you're be, like oh look it's a.
Hummer that's so. Cool and it says like if you
think of a yellow, hummer then you'll see one. Everywhere
you'll start to see. It BUT i would say this
(36:07):
day and, age it's, like, okay think of a gray cyber.
Truck then you'll start seeing that. Everywhere, now the better
analogy than that you go buy a, car all of
a sudden you see that same car, everywhere, Right LIKE
i drive a Blue ONTO. CRV i THOUGHT i was
pretty cool driving.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Out of the.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Lot, well it turns out everybody else drives one because
that's ALL i, see you, know around, town because that's
all my brain is focused. On that's When i'm attuned.
To when my wife was pregnant years, ago everybody was.
Pregnant everyone THAT i noticed was. Pregnant right WHEN i
walk around when we had young, KIDS i see strollers.
Everywhere right when you're out on your, bike you see a.
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Bike when you're into, boating you see. Boats when you're into,
fishing you see you, know fishing. Stuff, like whatever you're focused,
on that's what pops. Up. Now i'm just saying all
the kind of the physical, things but also whatever you're,
Think i'm on your subconscious, mind those those kind of
evil or self loathing thoughts that you can. Think, unfortunately
those can start to pop up in different ways and
(37:10):
your brain can, say, SEE i told you. So like for,
example if you SAY i can't lose, weight look at
my genetics or the way that my mom was or
my dad. WAS I i just can't lose. Weight and
then you step on the scale and you prove yourself
right because you went you had that night where you
ate too much, food you got stressed, out you ate
too much food and you prove yourself, right and it's that. Story,
(37:34):
Okay like for, ME i would, say, okay it can.
Be it can be difficult to lose. WEIGHT i don't
even know IF i should say. That it's, like in
order for me to lose, WEIGHT i must. Focus so
If i'm, FOCUSED i will lose. Weight If i'm, FOCUSED
i will lose. Weight so that's what you have to,
do is just you have to stay. Focused but then
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the other problem, is LIKE i was saying, earlier you
can start to. Compare so you look at other, People,
oh look at how they lost, wait or look at this,
person how healthy they? Are look at their, kids they're
better behave than? Mine or look at that house is
bigger than. Mine you start, comparing and then it's even worse,
online LIKE i was, saying with the phone and social, media,
guys you got to get yourself off of, that telling
you right, now get off of. It LIKE i, understand
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go look at pictures and connect with your family and
this and. THAT i get. That but whatever you can
do to get off of those like the reels and
the shorts and the, TikTok the stuff that just sucks
your mind into it and puts you into this comparison.
Mode it is not healthy for. You it's especially not
healthy for young children and teenagers when their brain is so.
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Impressionable their brain is like, clay, right that's being molded
in real, time and when they're a it would be.
HARD i could admit it would be hard to be
a kid, nowadays especially a. Teenager like a lot of
people remember that used to, Say, oh kids have it
easy these, days and blah blah. BLAH i don't think
kids do at. All it would be. Hard with the
pandemic and everything that, happened and social isolation and then
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just being disconnected on the phones and everything like, that
it would be. Tough so it's a conscious effort for,
parents for grandparents to really engage, kids talk to, them
be social with, them ey'd, eye looking people in the,
eyes shaking their, hand talking to. People it's important that
we move away from the phones and social media and
all that. Stuff so maybe just your next best step
(39:25):
is hopping on your, phone and maybe it's deleting a
social media app or, two or deactivating an account for
a period of, time just trying out you can do that.
Too you can just deactivate your account you're, like, WELL
i don't want to delete the whole, thing deactivate. It
give yourself a, week give yourself two, weeks and see
if you notice any. Change AND i bet you a
dollar that you, will AND i know it was the
(39:47):
case for. Me all right, now talking about enjoying the
prospecting about enjoyment being. Present let's talk about some practical
things that you can be, doing BECAUSE i, said what's
the next best thing that you can? Do what are
some practical? Steps number, one And i've shared this on
a previous, show BUT i just want to reiterate because
it's really. Important Number, one making sure to eating twenty
(40:10):
to thirty grams of protein per. Meal so keep three
meals a, day eating at least twenty to thirty grams
of protein per meal per. Day so that'll get you
into the you, know ideally into eighty to the ninety
grams of protein per, day which will. Help so the
calculation for this is you want to be eating half
(40:33):
your healthy body weight in. Grams so think of like
what your healthy body weight should be and then cut
that in. Half you should be eating that amount in
grams of. Protein, Okay so basically twenty to thirty grams
of protein per, meal you're going to notice more sustained.
Energy i'll tell this in a quick. Story my oldest Son,
(40:54):
michael we get a serial Called Catalina crunch and it
has it does have some. Protein it's like a healthier
gluten free type. Cereal but if we're rushed for school
and that's all he, has he actually admitted today that
his energy was, off like mid. Morning he's, LIKE i
noticed IF i just eat the, cereal LIKE i get,
tired and that's really. Cool he's nine years. OLD i
(41:17):
wouldn't even have noticed. That, HONESTLY i didn't notice that
UNTIL i was like twenty five or twenty, six WHERE
i would actually like didn't think like huh this like
food equates to, Energy like for him to think, that that's,
Awesome LIKE i was really happy about. That i'll have
to make SURE i tell him that, later like that
that's a big win for me that he's equating not
just food to, like, oh not being, hungry but food
(41:40):
is your energy, too and your wakefulness and really a
lot to do with your learning as a. Student so
TODAY i made. HIM i made sure, like, yeah he
had his cereal and. Whatnot but THEN i made, Sure,
okay we're going to have a protein smoothie and you
have to drink it, right. Yep and the best part
is when kids can agree with you and understand the.
(42:02):
Why that's where lasting change. Happens because Before i'd be, Like,
okay gotta have your. Smoothie it's, like, OH i just
want to have this, seal like it's just. Easier but
now it's like he's the one telling, me, like, oh
WHEN i just do, THAT i don't feel as. Good
SO i need to have more protein in the. Morning
and that's where it becomes like the contract in the
way it's, Like, Okay i'm gonna Have i'll make you
the smoothie and you're gonna drink, it not just BECAUSE
(42:24):
i told you, so but because you're the one saying
and you notice the. Difference it's like he's owning it for.
Himself so that's really. Cool so eating twenty to thirty
grams more, protein especially in the, morning is going to
really make a big change for your. AFTERNOON i would say,
too like everyone talks about that THREE pm feeling where
you feel like you want to reach for coffee or
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reach for caffeine or take an afternoon. NAP a lot
of times your body is just lacking in. Protein you've
probably eaten too many, carbohydrates especially refined. Carbohydrates and then
also the next step is becoming more hydrated by drinking
one or two more glasses a. Day most people could
benefit by drinking one or two more glasses of water a,
(43:08):
day one or two more glasses of. WATER i am
not joking When i've said this to people in the
past and they'll, say does the water in my coffee?
COUNT i said this to an older lady one. TIME
i was, like make sure to drink, water and then
she kind of gave me a, look And i'm, like,
okay do you drink? Water and she, said does the
water in my tea or coffee? Count AND i said,
(43:30):
No so she was not drinking any, water like. NONE
i couldn't even, imagine like just the tea and coffee
throughout the day and no. Water, Okay AND i can
tell you to start drinking. Water what a? Change what a?
CHANGE i, mean just looking at her, face she looked,
younger more, vibrant more. Energy just by drinking more water
(43:54):
in your, Life it's like it makes a huge. Difference,
Now i'll also push in and my Friend Arjia harris
talks about this reverse osmosis water we. USE i use
Personally Martin's water And. Conditioning, NO i do not get
paid any. Advertisements if they want to send me a free,
something go Ahead Martin's water And conditioning In Lancaster county
(44:16):
and they'll come out give you an estimate on what's going.
On but they do reverse osmosis. Water and what reverse
osmosis water does is it's taking out all the contaminants even,
medications hormones and things like that that can make their
way into our tap water by people flushing medications down the.
Toilet please don't do that can get into the. Water
(44:37):
SO i would recommend reverse osmosis water is my top pick.
TODAYS i hope these practical tips will. HELP i hope
that you get the mindset that you want to enjoy
the process of signing. Office Doctor, greg have a great.
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Doctor greg O'Neil From Livit's chiropractic for. Years he makes
so much. Sense i've become a. Patient his adjustment have
made a big difference in my. Life if you're in,
pain at back or neck, issues or just want to
feel and function. Better call Doctor greg. Today he'll give
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, guys, welcome through another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neill. Today, I'm going to
be talking about enjoying the process of change that we've
all set it to ourselves. We've all heard it a
million times. Change is hard and our body can literally
resist change, especially a nervous system. Things like losing weight,
(00:49):
adding in a new exercise program, starting going to the chiropractor.
Really anything that changes our rituals or routines is considered
hard because it goes we're going against the grain. I'm
going to be talking about ways that you can enjoy
the process and really leaning into it so that you can,
you know, get better, but not just be miserable while
(01:10):
you're doing it. Because you hear people where they go
to lose weight, They're like, I feel like I'm starving myself,
or people go to do the exercise like I'm exhausted
on this. I'm that. So we want to change, we
want to change our focus, we want to change our
lens so that we can we can enjoy it and
it can be a good time, and then looking back,
you can see it not as a chore, but as
something that was not only worth it, like the ends
(01:33):
justify the means, where maybe you see the scale go down,
or you see your spine change, or you get out
of pain, or you start eating better. But then you
also look back and you're like, you know what, that
was good? That really changed me as a person because
I put my mind to something, I did it, but
not only did I do it, but I had a
good attitude about it, and that's something that that's really
the important part. I want to brag on my son,
(01:56):
one of my sons. So I have two I have
at the time recording the show, nine year old, six
year old and four year old, and my six year
old just completed his first season of ice hockey, which
is really exciting and starting out, he was in the
sixth and undergroup. Most of the kids started when they're
like four or five, so kids start really early. And
(02:18):
so his name is Jake. Jake started when he was five,
just turning six, so he was in his last year.
We're in the six years, so he's although he's one
of the older kids chronologically, he was very beginner, like
knew how to skate somewhat, but then putting all the
equipment on and everything, it's difficult, Like hockey is a
difficult sport to learn because you have to learn multiple
(02:40):
things at once. You have to learn how to skate forwards, backwards,
you have to learn your edges, turning, stopping. Then you
also have to have a stick in your hand, learning
how to handle the puck stick, handling, shooting, passing, even
before he even playing a game. And then with the game,
all the rules and regulations and cooperation and the pressure
and the teamwork and everything. It can be a lot.
(03:01):
But you can look at it that way or you
can look at it another way of like this is
a challenge, and this is something with sports with kids.
I said this a million times. It's not really so
much about the sport. It's about doing something that's hard,
setting your mind to something that's difficult, and accomplishing it
and that's what changes you as a person. And so
for Jake, like I've noticed a huge change in him
(03:23):
this season. You know, his coaches, my wife, his teachers
are just like Jake just seems more determined and just
more focused. And it just that's just what's really grown
in him. And at the time recording, if he doesn't
even know this yet, we're gonna be going to like
a hockey banquet. And his coach told me that he
nominated Jake for the Sportsmanship Award, So they give out
(03:45):
one award per team, and he was nominated for the
Sportsmanship Award. And I was talking to the coach, He's like,
you know, I couldn't even think of another kid, because
Jake just has a great attitude and he tries hard
every practice and he's a good teammate. And that's still
cool because in sports we get caught up in the
in the skill. And don't get me wrong, Jake's improved
a lot and he's got a lot better. But it's
(04:06):
not about so much your skill or your talent. It's
about your heart behind it, and it's about your attitude.
And I think it's taken me a few years to
realize that when you hear of like you hear like
the first overall draft pick that never got drafted or
never made it, and it wasn't because of their skill,
it was because of their attitude. And I see that
(04:28):
in healthcare. It's it's the biggest thing. And I tell
people this, like, it's your willingness to change and your
attitude about it that determines how well you're going to
do with it. It's your willingness to change. You got to
be willing to change, number one. But then it's also
your attitude about it, and that can change. We all
can start out with a bad attitude and a poor attitude,
(04:48):
and we can have every excuse in the book, and
there's gonna be days that are like that, and there's
gonna be days that are good and then are bad,
and you can be grumpy or sad or mad or
whatever else. But overall, the overall art is that we
want to have a good attitude about change because the
patients that I see that have a good attitude, those
are the ones that hit their goals not only faster,
(05:10):
but in a more reasonable fashion and in a more
enjoyable fashion. So I want to you know, I'm going
to tell multiple stories today. But the first story, I
have a patient named Tracy and she just started care
and she's, you know, in her mid forties, dealing with
pretty bad neck pain. Works at an office job, sitting
most of the day so at a computer, and for her,
(05:33):
when she started coming in, she was very nervous about
getting her neck adjusted because her neck was already in pain.
And that can be kind of the oxymoron people are
dealing with. They're like, I'm already in pain. I don't
want you to put me in more pain. And I
think people think of like the dentist or I don't
know what they're thinking of, but getting an adjustment is
actually enjoyable when your spine is in the right alignment
(05:55):
and when you're getting the right when you're getting the
right care and you're getting the right space. Sophicity, Now
what do I mean by that? So you go to
a dentist and you have crooked teeth, they put braced
on your teeth, gonna there's gonna be a little bit
of residual soreness. You go to the gym and you
haven't stretched in three years and you go to do
a workout, Yeah, you might be a little sore so
(06:15):
an adjustment itself feels good, it's just those muscles will
react to a new position. Now for ninety nine point
nine nine percent of people like the adjustments feels great.
And I'll always let people know if they have certain
things going on or they have pre existent conditions, I'll
work with them and I'll say, hey, just to let
you know you have X, Y, and Z going on,
I'm going to lighten things up. I'm going to do
(06:37):
these specific tests so that we don't get to the
point where you're really sore. That's that's my goal, because again,
we want things to get better and we want it
to be what did I say, to start enjoyable as
you get there, So there's a balance of both. So
that's where when someone comes into our office, we take
specific X rays if necessary, and we come up with
with with what's called a listing where we're able to
(06:59):
go through each verse to bray and the patterns of
what we call sublix station and come up with a
listing or a way in which that patient is adjusted
that's universal to our technique, meaning I can adjust you,
my wife could adjust you, and associate could adjust you
in the same manner and then it would be specific
to use therefore what you need and therefore going to
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be relieving because if your your top phone is out
on the right, it needs to be adjusted in a
specific way versus if it was out on the left.
If that makes sense. So for Tracy getting adjusted, I
got her adjusted and she's like, oh, like that's it,
and I'm like, yeah, that's it. She's like, oh, that
would like basically saying like that's not scary, Like no,
it feels good, and start feel a little better. But
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then you move into that what I call the murky middle,
where you're you're not quite You're better than where you started,
but you're not where you want to be. And this
is where the tension is for people. And this is
where I always say, like, listen, this is where you
want to buckle down and really focus on the things
that you're doing. Because the ingredients are there. You have
the ingredients of your adjustment and changing your nutrition and
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changing your exercise, you're helping your body heal. It's kind
of like putting the batter in the pan of like
the flour and the eggs, like the cake, and now
you've got to put it in the oven and allow
it to bake. Okay, So if you put something in
the oven, you wouldn't check it every five seconds. You
would know that there's a set amount of time. And
if there's been problems in your body for a long
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time and there's been issues there, it might take time
to correct it. And that's where patience comes in. That's
where positivity comes in. That's where the big word persistence
comes in. And you persist even when you're not getting
your result right away, even when the cake is not
rising after thirty seconds of being in the oven. You
have to realize it's like, okay, number one, this is
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going to take time. And under the guidance of your
chiropractice someone like me, your natural health provider, that's where
they can help give you an appropriate timeframe. And what
I'm going to focus on as I go to break
here in a minute here is that I'm able to
lay out like a certain number of visits and an
and a timeframe of where based on my clinical judgment
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and experience and what you have going on, of how
long things will take. So that's the best part is
like listen, I expect that you'll be feeling better by
this point based on my experience. I expect them we'll
make lasting change in your spine by this point, so
you get to see kind of the end before you
start and get an idea of what you're getting into
and what it's going to take to get better. So
after the break we'll focus on that. So stay tuned.
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All right, guys, welcome back to the show Maximize Living
Radio Doctor Greg O'Neill. Please check out our podcast and
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Check out our YouTube channel, let Its Family Chiropractic. Check
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out our website lit Itsfamily Chiropractic dot com. Better yet,
check out our office. Come see us in person like
I can. Everything so online, Like everything is like so online,
and I really love that. Our office is it's like
old school in a way. You come in and you
talk with with people. We help people. You'll sit with me.
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Not a video consultation, it's not a zoom consultation. We're
gonna sit down and go through what's going on with
you and see if I can help, and you will
see me. Like a lot of these other radio shows
and stuff, they're like, oh, come on in and you'll
see my associator. No, no, no, you're gonna see me directly,
doctor Greg O'Neill. Let Its Family Chiropractic. So come come
out to lit It's the beautiful town, beautiful area. Our
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office is newly renovated in the last year. I'm like,
it looks great, and yeah, it's it's exciting. It's really exciting.
We're moving and grooving and we're on a mission to
help people. You know, I'm not here to throw stones
or anything like that. We're not Joe Blow Chiropractic office.
We're here. We're here to help. We're here to make
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a difference. A lot of other chiropractors are too. I'm
not saying that, but we really, I believe, go the
extra step to make sure that you get better and
that I'm going to kind of explain that here because
I've been talking about enjoying the process. Today, i want
to talk about like what a process actually looks like,
because it's actually good to have a process. You want
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to have a plan, you want to have an idea
of what's going on. And this is where if you're
anything like me, having help with that is imperative because
coming up with my own plan can be difficult. Sticking
to my own plan can be tough because I'm not
one to necessarily make a plan, believe it or not.
I'm more one to kind of wing it. People will say, like,
I know friends colleagues that do radio shows. They have
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the whole thing scripted out. I'm not joking. I know
a guy personally, he writes out verbat and what he's
going to say. It must take him so long to
do this, and then he sits and reads it, and
people like you prepare for your radio show, I'm like,
I really I do. I guess I'm preparing throughout the week,
like I'm I'm gathering ideas and information. I was just
asked this yesterday, but most of it you can probably
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notice I kind of wing I go off the top,
because that's just just how my personality is. I'll have
it like a set idea of what I want to
talk about, like a topic, and I break it up
into four segments and then and then I go Now,
I can't do that with other areas of life, because
it works here you can be spontaneous and creative, but
that doesn't work with like I have young kids. That
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doesn't work with a school schedule, that doesn't work with
running a business having eight employees, being married, you know,
it doesn't work like that. You have to have a plan,
you have to have a process. And many of you
listening to this, and I hear this a lot people
will say like, oh, I'm just not good at a
discipline or sticking to a plan and this and that.
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Now they're just talking about their health, right, They're talking
about the health aspect. And what I reroute people too
is I'll basically say like, well, I'm going to call
you out on that because you are good at it
in other areas of your life. Like I know, people
come in they're like executives and businesses and business owners,
or it's mothers who are at home and they're homeschooling
their children, or fathers who are going off to work,
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or like grandparents who have all these social things going on,
or people who have a garden or people who go
play pickleball. People have plans and processes in their life,
and a lot of people listen to this, you're probably
a lot more diligent and disciplined and scheduled in many
aspects of your life. Than I am. But it's not
about your ability to schedule and process. Most people are already
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pretty good at that. It's about your priorities. Where your
priorities are. Wherever your priorities are, those are the things
that are going to get done. Where your priorities aren't,
those things aren't going to get done. It's just how
it is. It's just a reality. Like I have a
nine year old. He doesn't want to do his home
work right. It's not necessarily his priority. When I was
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that age, I didn't want to do my homework. It
wasn't my priority. But guess what, there's things in life
that we have to do that have to get done right.
Going to time, you become the adult. At some point
in your life, you become the parent. You become the adult,
and you start saying the things that you didn't like
hearing from your parents, you know, thirty years ago. It's
just funny how life works. But we can apply those
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same messages that we tell our kids, that we tell
players on the field, that we tell ourselves. We got
to apply that to our health, okay, And it's kind
of easy in a way. It's like you have to
have a plan, you have to have a process and
then you follow along because if you're just meandering willy
nilly going through it, yeah, you're more likely to fail.
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You're setting yourself up for failure. So what do we
do at our office that's different. So someone comes into
our office and we go through an examination and consultation,
go through someone's paperwork, So we have you feel paperwork
out ahead of time. I review that, I come into
the room with you. You know, we show you around
the office to come into the room with you, and
we go over what your concerns are, what you've been
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dealing with, your history, and then we go through your
most importantly, I believe your goals, what you want to
achieve with your health, and then a consultation how what
you could be dealing with can be related to your
spine and your nervous system, the thing that we focus
on in the office. Then we do an examination, the
examination your posture, range of motion, how well your spine
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is moving, how patient of your spine, feeling along your spine,
the areas of tenderness and UH and and issues like
muscle muscles out of joint or subluxation, mislignment of the spine.
And then if necessary. We take X rays and that's
the best way for us to tell where you're at
compared to normal, and then come up with a plan,
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a process to correct your spine. And then I lay
that I by a second visit, I get someone adjusted.
I see how their spine's going to move. That gives
me an idea of kind of where we're at, not
only with the extrays, but how their spine actually moves
under the under my hands. Then I come up with
a process. I come up with a plan. Okay, here's
what we're gonna do. I'd like to see you for.
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This is gonna be the number of visits. Here's gonna
be the exercise we're gonna have you do here at home.
Here's your X rays. I'm gonna show you those actually
show you what's happening. Here's how much everything will cost.
Here's how much your insurance will it won't pay. Here's
how you can choose to pay for it over time.
So I lay everything out for people, everything out, the
effort that will take, how often you'll be coming, the cost,
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the insurance, all those questions you have. I lay that
out for people, and then it's your decision from there.
Then it puts the power in your hands so you
can make the best decision for yourself, and then people
start care and then things start to change. It's really cool.
It's fun. I have a patient, just spoke to her yesterday.
She was super excited. Her name is Jane, listens to
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the radio show. Lives in the greater Harrisburg area. So
she's driving just over an hour to get to those
past cares west of Harrisburg. So she's driving just over
an hour to get to our office. Now, she's a
long time chiropractic patient. She's seen chiropractors in the past,
but she heard me on the radio show, wanted to
try something different. And she was dealing with pretty bad
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neck pain tension now unbeknownst to her, not thinking that
this would change. But she also dealt with well. I
would describe it as insomnia, not being able to sleep
through the night. She'd only sleep four hours at a
time and be wide awake. And this went on for
well over a year, if not more. Shed when I
asked her, because she's like, it's gon on so long,
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I can't even remember. So she would wake up magice,
waking up wide awake, you know, two, three, four, in
the morning, You're wide awake, and she would like be
soul awakes. She would do chores or do puzzles, like
busy herself and then maybe if she was lucky, fall
asleep again. But many times just be up and you know,
fell into that. Well, I just I just don't need
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you know, people say I just don't need much sleep.
That's not true. Your body does need sleep. You need
seven eight nine hours of sleep. Running on four hours
of sleep is not good no matter how you slice it.
But you get used to what you deal with. I'm
not saying she if I only had four hours of sleep,
I'd be grumpy. Now, Jane is a very pleasant person,
very nice. I would not be so nice I was
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four hours asleep, that's for sure. Well that's just me.
I'm a baby when it comes to that. I need
my seven eight nine hours a sleep, for sure. So
with Jane, you know, coming in, going through a specific exam,
taking X rays, showing her a plan, her agreeing to
the plan, going through the process, but then most importantly
working the process, and within a few adjustments her next
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started to feel better. She's in about two weeks of care.
I came around the corner that came into the adjustment
room and she's standing up. Most people are laying down
ready to be adjusted. She was standing out, so I
knew she had a question. She goes, question for you.
I'm like, yeah, She goes, does this help with sleep?
Is getting adjusted? Like this a helpless sleep? And I
was like, why what have you noticed? And I've learned
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not to answer a question. I ask other questions. You know,
why what have you noticed? And she's like, well, for
the last few nights, I've slept all the way through
the night. And she's like, and that I have not
changed anything else. I haven't changed anything else you told
me to do yet with the nutrition or anything. The
only thing I've done differently is started to come here
and get adjusted to do my exercises and I'm now
sleeping through the night. Does that have to do with this?
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And I was like, yeah, absolutely it does. Now, how
does that work? Is that? There's a few reasons, but
the main one is that getting adjustments takes physical and
chemical pressure off of the spinal cord and the spinal
nerves and allows your spine to move more freely. That
automatically is going to lower stressful amone is that when
your neck is out of alignment and your muscles are
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tight and there you have knots and everything. The reason
it gets that way is because your brain told your
muscles to get that way. So when you go ahead
and you get your spine moving better and the muscles
start to relax, guess what your brain can do. Your
brain can calm down and it can stop sending stressful
signals to the neck. So when it stops sending stress
signals out of the brain, guess what else happens. Well,
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if you have less stress signals in your body, you're
going to fe feel better, You're going to feel happier,
you're going to feel more wakeful. Like we've all been
stressed before, we've all been on the verge of maybe
a panic attack or something like that. When you breathe
your way through it and you come out of it,
you feel better, You feel more wakeful, you feel happier,
feel more alert. And the other cool part is you're
going to sleep better too. Your body's going to be
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more at ease, more less on guard, and more at ease,
more secure through the adjustments. So really cool story, and
that she's sleeping now through the night, And I said well,
how's your energy. She's like, my energy feels great. I
feel like wide awake, And I said, no doubt. I
mean like, if I was only sleeping four hours, I
couldn't even imagine. So now she's sleeping through the night
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seven eight hours, which is really cool. So shout out
to Jane for making the choice to come in. That's
the big thing, guys, is that the difference between her
and you and the problems that she was dealing with
is that she decided to take action. And that's the
operative word. Is that you can have a plan, you
can have a process. What I'm going to focus on
most of the rest of the show is you've got
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to put the plan. You've got to put the process
into action, action, action, action, and start moving and doing
and you're going to see change happening. So, if you'd
like to get a hold of us to make a
first appointment radio podcast listeners get fifty percent off their
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five After the break a right, guys, Welcome back to
the show, Doctor Greg O'Neil Maximize Living Radio talking about
enjoying the process of change, you know, taking the first step.
We've talked about that a lot, getting in the process,
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taking action. That's what I want to talk about now,
is continuing and take action. We can be obsessed. You
can be obsessed with the checkpoints. An obvious one for
this would be stepping on the scale every day. I
beg gil of that, that's for sure. Oh my gosh,
that's a frustrating thing to do, isn't it. It's hard.
It makes it makes it hard. I should say that
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you make weight loss hard when you're constantly checking the progress,
but you're constantly comparing yourself to where you think you
should be instead of being present where you are. Isn't
that The human experience is we get ourselves in trouble
when we put our minds off into the future, back
in the past. You know, whether it's fear and anxiety
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about the future, whether it's shame and regret or guilt
of the past. And that's where we get ourselves in trouble.
And we want to we want to focus. You know,
in the Bible, Jesus said, you know, can you by
worrying even add a single hour to your life? No,
you can't. I would add on to that you can
sure take a few hours off your life by worrying,
that's for sure. So I'm talking myself here too. Don't
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get me wrong. You want to focus on where you're
at and just do the next best thing for yourself.
Easier said than done, right, But it's so true. I mean,
let's talk about weight loss for a second. The only
thing you can do now is the next meal or
the next snack, or saying yes to the next good thing,
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or saying no to the next bad thing. Yes or no.
That's your only thing, right. You can't change what happened
yesterday or over the weekend you went out and partied,
or you ate too much, or twenty years ago, whatever
happened then with your food or this that or your body. Like,
you can't change that. You can't, right, And you also
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can go off into the future, and you can say,
what if this doesn't work? You know, I have this
vacation coming up, or this this, this date coming up,
the wedding, the ceremony, whatever it is. I want to
be at a certain weight. How am I going to
fit into that dress? How am I gonna fit into
those pants? How am I gonna fit in that suit?
You can do that, but you're gonna drive yourself nuts,
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and you're going to detract from what's going on right now.
You're going to pull away from what's going on now.
And that's when that's when weight loss becomes hard. Okay,
that's when making a change like getting your spine healthier
becomes hard. Adding in an exercise program, doing all this stuff,
it becomes hard. When we move ourselves out of the present,
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we go back in the pastern into the future. And
that's the case basically for all of the human experience.
If we just stayed present, if we just stayed with
where we were, we'd be in a lot better shape. Right.
We come home from work and we're thinking about work.
We go to work and we're thinking about home. We
go to school and we're thinking about home or work,
you know what I mean. We're thinking about the money
or this or that. We're like, we're hardly where we're
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at now. Phones make it ten times worse because now
not only are you thinking about your own problems, but
now you're comparing yourself to someone who's not you, who
doesn't live the same life as you, who doesn't have
the same experience as you. So if you go on Instagram,
or you go on reels or YouTube shorts or TikTok.
All of a sudden, you start seeing all these beautiful
people who are skinnier than you, better looking than new
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six packs, all this stuff. You know what, probably most
of those people are like nineteen years old and on,
and they're juiced up or on like drugs or something. Okay,
you can't. I don't know if that's the case for all,
but you can't compare your own life to someone else.
They're not living the same experience as you. Like a
lot of those like fitness influencers and stuff, that's their
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full time job there. Maybe they don't have two or
three or four kids, Maybe they're not running a business,
maybe they're not doing anything else but working out. That's
that's their life and good for them, but that's not you.
You can't. You can't compare yourself there. But that's that's
the evil of the phone of the social media is comparison.
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It might have started out as something cool to connect
with people, and it could I guess it could still
be that way, But for me personally, I'm off social media.
In fact, recently I think I shared this. I even
deleted a YouTube app because I didn't like seeing the
YouTube shorts. So now I just use like music apps.
If I want to listen to podcasts or whatnot, I'll
just use music apps in order to do that. So
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I'm not getting that stimulation from video. It's it is addicting.
It is addicting. I can tell that from and say
that from personal experience. Like you're looking, I'm looking. I'd
be looking for my phone. I want to check this
or look at this, or what's the update with this?
And the notifications and the buzzes and the likes and
the all this pings and whatnot. It's playing on your
brain's chemistry in the worst way possible, and instead of
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connecting you with others, it actually disconnects you from others.
And the worst thing that it does is it disconnects
you from yourself. Technology, I believe, in many ways, disconnects
humans from themselves. And you're seeing this whole thing now
where people are looking back and getting nostalgic. Oh, the
nineties were greater, the eighties are greater, or the two
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thousands are great, all this time before phones. Life can
be great now, it can be great now. Okay, so
you can look at the at the past and think
it was better back then, or you can think it
was worse, or you're look in the future and be
worried about it this, that or the other. Thing. All
you can do is control your next step, your next breath,
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you're the next thing that you're eating. That's all you
can do. And so just do that. If you just
do that, you'll be in a lot better shape. And
I'm telling you that from personal experience. When I get
myself into trouble, when I get myself into self loathing
thoughts or depression or not feeling well or anxiety or
my nervous system is heightened, and I have trouble sleeping.
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Things like that. Every time is I've moved out of
my present life and either back in the past or
often in the future, thinking about things I shouldn't be
thinking about in the place that I'm at, like, for example,
think about work stuff while I'm at home with my kids,
or if I'm at work, i'm thinking about something else
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like I'm then you're not really there, are you? Then
you're not really there? So you want to be there,
And that's what being present is. And the way to
be present is to kind of you know, look around it.
It's so good for us, feel good for me. I
should say just to go for a walk like a lot.
That's like therapy for me. If if I can just
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get out walk, move, you're getting your body moving, your
heart rate's going up, your muscles are moving through exercise.
But then also you're going for a walk, you're seeing
different different things, like you're stimulating your brain in a
different way that's not on your phone, and that's very
healthy for you. So if I already give and I
do give this advice a lot to patience. Maybe they're
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feeling down, they're feeling a little blue, or they're feeling
like frustrated with their goals and things like that that
they wish they could hit. I say, you know what,
one of the best things you can do is just
go for a walk. And you wouldn't believe when I
say that to people. You wouldn't believe the number of
people that are like, you know what, that I used
to love doing that, or I miss doing that and
once the weather gets bad or this happens in that
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I get away from that, and once you get back
to doing that, it makes a big difference. But the
walk for you could be different. Maybe it's reading, maybe
it's prayer, maybe it's meditation, maybe whatever, or it is.
We have to take those steps to reregulate ourselves to
be able to enjoy the process, which I'm talking about
today at the title of the show, so that we
can enjoy the moment that we're at now. Enjoyment is
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a lot different than words like happy or sad, like
those are kind of in the moment, Like you can
still be in enjoyment but have feelings of like sadness
or happiness or excitement or nervousness. To what I'm saying,
it's like the overall, the overarching thing. It's like I
can still enjoy life even though things are going haywire.
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And this is like the where wisdom comes in. Like
you know, when when you have young kids and anytime
you pass like an older person, they're like, oh, oh,
enjoy every moment. Enjoy every moment. You know. They say that,
like when you have the young kids. They're not saying
be happy about every moment, be content about every moment,
be glad every moment is happening. They're saying, enjoy the moment.
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And what I think they're really saying is this, they're
not well. First of all, I'll tell you what they're
not saying. They're not saying like, oh you like, oh
the baby just pooped everywhere and you have poop all
over your hands, or the kids are up crying in
the middle of the night, you're exhausted. That's they're not
saying that's fun. They're not saying that's fun at all.
But they're saying enjoy, meaning like, be there because those
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days are going to go by quickly and someday you'll
look back and wish that you were more present. Right,
But then that could be its own problem. You don't
want to look back and wish anything. You just want
to I could tell them enjoy. Here's a good one.
The next time an older person says to me, enjoy
every moment instead of saying I will, actually I'm gonna
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say I will, and I'm going to say you too. Hey,
just come up with that. See the spontaneity of the show.
This is fun. So when an older person comes up
to me and I have my three kids and they're
gonna say enjoy every moment, I'm gonna say, I am
going to enjoy it, thank you, and I want you
to enjoy your moment too, because wherever you're at in
your life, it's easy to look back and think that
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your best days are behind you. And I think that's
one of the biggest lies out there, from either the
flesh or the evil one whomever is saying it that's
a lie, is that you want to enjoy where you're
at now and give the effort where you're at now. Okay,
that's my doctor Griggs mindset ten minutes here, let's switch
gears in a little more practical into taking action and
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being on the process. Okay, so let's say you have
now I was talking earlier in the show, getting the
plan in place, having someone to help with that. So
for me, I do best, like for exercise, when I
have like an exercise regiment that's mapped out for me.
That's kind of dummy proof for me. Like I do,
I have an app with all the workouts, so I
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just go on and I click on the workout and
it starts and then I follow along, and that's that's
great for me because if I had to do it
myself and come up with the whole routine, I wouldn't
do it to the same extent. I wouldn't do it
to the same intensity. I certainly wouldn't do it to
the proper length of time. That's just that's just how
it would happen. Okay. So for you having that process,
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having that plan in place, whether that's a plan to
get your neck out of pain, your back, your hips,
your knees, whatever's going on, whatever symptoms, headaches, migraines, engine stiffness,
whatever's going on, having a plan in place to get
that corrected. Not just like wait till you're seven years
old and cut your knees out and put a put
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a fake knee in, a put a fake shoulder in,
a put a fake hit in. That's not a plan.
That's not a plan at all. You're just standing on
the sidelines. You're not playing the game of life. You
want to have a plan in place to do that,
and that's where we can help you. So coming to
our office, we can help put a plan in place
to get the things in your life, you know, moving
in the right direction, get those issues corrected. So stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Hi, it's R. J. Harris. I've been listening to doctor
Greg O'Neil from Lidit's Chiropractic for years. He makes so
much sense I've become a patient. His adjustments have made
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Speaker 4 (33:19):
Five all, right, guys welcome back to the. Show we're
going to close out the week Here Maximize Living. Radio
Dr greg O'Neill talking about enjoying the.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Process as this show has moved on and, Evolved i'm
realizing that the word and enjoy IS i might as
well just say being present in the, process not putting
yourself off in the future too, much not putting yourself
in the past too. Much that's where my PATIENTS i
see where they get themselves in trouble met from a mental,
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standpoint and that can really derail your action steps because
you're the unhealthy thinking style is that you start to
want to prove yourself. Right there's a story that every
person's telling themselves all the. Time there would be many different.
Stories Tony robbins talks about. This Tony, robbins a famous motivational.
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Speaker he's just, like what's the story you're telling? Yourself
he talks about changing your. Story so your, story your internal,
monologue it could be a good, Thing like you, Know i'm,
Capable i'm, healthy i make good, Decisions i'm. Confident those
are always the stories that were really working on with our.
Kids it's like really getting in, that like what's their?
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Story because as a, parent if you're not telling your
kid what their story is or helping them develop their,
story then someone else is going, to you, know think
of bullying or other things like, that or you, know
what their peers say or their friends, say and the
kids can say those, things but that's not the. Story
WHAT i always say to my kids is, Like, okay
they can say, that but is that? True is that?
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True and they'll be, like will. Know, well then then
it doesn't matter if it's not the, Truth and it doesn't.
Matter that's just something that that they're. Saying that's their
opinion and it's. Wrong so the person that's the most
influential to you is. You you're the most influential person
in the world to, yourself and so the story that
you tell yourself can either empower you or derail. You
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and there's this thing in your, brain your subconscious, brain
where it's always wanting to prove you, right and it's
part of. It it's called the reticulating particular activating system
in your mind where you're going to see the things
that you subconsciously are focused. On so if you, LIKE
i could tell, you, like think of a why just
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a gray cyber. Truck it used to be when they
would share this analogy years, ago twenty years, ago they
would say a yellow a yellow. Hummer, remember like hummers
were kind of like the cyber trucks of the, Day
like you'd see when you're be, like oh look it's a.
Hummer that's so. Cool and it says like if you
think of a yellow, hummer then you'll see one. Everywhere
you'll start to see. It BUT i would say this
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day and, age it's, like, okay think of a gray cyber.
Truck then you'll start seeing that. Everywhere, now the better
analogy than that you go buy a, car all of
a sudden you see that same car, everywhere, Right LIKE
i drive a Blue ONTO. CRV i THOUGHT i was
pretty cool driving.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Out of the.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Lot, well it turns out everybody else drives one because
that's ALL i, see you, know around, town because that's
all my brain is focused. On that's When i'm attuned.
To when my wife was pregnant years, ago everybody was.
Pregnant everyone THAT i noticed was. Pregnant right WHEN i
walk around when we had young, KIDS i see strollers.
Everywhere right when you're out on your, bike you see a.
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Bike when you're into, boating you see. Boats when you're into,
fishing you see you, know fishing. Stuff, like whatever you're focused,
on that's what pops. Up. Now i'm just saying all
the kind of the physical, things but also whatever you're,
Think i'm on your subconscious, mind those those kind of
evil or self loathing thoughts that you can. Think, unfortunately
those can start to pop up in different ways and
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your brain can, say, SEE i told you. So like for,
example if you SAY i can't lose, weight look at
my genetics or the way that my mom was or
my dad. WAS I i just can't lose. Weight and
then you step on the scale and you prove yourself
right because you went you had that night where you
ate too much, food you got stressed, out you ate
too much food and you prove yourself, right and it's that. Story,
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Okay like for, ME i would, say, okay it can.
Be it can be difficult to lose. WEIGHT i don't
even know IF i should say. That it's, like in
order for me to lose, WEIGHT i must. Focus so
If i'm, FOCUSED i will lose. Weight If i'm, FOCUSED
i will lose. Weight so that's what you have to,
do is just you have to stay. Focused but then
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the other problem, is LIKE i was saying, earlier you
can start to. Compare so you look at other, People,
oh look at how they lost, wait or look at this,
person how healthy they? Are look at their, kids they're
better behave than? Mine or look at that house is
bigger than. Mine you start, comparing and then it's even worse,
online LIKE i was, saying with the phone and social, media,
guys you got to get yourself off of, that telling
you right, now get off of. It LIKE i, understand
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go look at pictures and connect with your family and
this and. THAT i get. That but whatever you can
do to get off of those like the reels and
the shorts and the, TikTok the stuff that just sucks
your mind into it and puts you into this comparison.
Mode it is not healthy for. You it's especially not
healthy for young children and teenagers when their brain is so.
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Impressionable their brain is like, clay, right that's being molded
in real, time and when they're a it would be.
HARD i could admit it would be hard to be
a kid, nowadays especially a. Teenager like a lot of
people remember that used to, Say, oh kids have it
easy these, days and blah blah. BLAH i don't think
kids do at. All it would be. Hard with the
pandemic and everything that, happened and social isolation and then
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just being disconnected on the phones and everything like, that
it would be. Tough so it's a conscious effort for,
parents for grandparents to really engage, kids talk to, them
be social with, them ey'd, eye looking people in the,
eyes shaking their, hand talking to. People it's important that
we move away from the phones and social media and
all that. Stuff so maybe just your next best step
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is hopping on your, phone and maybe it's deleting a
social media app or, two or deactivating an account for
a period of, time just trying out you can do that.
Too you can just deactivate your account you're, like, WELL
i don't want to delete the whole, thing deactivate. It
give yourself a, week give yourself two, weeks and see
if you notice any. Change AND i bet you a
dollar that you, will AND i know it was the
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case for. Me all right, now talking about enjoying the
prospecting about enjoyment being. Present let's talk about some practical
things that you can be, doing BECAUSE i, said what's
the next best thing that you can? Do what are
some practical? Steps number, one And i've shared this on
a previous, show BUT i just want to reiterate because
it's really. Important Number, one making sure to eating twenty
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to thirty grams of protein per. Meal so keep three
meals a, day eating at least twenty to thirty grams
of protein per meal per. Day so that'll get you
into the you, know ideally into eighty to the ninety
grams of protein per, day which will. Help so the
calculation for this is you want to be eating half
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your healthy body weight in. Grams so think of like
what your healthy body weight should be and then cut
that in. Half you should be eating that amount in
grams of. Protein, Okay so basically twenty to thirty grams
of protein per, meal you're going to notice more sustained.
Energy i'll tell this in a quick. Story my oldest Son,
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michael we get a serial Called Catalina crunch and it
has it does have some. Protein it's like a healthier
gluten free type. Cereal but if we're rushed for school
and that's all he, has he actually admitted today that
his energy was, off like mid. Morning he's, LIKE i
noticed IF i just eat the, cereal LIKE i get,
tired and that's really. Cool he's nine years. OLD i
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wouldn't even have noticed. That, HONESTLY i didn't notice that
UNTIL i was like twenty five or twenty, six WHERE
i would actually like didn't think like huh this like
food equates to, Energy like for him to think, that that's,
Awesome LIKE i was really happy about. That i'll have
to make SURE i tell him that, later like that
that's a big win for me that he's equating not
just food to, like, oh not being, hungry but food
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is your energy, too and your wakefulness and really a
lot to do with your learning as a. Student so
TODAY i made. HIM i made sure, like, yeah he
had his cereal and. Whatnot but THEN i made, Sure,
okay we're going to have a protein smoothie and you
have to drink it, right. Yep and the best part
is when kids can agree with you and understand the.
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Why that's where lasting change. Happens because Before i'd be, Like,
okay gotta have your. Smoothie it's, like, OH i just
want to have this, seal like it's just. Easier but
now it's like he's the one telling, me, like, oh
WHEN i just do, THAT i don't feel as. Good
SO i need to have more protein in the. Morning
and that's where it becomes like the contract in the
way it's, Like, Okay i'm gonna Have i'll make you
the smoothie and you're gonna drink, it not just BECAUSE
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i told you, so but because you're the one saying
and you notice the. Difference it's like he's owning it for.
Himself so that's really. Cool so eating twenty to thirty
grams more, protein especially in the, morning is going to
really make a big change for your. AFTERNOON i would say,
too like everyone talks about that THREE pm feeling where
you feel like you want to reach for coffee or
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reach for caffeine or take an afternoon. NAP a lot
of times your body is just lacking in. Protein you've
probably eaten too many, carbohydrates especially refined. Carbohydrates and then
also the next step is becoming more hydrated by drinking
one or two more glasses a. Day most people could
benefit by drinking one or two more glasses of water a,
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day one or two more glasses of. WATER i am
not joking When i've said this to people in the
past and they'll, say does the water in my coffee?
COUNT i said this to an older lady one. TIME
i was, like make sure to drink, water and then
she kind of gave me a, look And i'm, like,
okay do you drink? Water and she, said does the
water in my tea or coffee? Count AND i said,
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No so she was not drinking any, water like. NONE
i couldn't even, imagine like just the tea and coffee
throughout the day and no. Water, Okay AND i can
tell you to start drinking. Water what a? Change what a?
CHANGE i, mean just looking at her, face she looked,
younger more, vibrant more. Energy just by drinking more water
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in your, Life it's like it makes a huge. Difference,
Now i'll also push in and my Friend Arjia harris
talks about this reverse osmosis water we. USE i use
Personally Martin's water And. Conditioning, NO i do not get
paid any. Advertisements if they want to send me a free,
something go Ahead Martin's water And conditioning In Lancaster county
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and they'll come out give you an estimate on what's going.
On but they do reverse osmosis. Water and what reverse
osmosis water does is it's taking out all the contaminants even,
medications hormones and things like that that can make their
way into our tap water by people flushing medications down the.
Toilet please don't do that can get into the. Water
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SO i would recommend reverse osmosis water is my top pick.
TODAYS i hope these practical tips will. HELP i hope
that you get the mindset that you want to enjoy
the process of signing. Office Doctor, greg have a great.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Week, hi it's R Jay. Harris i've been listening to
Doctor greg O'Neil From Livit's chiropractic for. Years he makes
so much. Sense i've become a. Patient his adjustment have
made a big difference in my. Life if you're in,
pain at back or neck, issues or just want to
feel and function. Better call Doctor greg. Today he'll give
you fifty percent off your first visit and any NECESSARY
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