February 23, 2026 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 (00:18):
All right, guys, welcome through another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neil. 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 our 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 green. But
I'm going to be talking about ways that you can
enjoy the process and really leaning into it so that
you can 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.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm that 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.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then looking.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Back, you can see it not at the chore, but
it's something that was not only worth it, Like the
ends justify the means, where maybe you see the scale
go down, or you see your spine change, or you
get out of paint, or you start eating better, but
then you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
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's really the
important part. I want to brag on my son, one
of my sons, so I have two at the time
of recording the show, I have a nine year old,
six year old and four year old. And my six
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year old just completed this first season of ice hockey,
which is really exciting. And starting out, he was in
the six and undergroup. Most of the kids started when
they're like four or five, so kids start really early,
and 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 sixth year, so he's although
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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 things at once. You have to learn how to
skate forwards, backwards, You have to learn your edges, turning, stopping.
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Then you also have to have a stick in your hand,
learning how to handle the puck stick, handling, shooting, passing,
even before 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.
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.
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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.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And that's what changes real as a person. And so
for Jake, like I've noticed a huge change in him
this season. You know, his coaches, my wife, the teachers
that just like Jake just seems more determined and just
more focused. And that's just what's really grown in him.
And at the time recording, if he doesn't even know
this yet, we're going to be going to like a
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hockey banquet. And his coach told me that he.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Nominated Jake for the Sportsmanship Award, So they give out
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 he's a good teammate. So and
that that's so cool because in sports we get caught
up in the in the skill. And don't get me wrong,
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Jake's improved a lot and he's got a lot better.
But it's 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,
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it was because of their attitude. And I see that
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.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But then it's.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Also your attitude about it, and that can change. We
all can start out with a bad attitude and a
poor attitude, and we can have every excuse in the book,
and there's going to be days that are like that,
and there's going to 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 arch
is that we want to have a good attitude about
change because the patients that I see that have a
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good attitude, those are the ones that hit their goals
not only faster, 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 had a patient named Tracy, and she just started
care and she's, you know, in her mid forties dealing
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with pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Bad next pain. Works at an office job, sitting most
of the day, so at a computer, and for her,
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.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
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 and when
you're getting the right when you're getting the right care
and you're getting the right specificity. Now what do I
mean by that? So you go to a dentist and
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you have crooked teeth, they put braces on your teeth.
There's gonna be a little bit of residual. So 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 an adjustment itself feels good.
It's just those muscles will react to a new position.
Now for ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of
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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 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,
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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 what's called a listing where
we're able to go through each vertebrae and the patterns
of what we call subli station and come up with
a listing or a way in which that patient is
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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
be relieving, because if your.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Your hot zone is out on the right, it needs
to be adjusted in a specific way versus if it
is out on the left, if that makes sense. So
so Fasey getting adjusted. I got her adjusted and she's like, oh,
like that's it, and I'm like, yeah, that's it. Oh
that was like basically saying like that's not scary, Like no,
it feels good, and start to feel a little better.
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But then you move into that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What I call the multi metal 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 changing your exercise. You're helping your
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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 time and there's been issues there,
it might take time to correct it. And that's where
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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, is this going to take time? And under
the guidance of your chiropractice, someone like me or a
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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 a time frame of where based
on my clinical judgment and experience and what you have
going on, of how long things will take. So that's
the best part is like, lit'ten and I expect that
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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. Do 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.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Take to get better. Fafter the break, we'll focus on that.
To stay tuned today, it's definitely it's a good day.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Today is to be informed.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh day. What's good for a good story to tell?
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Speaker 2 (09:40):
So yeah, we're out there. Check out our YouTube channel.
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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.
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You come in and you talk with with people. We
hope people you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sit with me.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
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 litt 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.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We're here to help. We're here to make 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 gonna
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
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to have a process. You want to have a plan,
you want to have an idea of what's going on.
And this is where if you're.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Anything like love, 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 plan colleagues that do radio shows, they have
the whole thing stripped it out. I'm not joking. I
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know a guy personally, he writes out bluebat and what
he's gonna say.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
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 could probably 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
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set idea of what I want to talk about, like
a topic, and I break it up into four segments
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 doesn't work with a school schedule,
that doesn't work with running a business having eight employees
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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 discipline, er sticking to a plan and
this and that. 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
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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,
or like grandparents who like have all this social things
going on, or people who have a garden, or people
who go play pickleballer. People have plans and processes in
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their life, and a lot of people listen to this.
You're probably a lot more diligent and disciplined and scheduled
in many aspects.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Of your life than I am. But it's not about
your ability to schedule, in process. Most people are already
pretty good at that. It's about your priorities. Where your
priorities are. Whatever 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 the reality.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Like I have a nine year old we doesn't want
to do his homework right. It's not necessarily his priority.
When I was 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. How many times you become the
adult at some point in your life, you become the parent.
You become the adult, and you start saying the things
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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 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
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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.
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
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out ahead of time. I review that, I come into
the room with you. You know, we show you around the office.
Come into the room with you, and we go over
what your concerns are, what you've been 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 line and your nervous system,
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the thing that we focus on in the office.
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Then we do an examination, the examination your posture, range
of motion, how well your spine is moving, how patient
of your spine, feeling along your spine, the areas.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Of tenderness and UH and and issues like muscle muscles
out of joint or subluxation this line and 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
a process to correct your spine. And then I lay
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that I by a second visit, I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
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.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
With the extras, but how their spine actually moves under
the under my hands. Then I come up with a process.
I come up with a Plankay, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'd like to see you first.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It's gonna be the number of visits. Here's gonna be
the exercise we're going to have you do here on
at home. Here's your x rays. I'm gonna show you
those extras, show you what's happening. Here's how much everything
will cost. Here's how much your insurance will or won't pay.
Here's how you can choose to pay for it over time.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So I lay everything out for people, everything out, the
effort that will take, how often you'll be coming, the cost,
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. You can
make the best decision for yourself, and then people start
care and then things start to change. It's really cool,
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it's fun. I have a patient, just spoke to her yesterday.
She was super excited. Her name is Jane, listens to
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,
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but she heard me on the radio show, wanted to
try something different, and she was dealing with pretty bad
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
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well over a year, if not more. She when I
asked her, because she's like, it's going on so long,
I can't even remember. So she would wake up imagine
waking up wide awake, you know, two, three, four in
the morning, you're wide awake. And she would like be
sol awakes, she would do chores or do puzzles like
busier herself, and then maybe if she was lucky, fall
asleep again. But many times just be up and you know,
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fell into that. Well, I just I just don't need
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.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
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 if I only
had to her hours of sleep, I'd be grumpy. Now,
Jane is a very pleasant person, very nice. I would
not be so I was asleep. That's just that's just me.
I'm a baby when it comes to that. I need
my seven eight nine hours this week for sure. So
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with James, you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
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 the most importantly working the process,
and within a few adjustments her next started to feel better.
She's in about two weeks of care. I came around
the corner they that came into the adjustment room and
she's standing up. Most people are laying down ready to
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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 help with sleep? And I was like,
why what have you noticed? And I've learned not to
answer the questions. 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.
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And she's like, in 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? And I was like, yeah,
absolutely it does. Now how does that work?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
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 mode. Is that when your neck is out of
alignment and your muscles are tight and there you have
knots and everything. The reason it gets that way is
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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.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, if you have less stress signals in your body,
you're gonna feel better. You're gonna feel happier, You're going
to feel more wakeful. We've all been stressed before, We've
all been on the verge of maybe a panic attack
or something like that. And when you breathe your way
through it and you come out of it, you feel better,
You feel more and wakeful, you feel happier, feel more alert.
And the other cool part is you're going to sleep
better too.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Your body's going to be 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 Like?
My energy feels great. I feel like wide awake, and
I said, no doubt. I mean, like I, if I
was only sleeping four hours, I couldn't even imagine. So
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now she's sleeping through the night seven eight hours, which
is really cool. So shout out to Jane for making
the choice to come in. That's 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
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of the show is you got to put the plan.
You 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 first exam and any initial
X rays give us a call seven one seven six
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two seven zero three six five. After the break, I
learned how to listen from you. I don't miss the sill.
It's an intellectual feat.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Here Living Radio talking about enjoying the process of change,
you know, taking the first step. We talked about that
a lot, getting in the process 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.
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An obvious one for this would be stepping on the
scale every day. I'd be guilty of that, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh my gosh, that's a frustrating thing to do, isn't it.
It's hard. It makes it and makes it hard. I
should say that 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
and where you are. Isn't that The human experience is we.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
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 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 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
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sure take a few hours off your life by worrying,
that's for sure. So I'm talking myself here too.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
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, or saying no
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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 right now.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And that's when that's when weight loss becomes hard. Okay,
that's when making a change like getting your spinehealthy become hard.
Adding in an exercise program, doing all this stuff, it
becomes hard. When we move ourselves out of the present,
we go back and a passing with the teacher. And
that's the case basically for all of human experience. If
we just stayed present, if we just stayed with where
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we were, we're.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Doing 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 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
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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 six pack abs, all this stuff.
You know what, probably most of those people are like
nineteen years old and on, and they're juiced up or
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on like drugs or something. Okay, you can't. I don't
know if that's the case for all them, 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 full time
job there.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Maybe they don't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
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. It might have started out as
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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 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
(25:54):
do that.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm not getting that stimulation from video. It is addicting.
It is addicting. I can tell that from you say
that from personal experience, like you're looking, I'm looking. I'd
be looking for my thone. I want to check this,
look at that, or what's the update with this? And
the notifications and the buzzes and the likes and the
all the things and whatnot. It's playing on your.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Brain's chemistry and the worst way possible, and instead of
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
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nineties were greater, the eighties are great, or the two
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 look in the future and be
worried about it, this, that or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
All you can do is control your next step, your
next breath, you're the next thing 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
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or my nervous system is heightened, and I have trouble sleeping.
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,
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or if I'm at work, I'm thinking about something else,
Like 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, so good for.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Me, I should say it's do I go for a lot,
like a lot. That's like therapy for me. If if
I can just get out walk, move, You're getting your
body moving, your heart weight's going up, your muscles are
moving to 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
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that's very healthy for your suit.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Give and I do give this advice a lot to patience.
Maybe they're 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
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that and once the weather gets bad or this happens
in that 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 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
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can enjoy the moment that we're at now. Enjoyment is
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
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can still enjoy life even though things are going haywire.
And this is like the where wisdom comes in. Like
you know, when you 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,
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be glad every moment is happening. They're saying, enjoy the moment.
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.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh, the babies are scooped everywhere and you have hoop
all over your hands, or the kids 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
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 as home problem. You don't
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want to look back and wish anything.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You just want to I could tell them enjoy.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Here's a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
The next time an older person says to me, enjoy
every moment instead of saying I will, actually I'm gonna
say I will, and I'm going to say you too. Hey,
just come up with that. See the spontaneity of the show.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
This is fun.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And when an older person comes up to me and
I have my three kids and they're going to 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 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,
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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 Gregg's mindset. Ten minutes here, let's switch gears
in a little more practical into taking action and being
on the process. Okay, so let's say you have now
I was talking about earlier in the show, getting the
plan in place, having someone to help with that. So
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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
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
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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. But that's just that's just
how it would happen.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay. So for you having that spot, that's having that
plan in place, whether that's the plan to get your
neck out of pain, your back, your hips, your means,
whatever's going on, whatever symptoms, headaches, migraine, 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
(32:16):
cut your knees out and put a fake knee in
and put a.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Fake sol in, then put a fake hit in.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's not a plan.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's not a plan at all. You're just standing on
the sidelines. You're not playing the game of life. Do
you want to have a planned 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.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
So stay tuned, Hi, it's our Jay 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, have back or neck issues, or just
want to feel and function better, call doctor Greg today.
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Speaker 2 (33:13):
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lot more.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
The weather forecast on air.
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Can I ride my motorcycle to work today? Maximize living?
Radio Doctor grego' neil talking about enjoying the process. As
this show has moved on and evolved, I'm realizing that
the word enjoy is I might as well just saying
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.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Themselves in trouble from mental standpoint, and that can really
derail your action steps because you're the 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,
many different stories. Tony Robbins talks about this. Tony Robbins,
(34:03):
a famous motivational 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,
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like what's their 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 true?
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And they'll be like well no, I'm like, well then
it doesn't matter if it's not the truth, and it
doesn't matter. That's just something 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 write.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
And it's part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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 by just 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,
(35:45):
like hummers were kind of like the cyber trucks of
the day, Like you 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 of a yellow hummer,
then you'll see one everywhere. You'll start to see it.
But I would say this 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
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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 out of the 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.
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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 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
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kind of the physical things, but also whatever you're thinking
on your subconscious mind, those those kind of evil or
self loathing thoughts.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
That you can think.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Unfortunately, those can start to pop up in different ways
and 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 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
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ate too much food, you got stressed out, you ate
too much food, and you prove yourself right, and it's
that story, 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,
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I will lose weight. So that's what you have to do,
is just you have to stay focused. But then 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 weight, or look at this
person and how healthy they are, or 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
(38:00):
and social media, guys, you got to get yourself off
of that, telling you right now, get off of it.
Like I understand, 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.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
It is not healthy for you.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's especially not healthy for young children and teenagers when
their brain is so impressionable. Their brain is like clay, right,
that's being molded in real time, and when there 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
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don't think kids do at all. It would be hard.
With the pandemic and everything that happened there, and the
social isolation.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
And then 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. I'd eye looking people
in the eye, shaking your 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
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best bet.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
It's 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.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You can do that too.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
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 case
for me. All right now, talking about enjoying the prospect
mound enjoyment being present. Let's talk about some practical things
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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, make I'm sure to eating twenty
to thirty grams of protein per meal. So eat three
meals a day, eating at least twenty to thirty grams
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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
your healthy body weight in grams. So think of like
what your healthy body weight should be and then cut
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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, Michael,
we get a cereal called Catalina Crunch and it has
it does have some protein. It's like a healthier gluten
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free type cereal.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
But if we're rushed for school and that's all he has,
he actually admitted today that his his energy was off
like mid morning. He's like, I noticed if I just
beat the cereal, like I get tired, and that's really cool.
Like he's nine years old. I wouldn't even have noticed that. Honestly,
I didn't notice that until I was like twenty five
or twenty six. Well, I would actually like didn't think
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like huh, this like.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
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's that's a big win for me that he's equating
not just food to like, oh, not being hungry, but
food is your energy too, and your wakefulness and really
a lot to do with your learning as a student.
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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 why.
That's where lasting change happens. Because before I'd be like, Okay, Mike,
gotta have your smoothie. It's like, oh, I just want
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to have this cereal, 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 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.
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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 reach
for caffeine or take an afternoon nap. A lot of
times your body is just lacking in protein. You've probably
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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 day.
Two more glasses of water. I am not joking when
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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 no, So she was not
drinking any water, like none. I couldn't even imagine, like
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just the tea and coffee throughout the day and no water. Okay,
And I can tell you to start drinking water.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
What a change?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
What a change? I mean just looking at her face,
she looks younger, more vibrant, more energy. Just by drinking
more water 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
(43:58):
not get paid any advertisements. If they want to send
me a free something, go ahead Martin's Water and Conditioning
in Lancaster County 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
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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. So I would recommend reverse
osmosis water is my top pick to guys. 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 week.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Hi, it's r Jay Harris. I've been listening to doctor
Greg O'Neil from Lindit'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,
have back or neck issues, or just want to feel
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
All right, guys, welcome through another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neil. 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 our 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 green. But
I'm going to be talking about ways that you can
enjoy the process and really leaning into it so that
you can get better, but not just be miserable while
(01:01):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm that 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.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then looking.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Back, you can see it not at the chore, but
it's something that was not only worth it, Like the
ends justify the means, where maybe you see the scale
go down, or you see your spine change, or you
get out of paint, or you start eating better, but
then you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
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's really the
important part. I want to brag on my son, one
of my sons, so I have two at the time
of recording the show, I have a nine year old,
six year old and four year old. And my six
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year old just completed this first season of ice hockey,
which is really exciting. And starting out, he was in
the six and undergroup. Most of the kids started when
they're like four or five, so kids start really early,
and 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 sixth year, so he's although
(02:17):
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 things at once. You have to learn how to
skate forwards, backwards, You have to learn your edges, turning, stopping.
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Then you also have to have a stick in your hand,
learning how to handle the puck stick, handling, shooting, passing,
even before 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.
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.
(02:59):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And that's what changes real as a person. And so
for Jake, like I've noticed a huge change in him
this season. You know, his coaches, my wife, the teachers
that just like Jake just seems more determined and just
more focused. And that's just what's really grown in him.
And at the time recording, if he doesn't even know
this yet, we're going to be going to like a
(03:31):
hockey banquet. And his coach told me that he.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Nominated Jake for the Sportsmanship Award, So they give out
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 he's a good teammate. So and
that that's so cool because in sports we get caught
up in the in the skill. And don't get me wrong,
(03:55):
Jake's improved a lot and he's got a lot better.
But it's 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,
(04:17):
it was because of their attitude. And I see that
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.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But then it's.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Also your attitude about it, and that can change. We
all can start out with a bad attitude and a
poor attitude, and we can have every excuse in the book,
and there's going to be days that are like that,
and there's going to 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 arch
is that we want to have a good attitude about
change because the patients that I see that have a
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good attitude, those are the ones that hit their goals
not only faster, 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 had a patient named Tracy, and she just started
care and she's, you know, in her mid forties dealing
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with pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Bad next pain. Works at an office job, sitting most
of the day, so at a computer, and for her,
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.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
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 and when
you're getting the right when you're getting the right care
and you're getting the right specificity. Now what do I
mean by that? So you go to a dentist and
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you have crooked teeth, they put braces on your teeth.
There's gonna be a little bit of residual. So 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 an adjustment itself feels good.
It's just those muscles will react to a new position.
Now for ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of
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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 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,
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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 what's called a listing where
we're able to go through each vertebrae and the patterns
of what we call subli station and come up with
a listing or a way in which that patient is
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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
be relieving, because if your.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Your hot zone is out on the right, it needs
to be adjusted in a specific way versus if it
is out on the left, if that makes sense. So
so Fasey getting adjusted. I got her adjusted and she's like, oh,
like that's it, and I'm like, yeah, that's it. Oh
that was like basically saying like that's not scary, Like no,
it feels good, and start to feel a little better.
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But then you move into that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What I call the multi metal 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 changing your exercise. You're helping your
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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 time and there's been issues there,
it might take time to correct it. And that's where
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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, is this going to take time? And under
the guidance of your chiropractice, someone like me or a
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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 a time frame of where based
on my clinical judgment and experience and what you have
going on, of how long things will take. So that's
the best part is like, lit'ten and I expect that
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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. Do 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.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Take to get better. Fafter the break, we'll focus on that.
To stay tuned today, it's definitely it's a good day.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Today is to be informed.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh day. What's good for a good story to tell?
Check in throun for doctor Greg O'Neill. Please check out
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Speaker 2 (09:40):
So yeah, we're out there. Check out our YouTube channel.
Let Its Family Chiropractic. Check out our website Littersfamily 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.
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You come in and you talk with with people. We
hope people you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sit with me.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
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 litt 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.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We're here to help. We're here to make 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 gonna
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
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to have a process. You want to have a plan,
you want to have an idea of what's going on.
And this is where if you're.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Anything like love, 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 plan colleagues that do radio shows, they have
the whole thing stripped it out. I'm not joking. I
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know a guy personally, he writes out bluebat and what
he's gonna say.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
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 could probably 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
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set idea of what I want to talk about, like
a topic, and I break it up into four segments
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 doesn't work with a school schedule,
that doesn't work with running a business having eight employees
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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 discipline, er sticking to a plan and
this and that. 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
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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,
or like grandparents who like have all this social things
going on, or people who have a garden, or people
who go play pickleballer. People have plans and processes in
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their life, and a lot of people listen to this.
You're probably a lot more diligent and disciplined and scheduled
in many aspects.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Of your life than I am. But it's not about
your ability to schedule, in process. Most people are already
pretty good at that. It's about your priorities. Where your
priorities are. Whatever 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 the reality.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Like I have a nine year old we doesn't want
to do his homework right. It's not necessarily his priority.
When I was 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. How many times you become the
adult at some point in your life, you become the parent.
You become the adult, and you start saying the things
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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 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
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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.
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
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out ahead of time. I review that, I come into
the room with you. You know, we show you around the office.
Come into the room with you, and we go over
what your concerns are, what you've been 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 line and your nervous system,
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the thing that we focus on in the office.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Then we do an examination, the examination your posture, range
of motion, how well your spine is moving, how patient
of your spine, feeling along your spine, the areas.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Of tenderness and UH and and issues like muscle muscles
out of joint or subluxation this line and 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
a process to correct your spine. And then I lay
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that I by a second visit, I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
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.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
With the extras, but how their spine actually moves under
the under my hands. Then I come up with a process.
I come up with a Plankay, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'd like to see you first.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It's gonna be the number of visits. Here's gonna be
the exercise we're going to have you do here on
at home. Here's your x rays. I'm gonna show you
those extras, show you what's happening. Here's how much everything
will cost. Here's how much your insurance will or won't pay.
Here's how you can choose to pay for it over time.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So I lay everything out for people, everything out, the
effort that will take, how often you'll be coming, the cost,
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. You can
make the best decision for yourself, and then people start
care and then things start to change. It's really cool,
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it's fun. I have a patient, just spoke to her yesterday.
She was super excited. Her name is Jane, listens to
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,
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but she heard me on the radio show, wanted to
try something different, and she was dealing with pretty bad
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
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well over a year, if not more. She when I
asked her, because she's like, it's going on so long,
I can't even remember. So she would wake up imagine
waking up wide awake, you know, two, three, four in
the morning, you're wide awake. And she would like be
sol awakes, she would do chores or do puzzles like
busier herself, and then maybe if she was lucky, fall
asleep again. But many times just be up and you know,
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fell into that. Well, I just I just don't need
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.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
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 if I only
had to her hours of sleep, I'd be grumpy. Now,
Jane is a very pleasant person, very nice. I would
not be so I was asleep. That's just that's just me.
I'm a baby when it comes to that. I need
my seven eight nine hours this week for sure. So
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with James, you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
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 the most importantly working the process,
and within a few adjustments her next started to feel better.
She's in about two weeks of care. I came around
the corner they that came into the adjustment room and
she's standing up. Most people are laying down ready to
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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 help with sleep? And I was like,
why what have you noticed? And I've learned not to
answer the questions. 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.
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And she's like, in 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? And I was like, yeah,
absolutely it does. Now how does that work?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
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 mode. Is that when your neck is out of
alignment and your muscles are tight and there you have
knots and everything. The reason it gets that way is
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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.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, if you have less stress signals in your body,
you're gonna feel better. You're gonna feel happier, You're going
to feel more wakeful. We've all been stressed before, We've
all been on the verge of maybe a panic attack
or something like that. And when you breathe your way
through it and you come out of it, you feel better,
You feel more and wakeful, you feel happier, feel more alert.
And the other cool part is you're going to sleep
better too.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Your body's going to be 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 Like?
My energy feels great. I feel like wide awake, and
I said, no doubt. I mean, like I, if I
was only sleeping four hours, I couldn't even imagine. So
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now she's sleeping through the night seven eight hours, which
is really cool. So shout out to Jane for making
the choice to come in. That's 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
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of the show is you got to put the plan.
You 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 first exam and any initial
X rays give us a call seven one seven six
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two seven zero three six five. After the break, I
learned how to listen from you. I don't miss the sill.
It's an intellectual feat.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Here Living Radio talking about enjoying the process of change,
you know, taking the first step. We talked about that
a lot, getting in the process 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.
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An obvious one for this would be stepping on the
scale every day. I'd be guilty of that, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh my gosh, that's a frustrating thing to do, isn't it.
It's hard. It makes it and makes it hard. I
should say that 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
and where you are. Isn't that The human experience is we.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
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 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 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
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sure take a few hours off your life by worrying,
that's for sure. So I'm talking myself here too.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
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, or saying no
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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 right now.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And that's when that's when weight loss becomes hard. Okay,
that's when making a change like getting your spinehealthy become hard.
Adding in an exercise program, doing all this stuff, it
becomes hard. When we move ourselves out of the present,
we go back and a passing with the teacher. And
that's the case basically for all of human experience. If
we just stayed present, if we just stayed with where
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we were, we're.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Doing 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 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
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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 six pack abs, all this stuff.
You know what, probably most of those people are like
nineteen years old and on, and they're juiced up or
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on like drugs or something. Okay, you can't. I don't
know if that's the case for all them, 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 full time
job there.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Maybe they don't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
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. It might have started out as
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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 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
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do that.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm not getting that stimulation from video. It is addicting.
It is addicting. I can tell that from you say
that from personal experience, like you're looking, I'm looking. I'd
be looking for my thone. I want to check this,
look at that, or what's the update with this? And
the notifications and the buzzes and the likes and the
all the things and whatnot. It's playing on your.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Brain's chemistry and the worst way possible, and instead of
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
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nineties were greater, the eighties are great, or the two
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 look in the future and be
worried about it, this, that or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
All you can do is control your next step, your
next breath, you're the next thing 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
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or my nervous system is heightened, and I have trouble sleeping.
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,
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or if I'm at work, I'm thinking about something else,
Like 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, so good for.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Me, I should say it's do I go for a lot,
like a lot. That's like therapy for me. If if
I can just get out walk, move, You're getting your
body moving, your heart weight's going up, your muscles are
moving to 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
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that's very healthy for your suit.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Give and I do give this advice a lot to patience.
Maybe they're 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
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that and once the weather gets bad or this happens
in that 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 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
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can enjoy the moment that we're at now. Enjoyment is
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
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can still enjoy life even though things are going haywire.
And this is like the where wisdom comes in. Like
you know, when you 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,
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be glad every moment is happening. They're saying, enjoy the moment.
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.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh, the babies are scooped everywhere and you have hoop
all over your hands, or the kids 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
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 as home problem. You don't
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want to look back and wish anything.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You just want to I could tell them enjoy.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Here's a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
The next time an older person says to me, enjoy
every moment instead of saying I will, actually I'm gonna
say I will, and I'm going to say you too. Hey,
just come up with that. See the spontaneity of the show.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
This is fun.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And when an older person comes up to me and
I have my three kids and they're going to 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 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,
(30:59):
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 Gregg's mindset. Ten minutes here, let's switch gears
in a little more practical into taking action and being
on the process. Okay, so let's say you have now
I was talking about earlier in the show, getting the
plan in place, having someone to help with that. So
(31:22):
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
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
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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. But that's just that's just
how it would happen.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay. So for you having that spot, that's having that
plan in place, whether that's the plan to get your
neck out of pain, your back, your hips, your means,
whatever's going on, whatever symptoms, headaches, migraine, 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
(32:16):
cut your knees out and put a fake knee in
and put a.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Fake sol in, then put a fake hit in.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's not a plan.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's not a plan at all. You're just standing on
the sidelines. You're not playing the game of life. Do
you want to have a planned 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.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
So stay tuned, Hi, it's our Jay 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, have back or neck issues, or just
want to feel and function better, call doctor Greg today.
He'll give you fifth eight percent off your first visit
(33:01):
and any necessary X race like you did for me.
Call Lyditz Family Chiropractic seven seven six two seven zero
three six five three. Day is different for every day.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Recent events has made me listen to the radio a
lot more.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
The weather forecast on air.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Can I ride my motorcycle to work today? Maximize living?
Radio Doctor grego' neil talking about enjoying the process. As
this show has moved on and evolved, I'm realizing that
the word enjoy is I might as well just saying
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.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Themselves in trouble from mental standpoint, and that can really
derail your action steps because you're the 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,
many different stories. Tony Robbins talks about this. Tony Robbins,
(34:03):
a famous motivational 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,
(34:26):
like what's their 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 true?
(34:49):
And they'll be like well no, I'm like, well then
it doesn't matter if it's not the truth, and it
doesn't matter. That's just something 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.
(35:14):
And there's this thing in your brain, your subconscious brain,
where it's always wanting to prove you write.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
And it's part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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 by just 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,
(35:45):
like hummers were kind of like the cyber trucks of
the day, Like you 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 of a yellow hummer,
then you'll see one everywhere. You'll start to see it.
But I would say this 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
(36:06):
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 out of the 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.
(36:27):
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 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
(36:47):
kind of the physical things, but also whatever you're thinking
on your subconscious mind, those those kind of evil or
self loathing thoughts.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
That you can think.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Unfortunately, those can start to pop up in different ways
and 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 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
(37:17):
ate too much food, you got stressed out, you ate
too much food, and you prove yourself right, and it's
that story, 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,
(37:39):
I will lose weight. So that's what you have to do,
is just you have to stay focused. But then 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 weight, or look at this
person and how healthy they are, or 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
(38:00):
and social media, guys, you got to get yourself off
of that, telling you right now, get off of it.
Like I understand, 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.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
It is not healthy for you.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's especially not healthy for young children and teenagers when
their brain is so impressionable. Their brain is like clay, right,
that's being molded in real time, and when there 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
(38:45):
don't think kids do at all. It would be hard.
With the pandemic and everything that happened there, and the
social isolation.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
And then 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. I'd eye looking people
in the eye, shaking your 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
(39:14):
best bet.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
It's 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.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You can do that too.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
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 case
for me. All right now, talking about enjoying the prospect
mound enjoyment being present. Let's talk about some practical things
(39:46):
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, make I'm sure to eating twenty
to thirty grams of protein per meal. So eat three
meals a day, eating at least twenty to thirty grams
(40:08):
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
your healthy body weight in grams. So think of like
what your healthy body weight should be and then cut
(40:30):
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, Michael,
we get a cereal called Catalina Crunch and it has
it does have some protein. It's like a healthier gluten
(40:52):
free type cereal.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
But if we're rushed for school and that's all he has,
he actually admitted today that his his energy was off
like mid morning. He's like, I noticed if I just
beat the cereal, like I get tired, and that's really cool.
Like he's nine years old. I wouldn't even have noticed that. Honestly,
I didn't notice that until I was like twenty five
or twenty six. Well, I would actually like didn't think
(41:15):
like huh, this like.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
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's that's a big win for me that he's equating
not just food to like, oh, not being hungry, but
food is your energy too, and your wakefulness and really
a lot to do with your learning as a student.
(41:37):
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 why.
That's where lasting change happens. Because before I'd be like, Okay, Mike,
gotta have your smoothie. It's like, oh, I just want
(41:59):
to have this cereal, 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 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.
(42:20):
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 reach
for caffeine or take an afternoon nap. A lot of
times your body is just lacking in protein. You've probably
(42:42):
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 day.
Two more glasses of water. I am not joking when
(43:03):
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 no, So she was not
drinking any water, like none. I couldn't even imagine, like
(43:27):
just the tea and coffee throughout the day and no water. Okay,
And I can tell you to start drinking water.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
What a change?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
What a change? I mean just looking at her face,
she looks younger, more vibrant, more energy. Just by drinking
more water 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
(43:58):
not get paid any advertisements. If they want to send
me a free something, go ahead Martin's Water and Conditioning
in Lancaster County 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
(44:19):
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. So I would recommend reverse
osmosis water is my top pick to guys. 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 week.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Hi, it's r Jay Harris. I've been listening to doctor
Greg O'Neil from Lindit'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,
have back or neck issues, or just want to feel
and function, better call doctor Greg today. He'll give you
fifth fifty percent off your first visit and any necessary
(45:03):
X race like you did for me. Called Lywitz Family
Chiropractic seven one seven six two seven zero three sixty five.
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