Wellness Blog

The brain responds to what you repeat; physically, chemically and emotionally. The brain builds connections and pathways in response to this repetition. They are built from the actions repeated throughout each day. From your posture, foods choices, type of light you live under and thinking patterns. This can be a two edged sword because we can repeat things that the brain perceives as positive which leads to greater health and wellbeing; but we can also repeat things that the brain perceives as negative and this will lead the brain to wire in a survival manner and decrease a […]

Can sunlight be a doctor? Can it be your doctor for conditions like ADHD, depression, anxiety and sleep apnea, if not many other chronic health conditions? The short answer is yes, if you use it correctly. Light is an information signal to all cells of your body so they can function correctly. This is what the field of circadian biology has been telling us. Are you aware that sunlight and artificial light are different? That they emit different frequencies and the missing frequencies in artificial light (from screens and cool white LED lighting) essentially creates chaos in your […]

Often when a person seeks a chiropractor, they are seeking an adjustment to restore a body that is expressing the symptoms of stress-pain, illness or other dysfunction. Because it is the body that is yelling with the symptom it is thought that it is the body that needs adjusting. Yet it is your brain that coordinates every function and part of your body. So you may need regular adjustments to improve brain function which flows through to improve body function but could you also benefit from an adjustment to the way you think about your lifestyle? Ultimately your […]

Have you ever tried to kick a habit but kept falling back into the old behaviour? It may be because your brain is an association organ. Your brain associates behaviours and habits with times and places that they happened in or were repeated in. If you sit on the couch each night watching TV and eating snack foods after dinner; your brain creates the association with this behaviour and your surroundings, both time of day and location. Then you decide that you don’t want to do this anymore as it is not healthy but every time you sit […]