Living a HEALTHY LIFE Pearls
If considering a healthier life style, these pearls and,
the “Ultimate Back Wellness Program” may be of value to you.
Are your aerobic exercises strengthening or weakening your heart? If weakening, can you change your exercise routine to strengthen your heart? This pearl may help you. If you do strenuous exercise for more than 30 seconds, you will damage your heart and throw off free radicals. These free radicals will make you age faster and can contribute to heart attacks, stroke and cancer. The exercise you choose depends on your age, state of health and lower body problems. People can obtain many benefits from running, as long as it is done at your moderate pace; running too fast for more than 30 seconds hinders more than it helps. Similar benefits are obtained from walking at a fast pace…
Do you have balance problems from an acoustic neuroma? Are you less “athletically graceful” nowadays than you were in the past? Do you have more “senior moments” than you would like? If so, your 6th sense (somatosensory system) may be out of wack and needs resetting. This pearl can help you to reset it. Your somatosensory system coordinates your entire neuromuscular system, allowing you to do your daily tasks as accurately and efficiently as possible. It also has an affect on your memory. With injury or as a consequence of aging, your somatosensory system tends to falter, causing imbalance or injury and unnecessary “senior moments". The cerebellum mainly controls this system—if the cerebellum is out of wack…
Are you getting the nutrients you need to keep your heart healthy? Do you know how to determine whether your heart is working as efficiently as possible? Maybe this pearl can help. Your heart uses two methods to supply the blood that nourishes your body’s cells: 1) By deciding to pump faster or slower (your pulse rate) 2) By deciding to pump more or less harder (your Systolic Pressure) Your heart pumps harder and/or faster if you physically or emotionally exert yourself and pumps less harder or slower if you are physically or emotionally relaxed. That’s the way it is; your heart puts forth an effort to keep you alive, oscillating between these two methods. Thus, if you…
Do you suffer from chronic lower back pain? Do you suffer from occasional or chronic hip pain? Or are there other pains (i.e., shoulder, leg, foot, etc.)? Do you want to get rid of or ease that pain? If so, maybe this pearl can help. We all suffer from pain in our lives, especially as we get older—and being a dentist doesn’t help; quite the opposite. Non-traumatic pain (injury, etc.) comes from muscles and bone joints. Pain can come from over-use of some muscles and under-use of others, throwing your entire musculo-skeletal system out of balance. When we over-use a muscle it becomes fatigued and creates “trigger points”. A trigger point is a small part of the muscle…
Do you experience the healthy, wonderful feeling of love daily? Or does your fear, anger or opinions get in the way? Would you like to experience more love each day? If so, maybe this pearl can help. There are as many definitions of “love” as there are people to define it—but definitions of love are not as important as the feeling of love, which comes from our emotional energy. The fact is, we transmit and receive emotional energy to and from others, which is either negative (from our fear and anger) or positive (from our joy). Joy is the instantaneous adrenalin rush we feel in our heart when we physically recognized (see, hear, etc.) a connection (family, friends,…
At least four percent of the US population gets gout attacks (about 12 million). Unfortunately, they also get useless advice on how to deal with gout attacks. If you or anybody you know has a problem with gout attacks, this pearl is helpful. Go to the following link for help or Email this link to family and friends with gout.
Are you getting 7-8 hours of sleep/day? Do you wake up many times while sleeping? Do you lie awake in bed for hours during the night? Maybe this pearl can help you get a better night’s sleep. Let's face it, if you are in pain or anxious about anything you will not get a restful night's sleep. But, other than that you can get a more restful sleep if you can find the variables surrounding sleep that work for you. Research has shown that it is healthy to get about eight hours of sleep a night; unfortunately this is not usually the case, especially if you are over 50. If for example, you went to bed at…
Are your goals for your success and health clear or muddy? Are your beliefs helping or hindering your successful and healthy life? Maybe this pearl can help you to better attain your goals for a more successful and healthier life. Consciously (rationally) we think know what we want out of life and how to attain it. But that is not necessarily true on a subconscious (emotional) level. I equate rational memories with the conscious level because we have some conscious control over what we rationally think. And I equate emotional memories with the subconscious because they take control of our rational thoughts before our conscious rational memories can deal with the situation. Our rational and emotional memories control…
Is your area free from Coronavirus cases? Have you taken the proper precautions to protect your patients? Have you taken the proper precautions to protect your team? If not, maybe this pearl can help. The Coronavirus infects both animals and people and can cause a wide range of illnesses from the common cold to lung lesions and pneumonia. It seems to spread easily from person to person, especially in homes, hospitals and other confined spaces such as professional offices. The pathogen can travel through the air, enveloped in tiny respiratory droplets that are produced when a sick person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes. Hundreds of thousands of cases exist throughout the world with thousands of deaths. As of this…
Are you prepared to reopen your practice once the economy is open? Are you prepared to deal with Social Distancing laws? If not, maybe this pearl can help. The Coronavirus has closed down all of the US dental practices, which should be able to open soon…hopefully! When opening this year (and possibly into the next) the “new normal” of social distancing will be in affect until an effective CV-19 vaccine is available. Patient scheduling must be considered in terms of volumes of patients allowed to congregate. The FLOW and treatment of patients must be considered, accounting for social distancing in your waiting room and clinic. The reorganization of your waiting room and clinic areas must also be…
Are you healthy enough to deal with a Covid-19 infection? Is your immune system up to that task? If you are not sure, maybe this pearl can help. The way I understand it, the immune system works in the following manner. Once we are infected, the immune system recognizes fragments of the pathogen and activates immune system B-cells and T-cells. The B-cells mark the pathogen by coating it with antibodies that chomp up the pathogen into little pieces, which alerts nearby T-cells to rapidly multiply and engulf the pieces. Those B-cells and T-cells quickly die off leaving “memory cells” that help recognize and fight off that pathogen in the future. As we get older the B-cells become…
Do you obtain a "Covid-19 Informed Consent" form all of your patients, whether established or new? Do you obtain a "Covid-19 Patient Disclosure" on patients before they enter your office for the first time? Do you obtain a "Covid-19 Patient Disclosure" (or some shorter spoken version) on established patients as they arrive? If not, maybe this pearl can help. Remember when you had to make all of those OSHA changes to your office decades ago? Well, it's back again with the Covid-19 virus, but hopefully it will only be for a short period of time. You need to protect yourself and your present patients from Covid-19 infection by masking, using PPE and social distancing whenever possible. You also need to protect yourself and…
Is sharing love an important apart of your life? Do you share a limited amount of love because you are a strong director, analyzer or socializer—or a weak relator? Do you really share as much love as you want to? Maybe a revisit of a previous pearl may help improve your loving life. While involved in the many aspects of your practice odyssey over the past few months, you should not have lost sight of an important aspect of a successful practice—that you must love your team and patients; that your team must love you and your patients; and that the patients must love you and your team. This fact has become obvious to me after working with hundreds…
Do you find it difficult to deal with emotionally distraught people? Do your reactions calm or intensify the emotional reactions of others? Do you think that you can muster up the “free will” to help others deal with their emotional reactions? If so, maybe this pearl can help you to help the emotionally distraught. Welcome to this five-part series on how to deal with emotionally distraught people. Part-I examines how our free will allows us to help or not the emotionally distraught by providing a useful technique. Parts two through five show you how to use that technique to calm down people who are expressing anger/rage, fear/terror, sorrow/despair or joy/mania—which are basic/rational emotions. The anger/rage and fear/terror emotions…
Do you find it difficult to deal with angry, hateful or enraged people? Do you find it difficult to deal with your own anger, hatred or rage? If so, maybe this pearl can help you to calm that anger, hatred or rage. Welcome again to this five-part series about dealing with emotionally distraught people. Part-II will deal with calming angry or enraged people. Emotional anger and rational hate/rage are the most difficult emotions to deal with because it is so confrontational and scary, but it can be done since the angry/hateful/enraged person actually wants to get past it and move on. This pearl is especially helpful if you or your mate is a genetically strong angry director and…
Do you find it difficult to deal with fearful or terrified people? Do you find it difficult to deal with your own strong fears? If so, maybe this pearl can help you calm that fear and terror. Welcome to Part-III of this five-part series, which deals with calming fearful or terrified people. The second most difficult emotion to deal with is fear, which can elevate to paralyzing terror, making that person literally become petrified, unable to move. This pearl is especially helpful if you or your mate is a genetically strong fearful analyzer and also a genetically weak socializer. What causes Fear and Terror? The left amygdala stores our fear memories. Sensory input triggers these fear…
Do you find it difficult to deal with sad or depressed people? Do you find it difficult to deal with your own sadness? If so, maybe this pearl can help reduce the sadness or despair/depression experienced daily. Welcome to Part-IV of this five-part series dealing with calming down the sadness or despair in yourself and others. People displaying sorrow can descend into despair or depression, especially when they are disconnected from their finances or their loved connections. People who experience a tragic loss are difficult to help, but you can at least give them support with your relator style to momentarily get them through it. Anybody can get depressed, but genetically strong relators tend to get more depressed…
Do you find it difficult to deal with excessively joyful or manic people? Do you find it difficult to get your tasks done when you are excessively joyful? If so, maybe this pearl can help calm that uncontrollable joy so that something else can be accomplished. Welcome to the final part of this five-part series, which deals with calming down manic people. Joyful people (socializers) are usually wonderful to be around because they are entertaining, positive and make us happy. But excessively joyful (manic) people can be difficult to be with, especially when you need their attention and can’t get it because they are so distracted. That excessive joy is also why their necessary tasks don’t get completed—this…
Are you, or someone you care about just tolerating diabetes, thyroid disease or heart disease? Do you think that something might be done about it? If so, maybe this pearl can help you or them do something more proactive than just tolerating it. Have you ever heard of the term “protomorphogen”? Well join the club; most everybody, including physicians, have never heard of it. In the early part of the 20th century Dr. Royal Lee, a dentist and early pioneer in human nutrition, proposed that gland and organ tissue could be useful beyond just their food value. He believed that animal extracts could activate nuclear cell repair in compromised organs. In 1947, Dr. Lee described a protomorphogen…
Are you aware that your body is healthier when its electromagnetic energy is in balance than when it isn’t? Have you ever heard of energy coherence? Do you know that disease can unbalance your energy coherence? Do you even care? Maybe this pearl can help you find out how all of this might affect your health. Definitions: We are all animals—Definition: "an animal is a collections of organs that all work together to help the animal survive". The first animal was the sponge, which most of us have highly evolved from. But for an animal's organs to be healthy enough to survive it must maintain its energy coherence. Coherence is in general: “an orderly, logical and…
Do you unwittingly avoid discussing certain subjects? Do you typically answer the question asked or the question you think you were asked? When an argument ensues, do you respond by accusing others of what they accuse you of? If so, maybe this pearl can help you to better communicate with others by having honest discussions instead of heated arguments. Definitions: It helps to distinguish the difference between an argument and a discussion. A discussion is: “an earnest, rational conversation of a subject”, which can only proceed when we respond in an honest and direct manner. An argument is: “a heated verbal dialogue of conflicting points of view”, which usually involves anger, offensive statements and avoidance of…
Do you find communicating with others difficult? Do you or do those close to you have physical difficulties or habits that make your conversations annoying or argumentative? If so, maybe this pearl series can help you to better communicate with others, avoiding frustration and arguments. Verbal human communication includes both listening and speaking. Part-1 of this two-part series will deal with the listening aspect of communication. Part-2 will deal with the speaking aspect of communication with an emphasis on asking and answering questions and avoiding arguments. This two-part series will lead into a five-part series—“Dealing with Emotionally Distraught People”. Human Communication: Mammal communication became possible about 45 million years ago with the development of the rational brain…
Do you tear up when experiencing the misfortune of others? Do you express sorrow when experiencing the good fortune of others? Well, maybe this pearl can help you to understand what “That Caring Feeling” is, what causes it and how it might help you to experience more love in your life. Who Cares? Well, maybe you should! “That Caring Feeling” is a proof that we are capable of caring. It is that welling up tearful feeling that we get when experiencing caring for others—it is the humanity that bonds us all. You probably experience it daily, but may not realize it. “That Caring Feeling” stems from our people-related relator style and its sorrow symbiotic emotion. Definitions…
Is our “darkness” inherently wicked or evil—or is it just a consequence of our genetic and nurtured personality? Do you know what your potential for “darkness” is? Do you think that you have control over your potential darkness? Continue on if you are interested in what your potential for darkness is and how to enlighten yourself. This will be the first part of a 4-part series dealing with the negative and positive aspects of our lives. Part-1 deals with your negative "Dark Side"; Part-2 with your positive "Bright Side", Part-3 with your "Joyful Life" and Part-4 with "That Caring Feeling". We will use "Genetic Human Personality" as the tool to analyze why we have a positive and a…
Have you ever wondered what love is? Does love brighten your life? Do you want to experience more love in your life? Well maybe this pearl can help you to better understand love and possibly experience more of it. Opposite to our angry “dark side” that contains our negative anger and director memories is our loving “bright side” that contains our positive relator and socializer memories. The dictionary defines love as: “A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward another human; a sense of underlying oneness.” This is helpful to explain the oneness aspect of love, but it isn’t sufficient to explain the joyous aspect of neither love nor love’s overall genesis. Most people categorize love with…
Did you ever realize that you were living a “joyful life”? Do you know what your joyful life is? Does your life dwell more on your positive or more on your negative connections? Maybe this pearl can help you understand what your joyful life really is and give you the ability to live a more positive, happier life. What is Joy? Joy is one of our four basic emotions (anger, fear, joy & sorrow) whose survival purpose is “to alert us to our possible connections” (connections are important to us: people, stuff, etc.) and triggers socializer memories about that connection. It may seem absurd (especially for weak socializers) that joy is our most used emotion, but it’s true. …
Do you find it difficult to deal with sad or depressed people? Do you find it difficult to deal with your own sadness? If so, maybe this pearl can help reduce the sadness or despair/depression experienced daily. Welcome to Part-IV of this five-part series dealing with calming down the sadness or despair in yourself and others. People displaying sorrow can descend into despair or depression, especially when they are disconnected from their finances or their loved connections. People who experience a tragic loss are difficult to help, but you can at least give them support with your relator style to momentarily get them through it. Anybody can get depressed, but genetically strong relators tend to get more depressed and genetically…
Do you suffer from lower back, hip or leg pain? If so, are you dealing with it as effectively as possible? Whether this type of pain is your present or future problem, you may want to better understand what you are dealing with and what you might do about it. This pearl is the first in a three-part series for dealing with the kind of pain that most dentists and their staff are plagued with; it also applies to everybody with body pain. Part-1 will deal with lower back, hip and leg pain and spinal stenosis, a problem for too many workers. Pearl-2 will deal with upper body, shoulder and neck pain, another type of suffered by dental staff…
Do you suffer from TMJ (temporomandibular jaw) pain? Does someone close to you or do your patients suffer from TMJ pain? Are you interested in finding possible ways of reducing/eliminating that TMJ pain? If so, this pearl might help. Disclaimer This is the final part of this three-part pain series, which deals with TMJ pain. The opinions stated here are based on over 50 years of personal research and what has and has not worked for my client’s patients, my acquaintances and me. This is an offering to get you thinking outside of the “pill box” and possibly resolve the root of your pain instead of covering it up with medications—medications are helpful, but they are not the…
Do you suffer from upper back, neck or shoulder pain? If you do, are you dealing with it as effectively as possible? Whether your upper back or shoulder pain is your present or future problem, you may want to better understand what you are dealing with and how to avoid or relieve it. Disclaimer The opinions stated here are based on over 50 years of personal research and what has and has not worked for my clients, my acquaintances and me. This is an offering to get you thinking outside of the “pill box” and possibly resolve the root of your pain instead of only covering it up with medications—medications are helpful, but they rarely resolve your…
Have you ever wondered WHY or HOW you think? Have you ever wondered about WHAT you think? Do you think that your opinions contain more fact than fiction? This pearl, based on the “Genetic Human Personality TOOL”, can help answer these questions and may be worth pondering. WHY we Think: We think in order to appropriately react to physically and socially survive. Our physical survival is controlled by our four amygdala-controlled emotions, when our sensory input triggers emotional memories that trigger an emotional alert of anger, fear, joy or sorrow. Our social survival is controlled by our rational analyzer, director, relator and socializer style’s attributes (programming) and their rational memories. The mammalian (physical survival) brain emerged about…
What is genius? What is a genius? Do geniuses even exist? Can someone be a genius at being wise and/or at being ignorant? Maybe this pearl has some ingenious answers for you. The purpose of this pearl is to dissect the term “genius”. When we hear the term “Genius” it makes us think in positive terms, of someone using superior intellect and creativity to do what is best for mankind. But genius also has a darker side, steeped in ignorance and chaos. In this pearl we will delve into both aspects of genius and hopefully shed some light on it. What does “Genius" mean? Definition of Genius: “Exhibiting extraordinary intellect and creative power". Definition of A…
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