The Physical being category relates to all physical stress factors that are involved in living a healthy life. This can relate to Posture, Exercise, sleep, and hygiene.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Hygiene refers to the routine practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness. This Innate Essential is a subcategory of physical well-being.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Initially, I quelled the desire to write a long blog post detailing how and why sleep is an Innate Essential. It’s been done a million times over. Ultimately though this blog wasn’t started just for me as a creative outlet but was intended to be a resource for my patients Read more…
Reading Time: 13 minutes So, if you’re like me, then you probably don’t love to sleep. I don’t mean that I avoid it at all costs. I mean, it’s nice and I feel much better when I have good sleep and I know sleeping well is essential to my health, but I love being Read more…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Your hip bone’s connected to your back bone. Your back bone’s connected to your shoulder bone. Your shoulder bone’s connected to your neck bone. Your neck bone’s connected to your head bone. It’s all connected It’s all connected and when one bone is off, the others have to be off Read more…
Reading Time: 8 minutes When I use the word scoliosis you probably think of a teenage girl stuck in a brace for days on end. Or maybe you think of a little old lady slumped over, slowly pushing her shopping cart through your local grocery store. What I think of is… HABITS. Yep, I Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Tech-Neck, Text-Neck, Anterior Head Carriage, Upper Crossed Syndrome, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Cervicocranial Syndrome, Cervicobrachial Syndrome, or The Cervical Syndrome. Whatever you want to call it, these are all similar syndromes with small variations. The bulk of these syndromes and their symptoms are modern takes or slight variations on what was Read more…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Movement is life! This was my original claim made in the original blog post on the importance of movement for health. This chapter on movement has been the longest and most encompassing topic of the Innate Essentials. This is chapter 4.7, 3 ways movement is vital to a full-body detox. Read more…
Reading Time: 11 minutes Movement is a shared fundamental function of all organisms on Earth. Without movement, none of us would be here today. Movement is needed at the micro-level with the exchange of molecules all the way up to the macro-level of compound exercises. Movement’s role in the act of reproduction for our Read more…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Chapter 4 has been all about movement. I related to you the comprehensive benefits it has on your well being in regards to your nervous system, musculoskeletal system, immune system, respiratory system, and cardiovascular system. The fun continues in this blog post titled Chapter 4.5 “4 Incredible Benefits of Movement Read more…
Reading Time: 12 minutes Welcome to chapter 4.4, “3 Essential Movements to Improve Lung Health”. So far in chapter 4, we have covered “How exercise improves all 12 systems of the human body”, How exercise improves the musculoskeletal system with a focus on arthritis and joint damage, How exercise improves the Neurological system in Read more…
