{"id":1034,"date":"2025-05-01T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:56:28","slug":"read-the-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/read-the-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day we see signs.&nbsp; Sometimes we see so many signs that we don&#8217;t &#8220;<em>see<\/em> them&#8221; anymore!&nbsp; We have just experienced&nbsp;a federal&nbsp;election with&nbsp;conflicting signs decorating&nbsp;many a boulevard.&nbsp; I&nbsp;awoke&nbsp;one morning to have SEVEN yellow signs for an independent candidate displayed on my lawn, placed there by an enthusiastic Gong supporter without my&nbsp;permission.&nbsp; As I am not confident in his claim that he is &#8220;here to rescue Canada&#8221;, I removed his signs from my lawn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our bodies also&nbsp;give us signs, but we can easily get in the habit of ignoring&nbsp;them.&nbsp; Signs from our body can show up as symptoms- they can include tension in certain muscle groups, or headaches, or an upset stomach.&nbsp; Difficulty falling asleep or waking in the night can be a sign from our body.&nbsp; They can be as ominous as an unexplained lump or as&nbsp;innocuous as a runny nose.&nbsp;Sometimes they &#8220;come out of no where&#8221;, like our many Gong signs, and we can&#8217;t imagine what led to our body experiencing these symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a chiropractor, I find that many of my patients experience far greater health challenges if they are in the habit of ignoring the signs from their body.&nbsp; Some are in the habit of&nbsp;&#8220;taking&nbsp;down the signs&#8221; with pain killers, muscle relaxants or other drugs that silence the body from communicating with you.&nbsp; Some pride themselves on a high pain threshold and their ability to keep on going, regardless of how they are feeling.&nbsp; This is not necessarily a good thing- at least not in the long term!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Performing regular Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI- click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAo4WiVfy_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to see our office video teaching SRI) and receiving regular Network Care will enhance your ability to notice and respond to the signs from your body.&nbsp; This leads to improved health and optimal functioning.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Signs from our body are a good thing, but we have to listen to them!&nbsp; We have to notice them and we have to interpret them correctly.&nbsp; One patient who is&nbsp;already very flexible, kept interpreting her lower back pain as a sign to stretch.&nbsp; Because she is hyper mobile, this was<em> not<\/em> helping and actually worsening her condition.&nbsp; Her pain was actually a sign that she needed to strengthen her core.&nbsp; Since she has been doing this, letting each twinge remind her to do a few more &#8220;dead bugs&#8221;(a core exercise), she has seen significant improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can use signs to our advantage.&nbsp; They can be signs from our body like the&nbsp;twinges my patient used to remind her to exercise, or they can be&nbsp;physical signs we put up to remind ourselves to do something beneficial &nbsp;for ourselves.&nbsp; A&nbsp;note on our tooth brush can remind us to do some SRI or stretch before bed.&nbsp; A &#8220;post it&#8221; on our computer monitor can remind us to get up every half hour so we don&#8217;t stay sitting for&nbsp;too long.&nbsp; &nbsp; (Did you know that a study by Ying Gao, reported in April 2024&nbsp; in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports demonstrated that interrupting long periods of sitting with just 10 squats every 45 minutes significantly improves blood sugar control, even <em>more<\/em> than going for a single 30-minute walk!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are (finally) fully experiencing signs of spring, with blossoms on trees and tulips popping&nbsp; up.&nbsp; These are welcomed signs!&nbsp; &nbsp;As you enjoy <em>these<\/em> signs and discard the weathered election signs, take some time to develop your ability to notice and properly interpret the signs from your body.&nbsp; Practice SRI and get in for a tune up this month!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day we see signs.&nbsp; Sometimes we see so many signs that we don&#8217;t &#8220;see them&#8221; anymore!&nbsp; We have just experienced&nbsp;a federal&nbsp;election with&nbsp;conflicting signs decorating&nbsp;many a boulevard.&nbsp; I&nbsp;awoke&nbsp;one morning to have SEVEN yellow signs for an independent candidate displayed on my lawn, 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