Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

Natural Health Family, how are you all doing today? Over the weekend I did quite a bit of traveling. I traveled around Illinois driving a good amount of hours. When driving I started to realize or perhaps remember something about how our minds tend to work. Today let’s talk about our focus and why it is important for our health and in our lives.  Our brains are quite amazing tools to help us navigate the world around us. The human brain can be compared to a supercomputer that is continuously processing data coming in and going out from our outside environment. Some even say that we know more about space (filled with billions of stars and how ever many galaxies) than we know about our brain. This is difficult to wrap our brains around haha. The brain is an amazing machine, however it is up to us to be able to control how it functions. By dictating what our mind focuses on we are more in control of what we start to see in life.  While driving or traveling sometimes we may be o...

  Hello Natural Health Family! It’s Monday again so you know what that means… we get to have another great week. Now I know that sometimes we may think the weekend went fast and we have to go back to work. However, a subtle change in mindset helps for many different areas of life. Let's talk about mindset and more specifically our focus.  Can you remember a time when you were laser focused on something or activity you did. Maybe it was when you were a kid and you wanted to be able to perform some skill like riding a bike. At first you might have used training wheels to get a feel of what the end result would feel like. You would be cruising down the road with the wind in your hair and excited knowing that all that time spent training was worth it. So then, you are getting comfortable with the training wheels so you take them off and see how it goes. You notice that it is hard to maintain your balance and you feel a bit scared so you start slow and are hesitant to keep both l...