Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Natural Health Family! I hope everyone had a great weekend. The past weekend I got to play golf with some friends and it helped me see things in a different perspective. Golf is an interesting sport that requires us to stay present on the task at hand. It also showed me how easy it is to get frustrated at something that was meant to be enjoyed. Let’s talk about how golf can show us some simple lessons that can be carried over into our lives.  Just like any new sport or activity we must learn the basics before we can do well at it. Like a kid who learns to ride a bike, he or she first learns the steps one by one. Then when the child feels comfortable enough he or she doesn’t have to think about it and it feels more natural to just ride. We must learn the basics of a new activity first. However, for many this can be a frustrating process. Learning something new we are starting to fire and wire our brain in new ways. This can feel uncomfortable and unnatural because our brain...

  Greetings Natural Health Family. I imagine everyone had a great Independence Day weekend. Today I wanted to talk about the different ways people can view the world. Last weekend we were able to be with friends and family. Perhaps we were able to see some fireworks. As kids, watching fireworks gave us a sense of awe. When we grow older we can get caught up in thinking about the other things we have to do. However, when we are able to be more present in our lives we can appreciate life more.  Many times, when we are not present, our minds may get stuck in past thoughts of what we could have done to make a situation better. When we can shift or switch our mindset even subtly it can help us to be more present in our lives. When we think of any past events or happenings that didn’t go the way we thought it would, we can think from trying to change it to learning all we can from it. There are many successful people that have said multiple times that their biggest failures were t...

  Hello again! I hope everyone had some fun during the weekend. Last weekend I went to a seminar and learned more and more. It is always fun to learn new things but also to see what it is that I can let go. It seems that in this day and age that we are searching for so many things on what to do for whatever issue that we are trying to solve. However, when we take a step back we can see the best way to go about circumstances in our lives is to just keep it simple.  The human brain is an amazing organ capable of vast amounts of functions. It helps to control and coordinate the many processes needed to sustain our health. When we let it do its thing we tend not to interfere with its natural functioning. However, when we start to overthink and overanalyze we start to make a sort of mess. When our minds become messy our brains become messy which creates issues in our body.  Our brains are problem solving machines. Just like a computer which is able to perform many programs...

  Welcome back Natural Health Family! I wanted to talk about a particular topic that I hear every now and then from others. The topic today will be centered upon aging and the way we view aging can help us have a better life. Life is short so this blog will be short and sweet. Let’s see how aging is not so much a curse, but can be seen as a blessing.  There are many people in their older age that do very well and others who may not do well. This can show us that it is not aging but it can be other variables. One important aspect could very well be how we view aging. One study showed that when people had a more positive outlook on aging that people lived on average 7.5 years longer. That is a very significant number and shows us the power of our outlook on different ideas.  When you think about getting older what goes through your mind? People can view aging many different ways. We may think about both aspects, the so-called bad and good. The bad may be that we can’t m...

  Hello again! The weekend was great but time to start another week. Last weekend I went golfing. I do not golf much and definitely learned where I could improve. Nonetheless, I also noticed how easy it was to compare myself to others rather than just enjoying what I was doing. When I started to have fun and enjoy the scenery I was able to play better. Oftentimes overthinking can throw us off of what to do. Let’s talk about our ability to be where we are instead of thinking we need to be somewhere else.   Have you ever been somewhere, say a vacation spot or just doing a fun activity and thought that you should be doing something else? Many times when we are somewhere to have a good time or we may be doing something as little as going for a walk on a nice day we start having thoughts about what we are supposed to be doing or need to be doing even though we know that we can get to it later. There are times when we are bored or have nothing to do but feel we need to look at ...

  Hello Natural Health Family. This weekend I was reminded of something that I think is simple but we may often forget about. Today let’s talk again about the importance of not being against something but always being for something.  This past weekend I was able to spend time with family. We talked about all sorts of topics. However, I saw or realized something interesting with people when talking about certain things. When topics came up that people agreed upon then the conversation went well. Of course the opposite would tend to happen when a topic came up that people didn’t agree upon. Those topics came up rarely because it seemed like nobody wanted to hurt anyone's feelings. Then I thought why do some people get upset about one thing and others don’t mind. When we get upset we rarely know exactly why we do until sometime after when we can look back upon it. When we react to a person or situation it is because something inside of us is getting irritated and coming up to t...