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 again Natural Health Family. Over the weekend I had the chance to talk to an older age group and see a different perspective on aspects of life. I listened to what they had gone through in their lives and how it allowed them to view the world through a different lens. Today I wanted to talk about appreciation and how looking at life differently can help us.  Life is quite an amazing journey. When we look back we can see all the trials and tribulations that have led us to where we are today. However, many times people get caught up looking at all the issues that happened in their lives. They see all the chaos in the world and think why all this wrong is happening. They start to criticize and blame situations in life and see themselves as a victim. People can fall into this habit of thinking because of all the information out there. Our minds tend to focus not on the good but on the bad. This is because the mind tries to focus on survival and how to avoid danger. This wa...

  Hello Natural Health Family. It appears that spring is here with fluctuations of warm and cold. As the season changes we start to see things differently such as the changing colors of the grass and trees. We start to notice different nuances that we might have not been able to notice before. Whether it is the anticipation of new activities that we can do or just more sunshine, our attitude changes. When our attitude changes about life in general than we have a different view of it. Today let’s examine the idea between life happening to you and life happening for you.  Some may think life is happening to them. This of course is not a wrong way of thinking. However, it may lead people to think that they can’t do anything about it and then complain when something doesn’t go the way that they want it to. This may lead to reasoning that they can’t get what they want and life is always going to be like this. People then tend to think that no matter what they do life will always ...