Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
Here's how to get involved...
1. Write "I'm in!" on The Wellness Group's Facebook Fanpage.
2. Let everyone you know you are challenging yourself for 30 days to live as close to "By Design" as possible - accountability is powerful!
3. Follow the steps: Brain Body Connection - Eat By Design - Move By Design- Rest, Play, Love - Clearly Deine Your Purpose -The more you follow the bigger the impact.
4. This is not simply about "losing weight", there is enough of that mentality to go around, it is about being well, fulfilling the requirements for a full expression of life and watching what happens, not just to your physique but your well-being.
5. Participate - share your goals, recipes, your meals, pics (take pre/post for yourself and even post them if you're courageous!), take a few measurements ( waist, thighs, arms, chest - there will be millions of physiological changes but it's nice to measure a few) ask questions, encourage others.
6. Join us at the end for a celebration, The EBD Christmas Potluck on Saturday, December 10th, 12-2pm - Sign up at The Wellness Group or via email and let us know what EBD potluck dish you'll be bringing along.
Looking forward to hearing of your successes!
Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
We’ve been lied to. We’ve been taught to believe that the absence of symptoms means health and the presence of symptoms means sickness. While it is true symptoms can sometimes tell us how sick we are, the lack of them can never give us information about how healthy we are.
Judging your health by your symptoms is not only unreliable; it is also dangerous. The first sign of heart disease is often a fatal heart attack, the first sign of cancer sudden weight loss or a palpable lump. The result is the vast proportion of our population living symptom-free, yet very sick and unwell.
Are we to believe that disease is an entity that waits around for a healthy person to walk by and somehow invades their body, or that disease manifests as proper cellular function (health) disappears? No different than darkness manifesting as light disappears. Darkness is the absence of light. Disease is the absence of health.
Health is a state in which all the cells of the body, all 50 trillion, are working in harmony. The cells are interacting with each other, carrying out the processes for life, communicating under the control of the brain and nerve system. Even outside the body we discuss the principles of health in the same way. “Our relationship is healthy, we communicate and work for the betterment of ourselves and each other.” Or “The office environment is healthy, everyone strives to excel and appreciates each other’s role”.
Your cells have a drive towards health and life. The only time they move away is if we force them to adapt to a pathological environment, one that is not By Design.
Do not fall prey to the false notion that no symptoms means healthy. Symptoms, for the most part, are the final stages of malfunction, not the first. Using the lack of symptoms as criteria for judging your family’s health is like using the lack of debt as evidence for wealth or the lack of poor grades for the presence of brilliance.
The true meaning of health is that it’s already yours. Simply fulfill the design, remove the interference and live the life you deserve.
Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
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We’ve been lied to. We’ve been taught to believe that the absence of symptoms means health and the presence of symptoms means sickness. While it is true symptoms can sometimes tell us how sick we are, the lack of them can never give us information about how healthy we are.
Judging your health by your symptoms is not only unreliable; it is also dangerous. The first sign of heart disease is often a fatal heart attack, the first sign of cancer sudden weight loss or a palpable lump. The result is the vast proportion of our population living symptom-free, yet very sick and unwell.
Are we to believe that disease is an entity that waits around for a healthy person to walk by and somehow invades their body, or that disease manifests as proper cellular function (health) disappears? No different than darkness manifesting as light disappears. Darkness is the absence of light. Disease is the absence of health.
Health is a state in which all the cells of the body, all 50 trillion, are working in harmony. The cells are interacting with each other, carrying out the processes for life, communicating under the control of the brain and nerve system. Even outside the body we discuss the principles of health in the same way. “Our relationship is healthy, we communicate and work for the betterment of ourselves and each other.” Or “The office environment is healthy, everyone strives to excel and appreciates each other’s role”.
Your cells have a drive towards health and life. The only time they move away is if we force them to adapt to a pathological environment, one that is not By Design.
Do not fall prey to the false notion that no symptoms means healthy. Symptoms, for the most part, are the final stages of malfunction, not the first. Using the lack of symptoms as criteria for judging your family’s health is like using the lack of debt as evidence for wealth or the lack of poor grades for the presence of brilliance.
The true meaning of health is that it’s already yours. Simply fulfill the design, remove the interference and live the life you deserve.
Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
We’ve been lied to. We’ve been taught to believe that the absence of symptoms means health and the presence of symptoms means sickness. While it is true symptoms can sometimes tell us how sick we are, the lack of them can never give us information about how healthy we are.
Judging your health by your symptoms is not only unreliable; it is also dangerous. The first sign of heart disease is often a fatal heart attack, the first sign of cancer sudden weight loss or a palpable lump. The result is the vast proportion of our population living symptom-free, yet very sick and unwell.
Are we to believe that disease is an entity that waits around for a healthy person to walk by and somehow invades their body, or that disease manifests as proper cellular function (health) disappears? No different than darkness manifesting as light disappears. Darkness is the absence of light. Disease is the absence of health.
Health is a state in which all the cells of the body, all 50 trillion, are working in harmony. The cells are interacting with each other, carrying out the processes for life, communicating under the control of the brain and nerve system. Even outside the body we discuss the principles of health in the same way. “Our relationship is healthy, we communicate and work for the betterment of ourselves and each other.” Or “The office environment is healthy, everyone strives to excel and appreciates each other’s role”.
Your cells have a drive towards health and life. The only time they move away is if we force them to adapt to a pathological environment, one that is not By Design.
Do not fall prey to the false notion that no symptoms means healthy. Symptoms, for the most part, are the final stages of malfunction, not the first. Using the lack of symptoms as criteria for judging your family’s health is like using the lack of debt as evidence for wealth or the lack of poor grades for the presence of brilliance.
The true meaning of health is that it’s already yours. Simply fulfill the design, remove the interference and live the life you deserve.
Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
With the holiday season upon us we are getting into the giving spirit early and are giving thousands in care to your family and friends. We are giving your friends and family: There is NO COST to you or them. This is our gift. Make sure to pick up your order form for your complimentary Gift of Health Certificates and return it completed before Friday,November 18th. Don't miss this great opportunity to introduce Chiropractic & Life By Design to the ones you love! Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design. 
The boss is on your case, kids are busy with school, there are bills to pay, mom is sick and you’ve got stress! Never before have we lived in a world where we are inundated with non-stop stress from all corners of our lives. It’s nearly impossible to escape; it’s the number one contributor to illness, days off work and could be considered the plague of the twentieth century. We’re told we need to “manage” it, reduce it and even avoid it. But is stress really the problem? Or is it our relationship to stress that is the real culprit? Despite conventional wisdom that says stress is bad for us, at its most basic level, stress is neutral. A stress is simply any stimulus that requires your body to respond or adapt: exercise, eating, heat, noise, poison, and sleep, essentially anything can be considered a stress. The classification as good or bad is dependent on how well your body handles it. Exercise can be a wonderful thing if the body can recover and rebuild, but it can also lead to debilitation or, even worse, death. Food can turn on health or it can severely compromise function. The same experience can be a “eustress” or a “distress”; it depends on you. Today we are succumbing to stress at an accelerated rate, not just because we have more of it, but also because we can handle so much less. We have weakened our bodies by living in ways that oppose our innate design: poor food, minimal movement, chronic sitting, less sleep, and all the effects of these in combination accumulating over time. This understanding is empowering and makes living well in a stressful world much more achievable. Instead of hiding from life, we need to enhance the body’s ability to adapt to life. For centuries it was our only option…adapt or die. Stop focusing on what’s wrong and start focusing on what’s strong. The solution, as always, is Living By Design. Dr. Michael Gibson is a Kanata chiropractor and the clinic director of The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to live the best life possible through the principles of Life by Design.
