Prana Chiropractic's Wellness Corner

So let’s face it, today’s modern life is fast paced, ever-changing, and increasingly stressful.  Jobs are requiring more and more, often times for less pay and benefits.  Keeping up with the technological changes that are taking place is in-and-of itself enough to make a person want to pull their hair out.  Add to the mix parenting, being a responsible partner, long commutes, and a laundry-list of other stressful responsibilities, it’s no wonder that the term “burnout” is commonplace in modern society.  Most of us feel like we are one stressful event away from a full on meltdown.   So before we get to how we can avoid or remedy the ever-dreaded burnout, let’s talk a bit about some of the signs of true burnout.  Here are four commonly witnessed signs that you’re in the danger zone.  In other words, if you are experiencing 2 or 3 of these signs, make the decision to do something about it. Exhaustion: This is exactly what you think it is.  Y...

I spent a number of years working as a Social Worker, and as rewarding of a career as that is, it is also a stressful job.  The fact is most jobs are pretty stressful at one point or another, right?  The point I want to make about my former Social Work days is that I spent the majority of my time sitting behind my desk in a sea of cubicles.  If you have a desk job, I’m certain you know how uninviting that a cubicle or office can be, and when our workspace is uninviting, it can create undue stress in our lives. So the following are some easy steps that you can take right now to improve your workspace, whether it is an office, a cubicle, a desk in the broom closet, or whatever your case may be:                 - 1. Get Organized :   This is an easy step to take, but most of us can get pretty overwhelmed with work, and we begin to neglect the organization of things on our desk....

One of the best ways that we can go about increasing our Spiritual and Social Wellness is to do something nice for someone else.  This also applies to doing something good for our animal brothers and sisters.  I read a short article in the January 2017 edition of Natural Awakenings, about a group of monks that freed live lobsters.  I couldn’t help but share this, as it made me reflect on the importance of offering the same level of compassion to all living things, not just our fellow man.   A group from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society that live on Prince Edward’s Island in Canada, set about recently to buy as many lobsters as they could find at a local fish market.  They then chartered a boat, took the lobster out into the Atlantic Ocean, and freed the fortunate little guys and gals.  It was reported that they offered up a brief prayer before carrying out the act of kindness.  One of the monks, Victoria Fun, stated after th...