Part 1 – Principles

Welcome to 2018! It was a great year at Nexus Chiropractic and we would like to express our gratitude to all of our mentors, community partners and especially our patients, who make showing up to work each day both fun and fulfilling.

We have continued to up our game by investing time, financial resources and travel in order to learn new skills and refine current skills so that our services continue to improve year after year.

A book that I read over the holidays was Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio – the famous investor and businessman. One of Dalio’s keys to success is to observe what works and what doesn’t and then come up with principles that allow him to repeat success and avoid failure. He uses principles in all areas of both his business and personal life.

Because I work in healthcare, I realized that healthy people tend to live by one set of principles while unhealthy people live by another. Success clearly leaves clues.

I also realized that most of those people – both healthy and unhealthy – are not at all conscious of the principles they live by. When these principles are unconscious they are not only harder to change to something better, they are also less available to apply successfully to other areas of life.

Finally, I realized that when it comes to health, very FEW people are living by principles that will produce success. Despite our society’s wealth in many other areas, most people are sadly, very unhealthy. An easy way to check where you are is to ask yourself, ‘am I healthier today than last year?’ ‘Do I expect to be healthier in 5 years than I am today?’ Be brutally honest with yourself. If the answer to either of those questions in ‘No’ the good news is that you can develop and live by some new principle that can take you there.

So, as we head into 2018 and strive for it to be the best (healthiest) year of our lives, I will be providing you with a series of articles outlining the principles of health that I see being lived by people who epitomize success. These are people who look good, feel good, perform well physically, mentally and emotionally. They get healthier as they age, have lots of energy and are very resilient. Who doesn’t want some of that?

Regardless of how healthy or unhealthy you are right now, you can start to apply these principles. It is about moving in the right direction.

The added bonus to living these principles regarding your health is that as you start to have success you can begin to apply them in other areas of your life. In fact, you will probably notice that you already DO use similar principles in the areas of your life that you are already successful in.

Before we dive into the first principle in the next article, let’s start with some quick homework. Take out a paper and pen and write down one area of your life you are already successful in. Maybe you have a great relationship? Maybe you are great with finances? Maybe you are successful at a job, sport, hobby or particular skill? Write that down.

Now, write down some principles you utilize in that successful area of your life. Dig deep and make the unconscious, conscious. Keep that piece of paper and keep an eye out for the next article.

Thorin Gault, D.C.

Jan. 9, 2018

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the Nexus Chiropractic family a Happy New Year! I would also like to thank everyone for spoiling us with the thoughtful gifts we received over the holiday.

2014 was an exciting year – we added some new technology, continued to refine our clinical expertise and were joined by a new RMT who has fit nicely with our specific approach to care.

In the past year Nexus invested in new equipment that allows us to more effectively assess, monitor and correct the Neurospinal Shifts that our care focuses on. This equipment allows us to more specifically pinpoint abnormalities in your physical structure that result from a Neuropspinal Shift. These abnormalities often occur way before any secondary conditions, symptoms or pain start to arise.

I have always been a huge proponent of continually refining clinical skills and learning from the best, and this past year I attended my 10th consecutive advanced technique seminar in NSA – the core discipline we use in our Neurospinal Optimization focus. Additionally, I continued to study and train with leaders in different fields to ensure you are receiving efficient and up to date care.

We were also joined this year by Jaime McRae, RMT. Jaime is a massage therapist who focuses on NeuroKinetic Therapy, which is a discipline that works very well with my approach to care. Instead of merely ‘attacking’ tight and sore muscles, she determines ‘why’ muscles are firing a certain way and her care focuses on getting to the underlying cause.

In 2014, Nexus Chiropractic also recommitted to helping patients, their families, and the community at large to help themselves through workshops. The people who take advantage of these events get some of the best results in their health that I have seen. We have a series of workshops held in the office at no charge (some open only to patients, some open to the public), I speak regularly for the Encore Seniors Group, and several times per year we hold intensive ‘Clear Days’ for patients and practice members who have already made progress in their care. Please take advantage of these valuable health resources.

Now, what is to come in 2015? First, we are working on implementing a new diagnostic technology that will allow us to measure and monitor a powerful indicator of nervous system function and overall health – stay tuned.

Next week I will be heading to Denver to attend a brand new program that is an extension of the NSA training I have been doing over the past 14 years. This will be a more advanced application towards the achieving the objectives of our care at Nexus. In case you can’t tell, I am pretty excited about this!

We already have several workshops and events lined up for early 2015. Tonight (Jan. 6) will be the first of many Introductory Workshops. Even if you have attended in the past, the information presented evolves, so feel free to attend again. Also in January will be The Best Year of Your Life workshop, which will teach how to have…….! Our next Clear Morning will be on Saturday, Jan. 31^st. This will fill fast so please speak to Cindy or Adele if you would like to attend. I will also be speaking to the Encore Seniors group with my friend Tyler Touchette in March. Encore is a great organization, so if you are over 50 I encourage you to check out their programs.

I want to thank you all for being a part of Nexus and being a part of my life. As I approach my 15 year anniversary of graduating from chiropractic school I am very grateful for having the opportunity to work with such great people and help them to produce such extraordinary results. Here is to another great year for us all!