AWeber - FOHAC Newsletter The Whole Point #434a

Published: Wed, 11/29/17

Fair Oaks Health News

Welcome

November 29, 2017

The Whole Point

Hi ,

Why are we here?

We are here to grow up. What does that mean?

Typically we get loaded up with lies and misperceptions when we are young due to simple misunderstandings created by our youth as well as traditional false beliefs passed down from parents. The lies put us in fear and make us miserable. This motivates us to seek a way out of the fear. Adults appear to be fearless to us, so we want to be grownup like them. We don’t realize that they are just as scared as we are – just better at hiding it.

We learn that sometimes the fear abates and we feel centered and at ease. We try to figure out what works to make us feel ok, but our efforts are generally derailed by the lies we believe. We try to outsmart the fear by creating a future we think will be safe, but it never works for long. We don’t like being in the present, because we feel really small and vulnerable in the present. We prefer living in the imagined future where we have fantasies of being powerful and able to get our way, or in memories of pleasant moments in our past.

The big point is that only in the vulnerable present moment can we feel and hear God/ Spirit/ Higher Self. With practice vulnerability becomes a type of strength that empowers us to see through the illusions that hold the fear on to us.

The crap from our childhood is there for a reason – to force us to mature and develop consciousness skills, participation skills, relationship skills, and so on.
Simply being conscious is not enough. We have to be functional as well. Otherwise what is the point of hearing God/Spirit/Higher Self if we have no valuable skills with which to carry out its directions.

We hate the effort of being conscious. It takes a lot of work to be present and constantly taking in new information. It is much easier to take in just 1% and fill in the other 99% with stuff we have already processed and stored in our mind. But it is only by being conscious that we can truly be at ease, because we are fully connected to “what is.” Ease comes from our ability to adapt and respond to the ever-changing moment, not from our ability to hide from the constant change.

So that is the big picture point of existence – to learn to be conscious in the present moment responding to God’s/Spirit’s/Higher Self’s direction with skills we have learned by overcoming the fear causing lies of our childhood.

Being present is a matter of focus and attention, but the mind will not do that for very long without a powerful feeling motivator driving that focus. Life threatening physical situations are a good motivator, but those are rare for most people. For most people FEAR is just their Failure to Embrace and Appreciate Reality because they are busy focusing on past failures or future hopes or anticipated failures. Their fear is rarely present and real here and now.

The better choice is a perceiving the here and now from appreciation, gratitude and compassion. These are the yin and yang of the spiritual life. The “I Want My Way” game is only for your guidance and appreciation of your personal creations. “My Way” has nothing to do with other people or anything else in the universe of “What Is.”

Appreciative gratitude is the stance from which to receive life and compassion is the stance from which to outflow and act toward life. This is the essence of spirituality and the end game in growing up. Everything else is just fluff.

Learning how to effectively act compassionately and truly embracing the truth of “what is” requires serious skills. These skills are what the Buddha called “right discrimination” and what Laozi called the “Way of the Tao.” This is not an easy path. We have to flush out all the lies taught us and made up by us in our youth – all the beliefs that we are somehow more significant than anyone else and that they should therefore behave in ways that are comfortable to us. We are not entitled to any such thing. How people treat us is entirely a reflection of how we treat them bouncing off their life story. How they act in general has nothing to do with us.

No amount of power or control can change the nature of another person. They are who they are. Power can suppress their expression of their nature temporarily, but not change them. So power can never gain you peace or ease, because their true nature is always struggling to be released. Power and control are unending chores and battles – not ease or peace. It is better to appreciate and be in compassion to find peace with each person’s true nature.

This is a tall order. Our comfort zone is made out of our perspectives and feelings about life. It is comfortable precisely because it requires no consciousness – it is automatic for us and requires no effort. Everything that is not us will be different in various ways and therefore uncomfortable to us. Discomfort is our inner signal that we need to wake up and be conscious because we have some non-self information to process. Spirituality is the process of embracing the discomfort of being conscious so that we can expand our awareness of life by seeing life from different perspectives. Yes, it is hard work, but it is what lifts you up into the feelings you really want – peace, joy, love, and happiness. These feelings are the reward we gain be embracing and appreciating life.

Appreciation, gratitude, and compassion are the key.

Take care,
David

Ellen update:

We got the new room behind the office finished enough to hold my family Thanksgiving celebration. One of Ellen's skill sets is creating organization so she took on the task of getting everything together for the gathering. Here she is the day before Thanksgiving setting the table for the 18 of us this year. She also made gluten free cookies and rolls and assembled appetizers while I handled the tamkey - a ham stuffed de-boned turkey and made a pecan pie. Everything flowed well if you embrace the normal chaos family. We did have a lot of pie left over...

Artificial Cartilage

The world of joint replacements has become really amazing, but one big missing piece has been what to do with damaged cartilages. Often the damaged joint is fine on a bone level, but the cartilage is destroyed. we see this a lot in knees. Well now a synthetic cartilage replacement made from kevlar has been invented that appears to function just like the real thing.

Artificial

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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

~ Thomas Aquinas

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Electronic opiate withdrawal

The FDA has just cleared a new device for treating opiate withdrawal electronically. Opiate addiction is presently the biggest drug problem in America. The device is like a little pacemaker stuck behind the ear that stimulates 4 points on the ear connected to 4 cranial nerves. Within just a few minutes patients can feel their symptoms decrease.

Opiate
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"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."

~ Thomas Aquinas
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Sleep Scanner

A good nights sleep is critical to health. Now there is a device that continuously scans your body with sound waves all night to monitor your movements. It sends all the information to a phone app which gives you a readout and suggestion as to how to improve your sleep.

Scanner
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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

~ Thomas Aquinas

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Our address is 9725 Fair Oaks Blvd. suite A
Our hours are M - F 9 to 1 and M, Tu, & Th 3 to 6

Finding the new location is very easy. Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block. We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop. If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek. It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left. Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends. We are on the left.

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 35 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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