Is Stress Affecting Your Quality of Life?

A great motivator for enhancing your quality of life is recognizing the potential results of areas you may be neglecting. So ask yourself—what aspects of your well-being are you currently not preserving or investing in?

Self-Awareness Starts With Audit

Contemplating neglect requires awareness. It also calls for a personal audit of your daily habits:

• How regularly do I move my body?

• What types of food am I eating consistently?

• Am I getting restful sleep?

• Do I engage in stress-relieving activities?

• Do I visit my core health care providers for guidance?

We tend to make choices reactively or proactively. Choosing chiropractic care is no different.

Chiropractic: Reactive or Proactive?

You can visit the chiropractor to restore a state of well-being—or because your body is suffering from mental, chemical, or physical interference and needs help.

The challenge is staying consistent, especially when you don’t have back pain, neck pain, or headaches as a motivator. The reactive mindset says, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” But the proactive model says, “Preserve and protect before breakdown begins.”

Wherever you are in your current state of health, a chiropractic consultation can help determine if you’re functioning at your full potential.

Chiropractic Is About Function, Not Just Symptoms

The chiropractic objective is to enhance your quality of life through the correction of vertebral subluxation, regardless of the presence or absence of symptoms.

Vertebral subluxation can develop without warning signs—without pain. And it’s often caused by stress.

Three Main Causes of Vertebral Subluxation

Chiropractors recognize three core types of stress that can lead to subluxation:

• Physical Stress – External forces that exceed your body’s internal resistance.

• Chemical Stress – Internal or external substances disrupting your body’s chemical balance.

• Emotional Stress – Mental tension or strain that leads to physiological imbalance.

Vertebral subluxation can affect individuals of all ages. The goal is to help your body resist stress from the inside out.

Be Consistent With Your Care

Correction of vertebral subluxation is not a one-time fix. It takes consistency and repetition to help your muscles and ligaments adapt, allowing your body to hold the adjustment.

Neglecting regular adjustments may minimize your results. But with consistent care, your body’s innate intelligence has the opportunity to function at its highest potential.

Read more about holding chiropractic adjustments in last week’s article.