Make time for your health
Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today, I'm going to do the show about how we need to make time for our health and how important it is to find the time to take care of yourself.
Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr.
My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr, I'm a Doctor of Chiropractic. And stay tuned. We're going to do this show to show you how you can take care of yourself and make time for your health and how we have plenty of time to take care of ourselves and our health.
So I talk to patients all the time about taking time for their health. Everybody comes in and they say, well, you know, I’ve got to go back to work. I've been hurting for the last 20 years, but I’ve got to go back to work tomorrow. And basically, I have to sit down with my patients and tell them hey, listen, this didn't just happen yesterday, it took a while for this to happen.
So we need to make some changes in your life. So what I hear from patients all the time is, I don't have time, I'm too busy. I can't go to the gym, you know, there's not enough hours in the day. I can't listen to this lecture; I have to go. You know, I'm in a hurry. I can't read a book, I can't educate myself on taking care of myself like you want me to.
Listening to a podcast, I mean, 10, 15 minutes, nobody has time anymore. There's just not enough hours in the day. That's what everybody always say.
So the hospital is full of people that did not take time for their health and they got sick. And they made excuses. It is so much easier to take care of your health by taking a pill. Or it's so much easier to just have surgery and do bariatric surgery, if you want to lose weight.
Or it's so much easier to just have plastic surgery and make some decisions that can be harmful. Or if you have back problems, it's so much easier to just go and say, well, I’m just going to have surgery. And that is just not the solution.
So I was listening to a lecture Saturday night, I was at a lecture and the wife of one of the chiropractors spoke up, and she sees a realtor. And she's a very, very busy lady, she also owns a daycare. She's a wife, she's a mom of two kids, she cooks she cleans.
And she was talking about, she was lecturing about, if you think you're too busy to take care of yourself, she says “Think about this.” There is 168 hours in the week, you know, 24 hours a day times 7 is 168 hours. If you sleep 9 hours a night, that's about 56 hours per week.