1. Poem I love…
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem titled “If.” I actually heard it read before reading it. I LOVE it! I’ve copied the poem below, but I recommend listening to Michael Caine read it. He does a GREAT job. I’ve included that video below also. My favorite, or most significant line in the poem… “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same.” Why? Because when we hit super lows and think we are done, or when we get a sense of being something super special, it is easy to buy into those feelings, yet he labels triumph and disaster both perfectly… imposters. Watch the video below…
If—
Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
2. Therapy I am moving forward with…
I have studied red light therapy, also known as photobiomodulation (PBMT), for several years now. I have considered numerous devices for home use. The benefits of PBMT are extensive. Essentially, this light therapy penetrates the skin from 1cm-7cm to promote healing, reduce inflammation, stimulate skin repair and collagen production, speed up the healing of muscles, ligaments, and tendons, and much more. The light affects the mitochondria in each cell (which is the powerhouse of the cell), pushing nitric oxide out, allowing room for more oxygen to enter. This causes enormous improvement in cellular energy, and thus function. What I love most is that is has an incredible overall health boosting effect, and… there are NO adverse effects. The devices sold on Amazon are likely effective, but weak. We are currently in the process of potentially buying the best red light therapy bed in the world. We will implement it into the practice and make it available for patients once we get it. I do not believe there is a therapy out there better than PBMT for overall health boosting. I would not be investing in it if I did not believe it is the single most powerful therapy device I could implement in my practice. More on PBMT later, but click here for an article that gives a simple overview of red light therapy. I am SUPER EXCITED to use this red light therapy for my own health.
3. Great quote I just read this morning…
“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”
–Musonius Rufus (Roman philosopher)
(James Clear, author of the #1 selling book, Atomic Habits, shared this in his weekly newsletter.)
