an update, and an amazing video

Posted September 10, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Uncategorized

Hi guys. I apologize that it’s been so dang long since my last blog post. But i have some good excuses! Well, they’re excuses, i’ll let others judge if they’re worth a lick.

The primary one is that a new, centralized Egoscue blog is coming. It was supposed to be up by now, but we’re still waiting for it to get technically released. Right now there are maybe 3-5 active Egoscue clinic bloggers. When the new central blog is released, the idea is we’ll all migrate over there so people can just read one blog and get everyone’s content. I think it’s going to be great and we’re just waiting for it to go live. Hopefully that will be this month, i’ll try to keep you posted.

Then, we moved into a new clinic space at the beginning of July! I want to take some video to show it off to you guys. Those clients who have been there love it, as do we! It’s bigger, it’s better suited to what we do, and it’s easier to get to. It’s just a great space we’re thrilled to have and we invite you to come see it!

Then on top of all that, back in May i had an accident and tore the labrum in my right shoulder. I knew it needed to be repaired surgically but we were moving so i put it off until a couple of weeks after we were in our new space. So i had that done in mid-July, and boy howdy, it’s been a real treat.

I’ve got a bunch of stuff i want to share with you guys and i kept putting it off thinking the new blog would be up any day, but i’m not going to keep holding off. We’ll move over there once that’s open, but for now, i’ve got a video i really want you guys to see. If you want to be amazed at your own bodies, to get back in touch with the concept that we are simply magical creations and that our transition from a sperm and an egg to a full formed baby coming out of the womb is so far advanced of any science we think we know, then watch this video. It uses new technology to show imagery of “Conception to Birth”. It’s stunning stuff. Enjoy:


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Fantastic Testimonial

Posted May 16, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Egoscue, Testimonials

This was forwarded by the owner of our Portland clinic. One of their clients sent them this email and I loved reading it so much I wanted to share it with you guys. There’s so much I love about it. The client knows they’re not broken, they know it’s a journey, and they are immersed not in bitterness and frustration, but in gratitude. And that’s a very cool place to be (and absolutely empowers the healing process).

Enjoy!

**************

Kelly and Martin,

Before I forget what it was like to wake up and be afraid to turn in bed,
Before I forget how I hesitated each time I went to get out of my car,
Before I forget when I couldn’t push a grocery cart around the store,
Before I forget that I used to take a phone with me when I went walking alone
because my back might put me to my knees,
Before I forget that I thought I wouldn’t be able to travel alone anymore,
Before I forget there was a time in January when I thought I wouldn’t enjoy life again…

I want to thank Pete for the books that turned my life around and gave me hope, and for Martin
who took that beginning and now nurtures that hope each week that I am not broken, that my body
knows how to heal, that I will hike a mountain again– and that I already have faith that ‘if it seems too
good to be true, it probably is true.”

You may not realize the depth of my gratitude, but please know I wake up saying thank you every day for the work you do.
Sincerely, Marcia

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Your posture effects your brain function!

Posted May 14, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Egoscue

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I came across this quote, from Dr Roger Sperry, who won the 1980 Nobel Prize for research into brain function:

“Better than 90 percent of the energy output of the brain is used in relating to the physical body in its gravitational field. The more mechanically distorted a person is, the less energy available for thinking, metabolism and healing.”

Think maybe working on your posture has benefits that go beyond simply getting out of pain?

Or put differently, using the tower DOES make you smarter!

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The value of “experts”

Posted April 10, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Egoscue

Do you have an “expert” in your life telling you that your body is in some way “doomed”? Maybe you’re being told that a hip or knee replacement is inevitable. Or that the only way you’ll get out of pain is to have spinal surgery. Or maybe “they” have told you that fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue is permanent and incurable. Or that the only way you can deal with your plantar fascitis is to buy fancy new “motion control” shoes. Or that running itself is ‘bad for your knees’.

Don’t believe any of it. What is possible for you is far greater than what most “experts” can envision. Your body is a marvelous thing with an amazing capacity to regenerate. You just have to take the right steps to get the desired result. You know who the greatest “expert” is on your body? You! Trust your own instincts. If they’re telling you this can get better without surgery, perhaps you should listen.

If you’d like to prove the “experts” in your life wrong and want some help figuring out how to do it, call our clinic at 512-527-0030. It will be our pleasure to partner with you and help you map out an action plan to help your body go fantastic places it hasn’t been in years, maybe ever!

And in the meantime, here are some quotes from “experts” through history. Enjoy!

“Heavier-than-air flying machines
are impossible.”

– Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.

“If I had thought about it,
I wouldn’t have done the experiment.
The literature was full of examples
that said you can’t do this.”

– Spencer Silver on the work
that led to the unique adhesives
for 3-M “Post-It” notepads

“Drill for oil?
You mean drill into the ground
to try and find oil?
You’re crazy!”

– Drillers who Edwin L. Drake
tried to enlist to his project
to drill for oil in 1859.

“Stocks have reached what looks like
a permanently high plateau.”

– Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics,
Yale University, 1929.

“Airplanes are interesting toys
but of no military value.”

– Marechal Ferdinand Foch,
Professor of Strategy,
Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

– Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.

“The super computer is technologically
impossible.
It would take all of the water that flows
over Niagara Falls to cool the heat
generated by the number
of vacuum tubes required.”

– Professor of Electrical Engineering,
New York University.

“I don’t know what use any one could find
for a machine that would make copies of documents.
It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.”

– the head of IBM,
refusing to back the idea,
forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs
is ridiculous fiction.”

– Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology
at Toulouse, 1872.

“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain
will forever be shut
from the intrusion
of the wise and humane surgeon.”

– Sir John Eric Ericksen,
British surgeon,
appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary
to Queen Victoria 1873.

“There is no reason anyone would want
a computer in their home.”

–Ken Olson, president,
chairman and founder of
Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

– Thomas Watson,
chairman of IBM, 1943.

“I have traveled the length
and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people
and I can assure you
that data processing is a fad
that won’t last out the year.”

–The editor in charge of business books
for Prentice Hall, 1957.

“But what is it good for?”

– Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

– Bill Gates, 1981

“This telephone has too many shortcomings
to be seriously considered
as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us.”

– Western Union internal memo, 1876

“The wireless music box
has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message
sent to nobody in particular?”

– David Sarnoff’s associates
in response to his urgings for investment
in the radio in the 1920s

“The concept is interesting and well-formed,
but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’
the idea must be feasible.”

– A Yale University management professor
in response to Fred Smith’s paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found
Federal Express Corp.)

“I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable
who’s falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper.”
– Gary Cooper on his decision
not to take the leading role in
“Gone with the Wind.”

“A cookie store is a bad idea.
Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies,
not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”

– Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of
starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.

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An update, and a great video

Posted April 2, 2012 by Rick
Categories: General

Hey guys, I apologize for not having more timely updates here. Much has been afoot. I had the radio show going there for 3 months and that took up a chunk of time. For a number of reasons, we decided to discontinue it, but not because no one was listening. In fact, quite the opposite. We were getting off to one of the fastest starts that VoiceAmerica radio has ever seen. What they told me was that, typically, their top rated shows would take a few months to get 1000 listens a month, then a few more to get over 5,000, then would grow from there. One of the things that’s cool about Internet radio is you can get very precise information about how many people are listening and in what format. Here’s what our listener numbers came in at:

Month 1 – Dec: 2,720
Month 2 – Jan: 5,208
Month 3 – Feb: 13,024

People were listening, and that is very gratifying. What this tells me is people are hungry for hearing about how to get out of pain. All of us, Egoscue therapists AND clients, have a story to tell. Too many people are out there hurting needlessly. So thank you for keeping on spreading the message. I hope to have the MP3s from the radio show available on our website soon. I’ll post more about that when I have it.

In the meantime, a few good friends strongly recommended a video from the excellent TED series. You can get quite an education from watching TED videos. This one is about our nation’s identity, about who we are and what we believe and how we will ultimately be defined. It is superb, and I strongly recommend it to you. Here it is:


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Now he has to buy new shirts!

Posted March 1, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Egoscue

Got this email from a client of mine whose husband is also a client. I thought this was great, wanted to share it with you all:

Thought you’d enjoy: Don has been complaining his clothes are shrinking. I ignored him. Ridiculous complaint. I asked him what he meant this morning. He held his arm out ” Look.” His dress shirt sleeves are way too short. What a laugh we had. I’ve been complimenting him on his great posture, shoulders up, thoracic extension . He needs all new dress shirts. What a great problem to have.

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a great quote

Posted February 23, 2012 by Rick
Categories: Egoscue

I read this today and felt I needed to share it with all of you. Author Napolean Hill wrote: “Effort only fully releases its reward
after a person refuses to quit.”

I LOVE that!

How does it apply to those of you in pain who are “doing Egoscue”?

Well, are you all in, or are you still ‘trying’ Egoscue? Do you fully believe in your body’s ability to get better, to be well, healthy and strong, or are you still hoping that might possibly happen, but deep down you’re afraid it won’t?

Those are two very different emotional places to be. Belief is a faith-based emotion that yields great things. Hope is fundamentally a fear-based emotion, isn’t it? Think about it. You hope you’ll get better, but you’re afraid you might not. You hope your sick parent gets well, but you’re afraid they might not. You hope the Los Angeles Lakers can get a real point guard so they can make a run at the title, but you’re afraid they won’t. Ok, that last one might just be me.

But do you get the point? When I started as a client, I made a ton of mistakes but one thing I had going for me was a complete belief that I WAS going to get well. I didn’t hope for it, I believed it.

Hope leaves room for retreat, hope leaves room for inconsistency. Hope brings your energy down and raises obstacles at every turn. Believe, on the other hand, paves the way, renders you committed, and puts you in a mental frame of mind where obstacles are no big deal, just one more thing to overcome.

The clients I see who get the best results are the ones who TRULY commit, who say to themselves “i’m getting better, I’m going to follow this protocol diligently and I’m going to go get my life back.” And those who say “gee, this makes sense and I really hope it works” tend to have a much longer and more frustrating road back to health.

There is magic in refusing to quit. There is magic and power in believing instead of hoping. Don’t hope you’re going to get better. Believe it, and then do what it takes to make that happen!

If you need help figuring out what that is, give our clinic a call at 512-527-0030 and we’ll help you figure out what it’s going to take for you to get started on the path to wellness.

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