“Research shows that grateful people are happier and the quality of their health and emotional state of being can be transformed by being more appreciative. Studies performed by HeartMath clearly show improved heart rhythmic function, stress reduction and clearer thought processes resulting from being grateful.”** We all have so much to appreciate if we just [...]
My dearest childhood friend Paul’s mother Naomi passed away Thursday night. She was a kind, sweet and steady sort of person. Paul wrote her eulogy which told here life story. As a child in London during the Second World War she was sent out of the city to be safe from the bombings and lived [...]
We celebrated my son Heath’s 2nd birthday last Tuesday. On Wednesday my wife Sharon and my son Heath went to Florida to visit her parents. My seventeen year old daughter Ariana and I have been alone together in a very quiet house since then. At first it was quite liberating, all this time to ourselves, [...]
It’s Sunday morning and I just woke up in my childhood home in Brooklyn. I was just dreaming about my father who passed about seventeen years ago. I’m staying at my mothers’ this weekend because I’m attending a “Torque Release” chiropractic training down here in the city. My Dad is the reason I became a [...]
Tuesday night we’ll be with my family in Brooklyn celebrating Passover. Passover commemorates the exodus from Egypt of the Jews who were slaves there. It’s a holiday that celebrates freedom. Not only the physical freedom that the Jews experienced when leaving Egypt but our own personal freedom as well. We all have our personal “Egypt’s”, [...]
About 3 weeks ago one of our practice member’s wives gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. He came in to get adjusted 5 days later. He told me that the baby was constipated and hadn’t gone to the bathroom for 2 days. That can’t be healthy for a 5 day old! I went to [...]
Sharon, Heath and I just spent the weekend camping up in the Berkshires. We had a beautiful campsite in the woods on a stream. Falling asleep and waking to the sound of running water was awesome! Camping for me, although a lot of work, (setting up camp, breaking down camp, cooking, cleaning, gathering wood for [...]
I’m using this holiday season as an opportunity to say thank you. Each morning as I rise I give thanks for all that’s precious to me. I usually first give thanks for the gift of actually waking up (easy to take for granted!). I express gratitude for my wife and kids, friends, family, staff, my [...]
Here we are with another year behind us and a fresh new one before us. An empty canvas filled with so many possibilities. Often at the beginning of a new year we consider the changes we’d like to see in our lives, or the changes we’d like to see in ourselves. We want to be [...]
This weekend I attended my childhood friend Howies’ son Jessie’s’ Bar-Mitzvah. It was kind of poignant; I can still recall Howies’ Bar-Mitzvah. At one point of the service called “Ashrei” the Rabbi gave an explanation of the prayer. She explained that the word “Ashrei” is a form of the word that means “happy." She told [...]