energy serving up and lightening television for your evolving bill do you believe as i believe that the body is hard wired with an intelligence all its own meaning that even without help interference the body automatically knows how to deal and yet if this is true then why is there so much illness and disease yes dr jody dinner is here to help us understand how to harness our bodies wisdom and potential for healing please stick around there's more to come as positive energy starts right now hey dr jodi dinner mn thank you for being  positive energy of course from excited to be here so you were raised in princeton and you've been a family wellness private practice since two thousand and one on the name of your practice is light source c first i love the name light source why are you drawn to chiropractic and holistic healing as a career oh that's a big questions so i i was actually studying at records i wanted to be on broadway that was my hope and dream and i was working at the whole or center in princeton this is thirty plus years ago and i had a big analogy in my chiropractor came into my line when i was working at whole earth and said i love your personality i want you to come work for me and something in me just said yes so i said yes and i went and i started working for his name was jeff plano and i couldn't believe what i saw in his office i saw people's lives just fill with color and babies get healthier and families become happier to gather and i knew i was in and i often went to her practic school it's just like the doors opened up for you and said here we are yes here is your calling and you were smart enough and intuitive enough of all of that so maybe you say what the word holistic me a little bit of what and what healing means to you sure i think the word that comes to mind when i think about healing is authenticity and  we can heal on so many different levels there's physical emotional spiritual and then their relationships the last three of them combined chiropractic is the truest purest form a feeling that i know  trust and love and that's why i'm so committed to it especially for kids so what's sort of your overarching philosophy as a healer and as a doctor and a practitioner sure that's easy because i say it at least twenty times a day the power that made the body heals the body every time without exception it just needs the space to do so so often when we're in a healing crisis what our body needs a space what our life needs a space and what our heart need space and in my experience a chiropractic adjustment provides just that in the body so i love that that you're giving space for what can naturally occur to occur  that is not invasive they say yeah holistic in that way that addresses all levels and all angles of this for sure so our body runs on the brain and the nervous system the spinal cord is the extension of the brain and then the spinal cord has millions of peripheral nerves that come out and everything our body does is controlled and coordinated through the system so if there is any stress to the system our bodies  rhythm is altered and because the ad is that in kids and babies that alteration creates a lot of chaos in the body and the chaos has a tendency to create patterns so we see things like colic and asthma and a d d and ear infections and constipation breastfeeding issues with babies whereas with adults that chaos in the body tends to take on more of a chronic form  back pain headaches things like that that have taken a while longer to manifest in the body so we know that the way we think in our attitude and stress in other ways the way we internalize things that happen to us the way we perceive things and interpret things has an effect as you said on your nervous system talk a little bit more about the mind body connection the connection to dress and the body as well as the energy system sure so tricky thing is that there are so many stresses that we endure on a daily basis that we're not aware of for example if we're if we're breathing in the air that isn't clean if we have  if we have chemicals in our food that we're not aware if we're sitting in a sea the chair and if we're sitting in a chair and our body is in this position was most of our of us are for most part of the day and we're typing and we're looking forward these are all stresses that we don't necessarily think about but that everybody has everybody has so what chiropractic is about is finding where these stresses are creating tension patterns and helping the body to integrate  if that stress gets stuck in the body specifically in the nervous system in chiropractic we call that a subluxation subluxation simply means that the nervous system isn't functioning optimally and  thereby our bodies aren't functioning optimally so what chiropractors are specifically trained to do is find the subluxations and help the body to integrate them so since people could really go back to those habits because they're so unconscious and so automatic i guess a lot of what you do as well as some education you talk to people about the stress in their life and the environment that is around them on a day to day basis  somewhat in the for the first time i meet with a family we do a lot of talking and really my job as a chiropractor is to find these patients and help the body to release them there's not a whole lot of off and get them out of discomfort sometimes the pain is necessary sometimes when i get adjusted i don't feel better before but i don't feel better before whatever that was that was stuck is released so it's not necessarily about fixing pain headaches backaches whatever it is it's more about the body expressing its one hundred percent in the potential sometimes that doesn't feel good before it feels good if that makes sense absolutely so you find people come to you with existing misconceptions about how their mind is related to the body and about chiropractic what are some of the i think that your common ones trickiest thing is when people come in and they think that i'm going to fix them because they were not broken right our body is always striving optimally express and whatever symptom we have is the body's way of striving to wellness integrating whatever force has gotten stuck so i do a lot of educating with my patients to try to explain to them that the symptoms are actually gems they're our body's way of communicating to us and frankly we'll have symptoms until the day we're done on this earth my job is to make sure that the body is able to integrate whatever stress get it's most of the time when we're a just and one more well adjusted we feel great but sometimes it takes time to feel great and sometimes you know if i can give the most beautiful adjustment to somebody but if they leave my office and smoke a pack of cigarettes and drink a keg of beer and then fall down a flight of stairs there are obviously going to feel a lot of symptoms and i'm not in control of yes you're right very little in control yeah oh that depending on how committed they are to their well being and their self care on an ongoing permanent long term basis with all of those lifestyle changes but i guess that's the journey certainly but i love what you're saying reinforcing in emphasizing that the body has its own innate wisdom and i can educate people and empower people especially moms to have a symptom double click on what the body is trying to express and then support the body in my experience chiropractics role in that story line is to turn the volume up when i get adjusted i am more connected to what my body's trying to do trying to integrate and most of the time i feel like i'm on top of the world i feel a lot clearer after an adjustment a lot will say to me when i say this will what is an adjustment and an adjustment is a very specific force applied to the body in a loving kind of way to help move along whatever stress has gotten stuck and  i recently had a baby start my practice and the mom told me that her husband was afraid i was going to break the baby and i said first of all in seventeen years of practice i haven't broken the baby yet and i probably adjusted over one hundred thousand babies in my year of the practice but though amount of force that i use on a baby's body is the amount of force you would take and put on your eyelid it's very very gentle and that's really all that's needed to get the stress moving which is really kind of cool so do you find that less and less people are coming with that misconception the old model the of what a chiropractor does with the cracking and the moving bones and all of that as people are more educated and he's more aware you know there are a a lot of people do it feeling and they usually of it is that there is a time for that kind of force and when i always say there's nothing more profound than the structural adjustment whose time has come because when you get a structural adjustment and you feel that popper that osseous release that that release is from head to toe it release is the nerve impulses in your spinal cord from your brain through out to the target tissue and it re force which is really quite an experience there i'm finding clinically that people what are the trend that i do see is people are getting tired of where the answers that are being put in front of them and the answers that are usually put in front of them is that your body is wrong that you're broken that you're you do not have the power to heal and chiropractic for over one hundred years has been saying the power that made the body heals the body every time it just needs the room to do so no exception so it's really quick it's quite cool to see that trend surfacing so speaking of that the fact that we're wired for self healing i want to actually pause just for a moment and give you our viewers a chance to enjoy this many visualization so that you can focus right now on your we this is a perfect well being quick many visualizations because you can't create perfect well being with negative things but you can create it through positive thinking heightened emotions which raises  flowing now imagine yourself with healthy habits choosing only the healthiest foods every day now imagine yourself moving and  so talk a little bit more because i think what you're known for now and what your wonderful niche is and a lot of what i love having you here is your work with pregnant moms and babies and children so say a little bit more because this is a great opportunity for you let people know that that isn't even possible show other people don't realize that i think the greatest way that i can explain to you how powerful chiropractic is from a personal point of view chiropractic has been our main go to as parents i have two boys and they've been getting adjusted since the day that they were born every time something comes up whether they have a physical fall or an emotional fall the first thought is let's get them adjusted because getting our babies adjusted brings them back to square one it gets everything in the body moving more importantly it ensures that the brain and spinal cord have one hundred percent nerve supply so when i work with a baby the coolest thing about working with babies is they tell me where they go they will you yesterday i was adjusting a new born baby and he was just moving his body around my hand so it's really a dance that we do together the  magic in it is seeing how much babies transform from very gentle adjustments and i'm talking night and day differences if we do not see that night and day difference i trust that so much at this point in my career i have to ask mom and dad ok what's going on at home what are you feeding this baby how are you burping this baby how are you changing this baby's diaper because something some kind of force is being reinforced to the body over and over to create that stuck or subject's ation as we call in chiropractic what a fun job you have play was babies on a regular basis and hold them and listen to them and be close to them and help them so so give us maybe the top one or two benefits if you're going to get someone some quick benefits of what people will actually literally see and observe in their child or baby sure my favorite thing to say to a parent is whatever is stuck comes out so if your baby has constipation issues we see that core comply literally yes we see a new normal for chiropractor kids there's actually a term chiropractic kid in chiropractic we have the most phenomenal organization called the international chiropractic pediatric association the website is i c p a for kids dot org and they have done so much research research isn't really my forte but this is where i send people to find the next and crannies of what's what's so beautifully holding up our our craft for lack of a better word so when i adjust the baby to answer your question i have a very deep trust that because the power that mean the body heals the body their body to come to a new normal and the parent should expect to see the baddie feeling better healing stronger sleeping better doing the things that are normal for a baby to do when they're healthy  beautiful and so people imagine can reach out to you for more information about that but it's good to know that there is a whole body of work in a body of knowledge and clinical research yes to back all of that up so what do you hope is sort of the future of holistic healing and chiropractic specially with children because we see so much need for it you know i've never understood how every family has a family done test right we take really good care of our teeth every family should have a family chiropractor because we have to take really good care of our nervous system our brain and us our spinal cord tell our body what to do right so my vision for the future is that chiropractic will be a household name and i'm doing everything i can in my power i always say if i could stand from the rooftops and shout i would and sometimes i actually do so you're very inspiring and i imagine that you try to live with the things that you teach to others and receive as much as you give what are your sort of personal ways of keeping up with your own keeping your own vibe of keeping your own attitude and staying positive as much as you can in this very chaotic fast paced world for yourself yeah it's a great question and answer is constantly changing as i change my world changes currently i always get adjusted i get adjusted once a week or once every other week depending on my schedule i go to cross fit five days a week my husband and i wake up at four thirty in the morning every day and do an hour across that we belong to this cross fit community it's called a s t c in flemington new jersey and the coaches there they have completely transformed the way that i see my body and the power in my body and what i'm capable of it could bring me to tears just thinking about it so that's a big part of it spending time with my boys they're everything to me they're the coolest kids on the planet their chiropractic kids and and rest a lot of good rest a lot of good food yeah so those are all things for everybody to really consider you know areas they need to really pay more attention yeah i always say it's a three legged stool you got to move your body really well get adjusted and eat really clean and then people want to double click on the eat really clean and my rule of thumb is as many one ingredient foods on your plate as possible so the less complicated our food is the better it is for us and the most important takeaway from that is if we eat something it's going to either add energy to our body or take energy away it is taking energy away is stressing our body and there comes the opportunity for the body to sublet say it again so the most simple pure form of eating possible move your body to the point of sweat at least three times a week if not five or six i am a huge proponent across that i think it is an amazing way to make your body strong and for sure get adjusted on a close about your practice i know you have two locations yes i like to compare my practice to day care center for wellness living we often have babies everywhere and kids running around and we have a plethora of essential oils going and healthy snacks and music and we also have space for mom to come and get adjusted and chill out so it is a joyful amazing you can pal hate the happiness and joy in the office the most important thing that i want people to know about my practice as well as the practices of many of my colleagues is that we treat people really well we listen to what's going on with you both with our hands our heart and our years and we serve your body to its highest good and one of the things that my chiropractor who has since passed my original chiropractor jeff you know said to me no matter how wrong the client is there are always right so in my office you're right and everything about you is right including your symptoms in your pain in your story and i think more than anything what we do as practitioners me and dr connie who is now i'm bored with me is we make sure that before you leave you know how right you are i absolutely love it how can any of us not thrive in an environment like that and want to create more of those environments where we can all thrive so that healing starts as soon as people really walk in the door creating space is so important i don't recognize because there really is no separation between any of us and no separate separation between us and the environment in which we're in and that's affecting us and we're affecting it affecting each other and were affecting the environment and vice versa so it just goes around and around that way so i just say that i'm really struck i was really struck by how passionate you are that about what what you doing q and how much you care it seemed to me so genuine the way that you care for your family's well being i have grown up with it you want to quibble in my practice i've been in practice for seventeen years so i have people whose births i attended seventeen sixteen years ago who are now starting college and it's a real honor to be a part of these families in it's huge to be with them yeah from babyhood on yeah and that's really when you get to see the long term effect where their new of you being a part of their life the difference that you made because i think what we really want is to change the world and we're going to start at the small levels one person is fine at a time one minute it's like that runs one family this one one baby at a time but it's not to underestimate how much kindness compassion and all of that support does ripple out  into the world and we can really elevate humanity yeah and i think it's important to find that at home to to find that at home first so if you are able to create that kindness and i'm married to my best friend i'm more in love with my husband every day we've been together since i was a teenager and he is the kindest most supportive person so if there is a way for us to find the kindness and support at home then we can take it out into the world and i take it out into the world in the form of paktika but whether you're an accountant or a teacher or a musician it doesn't matter there's always a way that we can make the world better through a chiropractic approach what i like to say yeah so that's a great way to start people's healing journey for sure and helping the world and i guess that's a really nice way to to kind of end our conversation as well so i really acknowledge the work that you are doing in the world dr jody n q thank you so so much for being here we're wrapping up another enlightening show remember this one thing and make it your montreaux the power that made the body feels the body thank you monday morning flowers with a beautiful floral arrangement thank you