Posts By: Dr. Vik

Free up your Brain?

To make room available for creative thoughts…Consistently remembering tasks, appointments and responsibilities can be overwhelming and fatiguing as well. Writing down all the things that need to be done or made can have a immense “freeing” effect on your brain and energy too. “A short pencil is better than a long memory”…We all know this,… Read more »

A diet high in…

Simple carbohydrates, can actually make us more hungry. Carbohydrates break down into either glucose which can be used for energy or fuel for the body, or glycogen which can be stored by the body, as a reserve to be used later when the body demands it. And simple carbohydrates are the ones that are usually… Read more »

How to put more Stress into Your Life:

1. BE IMPATIENT – Remember, nothing goes as quickly as you would like it to, but it should… so whenever possible, be impatient and irritated about what’s going on. 2. WORRY MORE – When things go smoothly, understand, it’s just a “fluke” because things always spiral out of control, and that’s what you need to… Read more »

What’s the “Pebble in your Shoe”?

In our life’s journey, it’s not all roses…there are some twists and turns, ups and downs and even an occasional bloody lip. And on the way, we sometimes pick up unwanted stuff whether we allowed it or it just hopped on board uninvited. We have enough to deal with in life, and don’t need a… Read more »

“Live Foods”

“Live” foods are simply foods that “grow”. When we look at our eating habits in an evolutionary manner, we have come from eating “live” foods in the not to distant past to eating foods that are manufactured or processed which has stripped and altered the food from it’s original state, not to mention foods that… Read more »

When we do…

Things that are bad – people gossip. When we do things that are so so – no one notices. When we do things that are good – people notice. When we do things that are great – there is word of mouth. When we are the “best in show” – people brag, and want to… Read more »

My youngest boy…

Sam is a giver. Always wanting to help you in any way he can. So the other day, he said, “Dad, I have a couple of thoughts for your blog”: “Smiles go for miles”. “Dont shurk work”. That’s my boy! Yours in “Thinking Right” – Coach

The clock keeps ticking…

Regardless, if we are asleep or awake. And many of us worry that we are racing against the clock. We’re not advising that we waste time, or think that we have unlimited time in our lives to what we want. We are just saying that we need not worry about time, and the clock ticking,… Read more »

Life doesn’t get much better!

Sure we have our ups and downs, ins and outs, ahead and behind, we can go on and on, it’s just called balance, everything in life has balance. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, plants do the opposite. The tide rises and then retreats, there is day and then night. So what’s… Read more »

5 Keys to Reduce Stress

1. Breathe – When we are stressed, our back muscles tighten up in response, not allowing for full expansion of the rib cage, so unless we consciously think about taking some deep breathes from time to time,  we are starving our body of oxygen, continuing the process. 2. Exercise – This let’s us get out… Read more »