Dr. Sara’s Office News - January 2026 Edition
Featured Article: What Do Thoughts Have to Do with It?
Other than stealing a song title from the 1980s, thoughts have a lot to do with it.
Our habits of thought and what I call "unrecognized thought" are likely the number one reason a person's body holds tension and feels tight. If that situation goes on long enough, you start to get breakdown of the cellular structures and then, eventually, we can put labels on the breakdown, and you have a diagnosis.
As the third and last installment in our three T’s series, I invite you to go back and read the first two if you haven’t already where we look at physical and chemical things affecting the body.
The third aspect of life that affects the body is Thought, or as D. D. Palmer coined it, “Thots”.
Simply put, overthinking has an extremely negative effect on the body.
So much so, that it led me to become an advanced certified transformative coach and start a whole new business that addresses just that. And also, everything else in someone's life. Check it out at liveyouralivelife.com with a lot more on this and related topics.
It's strange to me that most people find the connection between how we run our thinking and our health to be strange and mysterious. It's in direct proportion. If you overthink habitually, your health will be worse than if you didn't.
Our brain and body don’t know what is going on outside of us. Our perceptions rely heavily on our filters of thinking.
People (myself included) who have had brain injuries and can't form what's called executive functions of thinking also can't perceive the environment around them. The raw perceptual data has no preconstructed thought to hang itself on. Interestingly, many people in this situation report feelings of bliss and contentment and body relaxation even though they are severely injured.
We are designed to think thoughts as needed in the moment and then let them dissolve away. We don't live in a feeling of outside circumstances or stresses. We live purely in a feeling of our thinking in the current moment.
We become conditioned to think that our feeling of our own thinking is actually the feeling of what's happening outside of ourselves. We innocently misattribute our sensation or feeling to something out there. Maybe our boss, our workload, our schedule, etc.
What I call unrecognized thought is simply this: We have a thought (usually a habitual one), and then we feel a sensation, perhaps tension or stress. We don't recognize this feeling as thought from us, and so it can't float on by and dissolve. We hang onto it because we think it's something we need to fix.
Once someone sees that it's all coming from them, they begin to allow themselves to flow.
Our bodies take their direction from our thoughts and thinking.
It's how we bring our thinking to life.
Our system assumes we know how it works and assumes that if we are thinking scary thoughts (Oh no! What if that bad thing happens tomorrow?!?), it is something real. Except we don't know, and it isn't.
Still with me? Ok, what do we do?
Slow down. Internally.
Realize that you can find a quiet space and slow the internal spin, as it were. Don't worry, you'll get better at it once you do it a few times. Realize that your stress, your happiness, your internal state doesn't come from anything outside of you. No, not even that.
You'll know you've got it when you feel your body relax. That's the space we are designed to live from.
Up for an experiment? See how many thoughts in your day you actually don't need. Wonder to yourself throughout the day, "Do I need to think about that?" or "Do I need to think that?".
Have fun and happy experimenting!
Updates and Upcoming Events
Office Hours
Our office will be closed from January 14 to January 19, 2026
For regular office hours, please click here
Reminder
Do your extended health benefits renew in January? If so, now is a great time to book an appointment and start taking care of your health again. Chiropractic, massage, naturopath...whatever you want! They are for your benefit, so don't let them go to waste.
2026 Fee Increase
Starting January 1, 2026, the fee for all entrainments increases by $1.00. This applies to Monthly Service Agreement rates as well.
Upcoming Events
Save the Date! Immersion Retreat 2026
We are hosting the Immersion Retreat again at Ignatius Jesuit Centre on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Mark your calendars to join us for an expansive day of peace and joy.