2010: welcome to a brighter future as we enter the new year; now is one time to affirm a truly positive outlook, so here is one very good idea……reject the tedious, ultimately indigestible diet of fear, gloom and desperation that characterises the biased mainstream media (MSM). As you satisfy your addiction into what selectively passes for ‘news’, you risk jeopardizing your mental and emotional health, because you’re literally quite helpless to respond. In truth, look to your own community, the one that you know and can influence. This is where you can see and do good – literally. On the other hand the MSM news reinforces your sense of helplessness -  and that is indescribably unhealthy. We know ‘fear mongering injures civil society’ and we persist in battering ourselves into states of insensibility and cynicism, needing ever more disasters, cataclysms and news of ‘the end is nigh’. Such is one modern day addiction. Make no mistake; the more fearsome, the more sensational, the more troubling, the more you’re likely to listen, buy the paper, and see the ads. Instead, use your intelligence and wit to select, assess and evaluate the news. Go to the net. Look at different sources. Select, assess and evaluate. Once or possibly twice a week is perfectly sufficient to grasp the essentials.

The world is a fabulous place, full of opportunity and joy. Develop the habit of looking for positive things, surrounding yourself with positive people and projects, doing something new and interesting, rediscovering some of your passion and enthusiasm for life. Take one day, one moment, one hour, one step at a time. This is one of many routes leading to better health and well being.

Dunedin Osteopathic Clinic positively and distinctively offers you focused osteopathic care. The clinical goal is to have you diagnosed, comfortably functional and as pain free as possible within the shortest possible time. Our treatment is informed by research, evidence, experience and qualifications second to none. We think positively and we aspire to have you doing the same. Our pre-eminent aim is to save you time and therefore money; not to over-diagnose, over-treat or over-service your condition or indeed to foster clinical ‘dependence’. We believe in delivering the minimum amount of treatment for your maximum benefit, and providing you with the ability to manage future risk. And we believe in doing this collaboratively with you.

We wish you a positively prosperous and healthy 2010!