Thoughts

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Self-awareness is a crucial aspect of personal growth and development. Let’s explore Carl Jung’s theory of the psyche and how understanding the unconscious mind and integrating the various parts of the psyche can lead to psychological balance and individuation. Self-awareness, or knowing oneself, is a crucial aspect of personal growth and…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. People increasingly ask me what kind of mediation I practice. While I don’t have a formal name to describe my methods, I have combined (and modified) a number of techniques over the past several years. Thanks to a furry angel in my life, I currently incorporate an ancient sacred paw method…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Today will be awesome. That’s the reminder at the front desk (usually facing towards me) in our chiropractic office. I certainly prefer this line of thinking to the alternative. This isn’t particularly about being positive, although being positive goes along with it. Decades into this mindset, I now see everything as…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Las Vegas Airport parking rates are better than those at LAX. $8 is better than what I typically pay. I was in Las Vegas again this past weekend (I’ll be back the week of the chiropractic orthopedists conference) continuing the research I’ve been doing, for an ongoing series of local search…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Ask any chiropractor that’s sat for 12 hours or more doing continuing education and they’ll likely tell you they’d rather be doing something else, especially since most chiropractors tend to take continuing education courses on weekends. Earlier in June I was in Reno Nevada for the California Chiropractic Association annual convention…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Here’s a summary of seven summertime articles from the past, all posted during the summer, from as far back as year 2000. Summer time should be getting all of us outdoors for increased activity and enjoyment. You don’t want to spend your days sifting through 10 years of chiropractic news content…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Change is good. Were facing another summer here at the headquarters for Planet Chiropractic and Chiropractic Blogs, and while there is plenty of activities scheduled, there’s going to be some summertime fun taking place as well. I like taking time off to rest, relax and recharge like anybody, and living at…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I receive e-mails several times a week from businesses and individuals seeking to post press releases and media releases to Planet Chiropractic news. In the more than 10 years that people have been e-mailing stuff our way, I’m surprised how few have discovered the difference between the right way and the…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. The 2009 Boston Marathon runs on Monday (420), April 20th, with some 25,000 plus people be taking to the streets, testing their will against Heartbreak Hill (mile 20ish), and racing to the finish line in historic Boston. It’s one of the few US marathons taking place on a Monday, instead of…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Now that Oprah and Ashton Kutcher are talking about Twitter, I guess more people are going to be increasingly getting in on the conversation. I wasn’t sure when I first started mentioning the microblogging service on Chiropractic Blogs so I did some searching through the archives. Looks like I first made…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Checking website stats is a funny thing. On a chiropractic blog you’d expect to see results for terms like chiropractic, chiropractor, and other things directly related to the field, but there’s so many seemingly unrelated words that bring visitors… to all websites. I like the process of discovering what those words…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s an odd thing, most of the chiropractors I know love what they do. They may not be crazy about every little detail but in general they are pretty darned happy with the choices they’ve made and the service they provide. I like that. Something to be said about individuals that…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Why would 3 chiropractors travel from places like Seattle, Illinois, and Ontario Canada to Orange County California? Because SoCal Rocks! Seriously, it’s impressive to see chiropractors travelling such long distances to attend events like the 2009 DCS Orange County event that took place last week at the Performing Arts Center. Big…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. An interesting and funny email arrived in my gmail inbox today. It was headed “Your Marijuana Site” and included a link request to another site. My Marijuana Site? WTF? (photo credit: gecko.juice) The email begins… As I was surfing around msn , I discovered your website:  https://planetc1.com I am trying to…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Ladies, if you have a geeky man in your life, consider a Man Bag (aka Man Purse) or any of the items that go in it, as the perfect 2009 Valentine’s Day gift. Trust me, most guys receiving any of these items, will love you long time. I’m proud of my…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. There must be dozens of different ways to contact me. I’m sure the experience is similar for you. Most of us have that primary e-mail address, then there’s the e-mail address used when we want to mark things sent as spam, and e-mail addresses used when not communicating with friends and…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. There’s some cleaning up going on at the planetchiropractic world headquarters in Los Angeles, and I’m being thankful while going through files and documents from the years passed. There are lots of chiropractors to thank, but I like to do some shout outs on names and addresses from time to time….

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s come to my attention that there are those on the Internet stuck in some sort of chiropractic dyslexia. While almost no one would ever notice entering the URL planetc1.com works just as easy as entering the term planetchiropractic.com. If you click on either one of those URLs you will have…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s not often that I receive handwritten thank you letters from chiropractors in North America or Canada. One arrived in the mail earlier this week, and I wanted to say thank you in return. The card comes from chiropractor Danny Desaulniers of A.D.I.O. Chiropractic in Okotoks (Alberta), Canada. I hope he…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. If you’re not familiar with the backlash that’s been going on surrounding a Motrin (ibuprofen) campaign that hit the Internet over the weekend, this post and video may be a bit offensive to you. Actually, it’ll probably be offensive either way, but the video spoof (which appears below) is quite creative…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. What name did Obama give his dog? I realize this question may be a bit premature, but I’m a bit concerned as to what the president’s first dog is going to be named. First off, amongst all the Obamania going on in the world, there’s been plenty of discussion as to…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I like getting these postcard and mailing related posts added to the site. It is actually helping people to find resources they may be interested in, and it gives me a chance to vent. My last mailbox post was on October 27, inbox recycling. I’ve got a pretty hefty stack to…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. More than 39,000 people participated in the 2008 New York City Marathon this past Sunday. A chiropractor practicing in Clifton New Jersey not only ran the 26.2 mile NYC marathon, he promoted chiropractic along the way. In fact, Dr. Vincent Malba, wore a shirt with his name on the front, and…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I believe the last time I covered postcards and the other mail coming to my California chiropractic office was earlier this month. There’s another stack on the desk and I’m posting information here before sending everything to the recycle bin. (photo: iPhone loving chiropractor Russell Kun and Butler Pennsylvania Chiropractor Ram…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Taking a look at 14,653 different key phrases that accumulated since the beginning of this month, it’s interesting to see how many of the top 10 are related to chiropractors making money, employment in the chiropractic industry, buying or selling chiropractic items, and getting some chiropractic education. There is also 2…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Sometimes the most seemingly obvious stuff gets missed by those with the best of intentions. Like millions of other blog owners, I delete comments and mark comments as spam, nearly every day. There’s the obvious stuff like posts for online poker, male enhancement pills, a wide array of pharmaceuticals, and all…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Bare with me while I take you through another post related to top 10 key phrases appearing in planetchiropractic.com log files. Trust me, while this stuff may appear boring, studying keywords and key phrases related to your web site’s traffic, can open up your eyes to entirely new opportunities. Saturday morning…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Last night Dr. Fred Schofield spoke at DCS in Orange County California. His presentation was marvelous, wish I would have recorded it. Towards the end of the night he had a hand out flier titled The Dynamics of Energy of which I grabbed a copy. The flyers from the book Power…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Returned home today from the 2008 San Francisco WordCamp which took place at the Mission Bay Conference Center. This was my third WordCamp event and for me it was the best of them all. The facility was fantastic, the speakers were awesome (more detailed post coming on that later this week),…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. We can’t all be Strip Mall Chiropractors. My office is located amongst about six other businesses in what we call a “strip mall” or mini shopping center. This past weekend I visited with chiropractors from North Hollywood, Burbank, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, and Bakersfield. I took photos at Frye Chiropractic (which…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s almost the Fourth of July weekend and we likely won’t be posting much content to Planet Chiropractic until Monday. I’ve been a webmaster for more than a decade now and I’m probably not alone in being one of those that does server reboots, site maintenance, and other related web site…