Kim Makoi D.C.

Sometimes, it'll do like that...

Which one is "right?"
At a glance, we tend to assume it's the mind, because everyone knows that you should get up off the couch!
But sometimes, the body knows that it needs a rest, and we can't just go go go all the time!
That's where balance comes in.
Take care of your body, and practice mindfulness to still the anxious mind.

Finally caught up with on Twin Peaks today! It was beautiful up there - sunny, didn’t need a jacket! 🌞

If you have the stamina to stand for hours 😬 you can get standing room tickets to the opera for just $10 on the day of the show! It’s a GREAT deal!

I’m a terrible cook, so I get excited when I can make something that turns out well! Unfortunately, this thing js ugly and I can’t get a nice picture of it, but it tastes great! It’s a great easy summer “salad” and here’s all the ingredients: 1 cup cut strawberries, 1 cup halved little tomatoes, 1 cup halved little mozzarella balls, 1 cup avocado pieces, 1/3 cup cut basil leaves, some olive oil drizzled, salt n pepper, and the final fancy thing: 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar (reduced down from 1/4 cup). Pinkies up!

A lady just complimented me on my “overall lewk” ! That doesn’t happen every day! Me keepin’ it classy. 💀🕺🏻

Got a message from The Daily Nugget’s #1 fan in Yekaterinburg (Russia)! Mail from the U.S. hasn’t been allowed since the Ukraine war started, so he had to go to great lengths to get a hard copy of The Daily Nugget! 😂❤️ (and yes, he already gets the free email version!)

So excited to have this amazing canvas of ‘s archangel Haniel!!! She’s in the waiting room at the office right now. I’m not sure where her “forever home” will be, but for now I really enjoy seeing her there, and I think visitors will, too. I just can’t get any pictures with my phone that convey the awesomeness and power of this piece. You just have to see her in person!

This is a really cute profile on a chiropractor who takes care of a lot of animals! After more than 30 years around chiropractic and chiropractors, I KNOW that it works for real! And I think that animal chiropractic is some of the strongest evidence out there that it's not "just placebo."

Chiropractor thrilled to adjust ‘largest neck in the world’ | CNN Giraffe rubs and licks chiropractor after getting a neck adjustment. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports on a giraffe that got a house call.

I picked up a TON of great stamps at face value at the stamp show!

Felt “healthy” today - went on a veggie run. Gotta strike if/when the mood hits! It is good to eat your “fruits and veggies,” but if you can mentally swap the order to “veggies and fruits” then you will feel a LOT better!! It’s easy to go for the fruits first because they are sweet and delicious. But the veggies are where the biggest bang for the buck is. (And that’s financially a fact, too, since veggies are usually cheaper than fruits!) Once, I was sitting around in a very grim headspace, and then I forced myself to choke down a huge bowl of Swiss chard. About 20 minutes later, my mood lifted, and I was like “holy crap, I didn’t really want to die - I just needed vegetables!” 😬🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyhoo. I added a picture of greenish bananas because they are lower on the glycemic index. Oh, and I recently learned that adding a dash of nutmeg to your greens makes them taste fancy. - and yes, I know that eggplants are botanically a fruit, but they have a strong hypoglycemic effect for me. Also I know that tomatoes are botanically a fruit… but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they should be legally classified as a “vegetable” because of how they are culinarily used! 😮 Also how do you like the mood lighting / soft focus of me with the kohlrabi? Also I made beet pickles.

Anxiety tip of the day: open your eyes wide! This is a quick body tip that can help shift the feeling of anxiety to a feeling of curiosity. The eyes wide open face signals the brain to become open to more information - to become curious. (…as opposed to squinting, which lends itself to narrow focus and more anxiety.) I learned this tip from the book Unwinding Anxiety, by Judson Brewer. Highly recommended!

Tragedy has struck at the office!! My pride and joy - my fake fireplace - short circuited or something when I turned it on this morning! So the power light is on but neither the fire nor the heater buttons is responsive when I push them! 😭 I bet it is a reeeeally simple problem - like one single fuse or something - but not readily accessible. And it’s 2 months beyond warranty! 😤 I cut out a fake fire from some red paper I found in the drawer. It’ll do for now until I figure out the solution! Honestly, I’m pleased with how the new fake fire turned out. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️

Got this sweet message from a fellow chiro today! Thanks ! 🌞

CHIROPRACTIC IS MAGIC!!! (Please excuse the creepy looking picture of my thumb.) So, last week, I kind of screwed up my elbow and maybe my shoulder - for sure my elbow. Sometimes it happens after doing a manual adjustment on a large patient. It was so weak and painful for a couple of days that I could barely do a slow tap on my VR boxing game with that arm. I thought I might have to make an appointment with a specialist extremity chiropractor! It got a little better in the meantime, but still not normal. Anyway, long story short, I saw my regular chiropractor - Dr Matt Colman - today, and he did the usual elbow and shoulder tests on me, and nothing seemed too bad. But then he found that my thumb was subluxated, and he adjusted it. Bam! 💥 The noise surprised me, because I hadn’t even noticed that ANYTHING was wrong with my thumb! But as soon as the thumb popped back into place, MY ELBOW WAS MAGICALLY BETTER! “Meh-“ Dr Colman shrugged, “kinetic chain. It was a thumb problem.” WHATEVER MAN, CHIROPRACTIC IS MAGIC! The whole walk home, I kept moving my thumb around and bending my elbow over and over. I couldn’t believe how much better my thumb felt - even though I didn’t have any complaints about it before - and I couldn’t believe how strong my elbow felt! Jeezus. Do people ever feel like this after *I* adjust them?! It’s the weirdest thing. As a chiropractic patient, my mind is still regularly blown when crazy things like this happen. But as a chiropractor, a lot of the times I am like “meh. Kinetic chain. Shrug.” It is the weirdest, weirdest dichotomy……. I am just grateful for chiropractic and SUPER grateful to have such an awesome chiropractor just a few blocks away!!! 😊🙏❤️

New San Francisco location! I've suddenly left my little pandemic hidey hole space and returned to a more traditional office situation. Chiropractic Goldilocks rides again! I'm still in the Hayes Valley section of the 94102 - same as for the last 20 years - but now the specific location is 459 Fulton #105 (between Gough and Octavia). 🥳

Daily Health Nuggets are here! Well,
not *here* here, because, clearly, I’m not cut out to do frequent updates on my FB Business page! 😬🤷🏻‍♂️
But they are going strong in e-mail land!
The Daily Health Nugget is a simple daily health tip or reminder for people who are too tired to read one more e-mail but have to open the box anyway! They include one simple drawing (usually stick figures because that’s the extent of my artistic ability) and some simple text under the picture for people who can/will read more.
Free to all - you can sign up here:

https://kimakoi.activehosted.com/f/5

Partial nugget sample below. Oh, and trigger warning, there is occasional nudity. Insofar as stick figures can be perceived as naked. 😅

This week, in my office newsletter, I recommended Resmaa Menakem’s powerful book, My Grandmother’s Hands. When I started reading it about a month ago, I thought, wow, this is right in line with what we talk about in NET (Neuro Emotional Texhnique)! Perfect for the next newsletter! But it is so much more than just a “good” or “informative” book. There are tons of body-centered exercises to do which help to heal trauma wounds. Whenever I hear about a shooting, racial violence, etc., I always feel sad, angry or sick about it. But, being in the middle of this book when I heard about the Buffalo shooting, I actually cried. (And I’m not a crier!) I realized that the insights and exercises from this book changed not only my mental perspectives but created new spaces in my body as well. I recommend it to EVERYONE in America and EVERYONE who’s had trauma - which is pretty much, you know, everyone! 😬 All humans carry generational trauma. We can stop passing it down the line if we do the work! Thank you so much to for this treasure! ❤️🙏

Here is a 5-minute meditation video (basic - 5 breaths per minute) that I put together using some videos from my morning Ocean Beach walks!

5 minute meditation: Ocean Beach, San Francisco, dawn This is a 5-minute meditation video, featuring a bell reminder to breathe every 12 seconds (5 breaths per minute). The footage is from my dawn morning walks ...

My book is out! The Kindle version is free today (and tomorrow). Check it out and please leave a kind review if you're so inclined!

The Issues are in the Tissues: Get Comfortable in Your Own Skin and Thrive in Business and in Life The Issues are in the Tissues: Get Comfortable in Your Own Skin and Thrive in Business and in Life

Well, I'm goin' in...

The office(s) will be closed until around September 7 while I recover from top surgery! I will probably still not be able to do any intense manual adjusting (which I rarely do anyway). NET Intensives will resume after Sept 7, and some video consults might be available towards the end of August.
Thanks for all the well-wishes and support!
See you on other other side...

Bonus ! I saw my NET chiro (thanks, !) today in Pacifica and took the opportunity to visit another beach! Caught a couple of towards the end of this video, too. 🌊🏄‍♂️

Thanks, Ace Morgan, for having me on your fitness podcast! :-D
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-dr-kim-makoi-neuro-emotional-technique-net/id1553187470?i=1000509946748

‎Move better, feel great with Ace Morgan: 2: Dr. Kim Makoi, Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Move better, feel great with Ace Morgan, Ep 2: Dr. Kim Makoi, Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) - Feb 19, 2021