Feeling Fab — Four Steps to Living a Fabulous Life, by Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC, FICA

This 84-page book not only can be an education and encouragement for doctors of chiropractic and their patients, but it positions chiropractic as an integral part of all people’s pursuit of living “a fabulous life.”

More than all of that, however, Mancini has written a compact treatise on how to begin or increase joy in life by taking greater control of:

• Step one: Your thoughts — what you think and what you say out loud to yourself often determines who you are and what you can accomplish;
• Step two: Your health through proper exercise, nutrition, and being aware that the body tends to heal itself if the nervous system is allowed to function through a properly aligned spine;
• Step three: Your relationships by first accepting and loving yourself unconditionally and non-judgmentally, others similarly, and then surrounding yourself with emotionally, mentally, and spiritually healthy people; and
• Step four: Your knowledge that success is being who you are meant to be, which is often discovered and realized when you use your innate talents to pursue goals and service greater than yourself.

“In order to move forward,” Mancini writes, “we must acknowledge the things that are holding us back. For many of us, it’s our lifestyle — the choices, behaviors, actions, and beliefs that define who we are and how we live. Changing something as fundamental and deep seated as how we’ve lived our lives for years can be scary. I’ve learned that you can choose to see that change is good.”

Mancini at age 33 was appointed president of Parker College of Chiropractic, his alma mater. Prior to his appointment, he headed enrollment at Parker, then operated a successful private chiropractic practice in the Dallas area, and served on the Board of Trustees at Parker.

A decade after his appointment as president, he not only established

Parker as one of the preferred chiropractic colleges in the world, but he has gained international fame as a leading advocate of “chiropractic wellness.”

In fact, if you want obtain a greater understanding of what “chiropractic wellness” is, Feeling Fab is an excellent primer.

“This Universal Intelligence that we believe to be greater than ourselves expresses itself within us as innate intelligence,” writes Mancini. “The inner wisdom of the body that took two cells, multiplied them into four cells, then into eight, which then became trillions of cells that make up our body is the same wisdom that allows our bodies to heal from the inside. And instead of looking always for an answer outside ourselves, like medication and surgery, recognize that our innate intelligence has created this incredible body that has everything it needs to be healthy.”

Providing you take care of the body.

A healthy body is our number-one priority, says Mancini. But once you have that going for you, it is necessary to have healthy thinking, healthy emotions, healthy relationships, and a spiritual approach that provides you with inner and outer peace. Only by fulfilling your health potential can you achieve your life potential.

These are mutually supportive goals that reinforce one other.

But you will not be doing this alone, says Mancini. That same Universal Intelligence that has imbued the body with innate intelligence to heal itself also brings mentors, partners, and friends into your life who are there to assist you in obtaining who you are to be and what you are to become.

“I believe that the reason other people are in our lives is to complement and support our mission, talent, and destiny,” he writes.

But to attract these people you have to “choose” to be useful and loving toward others.

Feeling Fab — Four Steps to Living a Fabulous Life is priced at $19.95 and can be obtained at: http://share.parkercc.edu/store/product/6331/Feeling-Fab.

Stanford Erickson is editorial director of Chiropractic Economics magazine.