There are few movies that hit the sweet spot for maximum rewatchability and maximum quoteability with such mass-appealability as “The Princess Bride”

I was watching this with my kids last night for the umpteenth time and it is still enjoyable. My 7 year old can even quote lines from most of the movie. They love the “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… ”

I was reflecting on what is so appealing about this movie. It really is a reflection of real life in a comic storybook setting. There are many little mini-life lessons I pulled from the movie, just for fun. Read… just for fun. I’m making this up as I go along so just enjoy and reflect on life.

Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Count Rugen: Stop saying that!

This is perhaps the most memorable line in the movie.

Why?

He says it over and over again. It is the mastery of repetition. If you want or need to make changes in your life, you need to do them over and over again. Practice. That can be as simple as using the mental theater in your head to making a new, fresh, whole-food meal every week.

My favorite: When someone says “how are you today?” instead of the stock answer “fine”. Say “terrific”. Whether you feel terrific or not. Rehearse that one word and soon your life will be more terrific.

Miracle Max: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

This is a great one. I see this in the office every day. Every patient wants to be better yesterday, few patients have the drive to be patient. Great things come to those who wait. Pure and simple healing takes time.

Probably the greatest “miracles” I’ve seen involving couples who can’t seem to have kids. Amazingly after a few months of chiropractic care and supplement therapies I’ve seen the body come back into enough homeostasis and function to allow the conception to happen.

Seems like a miracle but it really is just healing, happening over time, by getting the nerve interferences out of the way.

Westley: Why won’t my arms move?
Fezzik: You’ve been mostly-dead all day.

Many people have been mostly dead for years. The ones we can’t help are the ones who won’t try any thing new or different. They are amazingly content with pain and suffering. Then there are the ones like Monica who just had never known anything different.

“Dr. Altman saved my life. I am 36 years old and I truly felt that I was dying. I was taking 2-10 ibuprofen a day and a bottle of antacids per week on top of in addition to my prescriptions for asthma and high blood pressure. After my first adjustment I felt like new. I could actually move without being stiff or in pain.” -Monica Spees

If you have any problem, any problem in the world and some one offers to help you, or you seek them out. Listen to them. The may have the answers you need. Take what you can, use what makes sense to you, then leave the rest.

There seems to be a very high number, like 80%, of people who have never been to a chiropractor. I can’t imagine life without it. I feel so amazing after getting adjusted, I think reawakening the nervous system of more people would bring them out of being “mostly dead” all day.

Westley: Give us the gate key.
Yellin: I have no gate key.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Yellin: Oh, you mean *this* gate key.

I have to admit, this is my favorite line in the whole movie. I crack up every time. The fear of loss makes us do stuff. One of the greatest motivators I’ve ever seen is when someones hands are falling asleep and tingling all the time.

The fear of losing the function of your hands is very powerful.

I’ve also noticed for many people. The gate key they have been looking for is either chiropractic adjustments or whole-food supplements. Both combined can unlock health like nothing else. Give me a quick call if you need more info. 801-896-3259

Inigo Montoya: Let’s go.
Fezzik: Where?
Inigo Montoya: Find the man in black obviously.
Fezzik: But don’t you know where he is.
Inigo Montoya: Don’t bother me with trifles.

Health is a journey. You will always be on it. Enjoy it. I’ve done this for 15 years and I still don’t have all the answers. I learn new things about health all the time. When you are stumped, don’t give up. I have heard this too many times.

“I’ve seen this doctor and that doctor and they all told me ____”
“I’ve seen 3 specialists and they all told me ____”

What I think happens is people get discouraged when the “doctor” doesn’t have any answers. Let me tell you, I know some very smart, herbalists, naturopaths, homepaths, massage therapists, and a few other unmentionables that have all helped me over the years with different problems.

Be open minded and the right people may just show up when you need them, or are now ready to listen.

Now enjoy this fun movie once again,
Dr. Altman

What are your favorite lines?

 * Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong. 
* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance. 
* Life is simpler when you plow around  the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. 
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. 
* Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight. 
* Forgive your enemies.  It messes up their heads. 

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. 
* You cannot unsay a cruel word. 

* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. 
* The best  sermons are lived, not preached. 
* Most of the stuff people worry about
ain’t never gonna happen, anyway. 

* Don’t judge folks by their relatives. 
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life.  Then when you get older and
think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time. 
* Don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none. 
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. 
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’. 
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
 * The biggest troublemaker you’ll  ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin’.'  
* Always drink upstream from the herd. 

* Good judgment comes from experience, and
a lotta that comes from bad judgment. 
* Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot
easier than puttin’ it back in. 
* If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence,
try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
* Live simply.  Love generously.  Care deeply.  Speak  kindly.

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