In this series of blogs I am tracking on one person who came to see me recently. I want to point out the lessons that he has brought to me.
Today’s lesson sums up the lessons that Bill has brought to me.
To recap on the last blog – Bill’s lesson for me is in the importance of being present. It’s in applying our art with impeccable standards and precision. It’s about listening. It’s about the subtle art of removing the qualitative ‘subluxations’ in both ourselves and the person who brings us the lesson – innate to innate and educated to educated.
Bill has continued through his regenerative care with the only clinical interventions being chiropractic adjustments. This man who drives a rubbish truck and had resigned his life to one of isolation and mediocrity first came in what seems like a lifetime ago to get his back “cracked”. Since that day he has been on the chiropractic journey that has resulted in significant changes in his body’s structure and resultant function.
His physical changes came first and they were way beyond the limited expectations of his initial request of pain relief. He then noticed mental and emotional shifts. The lesson for me here was strong. The lesson of paying attention to the science of chiropractic and giving a person adequate care so that they have time for the changes to show through.
He made new decisions about his house and external environment and got to clean it up. He is now focussing on improving his internal environment and stated recently that he is on a mission to learn how to eat better and get his pot belly under control. This now means that he will have to learn how to cook other than just frying all his food or resorting to the takeaway shop.
The fourth lesson that Bill has brought to me is this. He said to me that now he has got a house that he is proud of he wants to share it with others. He admitted that he has been living his life as a recluse and now he wants to socialise and was planning on having some friends around for dinner that weekend. The impact of this is profound. When you ‘connect the dots’ and see the relationship between a well functioning brain, spine and nerve system and the social and political fabric of a person’s life the ramifications for society are huge.
How would it be if all newborn children, all school children, all prisoners, all teachers, politicians, mums and dads – in fact every person, has access to having their spines checked?
I contend that Bill is like so many of them out there in the jungles of the world just waiting for the message from a talented dedicated carer like you.
And, you know, the paradox of this is that its not about changing people – every person is complete and whole just as they are. It’s not about changing the world – the world is perfect just the way it is (as bizarre as that may seem).
We must champion man’s rational and logical faculties of reason. Chiropractic is not rocket science. It is simple and yet profound. We must speak with out fear or favour to audiences globally so that good people like Bill can assume the life that is waiting for them.
