Following on from last week’s post it may be useful to consider the process of toughening up.
As caring, sharing healers chiropractors have a preference, in the main to be supportive and nurturing. These qualities are what set chiropractors up for success in their clinical field and get great results for their practice members. There are times, however when this style is counter-productive and it is appropriate to adopt a different style.
Quantum physics states that for every positron there is an electron, and if there is a change in one, there will be a change in the other, wherever they are, relative to each other, in the universe. This is Newton’s third law. All opposites are generated simultaneously, so any attempt to isolate them, or to deny the existence of one without the other is futile. Your attraction to one concept will be in exact proportion to your repulsion to the opposite. Without one, the other would cease to exist.
This phenomenon often exists when we hold a certain part of ourselves back and ignore certain other parts. Let’s take improving prospective and existing client and public perceptions of you and your profession. Maybe you need to get more ‘mongrel’ in your approach. If your preference for the supportive approach is too great there will be a tendency to play out ‘Dr Nice Guy/Gal’. This is not the sum total of who you are and maybe it would be useful to bring out the ‘dark side’ – that part that doesn’t often get to see the light of day.
To effectively deal with all situations that our life and our professional endeavours throw our way we must draw on all of our faculties. This is where sometimes its useful to ‘let the mongrel come out’. Where are you standing by and watching harm being done? Where are you standing by and tolerating aberrant behaviour in your team or clients? Where are you allowing you or your profession to be bullied by outside forces?
Its been said that more harm is done in the world by good men and women standing by and doing nothing. When you tolerate aberrant behaviour you are supporting it and when you support something that is against your values a little piece of your spirit dies.
Wake up your spirit and bring out the mongrel.
