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…
With an increase in the attacks on chiropractic globally we are being tested as individuals and as a profession. The money that drives the medical industry is bringing its power to bear on chiropractic as a major competitor for market share. Recently we have seen incessant attacks on the ethics and integrity of chiropractic and of chiropractors. These are personality attacks, which are the lowest form of human intellect. There is little substantiative data behind these campaigns as far as…
This week we learned of Angelina Jolie’s bizarre decision to have both of her breasts surgically removed even though she has no breast cancer, just as a measure of prevention. I guess that makes sense, if she has no breasts she cant ‘get’ breast cancer. The medical viewpoint is that because she carries the BRCA1 gene then she has an 87% chance of getting breast cancer therefore if they remove the breasts they have prevented the disease – chalk another…
As we find ourselves fast approaching the middle of the year, it may be useful to reflect upon the vision for outcomes that you created at the beginning of the year. Let’s ensure that your steps to accomplishment are on track. A vision of possibilities is essential to achievement. Just check that you have defined your vision for this year fully. Many people find it valuable to create a vision board and stick it in a prominent place as a…
Everything is constantly moving. Even inanimate objects aren’t really motionless. They are just vibrating so rapidly they appear to be solid. That’s why it’s important to constantly reassess. Even your practice’s color scheme needs to be reassessed on a regular basis. Nothing stays constant. And fearing change won’t do you any good. It only holds you back from “what’s possible.” It keeps you rigid and promotes inflexibility and ultimately death. Think about this…If you brood about change and hope everything…
Many chiropractors speak of the importance of certainty. The certainty trap is a state of holding on tightly to the trapeze bar that we spoke of last week. This is a state there is zero learning. The paradox is that it is important to hold on to the bar but it is equally important to let go of the bar at the right time and enter the world of uncertainty. And so, transformation of fear may have nothing to do…
Practice and life can feel like a series of high wire trapeze swings. Imagine yourself either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments at a time hurtling through space in between the trapeze bars. Most of the time we are tightly hanging on to our trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. It carries you along at a certain steady rate of swing and you have the feeling that you’re in control of your life. You know most of the…
BJ Palmer described the chiropractic clinical interaction as being of two components. The quantity factor, which addresses interference to the structural and the neuronal components of the subluxation complex and the quality factor, which addresses interference to thinking and emotional factors and therefore the quality of the nerve impulse. It reminds me of the story of a rich man who was dying so he called his three sons and said to them. “I wish to leave my fortune intact, so…
As chiropractors we often think that the people who present at our practice are only after an immediate outcome to their presenting condition and nothing more. The thought is that people want a adjustment for their given malady and they want the care to be effective, short term and affordable. Based on that misunderstanding we focus much of our time and attention on mastering our technical skills, we serve them with the best techniques and most appropriate and effective clinical care…
This week we will consider the fifth factor that will have a significant affect on your results this year. If you explore it and use it wisely you will amplify every goal, resolution and hope that you currently have. We have spoken about the importance of structure and its appropriate alignment. We then explored the importance of movement with flexibility and grace. We then considered deciding on the direction you wished to proceed and eliminating everything that does not support…
