When people go into the weightless environment of space, stress is eliminated to a large degree from their bodies. In this environment, their body has nothing to push against and starts to weaken, muscles start to atrophy and bones start to demineralise. Innate intelligence needs forces, commonly known as tropisms, to grow to. Without opposing forces, we shrivel and die. The avoidance of stress is endemic in our society. We have developed a culture that is hell-bent on reducing risk…
Many chiropractic practices operate in an ad hoc manner. It is a “Do as I say not as I do” environment where everyone makes it up as they go. There is no overall purpose and no purpose broken down to every action. There are few if any written policies, procedures and scripts and the people who work there and worse still, the people who are serviced there just go with the flow and go by their own rules. Practice members…
We live in a moment-by-moment world. People just want their current issues fixed. They want instant results. They are driven in most areas of their life by a short-term perspective. They want to be fixed right now and they won’t worry about it until next time the issue occurs and at that time they will seek the same ‘band aid’ solution. Chiropractors aren’t too dissimilar. They just want to fix a problem with their practice. It may be a team…
As a child I was told not to walk on the wall in case I fell, not to play with knives unless I cut myself, not to eat too much in case I was sick. These and many more avoidance commands came out of love and concern but possibly set me up for risk avoidance. Our life is strengthened by hardship. The knocks, the falls, the mistakes and errors are what make us. It’s the picking ourselves up from ways…
It would seem that a huge quest for people is to have balance. Balance in their life, their home, business, practice, team etc. Much time and energy is spent trying to bring life into balance and yet all too often this quest is not accomplished. Maybe our perception of balance has a missing component to it. I suggest that the thing that gives balance its form is time. We could say in the middle of the night that there is…
This week we will consider the seventh 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 it’s appropriate alignment. We then explored the importance of movement with flexibility and grace. We then considered the importance of deciding on your direction. We addressed the sustenance of body and mind…
This week we will consider the sixth 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 the importance of deciding on your direction. We addressed the sustenance of body and mind…
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…
This week we will consider the fourth 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…
This week we will consider the third 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 whether it is your body, your relationships or your practice or business. We then explored the importance of movement with flexibility and grace – putting structure to the test…
This week we will look at the second factor that will have a significant affect on your results this year. Use it to amplify every goal, resolution and hope that you currently have. This will ensure that you will be in a much stronger position in life by the end of 2014. Once you have your structure aligned, be it you body, your relationships or your practice the next consideration becomes, how do you use the structure? A key to…
In the last few Blogs of 2013 we considered the journey that we took through the year. Now that that is behind us we are in a position to look ahead into 2014 and bring the experience gained into a force for growth and expansion in the upcoming year. My observation of the ‘secret’ of a successful way of being a human and a great chiropractor is quite simple. The following 7 factors (not necessarily in any priority order) are…
