TNR Happenings, February 3, 2025
Tao of TNR Is On March 15th
Have you ever wondered how doctors with the same Chiropractic degree can be miles apart in their levels of achievement, clinical effectiveness, economics, and connectedness to the people they serve? I coach people with seven figures of difference in income than others with the same degree. There must be intrinsic factors in play. Maybe it all started on the playground. Some kids like to play in games with others and are very self-conscious about how they play, what they say, and how they look: they are attempting to fit in (their future will include working for people). Then, some kids seem to be the troublemakers. They will not readily join in and are seen as threatening conformity and order. Even the teachers join in and become unpaid advocates of social order, agendas, morality, what’s important, etc. These other kids always seem to be in trouble. The trouble is that they don’t adopt nor respect the social values being foisted upon unwitting kids. Most, with time and repetition, get worn down, join the human race, and will work for people. They lose their way. They cut their hair, so to speak. As a result, they become bored, lose their sense of adventure, and become skeptics and cynics. Nobody will care if they play by the rules their whole lives and end up holding the bag. They will stand for nothing and give free advice to their kids on how to continue this cycle of misery. These dropouts from society are the innovators in every arena who push the envelope of what can be done. Who would drop out of Harvard to tinker with some gizmo (Apple computer/Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak)? Can you imagine all the well-intentioned advice they received from their family and friends? My mother attempted to influence me to take up computer science!
This is the resistance you will experience when you move away from insurance and industry norms: playing the game of diagnosis, insurance coverage, $50 per adjustment. Realtors (when we started, we were refused a rental place because we were not the right type of doctor), practice members, family, and friends who know nothing about what you do will all chime in. Isn’t this why social media was created: to have non-capable people chiming in about things they only think they know about? Constant and continual TNR training is the only way to avoid participating in this minefield. Everyone will tell you to return to the supposed security, safety, and comfort of the playgroup and stop this nonsense about having an ultra-successful practice your way. Discounted tickets are available until February 28. Only one Head-to-Head date remains for that weekend.
Love Has No Color News
If you have been with us for a while, you can see the parallels between Native Americans and Indigenous people throughout the world and in the world of medical regulation. Not only were the original Americans overpowered, but their land and natural resources were plundered, and their culture and traditions were outlawed. Imagine telling an Italian that they can’t eat spaghetti and meatballs. Can you imagine having your kids forcefully taken away from you and placed in Indian Boarding Schools? They were forced to cut their hair and were punished if their native tongue was spoken. The survival rate in these boarding schools, in some instances, was as alarming as German concentration camps in WW2. This is called genocide.
If you are a DC, an ND, or any other type of healer, you are under regulations that ensure you know your place. You must pledge allegiance to real doctors, bureaucracy, paperwork, subservience, and conformity. You will face fierce sanctions if you are a midwife and not affiliated with a hospital. We saw this with covid: the government was not concerned about the effectiveness of anything not sanctioned by the King and Queen/President/PM/drug companies/patents/etc.
There is a reason Love Has No Color was started. It’s about recognizing how people right here in the US were treated. We can’t go back, apologize, or say sorry, but we can and have lent a helping hand. Sweeping scandals, genocides, and re-writing history (woke) are methodologies that compound the severity of the wound, not heal it. Many authors (ex., Maryann Williamson) and scholars have called the ‘Indian Problem’ one of America’s deepest scars. Love Has No Color is about not forgetting something that has not been recognized or healed.
From the Mind of Miyagi
Living in the Problem
When you joined TNR, you wanted to ‘gain’ or ‘lose’ some of your reality. Maybe it was for more money and more new patients. Maybe you are painfully introverted or shy. Perhaps you don’t know squat about business. Maybe you have no confrontational tolerance skills. Speaking to strangers terrifies you. The list goes on and on. Everything you have been exposed to since birth has taught you to focus on the problem, not the solution: classify the problem, grade the problem, talk about the issue, etc. When someone says they are sick or suffering, 100% of people ask about the diagnosis as if a classification of the PROBLEM gives social approval to be diseased. In the world of sickness, it does!
We are a problem-based society, not a solution-based one, regardless of your thoughts. We react to problems with endless enthusiasm and a morbid fascination. From war to disease, we offer violence to the issues we can’t solve. Amputating and destroying the body with chemicals and radiation are not solutions. Jailing people does not help people, regardless of what politicians speak about, with their fingers crossed. It’s the best this type of thinking can produce (problems), but when you are living in the paradigm, it promotes the problem. Being against disease or war instead of being for health and peace does exactly what you don’t want.
Change is always most demanding because of how we were brought up. Problems are the focus, not solutions. To create solutions, you have to give up that part of you that believes in the problem. This is almost impossible for most. It goes back to the playground and following the rules of the culture or society you hail from. In my childhood, to be accepted, you had to smoke like everybody else. For whatever reason, I have never smoked. I have a brother and sister who smoked, and both are dead now. Not from lung disease but other forms of cancer. How can a person be pressured into participating in their death? That’s the power of beliefs.
When you agree to the problem, the solution is not within your grasp. At every TNR training or Head-to-Head, there comes a turning point where you must let go of the story or narrative (the problem and explanation) and re-write a new chapter in your life called the solution. The masses will never entertain this possibility and are willing to die or drown in the problem. Some people have the ability to adapt, and others will live with the problem for their entire lives.
Miracle Training
Dovetailing off the previous article, how a person is wired has more to do with their survival than the treatment methods. This has been proven time and time again. Say you have twins with the same illness that happens to be terminal. The ability of the person to become honest and look outside of their problem instead of being swept away with fear, terror, and acceptance of the problem favors survival. It’s an inner job, a wiring that flies in the face of social convention. Passivity, accepting what experts or the internet experts have to say, can prove deadly. Conversely, joining a disease support group (fighting against) can also turn against you. As always, blending, a somewhat arcane term, is the difference between life and death: neither accepting nor fighting against.
Although not always apparent at first blush, people who survive have a depth or character that sometimes they don’t even know. Superstars are created by recognizing and mining out this talent that others don’t have the skill or ability to do. Some of the most unsuspecting people have graduated MT and survived when others with more pedigree succumbed. I remember asking the parents of a young man if they saw his genius. They looked at me blankly as if I had lost my mind. Most people want to be rescued, fixed, or operated on to return to their crappy lives. Wisdom suggests that you don’t want to return to the conditions that contributed to your current condition. Instead, there needs to be a death of the narrative of the problems and a rebirth of a narrative of a solution. You can’t live in the problem and be part of the solution.
DCME Confidential
Question 1: My DCME constantly says they feel worse after their treatment. It feels almost like a personal assault. Is it?
Answer: This is most likely a projection. Have you mistakenly switched techniques to a lower force to appease her? You have not made a solid relationship; this is like a baby asking the mother who is putting her to bed to check under the bed or in the closet for monsters or a sippy cup. She enjoys having you on a string. Just so you know, this is not on you; she may not want to get well.
Question 1: My DCME has been late with her final payment for two weeks. What should I do?
Answer: Sit down with her immediately. If she doesn’t pay, move on. This sounds cruel, but after you gain more experience, you will see the wisdom, too.
Marley
