TNR Happenings April 29, 2019
Dr. Kevin returns from the reservation!
We got our marching orders for Boot Camp/Fun Day 2019. We are going to be building another Geodesic Growing Dome Greenhouse in Frazier; collecting high quality, non-perishable food and household supplies for 1,000 families; collecting tee shirts, socks, and underwear; and handing out 800 backpacks stuffed with school supplies! We will be going door to door in two communities to deliver some of the groceries. Chiropractic adjustments, Naturopathic care, and massage will be provided for all the kids and adults at the two Fun Days. Kenny is thinking of having a mechanical bull there this year. He also wants Super Soaker Pods with giant squirt guns to cool off the kids. The store near the Chiropractic clinic is going to open just for us for all of your souvenir and guest gifts (VIP practice members, spouse, family, CAs, etc.) Shopping hint: if you see something, grab it, as our group will buy out the store this year. There will be other community service opportunities as well! Make your arrangements now to make the celebration and bring lots of guests.
Mr. Miyagi Seminar on May 17th & 18th
There are lots of surprises in store this time. You will remember the Friday night activity for the rest of your life. And you will be getting wet! Saturday will not only feature hands-on demonstrations for all participants but even more important is the reinforcement of your abilities and having more tools in your tool belt. DCs outside of TNR don’t see difficult cases and kids. They don’t want to, they are intimidated to push their comfort zone, and, as long as they can make a living out of adult pain relief, they are not going to change. Miyagi is a voluntary declaration that the next person (and every person after that) is worth nothing short of your best effort. Isn’t that the reason you joined TNR? Since when does parenting stop after the birth of your child or marriage after the ceremony? You know, just put it on autopilot. Without a constant and continual input and upgrade of your abilities and beliefs, you will end up conforming to what society (social order) mandates a DC is good for. The Head-to-Head date on the Friday before the seminar is taken but the Sunday date is still open for a Head-to-Head. Remember, first come, first served. It can only be reserved by paying for your Head-to-Head in addition to Miyagi.
Practice tip of the week
Stop speaking the superficial language, you know the language that all people speak with strangers and friends alike. It’s transparent and doesn’t mean anything. It involves lots of words with zero meaning. It’s like the internet: lots of problems, but very little real solutions. Or like more medicines, with less health. When you meet that person in the grocery store, you immediately begin to speak the language of social order: no content, no meaning, and it's not memorable. A few years back, a doctor in the program was offered an associate position in another female doctor’s office. She signed the contract and moved to the area. When she arrived, the doctor told her she had changed her mind. She was devastated and heartbroken. Then a couple of years later she was coming to a Miyagi seminar. Who did she meet on the plane from the West Coast? The reneging and deceitful doctor. When the older doctor saw the younger doctor, she said, “Oh, I was just thinking about you”.
Social order language is like an elevator speech. Amateur communicators attempt to sell this to unsuspecting DCs who actually think that memorizing a script will help with their practice. Did anybody see Adam Lambert of American Idol fame mentor the young finalists on American Idol? He has really grown as a pro in a few short years. He currently has a solo career and fronts the iconic band Queen ("We will rock you", "We are the champions", "Crazy little thing called love", etc). He didn’t work on the finalist's voices, only their non-verbal communication, stage presence, and body language. Chit chatting with practice members comes from MDs and DDS. Don’t make the same mistakes. You don’t want to model your practice after a business model that routinely puts profit ahead of what’s best for people.
From the Mind of Miyagi
A moment of silence for a dear departed friend of mine…my flat adjustment table.
We gave it to our kids when they opened their practice and now its race is run. Dr. Cliff sent this picture to me this morning after it broke. I couldn’t help thinking about ALL THE PEOPLE that have been adjusted on that table. It may be burned (sending it off to the spirit world) during Friday evening’s secret activity. Because of this table, there are a lot of people who are walking around with increased resonation, less compromised nerve systems, more compassion, more kindness, and less violence. There’s no way to measure how many are. Just like the Reservation measures the suicide rate, but how about the kids that didn’t take their lives? There's no way to measure that.
If you’ve been in TNR for a while, how are your statistics? If you are stubbornly committed to only adult, symptomatic care, you won’t be affecting humanity. Don’t kid yourself. People will put you in a pile with all other providers that measure their worth and income by assuaging adult pain and symptoms. What about TNR style DCs that continue to see people long after their pain leaves? We don’t see people after their pain leaves to keep the pain away, although it helps with that. We continue to remove layers of accumulated injury so they can express their true potential. Seeing a person for 100, 200, or even more adjustments not only helps them become healthier, but it also raises their consciousness, as David Hawkins writes about in Power vs. Force. With higher consciousness levels, violence, rape, drug addiction, and oppression all go down. This is not an opinion, it's a fact. This is the link of healthier people, healthier planet. By just removing pain, you enable dangerous people to continue on their diabolical paths. With higher levels of consciousness, the interconnectedness between all people occurs and you see yourself helping people get there instead of merely removing symptoms. Can you now see why you’re worth 3,5,10x a symptom-relieving only DC?
Love Has No Color news…it’s fundraising time!
It’s that time of year! You will get direct feedback about the type of office you have: a TNR community style office or an office that is more of a commodity, where people go to for symptom relief only. People who join a community of people striving to be healthy are far more active and generous. They love becoming involved, year after year, with Love Has No Color. Show them the Love Has No Color photo books of LHNC. Have a laptop set up with the savethereservation.org website up and running so they can make donations. Make it easy. But don’t forget that you have to walk people through the process or they will never get around to it. Also, be on the lookout for big fish. These are people or businesses that you know either personally or professionally that need to donate money for tax purposes. We were able to help 400 families this past Christmas on the Reservation with big fish donors from a few TNR offices. Let your kids get involved in school with fundraising. The three kids from one of our families from Michigan donate their money from lawn mowing and odd jobs in zip lock bags every year. They also make the trip to the Reservation for Boot Camp/Fun Days every year.
DCME confidential
Question 1: I am fairly new to the DCME arena. I have practiced mostly symptomatic care for adults and find the switch to children and difficult cases very difficult. My question is, there has to be a limit on which diseases respond to Chiropractic, doesn’t there?
Answer: The mere fact that you are changing your beliefs about your abilities and who to serve means you are literally answering your own question. If you had never been introduced to TNR, you would still believe that Chiropractic is only for adult, symptomatic care. Outward appearances would seem to lean toward only musculoskeletal issues, visceral problems usually take much more time and concerted effort.
Question 2: I have an 8-year old male with severe mental and emotional issues. There are more checkmarks on the Baseline Assessment than any other practice member to this point. This kid isn’t letting me in, what gives?
Answer: Kids in this ballpark play by different rules. They have already stymied parents, teachers, etc., so why not you? You must establish a relationship of trust. Without it, you’re just another specialist in the long list of specialists this kid has visited. With no relationship, they won’t stay in your office. Are you guiding this little guy through the 21-Day DCME Video Program? You have to enter his world and understand him before he will trust you.
21-Day DCME Video Program
I spoke with Kenny Smoker about implementing the 21-Day DCME Video Program on the Reservation with at-risk teens and young adults. This is the first time anything like this has found its way on a Reservation. It’s historic. Also, a neighboring tribe was speaking to Kenny and picking his brain about his program and he talked about Chiropractic and children as he answered one of the questions. It’s one of the hidden keys to our program that is responsible for such great results. Dr. Megan was sitting at the meeting table and she echoed his explanation. Every other Reservation has DCs on or near them, but not full-time DCs in the school system trained by TNR. It’s the difference that makes the difference.
