TNR Happenings February 17, 2020

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Sacred Relationship Experience

It’s just over a month away. I have had lots of queries about spouses. There are always exceptions, but as a rule, if your spouse has never attended a TNR event, this may not be the best scenario to introduce spouses to TNR. It’s intense, it's not meant to have you feel comfortable, and you need a large measure of emotional maturity and mental toughness to gain the wisdom of the Sacred Relationship Experience. If you have any questions, ask me. If you are not sure, come stag. If it’s offered in the future, they can attend at that time. Your whole family, as well as your practice, will benefit from your attendance.

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Practice tip of the week

Reduce the amount of medical footprint in your office to zero. Get rid of your blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, pinwheels, percussion hammers, etc. You are not a medical doctor or a nurse. Look at your posters: do they portray a vitalistic theme or are they still talking about pain and the tip of the iceberg? If you don’t have great posters, I still have paper posters that you can mat and frame. In years past, we called these framed posters Talking Walls. We would rotate concepts that you would have at your Health Awareness Seminar. Each concept would be reinforced on a daily basis, like the concentric circles and Baseline Assessment today. Reducing my medical footprint was painful for me (like I was losing a piece of myself), as it will be for you. Being a specialist is a choice, not a sacrifice. You will notice your ego coming up with all kinds of rationalizations for having this equipment around your office. Make a clean break and be done with it.

 

From the Mind of Miyagi

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Whenever you venture into the unknown and attempt to do something, you stand the risk of being EXPOSED! From marriage to parenting, relationships, and practice, the results will speak for themselves. Thinking you can do something is different than actually doing it. Staying stuck when you’re exposed announces your shadow and your inability to do anything about it. Seeing a rink in a neighbor’s front yard in complete disarray sparked me to write the attached article. Don’t be seduced by the societal programming of more technology or more bureaucratic meetings are needed, more know-how is needed.

 

  Why this guy can’t have a skating rink in his backyard.

 

My neighbor has been diligently attempting to have a skating rink for his kid for 6 weeks and counting. He built the wood frame, added a plastic liner and thought he was good to go…WRONG! He added way too much water, it didn’t freeze, it then leaked, the wind blew the liner, the whole thing is unlevel, and even though 2 neighbor kids have rinks on the same street, this rink remains in a state of disrepair.

 

I was walking Hachi, the wonder dog, and I could see by the look on the father and his disappointed son that they were stuck, so I offered to help. He said he had watched several YouTube videos and thought he knew how to do it. The actual experience proved him wrong. As a kid and now as an adult, I know ice. I know how to flood it to make a clean new surface and I know factors like wind and temperature, when you can skate, and when it’s not safe. He thought he could do something and it backfired.

 

I think a lot of Chiropractors are in the same position. They went to school to learn how to be a doctor to adjust and diagnose, but the actual practice of Chiropractic has proved to be totally different than what you went to school for. My neighbor has let his rink just sit there with no ice for 6 weeks. He has agreed to be stuck. I had it up and running within a few days. It was easy for me but impossible for him. If you could have seen the look on the kid’s face when he was skating on it. I see the same face on a DC when they realize that practice isn’t mysterious, rather, it’s the skills necessary that weren’t taught to you. If this is the time to get unstuck in your practice and your life, click or call me. As good as I am with ice and hockey, I’m better at building practices.

 

Love Has No Color News

The dates have been announced for this year's Boot Camp/Fun Days: August 6th to the 8th. It’s not too early to send out invites and post flyers in your office and on your website. Yes, I’m being serious! Invite your VIP people who refer, bring in their families, etc. Know that not all of your people will be up for the action, but some will. Brother and sisters should also be in the mix. So many families are looking for experiences like we have on the Reservation to teach their kids. We want to do more building and community service in addition to the Fun Days in Wolf Point and Poplar. It makes a lifetime effect on people if they are there for the right reasons. We are shooting for the largest group this year and we need all of your help.

 

DCME confidential

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There is a reason that DCMEs are so emotionally charged and difficult: they are not about aches and pains. They are usually life and death and the consequences of your care will be exposed front and center. If you’re brutally honest with yourself, the average DC doesn’t get exposed like this ever. For them, the worst-case scenario is that the pain for the adult under care doesn’t go away. They have lots of Plan Bs and they simply leave your office and go somewhere else for some short-term therapy or care. In our society, there are very low expectations and correspondingly low valuation for a pain model DC. Not so with DCMEs as they have no place to go and take much time, expertise, and mental toughness; and when things don’t turn out as expected, you must be able to somehow move on.

 

Please remember that even in TNR, DCMEs are not for everyone, just like the Health Awareness Seminar is not for everyone. The skill level and the Navy Seal mindset are not something that all DCs either want or are willing to acquire. But it goes both ways. If you don’t currently possess the DCME skills and a DCME walks through your door, you have a humanitarian duty to not accept their case and just see what happens. It takes absolute conviction and certainty when you are dealing with life and death cases. There are a few offices in TNR that are doing the heavy lifting of DCMEs and would welcome the cases. DCME offices are used to people flying in and staying at hotels to receive care.

Canadian visitors!

We had a few visitors from Canada on Friday! Thanks for coming by Laura, Tess, and Sandra!

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