TNR Happenings, September 23, 2024
Mr. Miyagi Training Is On November 9th
Whether you shadow an elite NFL running back, an ultra-successful real estate guy, any business leader, or a healer, you will be exposed to daily activities and events that most people don’t and are not willing to do. These activities set them apart from others and are up to the individual to determine if they’re worth it. It’s always voluntary. Ordinary distractions beckon your attention daily. Most of us have been socially conditioned that a college education was the beginning and end of training. It’s a bold-faced lie that can handicap your healing, economic, and humanitarian abilities. And it does. The actual training starts the day you graduate. Remember, everyone has the same training to get the degree. It’s what you do after you achieve it. Do you sit on it and attend only boring license credit seminars? Do you take superficial online courses or read whatever a bestselling author peddles to the masses?
To be popular with the masses, you have to pretend to give the world of appearance what it wants: results without paying the price of continuing commitment, like one-minute fitness, practice a 20-hour workweek, limiting your scope in practice to superficial cricks and sprains and leave the ‘real’ diseases to the ‘real’ doctors. In the land of disease, health is the disease. In TNR, the training topic is irrelevant; it’s the training needed to get or keep you moving forward. It does not appeal to the masses or the world of the ordinary. This inward spark is only available at certain times in your life, and then it fades not to return. Some readers nod their heads as they’ve witnessed TNR members packing it in as training is too difficult or expensive. After all, nobody will ever know your motivation for saving lives. TNR trainings are not available online or on Zoom. In the world of ordinary, you’ve got money and prestige, and you rest on your laurels. In TNR, there is a burning desire to help people out of circumstances that don’t have answers in the land of the ordinary. This burning desire has to be cultivated, nurtured, fertilized, watered, and weeded. Plan to attend Miyagi on Saturday, November 9th!
Love Has No Color News
At a recent wedding on the Cape, there were a few DCs there, and LHNC touched them all. They all had traveled to the Reservation before they became DCs; they already had the humanitarian vibe installed. One DC came up to me and said, “Hey doc, I just mailed a huge box of shoes to the Reservation. Kenny should get them next week.” Another asked, “What are the dates for this year’s Christmas on the Reservation?” This humanitarian vibe can be seen in their professional lives as well as their personal lives. They are always kind to kids. The best man, a DC, and the groom's twin brother, is also a Miracle Training graduate, and it showed. His toast was insightful and profound. He did not read from the phone or note card, it came straight from the heart.
As part of your new patient workup, why wouldn’t you include LHNC and the years you have been involved? How about a proudly displayed LHNC wall? How about donating 5-10% of a Level 2 in honor of the person to LHNC and giving them a hand-signed certificate? LHNC is not only about being a humanitarian; it also makes business sense. People want to be involved in more than just a professional service.
From the Mind of Miyagi
It was fun watching people at the wedding this past weekend. I saw people who were hyper-vigilant about projecting their masks of how they wanted to be seen by others. Non-confident people asked alcohol to give them the courage to appear confident. This wedding was filled with MDs and nurses, as the groom is an MD. I was behind enemy lines, so to speak, and I loved being a fly on the wall and hearing the stories of hospital life. There were many great stories of helping people mixed in with stories about grievances, the same stories as employees have in the world of ordinary with a generous helping of self-importance.
We sat beside a medical doctor and his wife, a nurse practitioner. They were telling us that one of their kids wants to play hockey, but is a gentle kid. The father described his kid as somewhat wimpy and lacking motivation. They didn’t want to invest time in a sport if their kid didn’t have the passion and perseverance needed. I said the sport is not for everyone since you need to be a bit of a gladiator, there’s lots of traveling, and it’s expensive
I am convinced that if this deep, internal ingredient of grit, perseverance, and the willingness to soar above being average doesn’t develop in one’s childhood, excellence of any kind will not be forthcoming in adulthood. The great thing is that the person won’t miss it because they were never exposed to it. Everything in the world is slanted toward giving you an approximation of the experience, a virtual experience, with all the risk and danger carefully removed. Helicopter mothers insist on having play dates and arranging friends instead of letting the kids make their own friends. My son just moved into his new house, and he has a fitness workout mirror, a computer-generated, virtual workout assistant. He wants me to come over and work out. Is this like riding a stationary bike, and the computer pretends you are in Kenya? This would be okay if I never experienced a live trainer like our family friend, Tim Sharpe: the smell of a functional gym, no chrome, the feeling that nobody would do this, the banter, the smile of satisfaction on his face when you crushed it, and the look of disappointment when you didn’t leave it all on the floor. I get it: fewer injuries, less risk, etc. Like all digital experiences, it approximates; it’s not real.
I see this in our offices all the time. The once-in-a-lifetime experience of being seen as a master or a doctor or excellence has been traded for insurance billing, compliance, and staying in the warm, limiting confines of the kiddie pool instead of being in the 200-fathoms deep, shark-infested, frigid waters. Is your office being compared or confused with an ordinary office? You are the only one who can stand up and protect your office from expectations you can’t meet. Patients will have to pay and commit in exchange for moving toward health. One experience is totally forgettable and the other is memorable for the rest of their life. Computers are great for some things and are here to stay, but they are totally useless for sacred experiences. Ignore this at your own peril!
Miracle Training
We recently received magnetic placards for MT graduate Chris (the handy handyman) to put on his truck. He is a shining example of a kid counted out by society. 26 medical professionals convinced his parents that his life was lost. I wonder how his results would have been if we gazed at a computer with glazed-over eyes each day instead of grinding it out day after day, reading, journaling, and doing the dirty work of looking deep inside. All his other previous activities paled compared to the new road he was introduced to: freedom, independence, humanitarianism, and economics. He knows the value of relationships, retention, referral, and results. His results are founded on developing the inside first and accepting the truth, even if it hurts. No substitutes, imitations, drugs, chemo, amputation, or radiation are required.
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