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April 2006
People don't destroy the planet - - their
thought process does!
This month's column is by Greg Loman, DC
They say that guns
kill! Some will fight that concept and say that guns do not
have the ability to kill, it's the people who do the killing.
I truly believe that neither kill. It's the thought process
behind the person that kills and destroys.
Twenty-five or so years ago, the state of Florida
water management department started addressing water issues
in southwest Florida. From mid‑state south all water
runs through the everglades into the Gulf of Mexico. God's
plan and nature were working for thousands of years. The
state saw there was a water drainage problem and water quantity
problem in south Florida so they decided to divert water
through developing canals in the everglades. Today, Florida
Bay is becoming extremely salty because not enough fresh
water is draining into the Gulf of Mexico, killing all the
sea life in the Florida Bay.
God knew better and had a superior
plan when nature naturally drained a certain amount of fresh
water in the Gulf. Then humans came along and are now developing
a larger problem by developing canals to control the water.
This ultimately caused unnecessary death because of the wrong
thought process.
Human beings are creating the same effects
with treating problems in the human body. If you develop a
problem, condition, or symptom, the thought process of traditional
medicine immediately begins to destroy you. Medicine immediately
addresses the symptom.
An article in Newsweek magazine (May
19, 2003) pointed out that research showed 10 million American
children suffer chronic or recurrent pain, and medicine is
researching the pain. Just as Florida water management researched
developing the canals, these children are continuing to develop
larger and deadlier problems. We must stop evaluating the symptom.
Dr.
Guttman, a European orthopedic specialist found that 80% of
the children he evaluated in the first two weeks after birth
had nerve interference at the brain stem because of the birth
process. Pressure on your children's nerve system and brainstem
causes malfunction and disease. This is similar to the effect
of altering the water flow in the Everglades ‑‑ it
caused an increase in the salt content because of the lack
of fresh water flow into the Gulf ultimately causing disease
and death to the fish. Chiropractors remove this interference
to allow a child's body to address the cause and heal naturally.
The
same level of thinking can either destroy a practice or catapult
it to levels you've never thought possible.
At times I believe
the biggest reason for the struggling practice is not necessarily
a bad chiropractor or town. One of the biggest reasons is the
process of thinking that's creating action based on an outside-in
process. Many chiropractors figure that they'll practice relief
care to get the practice started. Then, at some future date,
they'll practice the way they've always wanted.
This level of
thinking pushes us into a corner until one day we're so caught
we don't know how to get out. Can you see how this philosophy
has the same effect whether you are dealing with the planet
or the chiropractor?
Before you know it, one day you wake up
and wonder why all the fish are dying in the Gulf of Mexico.
Are
you at a point in practice wondering how you got yourself backed
into your current situation? It happened many years ago with
the thought that you'd only do relief care for a while. The
good news is it can be changed now. Take the time today to
make the decision and get some help. Go find people who are
doing it and ask them to help you.
Remember, we're all on the
same team trying to make this planet a better place. If I can
be of any help please call or e‑mail.
(Dr. Greg Loman
and Dr. Ben Lerner are co‑authors
of chiropractic's first New York Times best‑selling
book, "One Minute Wellness: The Health and Happiness
System That Never Fails." They are founding partners
of Teach the World about Chiropractic.)