Do people see us as the healer or do they see the innate intelligence of the body as the healer? If we view the innate intelligence of the body in the same way we view ourselves we will never make the distinction or develop the distinction of what we do. Do they see us as getting them well or the wisdom of their body as getting them well? Do they refer people to us because of us or do they refer people to us because we give the credit to the innate intelligence of the body? Do they see the healer in us or the healer in them? Do they recognize us and our hands as making the difference in their life and well-being or do they recognize the God-created principle of life that has made a difference?
Perhaps the problem with us is us. We want the credit, we want the praise and we want the honor and glory. It is only when we can manage to get out of the way, when we can direct their focus on the inborn wisdom of their body that we can build the practice. Because it is not our practice. It is the innate intelligence's practice. That is our WALV.
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great post as usual... please tell us, what is "WALV"?
ReplyDeleteWorld and life viewpoint. I also agree, a great post Joe!
ReplyDeleteReggie used to say: "I don't have an innate intelligence.... innate intelligence has me!" Now, the truth is that we swim in a soup of intelligence. We, as OSC, recognize that and we tell that story over and over and over and over again.... unabashedly. This WALV allows us the freedom to reject "as-it-is" in favor of "what-innate intelligence's-wisdom-can-make-it".
ReplyDeleteTo understand the 33 principles means to cross and transcend boundaries. Because of the deductive reasoning of the 33 principles of chiropractic, we realistically can have a passion for the unlimited potentiality of the possible.
The principle of innate intelligence reveals the true meaning of heath: Proper function regained. This principle IS coordination here and now---created, offered and invited into by the triune of life. The innate intelligence of the body is a striving principle not to some pre-existent place, but is defining itself in the longing of every human being to be whole, a real sharing in the principle of life.
We should not just promote some kind of healing or wellness but the innate intelligence of the body, an utterly NEW way, a possibility of transformation of the individual and the world that is promised as the final chapter of all history.
That's why a OSC has to be an optimist.
Amazing isn't it?
Parker, that is Jim Parker for you young folks, used to put it well when he said " if you accept no credit ( for the healing) then you also accept no blame ( when healing doesn't occur). In the days when TSC was considered the ultimate straight, most DC's puffed and strutted when the patient got well, but lapsed into an explanation of the "limitations of matter" when the patient didn't get well or relapsed. The patient usually saw through the BS, quit coming, was was assigned to a shortened life of chronic Vertebral Subluxation. Come to think of it, aren't todays TSC's still doing that???
ReplyDeleteFYI: WALV is Joe's shorthand for "world and life viewpoint." : )
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