Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Now Boarding Flight 97 for Denver International Airport
About a month ago, Dr. Danny Knowles contacted me and asked me to speak at your monthly philosophy meeting. We spoke about what you needed from me. It was decided that I would discuss the paradoxes and double binds within chiropractic
philosophy. Over the past few weeks, I've shared my views on subluxation, the mental impulse, autosuggestion and a host of other *sticky* issues that no one in or around chiropractic clarifies to my satisfaction...
It's been disappointing to not have the opportunity to exchange with CCWA members on e-mail prior to our meeting. Seems your needs are already met.
So I'll be there to present my truth to you on THURS as advertised. The past few weeks have seen Sherman, Life and Palmer all go deeper into the abyss as the political, academic and economic corruption within the profession slowly but surely
drag the name of chiropractic into manual medicine. I'm not showing up in CO to praise chiropractic. I won't bury it either. What I will do is take you past your comfort zone and burst the bubble that is the "subluxation-based community". It's time to throw away the sheet music and jam. Bring your angst. Bring your passion. Why?
It's later than you think, MRF 02.25
PS: As has been my custom, here's another book that found it's way to my shelf.
THE OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE BRAIN:Everyday Applications from Mind/Brain Research. 2nd Ed.
If you click around, it's actually neat site as well
Center for Applied Cognitive Studies
About a month ago, Dr. Danny Knowles contacted me and asked me to speak at your monthly philosophy meeting. We spoke about what you needed from me. It was decided that I would discuss the paradoxes and double binds within chiropractic
philosophy. Over the past few weeks, I've shared my views on subluxation, the mental impulse, autosuggestion and a host of other *sticky* issues that no one in or around chiropractic clarifies to my satisfaction...
It's been disappointing to not have the opportunity to exchange with CCWA members on e-mail prior to our meeting. Seems your needs are already met.
So I'll be there to present my truth to you on THURS as advertised. The past few weeks have seen Sherman, Life and Palmer all go deeper into the abyss as the political, academic and economic corruption within the profession slowly but surely
drag the name of chiropractic into manual medicine. I'm not showing up in CO to praise chiropractic. I won't bury it either. What I will do is take you past your comfort zone and burst the bubble that is the "subluxation-based community". It's time to throw away the sheet music and jam. Bring your angst. Bring your passion. Why?
It's later than you think, MRF 02.25
PS: As has been my custom, here's another book that found it's way to my shelf.
THE OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE BRAIN:Everyday Applications from Mind/Brain Research. 2nd Ed.
If you click around, it's actually neat site as well
Center for Applied Cognitive Studies
Friday, February 20, 2004
RTFM!
Chiropractors don't have a Merck Manual to document the diseases they treat. They don't have a PDR to document the side effects (compensatory reactions?) to the drugs they use. They don't have a DSM IV to describe the mental illnesses they diagnose. They DO spend plenty of time trying to crack the CPT Codes and the equally fabulous ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes to squeeze the 3rd party dollar more.
I do a lot of work with PC- techies and when something goes wrong, beyond rebooting the damn thing, they ask me if I've read the manual. When I proudly say
no, I just kinda feel my way around the system, they yell at me to RTFM, which means "Read the F-ing Manual" and stop bothering them. Chiropractic lacks that out.
I'd love to tell my patients to RTFM sometimes. But I can't. I am tech support for them as they "feel their way around the system", whether that's their nervous system or their school-immunization system or their belief system. If we can't hand them a manual, can't we at least draw them a map? The Rand McNally Map of Human Intelligence, Behavior and Development, 1927-2004. People crave abstract structure.
They want to be able to see in 2D more they want to feel it in 3D. A map of the territory is needed if chiropractic wants to be seen in a greater context. Picture time:
History of Influences in the Development of Intelligence Theory and Testing
History of the Brain
3D Brain Anatomy
Creating a Roadmap to the Brain
Model of Human Information System
My point here is that EVERYONE has a map. Chiropractic needs to show people the value of it's offerings by demonstrating that the phenomena were are studying has an impact on a human being both in the moment and as they grow and develop...
...or we just need to be spine plumbers and be OK with that!
Your call, MRF 02.20
Chiropractors don't have a Merck Manual to document the diseases they treat. They don't have a PDR to document the side effects (compensatory reactions?) to the drugs they use. They don't have a DSM IV to describe the mental illnesses they diagnose. They DO spend plenty of time trying to crack the CPT Codes and the equally fabulous ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes to squeeze the 3rd party dollar more.
I do a lot of work with PC- techies and when something goes wrong, beyond rebooting the damn thing, they ask me if I've read the manual. When I proudly say
no, I just kinda feel my way around the system, they yell at me to RTFM, which means "Read the F-ing Manual" and stop bothering them. Chiropractic lacks that out.
I'd love to tell my patients to RTFM sometimes. But I can't. I am tech support for them as they "feel their way around the system", whether that's their nervous system or their school-immunization system or their belief system. If we can't hand them a manual, can't we at least draw them a map? The Rand McNally Map of Human Intelligence, Behavior and Development, 1927-2004. People crave abstract structure.
They want to be able to see in 2D more they want to feel it in 3D. A map of the territory is needed if chiropractic wants to be seen in a greater context. Picture time:
History of Influences in the Development of Intelligence Theory and Testing
History of the Brain
3D Brain Anatomy
Creating a Roadmap to the Brain
Model of Human Information System
My point here is that EVERYONE has a map. Chiropractic needs to show people the value of it's offerings by demonstrating that the phenomena were are studying has an impact on a human being both in the moment and as they grow and develop...
...or we just need to be spine plumbers and be OK with that!
Your call, MRF 02.20
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
The 25 Words or Less Test
Chiropractic gets described in sound bytes that mimic movie review quotes. Because it is such a personal experience, what chiropractic "is" to the world depends on who the chiropractor "is" to the person they adjust. My aim is to portray chiropractic more and more in that experiential light and stop trying to de-personalize it. If you read Stephenson, to paraphrase him - In Chiropractic, a clinic is a doctor alone with his/her patient, the reasoning of both being used together. - That's unique folks!
Let me make a clear distinction between the profession and the discipline of chiropractic (which can get muddled very easily). The profession consists of the
people practicing the discipline. The discipline consists of the art, science and philosophy the profession employs. So when someone asks you what chiropractic "is", they don't want the discipline answer. That's the rehearsed, academic reply. It gets re-worded every generation or so, but by and large, it's threaded back to DD Palmer and Harvey Lilliard on the 2nd Floor of an office on Brady Street...yada...yada...yada...
That aside, people bond with a professional, not the discipline. What the chiropractic profession "is" at the moment, consists of the sum total of how m>disciplined each practitioner "is" when they are alone with their patients. That's why subluxation is such a flawed way to define chiropractic...
Take the 25-word test now: Tell me what chiropractic is - tell me what it is an experience, as a cornerstone in someone's life, as a community service. If you
find yourself talking about deductive science and vitalism, stop and shut up now.
If you're not on a chiropractic campus or recruiting for one, that bromide is useless.
And please don't recite the tried and true "detect and correct" jive. It's just so over.
Let me take a stab at this for you....
"Chiropractic offers an individual an embodied awareness, appreciation and application of the spectrum of intelligence that allows them to spontaneously express life in the moment."
That's 25 on the nose. Now if you say THAT when a congressman in Colorado challenges your scope of practice, they'd look foolish. All of a sudden chiropractic is a human performance experience. It raises awareness so it has educational aspects. It provides applications, so it has practical attributes. Finally, it offers an appreciation for the healing process, which is so richly rewarded in the recovery community, a place where spiritual well-being is actually emphasized and not hidden in shame.
If the skeptical NMS-oriented chiropractor says my 25 words are all fluff, I can respond in kind and ask them for their 25 words. Somewhere between all the talk about joint dysfunction and low back pain, I ask, but doc, what are you offering?
When the day's over, you are making an offer to people, no different than the grocer or the local barber. I'm offering an embodied awareness, appreciation and application of the spectrum of intelligence that brings them to life pal...what are you offering? Relief? They have 24/7 drugs on tap. Correction? According to whom? What I'm saying is that the NMS-chiropractor creates no opportunity for the people who receive or deliver the care to connect. My definition is not bound to the spine, the body or the adjustment. It's defined by the link I'm making between what chiropractic is based on - *intelligence* - and the value of using it.
Now (whew!) that, that's all out of me, I'd like to make an offer of sorts to all of you...
We meet in Westminster next Thursday evening. I've sent some flyers and a short article to Tim Graves, DC that all CCWA docs can post in their offices this week. If you
can get 3 people from your office to register with you, you can attend the YES training on Saturday at no charge. Doctors interested in this offer can contact Tim at
tgravesdc@mcleodusa.net and request the two forms I forwarded. Have fun with it.
I look forward to your comments (please include your 25 words tho - )
Intel Inside, MRF 02.17
I took a minute to find some more books and articles for you to consider...
The Autonomic Nervous System: Barometer of Emotional Intensity and Internal Conflict
At the border between chaos and order
The Motoric (Muscular) Ego
The Instinct to Heal : Curing Stress, Anxiety and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
Also check out The Instinct to Heal
Chiropractic gets described in sound bytes that mimic movie review quotes. Because it is such a personal experience, what chiropractic "is" to the world depends on who the chiropractor "is" to the person they adjust. My aim is to portray chiropractic more and more in that experiential light and stop trying to de-personalize it. If you read Stephenson, to paraphrase him - In Chiropractic, a clinic is a doctor alone with his/her patient, the reasoning of both being used together. - That's unique folks!
Let me make a clear distinction between the profession and the discipline of chiropractic (which can get muddled very easily). The profession consists of the
people practicing the discipline. The discipline consists of the art, science and philosophy the profession employs. So when someone asks you what chiropractic "is", they don't want the discipline answer. That's the rehearsed, academic reply. It gets re-worded every generation or so, but by and large, it's threaded back to DD Palmer and Harvey Lilliard on the 2nd Floor of an office on Brady Street...yada...yada...yada...
That aside, people bond with a professional, not the discipline. What the chiropractic profession "is" at the moment, consists of the sum total of how m>disciplined each practitioner "is" when they are alone with their patients. That's why subluxation is such a flawed way to define chiropractic...
Take the 25-word test now: Tell me what chiropractic is - tell me what it is an experience, as a cornerstone in someone's life, as a community service. If you
find yourself talking about deductive science and vitalism, stop and shut up now.
If you're not on a chiropractic campus or recruiting for one, that bromide is useless.
And please don't recite the tried and true "detect and correct" jive. It's just so over.
Let me take a stab at this for you....
"Chiropractic offers an individual an embodied awareness, appreciation and application of the spectrum of intelligence that allows them to spontaneously express life in the moment."
That's 25 on the nose. Now if you say THAT when a congressman in Colorado challenges your scope of practice, they'd look foolish. All of a sudden chiropractic is a human performance experience. It raises awareness so it has educational aspects. It provides applications, so it has practical attributes. Finally, it offers an appreciation for the healing process, which is so richly rewarded in the recovery community, a place where spiritual well-being is actually emphasized and not hidden in shame.
If the skeptical NMS-oriented chiropractor says my 25 words are all fluff, I can respond in kind and ask them for their 25 words. Somewhere between all the talk about joint dysfunction and low back pain, I ask, but doc, what are you offering?
When the day's over, you are making an offer to people, no different than the grocer or the local barber. I'm offering an embodied awareness, appreciation and application of the spectrum of intelligence that brings them to life pal...what are you offering? Relief? They have 24/7 drugs on tap. Correction? According to whom? What I'm saying is that the NMS-chiropractor creates no opportunity for the people who receive or deliver the care to connect. My definition is not bound to the spine, the body or the adjustment. It's defined by the link I'm making between what chiropractic is based on - *intelligence* - and the value of using it.
Now (whew!) that, that's all out of me, I'd like to make an offer of sorts to all of you...
We meet in Westminster next Thursday evening. I've sent some flyers and a short article to Tim Graves, DC that all CCWA docs can post in their offices this week. If you
can get 3 people from your office to register with you, you can attend the YES training on Saturday at no charge. Doctors interested in this offer can contact Tim at
tgravesdc@mcleodusa.net and request the two forms I forwarded. Have fun with it.
I look forward to your comments (please include your 25 words tho - )
Intel Inside, MRF 02.17
I took a minute to find some more books and articles for you to consider...
The Autonomic Nervous System: Barometer of Emotional Intensity and Internal Conflict
At the border between chaos and order
The Motoric (Muscular) Ego
The Instinct to Heal : Curing Stress, Anxiety and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
Also check out The Instinct to Heal
Friday, February 13, 2004
Autosuggestion Revisited
I wasn't raised in the era of the prequel. Stories had three acts. Subluxation etiology had the 3 T's, a trilogy of trauma, toxicity and thought (autosuggestion). I bit on that last one. Like a loose thread on a wool sweater, I slowly unravelled the ball of yarn that leads like a mobius strip back to the whole idea of a distruption of a mental impulse, the "I" in the BJ Palmer MOPI model of subluxation - malposition, occlussion, pressure and interference. I've written about this paradox before in case some of you are getting deja vu...LOL
JVSR Research Update - April 2, 2001 Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health?
Autosuggestion is not really a cause, so much as it's a portal of re-entry. If we keep using the safety-pin map to describe self-awareness, it will seem chiropractic philosophy is saying that autosuggestion (self-proposal) and the subsequent mental impulse that propagates it are on the same "train". Not so.
In fact, with the aid of 21st century nonlinear dyanamics, that type of slot car modeling is not representative. Rather than get snagged by all the psycho-babble that can literally drive you *crazy* (sic) trying to delineate conscious from other-than-conscious phenomena, suffice to state that the *mental impulse* represents a biologically-driven self-reference, ie. cell to cell communication and autosuggestion concerns more socially-driven self-reference, ie. "Do you want fries with that? communication. Clearer now?
So if we break autosuggestion down to it's individual and collective roots we find a process that serves as an amplifier for the mental impulse, a classic example of an inside-out coming into being. The coherence of the mental impulse, which is poorly named from what we know now, determines the level of quality the autosuggestive input has on the cognitive and cultural expression we reward and time-bind.
If we view thought as an emergent property of a self-referencing system, the polarity of it becomes secondary - so thinking positively or negatively is not what
we can influence anymore than we can control what shows up in the mail. To get under this aspect of subluxation, we need to examine the filtering process more.
The preconscious processing (before it's officially "thought" psychobabblists), is where the DESIGN of the system orients the autosuggestive input to split or combine the signals from the internal and external environments. That's real close
to where you bump into the *present-time consciousness* or *intent* side of the equation. I'd love to go down that alley s'more, but we need to finish the loop. :)
Getting an individual to be aware of both verbal and nonverbal messages brings them more in contact with a *cotentive* type of attention - one where they are coupled to their surroundings. When left unengaged, the gap in these messages increases or splits and the individual activates a *ditentive* type of attention - one that cuts off their connection to their surroundings or locks them into a fixed relationship with it. This is how formal language becomes a predominant orientation.
The YES training on SAT, FEB. 28th will help people re-examine their perceptual filters and show how easy it is to distort our social self through "impression management". The session is part jury-duty, part game-show and is designed to demonstrate everyone how universal our so-called personal limitations are. It's a chance to APPLY innate, instead of RELY on it. The step after survival is evolution.
For more on *cotention* and *ditention*, please check out these three links:
Trigant Burrow’s Eight Propositions of Group Analysis:From Conflict to Cooperation
Social Self-Inquiry (SSI)
Prescription for Peace: The Biological Basis of Man's Ideological Conflicts By Trigant Burrow
Have a great weekend lovers (and haters!)...MRF 02.13
I wasn't raised in the era of the prequel. Stories had three acts. Subluxation etiology had the 3 T's, a trilogy of trauma, toxicity and thought (autosuggestion). I bit on that last one. Like a loose thread on a wool sweater, I slowly unravelled the ball of yarn that leads like a mobius strip back to the whole idea of a distruption of a mental impulse, the "I" in the BJ Palmer MOPI model of subluxation - malposition, occlussion, pressure and interference. I've written about this paradox before in case some of you are getting deja vu...LOL
JVSR Research Update - April 2, 2001 Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health?
Autosuggestion is not really a cause, so much as it's a portal of re-entry. If we keep using the safety-pin map to describe self-awareness, it will seem chiropractic philosophy is saying that autosuggestion (self-proposal) and the subsequent mental impulse that propagates it are on the same "train". Not so.
In fact, with the aid of 21st century nonlinear dyanamics, that type of slot car modeling is not representative. Rather than get snagged by all the psycho-babble that can literally drive you *crazy* (sic) trying to delineate conscious from other-than-conscious phenomena, suffice to state that the *mental impulse* represents a biologically-driven self-reference, ie. cell to cell communication and autosuggestion concerns more socially-driven self-reference, ie. "Do you want fries with that? communication. Clearer now?
So if we break autosuggestion down to it's individual and collective roots we find a process that serves as an amplifier for the mental impulse, a classic example of an inside-out coming into being. The coherence of the mental impulse, which is poorly named from what we know now, determines the level of quality the autosuggestive input has on the cognitive and cultural expression we reward and time-bind.
If we view thought as an emergent property of a self-referencing system, the polarity of it becomes secondary - so thinking positively or negatively is not what
we can influence anymore than we can control what shows up in the mail. To get under this aspect of subluxation, we need to examine the filtering process more.
The preconscious processing (before it's officially "thought" psychobabblists), is where the DESIGN of the system orients the autosuggestive input to split or combine the signals from the internal and external environments. That's real close
to where you bump into the *present-time consciousness* or *intent* side of the equation. I'd love to go down that alley s'more, but we need to finish the loop. :)
Getting an individual to be aware of both verbal and nonverbal messages brings them more in contact with a *cotentive* type of attention - one where they are coupled to their surroundings. When left unengaged, the gap in these messages increases or splits and the individual activates a *ditentive* type of attention - one that cuts off their connection to their surroundings or locks them into a fixed relationship with it. This is how formal language becomes a predominant orientation.
The YES training on SAT, FEB. 28th will help people re-examine their perceptual filters and show how easy it is to distort our social self through "impression management". The session is part jury-duty, part game-show and is designed to demonstrate everyone how universal our so-called personal limitations are. It's a chance to APPLY innate, instead of RELY on it. The step after survival is evolution.
For more on *cotention* and *ditention*, please check out these three links:
Trigant Burrow’s Eight Propositions of Group Analysis:From Conflict to Cooperation
Social Self-Inquiry (SSI)
Prescription for Peace: The Biological Basis of Man's Ideological Conflicts By Trigant Burrow
Have a great weekend lovers (and haters!)...MRF 02.13
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
No Such Time!
This post may seem like I'm venting at first, but actually I'm seeking some answers.
Let me begin with some distinctions. Chiropractic principles position time as a linear
requirement for all processes to occur. They don't offer a framework for processes that occur in a duration-less moment, such as a learning experience or healing for that matter. When we connect with each other as human beings, time can seem to vary in it's pace, presence and meaning. If we agree that space is also prone to this,
then we can begin to "re-place" time with concepts of relevancy and salience and accept what is true as being valid, yet still not 100% significant. We are creatures of deletions, distortions and generalizations. This is how we shape and mold our perceptions.
That said, let's take a look at the "future" of chiropractic. I write "future" in quotes since time cannot be experienced outside of us. Time contains our subjectivity. When we attempt to envision chiropractic's "future", we're actually peering out at our own. It's pretty safe to say, we all want a compelling "future", both in and around chiropractic. Now the game becomes more about painting a picture more people can see, relate to and become participants.
Chiropractic philosophy can gain a lot more of a foothold by stating that there is no process that does not require entropy, instead of using time there. By using entropy, chiropractic is crossing over from a pre-Einstein world to a quantum model. Basically, time is brought to life through entropy - which actually IS the manifestation of universal forces - the so-called "destructive forces" the 33 principles talk about. So the processes that do not require entropy are then properly termed negentropic - which is the manifestation of innate forces - the so-called "constructive forces". Now we can speak about all the common experiences that we have as these forces interact - which is where the gap in the 33 principles shows up...
Where is educated intelligence in this equation? DD Palmer talks about it consisting of the experiental aspect of being - a fraction of the existential whole innate intelligence has access to 24/7. What type of forces would be driving that anyway?
Does entropy have a role at all or is this level of intelligence non-physical and only manifests as an emergent property of the universal-innate dynamic?
I'll leave you with some articles of interest to ponder til next time...
The Sensed Presence and Vectorial Hemisphericity
Out of Body Experiences and the Angular Gyrus of the Brain
Forget About Becoming Enlightened
We're all set to meet on SAT, February 28th for the YES training at Dr. Tim Graves office. Call and register yourself and a staff member and make this information part of your office's message. We're all connected - now learn the how and why's - $75.
Call (914) 833-3388 - We'll go from 12pm-4pm "officially". My plane leaves SUN ;)
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.11
This post may seem like I'm venting at first, but actually I'm seeking some answers.
Let me begin with some distinctions. Chiropractic principles position time as a linear
requirement for all processes to occur. They don't offer a framework for processes that occur in a duration-less moment, such as a learning experience or healing for that matter. When we connect with each other as human beings, time can seem to vary in it's pace, presence and meaning. If we agree that space is also prone to this,
then we can begin to "re-place" time with concepts of relevancy and salience and accept what is true as being valid, yet still not 100% significant. We are creatures of deletions, distortions and generalizations. This is how we shape and mold our perceptions.
That said, let's take a look at the "future" of chiropractic. I write "future" in quotes since time cannot be experienced outside of us. Time contains our subjectivity. When we attempt to envision chiropractic's "future", we're actually peering out at our own. It's pretty safe to say, we all want a compelling "future", both in and around chiropractic. Now the game becomes more about painting a picture more people can see, relate to and become participants.
Chiropractic philosophy can gain a lot more of a foothold by stating that there is no process that does not require entropy, instead of using time there. By using entropy, chiropractic is crossing over from a pre-Einstein world to a quantum model. Basically, time is brought to life through entropy - which actually IS the manifestation of universal forces - the so-called "destructive forces" the 33 principles talk about. So the processes that do not require entropy are then properly termed negentropic - which is the manifestation of innate forces - the so-called "constructive forces". Now we can speak about all the common experiences that we have as these forces interact - which is where the gap in the 33 principles shows up...
Where is educated intelligence in this equation? DD Palmer talks about it consisting of the experiental aspect of being - a fraction of the existential whole innate intelligence has access to 24/7. What type of forces would be driving that anyway?
Does entropy have a role at all or is this level of intelligence non-physical and only manifests as an emergent property of the universal-innate dynamic?
I'll leave you with some articles of interest to ponder til next time...
The Sensed Presence and Vectorial Hemisphericity
Out of Body Experiences and the Angular Gyrus of the Brain
Forget About Becoming Enlightened
We're all set to meet on SAT, February 28th for the YES training at Dr. Tim Graves office. Call and register yourself and a staff member and make this information part of your office's message. We're all connected - now learn the how and why's - $75.
Call (914) 833-3388 - We'll go from 12pm-4pm "officially". My plane leaves SUN ;)
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.11
Saturday, February 07, 2004
Full Moon Fever
I had intended to post this last night, but my midnight writing hormones were overwhelmed by the pull of gravity to my living room floor on the night of the
full moon. So I join you now. :)
Today I want to come clean on why I went "weird" and broke ties with the traditional model of subluxation and the role of chiropractic in a person's life.
It may fill in some blanks for you.
This is the story behind the extended self...
My Palmer training left me with many technical skills, a sound philosophy and a profound sense of purpose to serve people. Not bad for $100K in 1991. Trouble was, those three things were not exactly coordinated. In other words, they often contradicted each other. I'll elaborate:
The adjustment was not just a technical skill, it was supposed to be my art.
You know it's your art the first time you tell someone they DON'T need to be adjusted on that particular day.
The philosophy was intended to support my art through the study of the immaterial and material nature of man. It seemed like we only studied the material side in school. Was the immaterial side just supposed to take care of itself? I knew the philosophy was incompletely presented the first time I saw people taking Prozac in my waiting room.
That strong sense of purpose carries you through many of those types of speed bumps in practice. It's not lost on me that the principles and practice of chiropractic sometimes get stretched apart quite a bit. Your mileage may differ. The trouble with that strong purpose manifests when it is turned to a loved one.
My son was born 8 weeks premature, with congenital heart defects requiring two major surgeries in his first month of life. We spent the initial 150 days of his life
in Yale New Haven's Children's Hospital, where my strong sense of purpose
was shown the door almost daily. It was there I truly became a chiroprac-TOR.
Kyle is 9 years old now, still with special needs, but he lives as innately as I do.
So my quest brought me beyond where DD, BJ or Stephenson could help me. I was in a world where my patients were off-labeling their meds to each other, where my son was in an allopathic jungle and where my clinical skills were evolving way past which vertebra to thump.
So I consulted the oracle: Karl Pribram, MD. He pointed me beyond nerves and spines. He pointed me to the brain and the intelligence underlying the whole miracle of life in general.
The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds by Karl Pribram
In the last 10 years, I have learned about the wisdom of human nature from people like Karl and my son Kyle. Two extreme teachers. One, a Ph.D. who will forget more about the brain than most of us will ever learn and the other a living reflection of the principles I apply.
The Extended Self is a program that emerged from my realization that we often meet people in life that reflect back to us aspects of our nature we cannot recognize physically or mentally as being truly "us". We in effect, "hire" people to say and do things for us socially so we can get the message we needed indirectly - at the nonverbal level. We all agreed to do this eons ago. It was through the decoding of this subtle and powerful body language that I decided to deliver my art, philosophy and purpose as an ongoing training program: Hence, Your Extended Self or YES.
What you'll experience, both Thursday evening at the CCWA & Saturday at the YES training is what I share with my practice partners everyday: social engagement. It's what life requires.
Like 10th grade geometry, many of you will say, "Why do we have to learn this?" Here's why:
1) Your brain is both social and complex. It draws vitality from the variety of
relationships.
2) 99% of what you learn is non-conscious. So much for intellectual supremacy.
3) Over 90% of what we communicate to ourselves and others is non-verbal.
Tonality anyone?
The YES training delivers over 10 years of constant study and field-tested tools in 4-hours.
You'll be able to instantly...
1) Read and recognize the nonverbal connection you establish with others in the
moment.
2) Develop ways to shift and manage your internal state on both a felt-sense and
visual level.
3) Deepen your awareness of how your brain and body process your everyday
interactions.
4) Resolve mind-body disharmonies through an interactive cycle of sensory-motor
integration.
YES registration begins now!
Call (914) 833-3388 $75 per person til 2/25
Space is limited to 25 attendees
I'll be back on TUES (I promise!) with some musings on Principle #6.
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.07
PS: Here's some articles and links of interest to peruse
Links to Nonverbal/Depression and Dyadic Communication + NLP books
The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
User's Manual for the Brain, Vol. II: Mastering Systemic NLP by L. Michael Hall and Bob G. Bodenhamer
Non-verbal Communication in Depression by Heiner Ellgring
I had intended to post this last night, but my midnight writing hormones were overwhelmed by the pull of gravity to my living room floor on the night of the
full moon. So I join you now. :)
Today I want to come clean on why I went "weird" and broke ties with the traditional model of subluxation and the role of chiropractic in a person's life.
It may fill in some blanks for you.
This is the story behind the extended self...
My Palmer training left me with many technical skills, a sound philosophy and a profound sense of purpose to serve people. Not bad for $100K in 1991. Trouble was, those three things were not exactly coordinated. In other words, they often contradicted each other. I'll elaborate:
The adjustment was not just a technical skill, it was supposed to be my art.
You know it's your art the first time you tell someone they DON'T need to be adjusted on that particular day.
The philosophy was intended to support my art through the study of the immaterial and material nature of man. It seemed like we only studied the material side in school. Was the immaterial side just supposed to take care of itself? I knew the philosophy was incompletely presented the first time I saw people taking Prozac in my waiting room.
That strong sense of purpose carries you through many of those types of speed bumps in practice. It's not lost on me that the principles and practice of chiropractic sometimes get stretched apart quite a bit. Your mileage may differ. The trouble with that strong purpose manifests when it is turned to a loved one.
My son was born 8 weeks premature, with congenital heart defects requiring two major surgeries in his first month of life. We spent the initial 150 days of his life
in Yale New Haven's Children's Hospital, where my strong sense of purpose
was shown the door almost daily. It was there I truly became a chiroprac-TOR.
Kyle is 9 years old now, still with special needs, but he lives as innately as I do.
So my quest brought me beyond where DD, BJ or Stephenson could help me. I was in a world where my patients were off-labeling their meds to each other, where my son was in an allopathic jungle and where my clinical skills were evolving way past which vertebra to thump.
So I consulted the oracle: Karl Pribram, MD. He pointed me beyond nerves and spines. He pointed me to the brain and the intelligence underlying the whole miracle of life in general.
The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds by Karl Pribram
In the last 10 years, I have learned about the wisdom of human nature from people like Karl and my son Kyle. Two extreme teachers. One, a Ph.D. who will forget more about the brain than most of us will ever learn and the other a living reflection of the principles I apply.
The Extended Self is a program that emerged from my realization that we often meet people in life that reflect back to us aspects of our nature we cannot recognize physically or mentally as being truly "us". We in effect, "hire" people to say and do things for us socially so we can get the message we needed indirectly - at the nonverbal level. We all agreed to do this eons ago. It was through the decoding of this subtle and powerful body language that I decided to deliver my art, philosophy and purpose as an ongoing training program: Hence, Your Extended Self or YES.
What you'll experience, both Thursday evening at the CCWA & Saturday at the YES training is what I share with my practice partners everyday: social engagement. It's what life requires.
Like 10th grade geometry, many of you will say, "Why do we have to learn this?" Here's why:
1) Your brain is both social and complex. It draws vitality from the variety of
relationships.
2) 99% of what you learn is non-conscious. So much for intellectual supremacy.
3) Over 90% of what we communicate to ourselves and others is non-verbal.
Tonality anyone?
The YES training delivers over 10 years of constant study and field-tested tools in 4-hours.
You'll be able to instantly...
1) Read and recognize the nonverbal connection you establish with others in the
moment.
2) Develop ways to shift and manage your internal state on both a felt-sense and
visual level.
3) Deepen your awareness of how your brain and body process your everyday
interactions.
4) Resolve mind-body disharmonies through an interactive cycle of sensory-motor
integration.
YES registration begins now!
Call (914) 833-3388 $75 per person til 2/25
Space is limited to 25 attendees
I'll be back on TUES (I promise!) with some musings on Principle #6.
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.07
PS: Here's some articles and links of interest to peruse
Links to Nonverbal/Depression and Dyadic Communication + NLP books
User's Manual for the Brain, Vol. II: Mastering Systemic NLP by L. Michael Hall and Bob G. Bodenhamer
Non-verbal Communication in Depression by Heiner Ellgring
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
It's just a wish away
The snow is getting it's own taste of universal intelligence here in NY today as the rain and sleet replace it in the streets of Larchmont. I write you tonight from the 4th floor of an office building a stone's throw from I-95 and the Metro North Railroad. Millions of human beings live and work and travel through here and the surrounding area 24/7.
With that as the setting, I am reaching out to all of you tonight to go back to the time in your life when chiropractic was not ever-present. Can you still get there?
What we'll be doing at the CCWA meeting amounts to a "clearing of the past".
Some of you got chiropractic care in the womb, so I know this may require some
past life regression. My point is that 99% of the world lives outside our filters, and
according to them, they're doing OK. Our vitalistic philosophy seems foolhardy to the fear-based fatalists that shape the mindset of the masses outside our offices...
Here's some things I'll be asking you to consider...
1) Subluxation is NOT the center of Chiropractic. Intelligence is the center.
2) The spine (and body) for that matter are a distant 2nd to the triune of life.
3) Whisper There is NO subluxation-based community in chiropractic.
4) Can chiropractic exist without the procedure of the spinal adjustment?
Okay, now it's your turn. Please feel free to e-mail me your concerns and interests at addchiro@mindspring.com - I'd like to spend this week getting a feel for the CCWA as a group, so the more feedback the better. I want to know how your group sees chiropractic in 5 years? 15 years? 50 years? Get past survival to evolution...
On Friday of this week, I'll introduce the concepts behind the YES training on the 28th.
Please contact Dr. Danny Knowles at (303) 944-5622 if you'd like to host it.
You'll be receiving a post card soon all about my upcoming visit.
FYI, the YES stands for Your Extended Self. If you wanna get the jump on it, visit www.theextendedself.blogspot.com and peruse my old 2003 blog to get some idea.
The workshop is just $75 for a rousing 4-hour adventure into the immaterial world.
Call me at (914) 833-3388 to register. Space is limited (at least in this one case).
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.03
The snow is getting it's own taste of universal intelligence here in NY today as the rain and sleet replace it in the streets of Larchmont. I write you tonight from the 4th floor of an office building a stone's throw from I-95 and the Metro North Railroad. Millions of human beings live and work and travel through here and the surrounding area 24/7.
With that as the setting, I am reaching out to all of you tonight to go back to the time in your life when chiropractic was not ever-present. Can you still get there?
What we'll be doing at the CCWA meeting amounts to a "clearing of the past".
Some of you got chiropractic care in the womb, so I know this may require some
past life regression. My point is that 99% of the world lives outside our filters, and
according to them, they're doing OK. Our vitalistic philosophy seems foolhardy to the fear-based fatalists that shape the mindset of the masses outside our offices...
Here's some things I'll be asking you to consider...
1) Subluxation is NOT the center of Chiropractic. Intelligence is the center.
2) The spine (and body) for that matter are a distant 2nd to the triune of life.
3) Whisper There is NO subluxation-based community in chiropractic.
4) Can chiropractic exist without the procedure of the spinal adjustment?
Okay, now it's your turn. Please feel free to e-mail me your concerns and interests at addchiro@mindspring.com - I'd like to spend this week getting a feel for the CCWA as a group, so the more feedback the better. I want to know how your group sees chiropractic in 5 years? 15 years? 50 years? Get past survival to evolution...
On Friday of this week, I'll introduce the concepts behind the YES training on the 28th.
Please contact Dr. Danny Knowles at (303) 944-5622 if you'd like to host it.
You'll be receiving a post card soon all about my upcoming visit.
FYI, the YES stands for Your Extended Self. If you wanna get the jump on it, visit www.theextendedself.blogspot.com and peruse my old 2003 blog to get some idea.
The workshop is just $75 for a rousing 4-hour adventure into the immaterial world.
Call me at (914) 833-3388 to register. Space is limited (at least in this one case).
Be Exceptional, MRF 02.03
