Welcome to our discussion page. You are always free to share your THOTs, ideas, or suggestions on how we can make our practice better or more enjoyable to YOU. Send YOUR THOTs via email to Todd@ToddGalley.com (Your input is always appreciated)
E-mail sent by Todd Galley, Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 @ 2:16pm
Sharing a THOT from Dr. Strauss: Question: (Posted by JStraussDC 5/16/12 4:09 pm)
“If you are into healing, getting sick people well, or relating to disease in any way, are you not assuming the responsibility of being able to determine limitations of matter and thus the need for diagnosis and referral?”
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Answer: (posted by Claude Lessard 5/16/12 5:34 pm)
"Absolutely!
- That is WHY chiropractic is NOT about healing, getting sick people well, getting rid of pain, increase joint mobility, eliminating symptoms, and it is NOT a natural alternative to treating diseases.
- The 33 principles state VERY CLEARLY that chiropractic deals with LIFE and “living things” more than a dozen times. The 33 principles NEVER mention healing, getting sick people well, or relating to diseases.
- Chiropractic is about LIFE and the practice of chiropractic is the LACVS (Location and Correction of Vertebral Subluxations) which are the CAUSE of DIS-EASE.*"
We agree with Dr. Lessard, and thank Dr. Strauss for asking. It is important to understand that chiropractic is about LIFE: about maximizing the expression of LIFE in the body. Our Innate Intelligence is far more ‘educated’ than the best doctors, scientists, or super-computers. It is the only thing that can create LIFE. When our nerve system is free of interference, Innate can express itself as only it knows how to do.
If we (as chiropractors) attempt to diagnose, fix, cure, or treat we are messing with something FAR BEYOND our scope of practice. Who are we (or who is anybody) to ‘judge’ what the source of all LIFE is capable of?
We’ve each been given a gift. Use it wisely. Respect it. Guard it Well.
-Todd and Kelly
*(Dr. Lessard's use of the commonly confused term 'DIS-EASE' can be equated with 'dis-harmy' or 'out of balance' or 'unstable' or 'not right'. When vertebral subluxations interfere with the transmission of mental impulses the body is in a state of 'DIS-EASE' but does not necessarily mean that the body is 'diseased' -- this may be important for some in the understanding of his comment.)
E-mail sent by Todd Galley, Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 @ 1:37pm
What does the world look like through chiropractic colored glasses? Does your health shine brighter? Are your relationships with friends and family more in focus? Is your job (or athletic) performance sharper and crisper?
You 'see' everything through your nerve system – how you feel, how you interact with people, how you perform at home, on the field, or at work. When your nerves are stressed, the line between barely existing and fully living is blurred. However, the more clear your nerve system, the better your ability to interact physically, mentally and spiritually with the world around you: and ultimately the better your quality of LIFE!
When a chiropractor adjusts the stress from your nerve system, it's like cleaning the dirt, streaks, and smudges from the lens through which you interpret your world – and with a clear lens you can see all your potential. LIFE – a little sharper when viewed through chiropractic colored glasses.
Hoping you see clearly...
Peace and Love,
-Todd and Kelly
E-mail sent by Todd Galley, Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 1:27pm
10 Ways to Maximize the Joy in LIFE:
1. Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. It’ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can’t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn’t cause them. Only your actions are directly under your control. They’re the only proper cause of pleasure or shame. 2. Let go of worrying. It often makes things worse. The more you think about something bad, the more likely it is to happen. When you’re hair-trigger primed to notice the first sign of trouble, you’ll surely find something close enough to convince yourself it’s come. 3. Ease up on the internal life commentary. If you want to be happy, stop telling yourself you’re miserable. People are always telling themselves how they feel, what they’re thinking, what others feel about them, what this or that event really means. Most of it’s imagination. The rest is equal parts lies and misunderstandings. You have only the most limited understanding of what others feel about you. Usually they’re no better informed on the subject; and they care about it far less than you do. You have no way of knowing what this or that event really means. Whatever you tell yourself will be make-believe. 4. Take no notice of your inner critic. Judging yourself is pointless. Judging others is half-witted. Whatever you achieve, someone else will always do better. However bad you are, others are worse. Since you can tell neither what’s best nor what’s worst, how can you place yourself correctly between them? Judging others is foolish since you cannot know all the facts, cannot create a reliable or objective scale, have no means of knowing whether your criteria match anyone else’s, and cannot have more than a limited and extremely partial view of the other person. Who cares about your opinion anyway?
5. Give up on feeling guilty. Guilt changes nothing. It may make you feel you’re accepting responsibility, but it can’t produce anything new in your life. If you feel guilty about something you’ve done, either do something to put it right or accept you screwed up and try not to do so again. Then let it go. If you’re feeling guilty about what someone else did, see a shrink, because that’s insane!
6. Stop being concerned what the rest of the world says about you. Nasty people can’t make you mad. Nice people can’t make you happy. Events or people are simply events or people. They can’t make you anything. You have to do that for yourself. Whatever emotions arise in you as a result of external events, they’re powerless until you pick them up and decide to act on them. Besides, most people are far too busy thinking about themselves (and worry what you are thinking and saying about them) to be concerned about you. 7. Stop keeping score. Numbers are just numbers. They don’t have mystical powers. Because something is expressed as a number, a ratio or any other numerical pattern doesn’t mean it’s true. Plenty of lovingly calculated business indicators are irrelevant, gibberish, nonsensical, or just plain wrong. If you don’t understand it, or it’s telling you something bizarre, ignore it. There’s nothing scientific about relying on false data. Nor anything useful about charting your life by numbers that were silly in the first place. 8. Don’t be concerned that your life and career aren’t working out the way you planned. The closer you stick to any plan, the quicker you’ll go wrong. The world changes constantly. However carefully you analyzed the situation when you made the plan, if it’s more than a few days old, things will already be different. After a month, they’ll be very different. After a year, virtually nothing will be the same as it was when you started. Planning is only useful as a discipline to force people to think carefully about what they know and what they don’t. Once you start, throw the plan away and keep your eyes on reality. ('improvise, adapt, overcome!' -Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge) 9. Don’t let others use you to avoid being responsible for their own decisions. To hold yourself responsible for someone else’s success and happiness demeans them and proves you’ve lost the plot. It’s their life. They have to live it. You can’t do it for them; nor can you stop them from messing it up if they’re determined to do so. The job of a supervisor is to help and supervise. Only control-freaks and some others with a less serious mental disability fail to understand this. 10. Don’t worry about your personality. You don’t really have one. Personality, like ego, is a concept invented by your mind. It doesn’t exist in the real world. Personality is a word for the general impression that you give through your words and actions. If your personality isn’t likeable today, don’t worry. You can always change it, so long as you allow yourself to do so. What fixes someone’s personality in one place is a determined effort on their part—usually through continually telling themselves they’re this or that kind of person and acting on what they say. If you don’t like the way you are, make yourself different. You’re the only person who’s standing in your way. 11. (who's counting, right? >> you know we had to find a way to fit chiropracitc in there...) - Get Adjusted! Open up those LifeLines and let the power that made you (and everybody else) express itself at its maximum. This gives us the best chance of being our best- mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Have a great week. We appreciate you all.
-Todd and Kelly
p.s. -the MGST bicycle ride is this weekend... a great event (complete with a mid-ride pancake stop!) if you're into biking even a little bit and have Sunday morning availible you check it out here: http://www.lmb.org/dcc/mgst/
