Are You Going Soft?
By Thomas O. Morgan, D.C.
In the news recently, you
could have learned about the danger of medical mistakes, or about the drug companies
that issue preliminary, sometimes misleading or false claims that demand putting
their drugs on the market before they are safe. Did you ever wonder why “health”
never makes the news? Is it because there is no money in it? Have you wondered
why it is that for more than 100 years we have been getting patients through
life without drugs and surgery and it is never BIG, or new? Wellness care may
not be very exciting on the six o’clock news, but it is a philosophy and
practice whose time is coming. I predict that soon the world will know who we
are and what we really can do to maintain their health.
Chiropractic has an absolute, and solid philosophical basis for health. Don’t
go soft on this fact. I find that the more determined I am to promote our science
and practice, the greater my patients like it and the larger the practice grows.
Start today, one patient at a time, to change the world with the truth about
health and where it originates.
In reality, there are absolutes. There are innate, immutable laws which we must
follow. In chiropractic, “innate” is a word we use to describe our
body’s intelligence. Innate is intolerant and narrow minded in its operation.
Synthetic drugs interfere with this exact process of the body. They often become
carcinogens and distort physiology. Why aren’t they feared? Rather, they
are promoted as “normal” and fine things to ingest daily. We chiropractors
are still asking why should we tolerate a drug infested world—one producing
tumors in every individual?
We are the only profession that will base its practice and existence on absolute
laws of health. There is only one way to calculate two plus two. Falling off
a stepladder will bring you face to face with the unwavering law of gravity.
Each natural law is absolute. Innate intelligence within people at this very
moment has to deal with making organic choices from synthetic materials. No
matter how much you design “foods” to benefit the body, it is still
up to innate to make tissue cells happen. Our chemistry adheres to a stringent
set of physiological laws. If these organs and body parts are not under innate
control or if a subluxation is present; then chaos, symptoms, and disease will
result. Aircraft are built and flown with precision according to a single set
of aerodynamic laws. Mathematics function according to narrow laws. Why does
secular relativism regarding health have to be promoted? The answer has to be
in the mindset of the medical profession, and their promotion of more drugs
to treat more conditions.
Here is the thinking: We know when the immune system dysfunctions and that benign
tumors become metastastic. So what does medicine do? It simply creates drugs
to change, suppress or stimulate the immune system. This is a microcosm of their
system. Medicine focuses on diagnosis. After the diagnosis is made, the focus
shifts to the treatment. Then they monitor the patient’s response, the
side effects, the concomitant conditions, all creating a myriad of misfires.
Life support comes next to keep the organism going until this limit of technology
has played out. We see this everyday. We deal with its effects on our patients
and world everyday. I ask, when will the world see all this for what it really
is? Why is it that we can practice a low-impact, safe, effective healthcare
system and our patients don’t want to hear about anything except how we
can help them get over their immediate symptoms? Make no mistake, doctor, you
and I must make the patient be concerned with chiropractic, If you are not excited
about our principles, your patients will have no anchor and no reason to enter
wellness care.
There is a class of “causes” that medicine does promote. They are
called “environmental” causes. These include tobacco, drug abuse,
carcinogens (nitrates, asbestos, creosote, etc.), toxic substances and pollutants.
Still, even when carcinogens and pathogens are identified, they are overshadowed
with drug promotion and corporate treatment facility marketing. We have to depend
on reality in the actions of people today. Underneath all the effort, people
are still seeking natural health philosophies and remedies. We must stay focused
on this fact and not on the medico-drug hype. Don’t let them soften up
your understanding of our solid healing principles.
Instead, we must keep our focus on changing our patients with the adjustment
and educating them to the truth about health and where it originates. We also
need to focus on teaching health disciplines and natural living. This must not
change. It is not arrogance we teach. We have the pure unadulterated philosophy
of health and where it originates. It is in accord with natural laws. We are
separate from drugs and surgery. We have to follow solid, unwavering truths
to help innate carry on our physiology 100 percent and without interference.
How can we shout the truth more loudly, and where it would be heard in the hearts
and minds of the world? How can we create an atmosphere that wants, and even
demands, our system of health? Are we in line as a profession to promote our
standards that are fixed in the natural laws of the universe?
Make a deal with yourself to never “soften up.” “Take no prisoners”—that
is what our early pioneer doctors said to each other. We must begin today and
never let up. I dare say that if you once get tired of telling the truth about
health and where it originates, you will lose your purpose for being a chiropractor.
I read some college ads that say they have only science-based teaching at their
schools. That is their way of saying that they teach no philosophy, and certainly
no innate philosophy. Schools that focus their medical/chiropractic training
on the diagnosis, or schools where the subluxation is disregarded or demeaned
and manipulation is just another treatment option are a discredit to their students
and their patients. I can’t tell you how many doctors who tell me they
had to learn about our innate philosophy after chiropractic college. These are
the people who say that the philosophy is the only thing that has kept them
in the profession.
We must live in the “vision,” the essence of our philosophy. This
keeps power in our contact with patients. You can’t get this inward motivation
looking at each patient’s symptoms or moving bones all day.
Where is the tolerance to letting our country be controlled by the drug companies?
Where is the alternative to their system? You are the alternative, doctor. Speak
to that difference today and everyday. Behind you is the power of immutable
laws.
Chiropractic must be that light shining in a nation whose “sickness”
care system is racing downhill on the wrong track. We must be a beacon of hope,
of understanding, of change and of fixed, immutable laws. When someone in your
group starts speaking medical non-truths, speak up, tell the truth. Don’t
go soft on us!
Dr. Tom Morgan is the author of the recently release book, Secrets of a Cash
Practice, and presents seminars on that subject, which has driven his Georgia-based
practice for years. He can be reached via volumepractice.com.
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