If you should ever become sick and tired of your current place in life, this is when you will make a change that will take you to new level of thinking. This happens when you have been going along day by day, doing those same things that you have always done in the same way. Then one day, someone makes a comment to you that changes your perception about that exact thing that you had been contemplating, but with a bit of a twist, making your head whirl from a new perspective.
If you attend seminars and listen to the speakers instead of meeting up with your buddies and going out on the town, It is highly unlikely, that any of you with your tales of whoa will find a new found perspective that will leap into existence. Newfound perspectives happen only when you are sitting with others that you don’t know. This allows you to concentrate and open up your mind. It is funny how it happens. When you are able to truly concentrate on what is being said, then viola, something magical occurs, pure unadulterated innate thought.
When we talk about an unadulterated innate thought, it is like your not even listening to the seminar speaker, it is what is coming into you via your inside innate source. This reverberation comes into your consciousness and takes away the doubt from what you had believed before and replaces it with a higher level of undeniable change in perspective.
What you once believed is now transformed into a higher clarity. In other words, the extra information that you were missing now has filled that space that was holding you back from where you wanted to be in your life or in your practice.
The change from this will help to guide your patients and they too will tell others the newfound truth about their health.
When you arrive at this new perspective and meaning is clear, share your new idea with those around you that already think you are a genius. Remember too, that the people that may have thought you were a genius may not think that any more because your perspective has changed.
Those that are willing to change and share their new thoughts have to understand that it takes some risk to push away from the shore and tell others what you have learned. If it is your family members, your staff, your patients or your friends, you now have to stand strong in your new beliefs and principles.
Let’s talk about some undeniable changes in perspective. For instance, long-term chiropractic care based on restructuring and rehabilitation, as opposed to the pain relief care that many doctors practice. Find out why longer term care is more beneficial to the patients than short term care. The reason that many doctors do not recommend this to their patients is because of the fear of rejection, doubt of the adjustment, or ability to deliver results for your patient?
If you are tired of the same result, being in search for new patients because of short term pain relief care rather than developing a patient base that is built on education, results, and function, you will always be searching for the elusive new patient.
How have you been educating your patients? Have you been telling them that the pain relief model says they only need to come back if it hurts?
Subluxations are not based on the pain model; patients should have regular checkups to make sure there is stabilization in those areas and that there is proper function, not just pain relief. Do you feel there should be emphasis made on the importance of public speaking or at least having a patient orientation class in your office a minimum of twice a month? This would make a huge change in your retention and new patient involvement in building a practice based on patients that understand why they needed the care that you recommended.
The patient needs a higher level of education about chiropractic in order to have a perspective change; just like the one you had that changed your way of thinking. So when you finally get to that point where you are ready to make a commitment to do something different in your practice, start going to more seminars on technique and chiropractic and quit sitting around and moping with your other moping buddies and get out there and make a difference.
Together we can accomplish much more by having an undeniable change in our chiropractic perspective. Join in and start by getting all the doctors that you know to participate. Contribute time and effort to our cause, this great profession and the patients it serves that gives us so much.
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Dr. Timothy J. Gay is a twenty-plus year veteran of Chiropractic health and wellness. Dr. Gay is the founder of Ultimate Practice, as well as a national speaker, an author, and has numerous CD and video products for the chiropractic profession. A highly respected and nationally recognized speaker, he holds many seminars around the country on a variety of topics. Dr. Gay can be reached at 1(866) 797-8366, or timothygaydc@ultimatepractice.com For more information on Ultimate Practice, visit their website at www.ultimatepractice.com.
