Two or three years ago I was going through a personal challenge doubting my own worth and ability to help others in a healing setting. I spoke with a mentor who suggested I do something that I thought was utterly ridiculous. He assured me that if I do it, i’ll get all the answers to my questions and see just how valuable and capable I was. So I took his advice.
I stood naked in front of a full length mirror.
The first time I did it, I lasted a couple of minutes feeling like an idiot. “What am I doing?” I asked myself throughout the 2 minutes. “This is stupid.” I could feel the anger inside of me. “I’m not doing this” and I quit.
I spoke with my mentor about my experience and he told me to do it again.
So I did it again and I went about 10 minutes. I began to cry as I stood there staring at myself. How could I doubt what God has so graciously given me? But I still did and I cowered at my own sight, foolishly turinng away again.
Again, I spoke with my mentor about my experience and all he said was, “do it again.”
I did the exercise a third time and after 20-30 minutes, refelcted in the mirror, I saw myself as God sees me, pure, whole, and good. I realized all the gifts that he has given me and how I am made to use them. I also saw an image …
I shared my experience with my mentor and he asked what I thought this time.
Here’s the lesson: We are all greater than we think we are because of who is within us. For the longest time I was looking outside of myself, specifically (for me) to others and what they thought of me and what they thought I should do for me. I was went into committee to discuss and talk rather than act. I got my feelings of worth from them, not from the one within me.
Far too often, as patients, we look to the external for solutions to what is going on internally. We seek the next guru, or the next silver bullet, the next best treatment on the market. Sometimes it’s a new way of thinking or the belief in self, or a medication, new diet, new supplement, new ground breaking research, etc. It’s once we truly realize who we are and who we have inside of ourselves that we get to stop looking.
For ten years i’ve been working on a member of our practice to learn this. Their mind and eyes are always flittering about looking for somehting else. I know they want what we are directing them to because they keep coming back, asking, looking but not seeing. Last week, this person called and cancelled their membership because they were told by another doctor that they had the solution to their problem. They needed to take their “pill” and receive their “manipulations” and that they had the answers.
This person cancelled their membership with us to pay (in part) for what their darting eyes and longing heart think is external from them. But if they would simply look inside, at the majesty they already have, at the strength and “power” they have been graced with, they would realize they have all the answers they already need right there, walking around with them all the time.
THIS IS THE MESSAGE OF CHIROPRACTIC. It is said as plainly as possible. That you have EVERYTHING YOU NEED already with you, internally, carried around with you 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
ALL we need to do is train ourselves to conect with it, listen to it, and express it. That is what I am here to help you do.
It took me three attempts to see what my mentor already knew was in there that he wanted me to see. It can take as many attempts to truly come to trust the same in a Chiropractic setting with regards to our health, well-being and lifestyle. For those who “get it” the first time, you are truly blessed.
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