Pearls of Wisdom - Pure & Powerful. Dr. Liz Anderson Peacock

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      When we establish an environment based on trust, patients feel safe enough to be vulnerable on many levels. They confide, they are respectful and become open to recommendations. Their trust is earned over time, and it only takes one moment to break. A lapse in our healing consciousness can irrevocably change the relationship and environment for healing for patients.

      To borrow from a North American Arrowhead teaching, we need to be “Aware, Awake and Alert” in each moment. Through practice, our procedures become entrained to a point of unconscious competence and we do not have to think about them. Those procedures become an automatic extension of our services. When this occurs, we are free to “sense” what is going on around us: mastering our visual observation, listening to the energy behind the words aurally, and feeling the tone of the body through palpation. We tune in with our intuition for connecting with another person.

      To illustrate, I remember as a student learning to palpate and adjust. I thought I was really hallucinating in my attempts to palpate the difference between muscle, fascia, joint-play and other anatomical landmarks such as TVP’s. By the time I was setting-up for an adjustment, my whole body was tense. My actions were totally in my head, mechanically thinking through each part. I was so tight there was nothing left for the adjustment, as all my muscles were already loaded.

      The concept of intuitive actions applies to the performance of elite athletes. When instinctive awareness takes over, they truly become one with their activity or sport. If they become nervous, their body tenses and they lose their edge and form. Just as learning the skills of a sport, learning the mechanics and steps of Chiropractic was not easy. Through practice and experience palpating and adjusting came as second nature, without conscious thought. Akin to becoming an artist, it is difficult to breakdown and describe exactly how an adjustment is delivered: because when you think about it, you destroy it. Rather, when the adjustment is instinctive, the hands just know what to do.

      When I mentor other students struggling with palpation and adjusting skills, I am reminded of what it was like for me as a student. Everyone learns differently, yet the consistency is that practice comes between performance. Learn the basics, then get out of your heads – stop thinking and begin being. Keep practicing, as practice leads to certainty and mastery.

      Learning develops through four stages:

      1.Unconscious incompetence – we do not know what we do not know.

      2.Conscious incompetence – we know we do not know.

      3.Conscious competence – we know what we know, but we have to think about it.

      4.Unconscious Competence – we no longer have to think about it, we just do it.

      Just about every learned process or set of skills goes through the stages: from learning to drive a car, to developing the skills of a trade. When daily procedures become an unconsciously competent habit, it frees our awareness to listen and observe the nuances.

      This unconscious competence is core to the delivery of a masterful adjustment. The adjustment is our expression of Chiropractic. No other profession can deliver it as well as Chiropractors. The adjustment represents the cumulative integration of our Principles with our individual understanding of the anatomy, philosophy and science of the human body. It is what a patient will partly judge us by. It needs to be delivered cleanly, accurately and with focused intent. This requires confidence and certainty that is gained through repetition, observation of and critique by colleagues, and practice. There is never enough practice, as we always have potential for improving. An artist cannot say they have created their masterpiece since one to come may still be in their future. An athlete may have a personal best, but cannot know for sure they have truly turned in a best performance. There could always be one more, one better yet.

      The Universe Gives Us What We Can Handle

      At times, I may judge what has been placed before me, but know I am a co-creator in it. What I learned more than anything else is that one can be brilliant and talented, but if not lead first by the heart, it is more difficult to push ahead. I am constantly learning deeper levels of turning inwardly to ask for guidance and trust my heart and intuition, rather than my head. Whenever I have followed the advice of my head or intellect I regretted it. The conflict comes because I enjoy spending time in my head – analyzing and reflecting, debating and discussing. With recent events in my life, I am learning to let go and just be. Just being is an art. You will read about my journey in a future book yet to be published.

      When faced with challenge, I realize it is a test for me to learn and grow. I may look to others who have experienced a similar event in their life. I ask how they dealt with it. Overall, the Universe will not drop more than we can handle into our lap.

      People Do Not Care What You Know

      Until They Feel You Care

      Knowing statistics and health data does not change most people’s lifestyles. If it did, we would all be at our ideal weight, eating organic foods, drinking clean purified water, sleeping an appropriate amount, detoxifying, practicing mindfulness, and reducing stresses. Knowing the data does not change our behavior. Emotions, feelings and attachments change us. So in order for what we know to be heard, we need to appeal to others on their level, and meet them where they are. Once we have a relationship, eventually they become willing to hear our advice. Connect with hearts, then minds.

      In making connections, I remember a particular patient, a male teenager. His dream was to become a pilot like his dad. He had severe long-term chronic asthma, and was devastated when he heard he did not qualify as a pilot due to the scarring within his lungs, and his poor pulmonary function.

      In his mid-teenage years, he began being adjusted in my office on a regular basis. His use of inhalers decreased; in addition, the acute attacks that frequently sent him to the hospital Emergency wards began to reduce. I once visited him in the hospital. He was in a tent with secondary oxygen and was running a poor oxygen saturation rate. His breathing was labored, rapid, shallow, and he was using his accessory breathing muscles to assist his breathing. I asked for and was granted permission to adjust him. He was adjusted and within seconds, everything – and I mean everything – normalized. The rapid, labored breathing relaxed into rhythmic breaths, his oxygen saturation returned to within normal range, and his body relaxed. The attending nurse stood – eyes wide-open – frozen in place. Speechless. He returned home within a couple of hours.

      A few years later, I received a thank you note from his mother stating her sons’ dream to become a pilot became reality. He had no lung scarring and pulmonary function tests were within qualifying ranges. He had no medication and no bouts of asthma.

      We connect with people and help them to connect with their dreams. We make a difference in people’s lives. These experiences allow us to gain a quiet certainty with what we do. A confidence in knowing that no matter what is going on from the outside in, if the inside is not communicating, then the rest does not matter. The presence of life allows the body to be organized. Interference with life reduces efficiency of the body’s ability to function properly. If the body cannot perceive its environment accurately and resend at its full magnitude, then it will respond with a less than favorable adaptive choice, perhaps making an error in the process by finding a less than ideal way. If the body continues to operate this way over time it deteriorates human vitality.

      Who We Unfold To Become

      We all experience rough times and bumpy roads along our path, as they are a part of life. It’s not the obstacles that are most important, but rather who we become as a result of overcoming them. As an СКАЧАТЬ