September 2003

Are you on the same frequency as ants?

by Dr. Timothy Gay

The other day I had a little too much time on my hands and decided to watch a line of ants traveling to and from a piece of food that had been dropped. As I watched, I noticed that in many cases they were communicating by movement of their antennae.

I thought about how one ant must have made this food discovery that led to an entire invasion of the other ants. I picked up the piece of food and watched as the ant road became less traveled in a matter of a couple minutes. The communication between the ants had obviously given off some kind a frequency that said that the food source was gone.

I then thought about chiropractors sitting in their offices wondering why there were limited new patients and why they were having a high staff turnover. I wondered what message or "frequency" we're putting out through our antennae. When we're in our offices, we need to make sure that the frequency we have on is the same for all the people participating in our practice.

Similar to the channels on a radio or TV, frequency has a great deal to do with your reception. Your staff needs to be on the same frequency in order to take care of the patients who come into the office. If there's one member off frequency with the rest of the team, it will create a change in the channel of the practice process.

As a doctor taking care of patients, you have a responsibility to make sure you're on the same frequency with that patient who has expectations of you. If you're in a report of findings with a patient, you are changing that patient's frequency toward the type of health care and health beliefs that you have. Once the patient is on the same wavelength with you, it changes the entire thought pattern that patient had about chiropractic ‑‑ and you.

Your ability to get results with your patients has everything to do with the frequency that you and they have developed. You have first changed their beliefs and thoughts and are now working on the action steps to get them the results they came in for. Could that have happened if you hadn't been on the same wavelength or frequency?

That might be the very reason in your practice that you have patients leaving your office.

What are you saying to yourself and how is that affecting the invisible antenna frequency that you are putting out into the airwaves? The effect of this change in wavelength has profound effect on everything you do inside and outside of your office. I believe that your ability to have a smooth running practice or life has everything to do with the frequency, the intensity, the clarity and the positive channel that you continue to keep for yourself and the other participants in your life around you.

When you think of the power of those little creatures with the antennae and the ability they have to change channels and refocus their frequency to a point that shifts thousands of them in an instant to a new wavelength or belief system, ask yourself what it is that's holding chiropractors back from doing the same thing in practice and for our profession.

The more we become like‑minded in our belief systems, the more likely this change will take place. It's up to us to help change the wavelength together and work toward the betterment of humankind through education about the subluxation complex and the importance of the chiropractic adjustment.

Join in today and get on the same frequency to help preserve what we have already created for chiropractic. For our professional future it may be smart for us to look to those who have already perfected and mastered the power of like‑mindedness and take a lesson from our little antennae friends. I would urge you and your fellow doctors to put your invisible antennae to good use as often as you possibly can.