July 2004

Fall in love again with chiropractic: Part 2

by Dr. Rob Schiffman with Dr. Ben Lerner

Dr. Billy Graham is famous for having gotten his message out to the world on a level few did before him ‑‑ or have since. However, there was a time when his organization was very small and seemingly going nowhere.

Then, one day when Dr. Graham was on a golf course, a leaf fell from a tree and hit him on the nose. As soon as this happened, for a moment he stopped thinking. In this thoughtless state, he found that love overpowered his heart.

It was at that very moment, for the first time in his life, he accepted the entire Bible ‑‑ Genesis to Revelation. Three weeks later, he was preaching in front of 100,000 people in Chile. A couple of weeks after that, to 200,000 people. And, today, he is known as one of the greatest Bible spokespersons of all time ‑‑ and probably the greatest living minister.

Have you accepted, have you really accepted the principle of chiropractic in full faith? If you have, then you'll never fall out of love again. Have you totally given yourself over to principled chiropractic, knowing that you are just the middle person, that when you remove the interference, the Power that makes the body heals the body?

Have you come to terms with the fact that the effects of subluxation are devastating to a person's spine, physiology, mind, emotions, health, and future? If so, have you accepted in full faith that the power of a chiropractic adjustment has the capacity to allow healing to happen in ways that can not only get rid of pain, but also change a person's life and the planet as we know it?

If we have selfishness in our hearts, we are not walking in true love. In fact, we are not walking in love at all. When we walk in love, then we fall in love with chiropractic again and in full faith. In order to have this true love of chiropractic in our practices, in our staffs, and in our patients every day, we need to cleanse ourselves.

We need to cleanse ourselves of envy, bitterness, and selfishness because these things only bring confusion. There is no partiality when you are in love with chiropractic. It's for everybody! It's for every person who walks into your office, from the smelliest individual clear through to the CEO. It's for the mother who has baby "throw up" all over her, and for the baby who has a dirty diaper. These things become obstacles when you focus on them.

It all sounds kind of funny, but we need to see every single person as a the most important person in the world. Each person is our mother, our father, and the President of the United States. When we walk in the fullness of love, we can ask for patients and referrals and receive them. Yet, if we walk in bitterness, envy and selfishness, when we ask for patients or referrals, we won't get them. When we ask and do not receive it's because we ask amiss, because we want to spend it on our own pleasures.

It's an old one, but it's still the best one: "Give for the sake of giving. Serve for the sake of serving. Love for the sake of loving." That's a high‑volume, high‑profit, high‑miracle practice!

(Dr. Ben Lerner, Dr. Greg Loman and Dr. Rob Schiffman manage Teach The World About Chiropractic, a coaching, seminar, and product company and Body by God International. They have three of the highest‑volume clinics in the history of chiropractic. Dr. Lerner, author of the New York Times best‑selling book, "Body by God: The Owner's Manual For Maximized Living," was the chiropractor for the Olympics of 1996 and 2000.)

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