Pre-Chiropractic Clubs

Sometimes we get ideas that we have to act upon because they were given to us for a reason. This was one of them.

While pondering what I should be really doing in the admissions office, I came to the obvious conclusion I am here to help people be admitted. There are many ways to do this, but one danced out in front of me since I had the experience of co-starting the Pre-Chiropractic Club at Utah Valley University. If we can help start, organize, and help these clubs thrive, then we'll not only help bring people to understand chiropractic, but students will be more persuaded to apply first to Life West because of the involvement we had with them in undergrad.

I talked to my boss Shohreh about this idea and she loved it so much that she wanted me to write it up and give it to her so that she could give it to the President of the school (Dr. Clum). This is why I am writing this blog.

The idea is simple, the more we empower undergrads with becoming a chiropractor, the more likely they'll decide to apply at Life Chiropractic College West. There is a clear process to accomplish this task.

• If there is no Pre-Chiropractic Club started at the school, have an incentive (small scholarship) to start one.
• Once the club is started, they would have a workstudy from LCCW help them know how to run the club.
• This workstudy would work in admissions and be their personal contact to ensure that their club would succeed.
• Some ways that they would help them would be: get a list of chiropractors within a 20-50 mile radius, assist them in calling the doctors and interviewing them to see if they are willing to be shadowed, give talks, or support them monetarily or with supplies (ie: posters, skeletons, spines, etc), give a list of all the chiropractic schools in the nation, etc.
  
• Once they have started calling these doctors then LCCW would send some supplies to the club president to put up in the school to drive more students to know about the club and chiropractic.
• Every year we would then send out a recruiter from LCCW and a student (preferably a Talk the Tic person) to talk with the club and make sure that they are succeeding as a club and help them get donations so that they can come to an Open House.
• We would give them more than the typical recruiter talk because we are mainly wanting to get them excited about chiropractic and not just the school. We would share success stories and maybe an alumni that lives close to them. Also, we would give them a list of technique classes that are offered here and give a short explanation of how each works.
• Any sort of documents or visual aides that we supply to them will all say, "Provided by Life Chiropractic College West", in the bottom corner. This will help them know that we are that constant guide that they can always rely on.

I am sure that if this was implemented at my school we would have had not only a better club, but we would be more excited and ready to become a chiropractor and thus bring in more students.

Maximized Living and Limitation of Matter

Last Thursday a couple of student representatives of Maximized Living came in and gave us their sales pitch. They are a coaching program that helps Chiropractors know how to setup/run their business. They seemed very enthusiastic and one could tell they had tasted success already even though they are just starting in clinic.

I was captivated with what they had to offer because it felt that it was inline with what I believed in. They focus on five different things in order to achieve health. They are: Mind, Nervous Supply, Nutrition, Exercise, and Toxins. I am unsure what they say when they talk about mind, but the others have always made sense to me.

It only makes sense that if your spirit can talk perfectly to your body and if your body can talk perfectly to your spirit then you will be able to fix just about any problem you face. This is the idea of Chiropractic that if you remove interferences with the nerves then you can allow for perfect communication. Why doesn't this fix all problems? Because there is a couple of limitations.

Limitation of Doctor - Maybe the doctor doesn't have the science, philosophy or art to fix you.
Limitation of Patient - If the doctor puts you in alignment and you go snowboarding really hard and fall down a few times... quite possibly you just made yourself go out of alignment.
Limitation of Matter - (This is my favorite that nobody talks about much) When the body has an imperfection in the quantity, quality, or arrangement of matter.

For example: if a disease is growing faster than you are able to repair, then you will continue to have that disease. However, if you increase the rate of repair that your body is doing (by whatever means) to the point that it is now faster than the rate of growth of the disease, then your body will eventually be cured.

This is what I believe that people forget about when they are trying to "sell" you on chiropractic. There are multiple things that go into healing your body. Of course you need to make sure your nervous system is working right, but if you only feed it McDonald's are you really going to be healthy? Of course not.

It's important to understand this principle because just because you were just aligned by a chiropractor doesn't mean that you can inject yourself with the black plague and feel that you won't get infected. Even with your body in alignment you still have the limitation of matter.

To help bridge the gap that's between health and disease there are a few more other things you can do to minimize that limitation of matter. That's where nutrition, exercise and detoxifying comes in. You want to give your body the best chance possible to be healthy. These are things that can lower that limitation, but not close it. Genetics can not be changed. If you don't have a stomach, you won't be able to function at 100%.

Sufficient to say that Chiropractors don't heal anyone. All we do is take away the subluxation or misalignment between bones and allow the nervous system to work again. We are doctors of the nervous system, not low back pain doctors or even spinal doctors.

Anyway, the reason that I am bringing all of this up is that I did some research on Maximized Living and saw a few things that I liked and disliked. I am still unsure if I want to join them yet, but I do like a few things about them and I don't like others. I want to see it from a patient's perspective and as a Doctor to see if I would like to join them. I would rather not write down right now the things that I have concerns with because I haven't researched it out enough.

Mid Terms

This week has been very hectic as mid terms hit us with full force. Memorizing galore and attempting to understand philosophy has been difficult. However, each time we get to a test, it seems easier than expected. We study hard and expect to get C's or D's on the test, but then while taking it we feel confidence. That is very comforting as that tells me that I have internalized this information and know it without even knowing it. How comforting to me to know that when it's needed, I can pull information out that will help out others. I hope that I continue to see this trend.

Baby Kimberly

This weekend was full of excitement and stress. Mixing grad school mid terms with having a baby is an equation for disaster. Thankfully God sends us angels at these times. People from the ward, school and family have all pitched in to help us out. Even people who don't even know us, would give items like blankets to someone who did know us to give to us. I just find it incredible. I was able to get back to my feet in less than a week.

Kimberly Lynn Beadle came into our lives on Friday Jan 29th, 2010 (4:29am) weighing 6 lbs. 11 oz. at 20 inches. It was a short labor at only 3 hours thanks to a walk around a marina, yoga to open the hips, chiropractic adjustments, and acupressure points. We don't know what made it go so fast, but we are happy that it was that quick. Monica and I actually made a documentary of the whole thing, but it's about 45 min. If you really want to watch it cause you are just dieing to have us tell you the story as if we were with you, then I'll send you the link. (we still haven't uploaded it yet).

I mainly just wanted to write down how grateful I am to people who willingly and selflessly gave us help. I am also so glad that Kimberly is healthy. I love to watcher her eyes look at our world. She is just so cute and I love her so much. It's hard to put her down. I run home from school because I just want to be with her. I hope that I'll be able to continue to be a good dad and support her throughout her life. I am also SO proud of Monica! WOW! She is a trooper! She has not complained to me at all about anything! She is an amazing woman and I am honored to have her by my side. I wouldn't want anyone else.