The power of positive change

Published: 2011-06-26 15:49:51
Author: Vince Covino | ChiroEco | June 2011

Have you ever been at a gym and seen someone who can bench-press 400 pounds but can’t do 10 crunches? Do you have friends with new cars, nice clothes and accessories, who take lavish vacations but come to you for a loan?

Creating abundance is about living true and liberating principles. We are not born with these principles woven into our DNA, nor can we develop them without focused and targeted effort.

Who is the most successful chiropractor you know? Commit to a name before reading the next question. Now, how did you measure that person’s success? Was it by their net worth, number of patient visits, or their family life? Perhaps your assessment centered on abundance — an abundance of friends, patients, happiness, money, or other things that we all desire.

Things that money can’t buy and death cannot take away tend to have certain things in common. When we regard people who are successful, it often seems that they have metamorphosed the limitations in their lives into liberating counterparts.

Making change happen

The catalyst for positive change begins when you reflect on your current behaviors and identify patterns in your life. And what about changing the way you see yourself, the way you handle your money, the way you relate to other people, the way your marriage functions, the way you raise your children, or the way you feel?

There are multitudes of self-help books full of programs, methods, and theories, but most of them seem to work in the same way as a typical diet: short term results that fade, leaving you in a situation often worse than it was originally. Yet, as a chiropractor, you understand well the concept of identifying the root cause and then applying appropriate treatment.

The brain works on a principle called “neuroadaptation,” the patterns of behavior that become hardwired into the brain over time.

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