Well known author, Joshua Medcalf, said “when nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone cutter, hammering away at his rock. Perhaps a hundred times without as much of a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

When it comes to life, it is the little things that set us apart from everyone else. Everyone wants to be great until it’s time to do what greatness requires. It takes grit, determination, character, and persistence. This is the reason we set goals with our practice members and create custom care plan recommendations to support the healing journey it will take to reach those goals. We know that healing takes consistency and intention.

There is a misconception that true health is static and that it is obtained with the absence of symptoms. We believe that true health is knowing where you are currently and where you want to be, then working to bridge that gap. This is why we talk about proactive health in our office so much, because we know that life is made up of many little insignificant decisions that add up over time to determine the trajectory of our health. Most people focus on the big things in life and assume it was only one thing that was the cause. Napoleon, most likely, would have won the Battle of Waterloo except he forgot to have his troops bring the nails to hammer into the British cannons. Losing this battle, due to little things, lead to his demise and the end of his reign as the Emperor of France.

Parents often tell us that pediatricians say their child will “grow out of things”, or worse that they will live with it for the rest of their life. This really gets under our skin. Science tells us that the brain has what is called, neuroplasticity, which means it has the ability to change and adapt to the choices we make in life. We are not going to lie to you though, it will take a lot of effort to rewire the nervous system and create new pathways. When a person says something is impossible, it really means that this choice is more than they are willing to give up to achieve it. Consistency is key when it comes to staying proactive with health and healing. We try to make your chiropractic experience as efficient as possible, but we cannot see progress without the rhythm of pounding the stone.

IT IS TIME TO CUT THE ROPES

You may have heard the story about ‘Baby Elephant Syndrome’. We believe this metaphor can relate to the opportunities we have with health.

When an elephant is very young, and much smaller, they use a rope to tie them to a tree and at that age, it is enough to hold them. It is the nature of elephants to roam free, thus the baby elephant instinctively tries with all their might to break the rope. As they grow up, the elephant could easily free itself by uprooting the tree or breaking the rope. But because their mind has been conditioned by the prior experiences, it does not make the slightest attempt to break free.

We get told over and over by conventional medicine that our bodies are not capable of healing on their own or living natural. That we are set up for failure by genetics or age. God did not make junk! We can choose to not accept the false boundaries and break free from the rope of conventional medicine.

Medcalf, Joshua. Pound the Stone: 7 Lessons to Develop Grit on the Path to Mastery., Chapter 4,7,8,10,23, 2017