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Monday Morning Motivation

What's the condition of your psychological immune system?

Just as a healthy physical immune system protects us from unhelpful viruses and bacterium, our psychological immune system protects us from emotional stressors.

With a healthy psychological immune system, rather than rationalization, denial and blame, we respond more appropriately to our environment:

Appropriate detachment. Trust patients to make the appropriate decisions about their health, even if they're not the choices you'd make.

Establish clear boundaries. It's your job to tell the chiropractic story. It's the patient's job to decide if chiropractic care is something they want. And for how long.

Comfortable with the truth. You accept what is so. You have banished the word "should" from your vocabulary. Your sense of peace affirms that the truth does set us free.

Frequent tendency to laugh. Laughter increases immunoglobulin A. Since you don't take yourself so darned seriously, you're a lot more pleasant to be around.

Truth health isn't merely being subluxation-free!

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From December 11, 2006 6:00 AM

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