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Onward and Upward

"Onward and Upward"

Living a Life Uncommon

 

 

Hello, my friends.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

 

Wouldn't it be nice to be perfect?To have a p­erfect mind… a perfect body… a perfect life?To enjoy perfect health… perfect relationships… a perfect job?To accomplish every goal we set?To get everything we want?

Dream on.I've often thought that as human beings, our job is to hold perfection up as an ideal, an objective to be pursued, though never realized.Carl Schurz said, "You choose ideals as your guides, and following them, you will reach your destiny."

 

I'm a firm believer in lifelong learning.If I couldn't take seminars and classes, read, and listen to personal and professional growth programs, my life would be pretty empty.Although it's probably true that we're all doomed to failure when it comes to achieving our full potential, I think we have to try.I think we owe it to ourselves, to the people we care about, and to our world.Ultimately, I think the purpose of life is to grow, and to help others grow as well.

 

Unfortunately, it's apparently not enough to just learn, maybe because it doesn't fulfill our need to matter, to make a difference.I recently heard a seminar speaker say the following:"Information without implementation leads to depression."At least for me personally, those words have the telltale ring of truth.

 

A song that always inspires me and lifts me up when I'm down is, "Life Uncommon," by a young lady named Jewel.If space would allow, I'd quote the full lyrics to you here, but for now, the following excerpt will have to do:

 

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom

No longer lend your strength to that which

You wish to be free from

Fill your lives with love and bravery

And you shall lead a life uncommon.

 

The Power Within

There exists in each of us a perfection that is very real, one that lies deep inside the very core of every person, and indeed, every living thing.It's something that D.D. Palmer, the founder of my profession in 1895, described as "Innate Intelligence."

 

Dr. Palmer chose the term "innate" to convey the idea of something we're born with, something that's part of our "inner essential nature."In Dr. Palmer's day, the word could also be used as a verb, meaning "to cause to exist" or "to call into being."

 

Try to think of yourself as just a ball of light, filled with pure, intelligent energy.In truth, that's exactly what we are.Our bodies are simply a place for us to live, and we're continually renewing and re-creating them from one instant to the next.

 

The purpose of chiropractic care is to release the "imprisoned impulse" between our inborn, innate intelligence, that "pure potential" that is our "inner essential nature," and its physical expression in our lives.That unseen connection between what we appear to be, and what we truly are, is the key to our health, our happiness, and indeed, our evolution "onward and upward."It's the secret to living "a life uncommon," allowing us to truly become all we were meant to be, and to transform ourselves and our world into a reality that even Robert Browning would be hard pressed to imagine.

 

Wishing you only the very best,

 

Dr. Frank Bowling

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