November of 2000, I met a very wise retired Medical Doctor named William Standish Reed who had practiced as a surgeon for his whole career. He was doing a special lecture series for the University of Virginia, and I decided to attend one of his lectures. As it turned out, I attended the special presentation for senior citizens and not the next day’s seminar on the Future of Health Care. I was the youngest person in the room by forty years! I nearly got up and left, but Dr. Reed approached me before he began and wanted to know why I was there.
I told him that I had read his book and wanted to hear him in person. His eyes lit up when he heard I was a chiropractor. He spent the next five minutes telling me how he once did everything possible to destroy chiropractic until he had temporarily lost the use of hand and his wife forced him to go to a chiropractor. After a few adjustments, he was good as new! A surgeon without the use of their hands is not much of a surgeon anymore. He was so warm and full of life, I decided to stay and listen to that day’s presentation.
He read a passage from one of his books, and I would like to share a bit of it with you:
In order for a person to be healthy, it is important for him to be able to move freely and to do so he must have normal joints. The joints cannot be arthritic or frozen in order for one to have proper function and mobility. The joints bespeak freedom.
The joints of man indicate freedom, particularly freedom of motion.
Surgery of the Soul: Healing the Whole Person Spirit, Mind, and Body, p31
What Dr. Reed is stating here is so simple to understand. Why do so many people resist caring for themselves when they do not have freedom or health?
I applaud each of you because you have decided to allow health and therefore freedom to be part of your life by seeking chiropractic care. As one of my former patients in Virginia would say after every adjustment, “I’m free in my body so my spirit can soar!!!” Josephine was in her early nineties when I moved away. She started care with me when she was eighty-eight and using a walker. When I moved away, she was leading The Walking Girls of Lake Monticello on two-mile walks three times a week. Josephine was certainly free. Who do you know that needs some freedom in their life?
If you don’t already know, my practice is 100% a referral practice. I love the people I care for and know that quality people refer quality people. Who can you refer to the office today?