Friday: The Force & That Loving Feeling..Updated: 4/11 @7:05 AM

It's Friday! It doesn't feel like it, but it was for sure when I started this blog edition. Now it's Sunday.....Sunday fun day? It's been raining the last couple of days, and the temp has been Mn-Fall-cool for the area making my upcoming visit to the Homeland seem so far away. The sun finally did come out today, and it's why I'm working on the blog. Moody weather makes me moody I guess. The Friday office day started early and ended late because of the rain and people taking it 'slow' to get around in it. I mean it's been 50ish degrees out, and people think it's cold! LOL. Well, that's California for ya. Hahaha.

The week has been, more or less, uneventful, apart from the weather and that's good. In the boredom of it, I had the opportunity to take the picture to the left from the top of Pepperdine's University campus in Malibu. If I hadn't been walking around with a bunch of things in my hands and took the picture a few minutes sooner, you would've thought you were in a floating city in the sky because of the fog. The campus is beautiful, and it's inhabitants are some of the brightest people in the world, and getting to talk with a few of the students and staff was interesting. The campus had invited the office to be a participant at the annual health fair for which I was asked to present and demonstrate a few of the newest most effective tools available for working on peoples' aches and pains. In it, I had the opportunity to correct a few of the misnomers about chiropractors in general to include the basics about length of schooling, actually being able to diagnose any condition that presents in the office (which is different than actually treating things we diagnose in some instances), and that I'm an actual physician and not just a glorified massage therapist. How I made the connection on what chiropractors do and how it relates to them as human beings seemed easy to me at the time.

When the question was finally asked, "How can chiropractic benefit me as a healthy person?" I paused and asked everyone to pull out their mobile phones and raise it into the air. "How many of your phones don't work?" I asked and asked them to leave their hand in the air while everyone put their hand and phone down. "Take a look around you. Do you see anyone with their hand in the air signifying that their phone is broken or not functioning?" The answer was, "NO. Everyone has a fully functioning phone." Now let's talk about one of most import parts of your functioning phone that makes your functioning phone either useless or super handy...your data!" And I went on to talk about how important it is to have enough speed and data to not only be able to send information to the rest of the world but receive it and how frustrating it is to us when we see that circle of 'sending' still sending after a few seconds or even a minute because the connection isn't good or more importantly, the ability for our data to go and come has been hampered by something...I usually call this Tmobile, but everyone has the experience at some point with whatever carrier.

At the point where people understood that even with a functional phone, it was essentially useless or not as useful if they were not able to send or receive data...they had become, more or less, handicapped because of that inability. Sure they could function and use various other programs on their phones, but the most important one, the ability to communicate all of their most important selfies stopped when they had run out of or had interference in its conveyance of data.

"This is why chiropractic is important to you as fully functioning able bodied people. We usually don't think that anything could be better with us as long as we can eat, sleep, and live or are pain-free, but we are much like mobile phones and the way that every individual operating system in our body communicates to itself and then to the world around us, i.e. sending a selfie, is largely improved by how fast we can send and receive our own internal data via the nervous system. If something is slowing that data down, we are essentially in that standstill, waiting for the 'sent' message to finally show up and this is where chiropractic is beneficial to you. So why not have a fully functioning data supply happening within you at all times?" As the crowd laughed I went on to tell them that less than 50% of the people that walk into our office are in pain; they are there to keep the data supply constant, even, and steady via the various things we do as chiropractors to include the adjustment. So went that day in the week.


The rest of the week was me getting together my new set of office scrubs! White will be the office "event" color. We wear scrubs at the office I work at instead of the shirt and tie look. I understand why docs dress up, but we do a lot of actual hands on stuff, and the scrubs fit the role better. That being said, we have essentially a few different colors that the docs and the staff wear. Fortunately for me, I kept my original scrub gear from my days of working Beverly Hill that have my logo them, "Get Adjusted To The Good Life." We have a few of the royal colors but not white.

I made the suggestion to wear white scrubs considering the office colors and dynamic, but the lead doc wasn't sure it would convey the right message. When I asked him further about it, it turned out it reminded him of a movie that came out in 1975 with Jack Nicoleson where the 'crazy' people in the movie wore white. I laughed the day he came in and had seen another doc wearing white scrubs because it had essentially changed his mind on the matter. Then it dawned on me that if we wore white scrubs with any kind of metallic stitching, we would look like Navel officers walking around the Malibu Mart area outside of our office. This prompted me to start playing all of the Top Gun music videos like Take My Breath Away, and You've Lost That Loving Feeling. That being the case, I spent the last week finding the scrubs, getting the white All Star tennis to go with it, and getting the top embroidered for this Monday's debut of the Top Gun Office White Day. LOL. I'll take a picture of them on us and show you how it goes, but so you have an idea, I put a shot of the black and white scrub set above with the logo just above. Hahahaha.

As it's really Sunday, I feel it's appropriate to share what my Saturday night was like because it seemed relevant to one of my core life beliefs--that all things are connected and what affects one person directly can affect another indirectly. It turned out my housemate had downloaded the Star Wars movie and had it playing last night. I was out with one of the girls, but eventually we stopped back home, and she planted herself on the sofa to finish watching the movie. I'd seen it when it came out, and I remember the various things I thought as people were experiencing the full gamut of emotions directly and indirectly because of what the movie calls the force. Hans Solo in the movie says that it is the substance all around us and in us and everything in the galaxy that struggles to keep a balance of life which ultimately plays out as the struggle between good and evil. It just made me wonder, as I have over the last year, how much of my sentiments are just my own. How many of my own emotions and sentiments are experienced by others directly and indirectly. Maybe one day we'll know how much of it, if any, is true or just optimistic believing. If anything good comes my way on the topic, I'll share it here. Till then, "Be well, do good work, and come on back," G. Keiller.