During his presentation, Dr. John Demartini
told the audience, “Find what you do best,
do what you can’t wait to do, delegate
other roles and gain vitality for what you
really enjoy.” |
“I wonder what would happen if we gave
ourselves permission in this profession to
do something extraordinary,” said John
Demartini, D.C., during the Homecoming
Opening Session on the Davenport Campus.
“We are sitting here today because of
one man [D.D. Palmer] taking an action
step. What would happen if everyone here
took an action step like that?”
Dr. Demartini is a popular speaker
on human behavior and personal
development. He told the audience
that as a student he “fell in love
with the philosophy, art and science
of chiropractic.”
“The highest priority thing we can do [as
chiropractors] is to share what we can
offer people,” said Dr. Demartini. “I like
to think of chiropractic as a science of
love—that we help people physically to
feel better spiritually. Our job is to have
a higher degree of certainty in locating,
prioritizing and adjusting subluxations.”
Dr. Demartini noted Parkinson’s Law,
which states that any space in time that
you don’t fill with high priority things
gets filled with low priority things. So it
is important, he noted, that we find
what is meaningful and focus on that.
“Many chiropractors do not give themselves
the permission to be leaders,” he
said. “Your success is not in just how
many patients you see each day, but
how many seeds you plant, how many
people you inspire. It isn’t possible to
know the ramifications of the effect an
adjustment will have on someone.”