From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.
Instinct..
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|…is a “hard” (pre-wired/genetic material) response to a certain circumstance as long as the organism is living. As such it is a species specific response and will never change. The honeybee does a dance to tell other bees where pollen is. It is genetically (materially) created that way. It is not selfish, hence not a ... Read more
Read More Q&A #76
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|The development TSC to OC: The ability to orient, analyze and adapt to change has been manifested by changing/evolving our objective from curing deafness(1895) to getting sick people well (circa 1905) to enabling greater expression of innate intelligence. (circa 1975) Getting sick people well was already the objective of medicine. Some maintain that OSC was ... Read more
Read More Addressing Symptoms/Effects
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|Sincerity and altruism are often used as a reason for ignoring principles.
Read More Objective Chiropractic
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|We are not creating a new profession or distorting the profession started by the Palmers. Objective chiropractic is just a reformation of the profession as BJ described it when he edited the 33 principles.
Read More Adjusting Ability
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|No matter how much ability you have you are completely helpless in making an adjustment. As long as you are impressed with your ability, you will never reach the point of usefulness.
Read More Communication
Thinking Straight
|It takes two to communicate. The communicator and the listener. We are responsible for the quality of the former not the latter.
Read More Excerpt from my next Book-a novel
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|It is ironic that we have, during the last century, won the right to practice chiropractic despite the efforts of the medical profession. Yet we cannot stop the efforts of our own profession to intrude/insert medical practice into our profession.
Read More The Evolution of the Chiropractic Objective
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|DD and later BJ saw so many people get well from many conditions that eventually the objective was concluded that chiropractic did not cure any or all diseases. It enabled the innate intelligence of the body to get people better from many diseases notwithstanding limitations of matter. That is and has always been the cause ... Read more
Read More Thought on The Chiropractic Objective
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Chiropractic was not designed to be evaluated by how you feel but how you are (expressing life, the expression of intelligence through matter. The former is the objective of medicine, the latter that of chiropractic.
Read More Innate v. Educated Results
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|The bodily changes that occur naturally do so by the innate intelligence if it is acting properly, without interference/distortion to its messages. Chiropractors maintain it makes those changes better without interference to that message due to vertebral subluxation. Otherwise the body is acting on the power of the educated intelligence or the result of limitations ... Read more
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