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.
Q&A # 45 (Historical)
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 1 Comment
|Why were many chiropractors, B.J. included, initially against the idea of licensure for chiropractors and why did they apparently change their minds?
Read More Incorrect Thinking
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 6 Comments
|You cannot keep the power of incorrect thinking under control unless the majority, or at least a significant percentage of the people of a nation, community, organization or group making the decisions adhere to correct thinking. Limiting incorrect thinking is why our country originally wanted to limit the voting franchise to male citizens, 21 years or older, who owned property ... Read more
Read More Cause and Effect
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|A single entity can be both a cause and an effect but they are not one and the same. The effect is not the cause of itself. Outside -in thinking maintains they can be one and the same.
Read More Opposing Schools of Thought
Thinking Straight | 12 Comments
|When it comes to our philosophy there are two opposing schools of thought- those who want to expand the philosophy and those who want to expand our understanding of the philosophy. To determine which group you belong to, you must fall back on your objective-correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the forces of the innate intelligence ... Read more
Read More Natural, Metanatural, and Supernatural
Thinking Straight | 18 Comments
|David Koch, D.C. in his philosophy text makes a distinction between metanatural and supernatural. Some do not like that distinction and cite DD’s, BJ’s and RWS’s use of supernatural terms like God to describe what Koch would call metanatural phenomena, universal and innate intelligence. I have no problem with David’s distinction and in fact it may ... Read more
Read More I've said it before but it bears repeating…no.2
Patient Education, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 2 Comments
|RE:PRACTICE MEMBERS, When the rate of forgetting exceeds the rate of learning, you have lost them.
Read More Intuition and Creativity
Thinking Straight | 13 Comments
|There is a place for whole brain thinking. Intuition and creativity have their place. They are not to be used, however, where there are standards, absolutes and established and proper ways of doing things, or where there is an authority unless they are functioning within the guidelines of that authority. We must have authority or else ... Read more
Read More Treating a vertebral subluxation v.adjusting a vertebral subluation Q&A#46
Thinking Straight | 12 Comments
|Is their a difference?
Read More The enemy of my enemy…
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Just because people or organizations are against what we are against such as, outside-in thinking, addressing effects rather than cause, performing certain medical procedures or treating certain medical conditions or diseases, doesn’t mean they are with us. We cannot count on anyone else but us to get our message out to the world.
Read More Freedom
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|The use of ones freedom should not infringe upon the freedom of another. To do so is anarchy.
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