Get In Touch With The Spiritual Side Of Business
I do not want to repeating myself and what thousands of successful business people from all kinds of industries have talked about how vital a balanced life is in hundreds of books and seminars but – evidently the majority of people have not comprehended the message yet, as businesses left and right are going bankrupt and not following, for example, a dental marketing plan to attain success in their dental practice.
The theory that one must have a balanced life is nothing new!
Yet, most people seem to forget or not take into consideration the basics of being a healthy, successful, spiritual being!!
Those people keep ignoring the basic philosophy despite the fact that their lives are not successful, stressful and boring!
They “know it all” – have heard of it all, and invent some “real mechanical ways” to improve their life. Yeah, right – but obviously they are still stuck in a rut trying to dig their way out of misery!!
Here is the long and short of it:
The mechanics of how to do something are only a little portion of a successful life. If one does not realize that one must take care of his body and that one is NOT the body but an immortal spirit that is in charge of how well one does in life, one will simply not lead a happy life!!
And let’s make no mistake about it – You are in control of your destiny, your future!
Of course you should not take such a statement at face value from anyone including from me. You should in fact look at such a statement and only settle for it if it is true for you!! Otherwise, this statement or any statement about any subject, which is not true for you, should be discarded!!
But before you throw any such statement out the window – especially the statement I just made about YOU being an immortal spirit and YOU being the one who directs your future, despite any troubles which other people and which situations or governments or groups such as the FDA, Hippa, etc, impose on you!!
This statement is completely accurate for me and is real for just about anyone who truly succeeds!
Now let’s however define success a bit:
Success is not only to have reached what Harrison Ford or Bill Gates or George W. Bush have reached.
No, success is reaching what YOU want to reach by , for example, learning more about dental practice management skills!!
This could be to help people to be free from cancer worries because you licked the problem, or to have all five children be happily married and doing what they want to do. It might mean anything under the ‘sun, moon and the stars’ as long as YOU want it. Not what your parents or the teacher or the stigma of society wants! People who want to skip the basics of taking care of their body, for instance, will usually be too tired, too exhausted and too busy to go to the doctor, and actually pursue their goals.
It is, of course, easy to believe that there is a quick fix, such as medication.
Falling for the drug makers, advertising campaigns that cause you to neglect your body and take their shortcut is deadly. A shortcut, which puts you on a never-ending merry-go-around of drug use, makes the drug companies reach their goal of money and control of all life on this planet!
The house of drugs however bars you, if ever so slow, from ever reaching your goals!
Despite the despicable act of those drug companies I have to tell you that it is YOU who let them do it to yourself. Taking those drugs is not only neglecting your body but at the same time abusing your body.
It probably started with YOU – not wanting to work for what you want or need to achieve to succeed and have the life you want, and therefore conforming to the pharmaceutical companies’ persistent and convincing ways to help you!
Somehow, I see millions of people, all over , running around pretending to appear to stand for a religion and religious freedom – which of course has little or nothing to do with spirituality – but do not want to talk about this topic to anybody and definitely do not want to take a stand on it !
They say it does not belong in the work world! It is something personal!
You bet it is personal – You are a spirit. What would you say about a doctor in denial of being a doctor?
And I have met some doctors who do just that!!
Let me give you an example:
I know an MD who strongly believes in chelation therapy!
He swears by this form of therapy and uses it on himself and his family members.
Here is what’s too bad – he’s in denial – he does not promote it to any of his patients but prescribes cholesterol-lowering drugs, blood pressure drugs, sends them to surgery and all the other rather destructive activities.
He believes – no, he is convinced that chelation therapy is life saving and a real cure to heart problems yet he does not bother helping his patients who are asking for it!!
Why? Why does he do that?
He is afraid of what the AMA (American Medical Association) says about this type of treatment!!
Needless to say this occurence was very disappointing to me!
The reality is that he is responsible for the deaths of many many untreated patients!
Also, the number of deaths medical professionals are responsible for simply because they do ot feel like “standing up to the man” is a million times worse than the World Trade Center bombing (5,000 died at WTC x 1,000,000 or 17x US population)!! Oh yes!!
Why am I talking about this in connection to people who say they believe in a higher force such as God and Spirit but then in the same breath say that this subject has no place in the business world and actually has no influence on how well one does in the business world and should be left alone?
That is OK, just like with your profession, you learned more every day and your reality changed a bit. It is not a failure or weakness to change one’s mind in the light of new findings and then after playing with them awhile you might realize that those new findings became workable and thus real to you.
If YOU start stopping any self-denial on the subject of spirituality (which has not much to do with religion as that is a different subject for another news letter) then you will start to understand the many things in life which go wrong and may be more important you see the many things in life which go right, such as dental advertising to promote one’s practice!!
Again, this is not a cry to become religious, just a statement that you are a spirit and have a body of which you, the spirit, are in charge of; and if you do not operate as such then you are not using the source (you) which is the only entity which can handle your problems. Reaching your goals will be harder and more painful than it has to be; never mind that in almost all cases you won’t even reach it!! If you ignore the fact that you are a spirit and that you have to take care of your body so that the body can be used as a tool to get tasks done so that in turn you achieve your goals.
It’s simple really believe it or not.
