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      Bullying, Inspiration, Labels & Disabilities, Leadership, Self-Love

      The Relationship Between Two Opposites

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • March 26, 2014

      In nature and in human life a relationship exists between two opposite energies, equal in force, equal in power and equal in measure. In nature, we call these two energies – predator and prey. In human beings we have many labels for this – good and bad, positive and negative, hero and villain or victim and bully.

      These relationships are defined by the laws of nature – the very laws that govern the way our planet functions, the way nature governs itself and the way our physiology maintains balance and homeostasis. No matter how much we choose to deny or even defy these relationships, they continue to exist. As human beings, we take it upon ourselves to try and overpower nature and redefine the relationships between these two energies.

      In the bullying dynamic, this is something we have been attempting to do for many years, just as we have tried to accomplish this in healthcare, in economics, in business structures, in politics and so many other areas. No matter how much energy and effort we put into trying to change the dynamics of this exchange in nature, they permeate and actually expand. It is no wonder that the bullying dynamic has reached an ‘epidemic’ proportion. It would be wise to explore this relationship further in order to create transformation and forge a new path.

      There are two charges that exist in nature and in all living things. We label them as a positive charge and a negative charge. These two charges make up every single atom that you can see, touch, smell, taste and even hear. In human physiology, every single part of who we are is compromised of these two charges and in order for us to maintain balance in our bodies, these charges need to be in harmony with one another. If we look at some of the systems within our bodies, at closer inspection, we can see that even at a systemic level, there is balance. The Chinese have taught this for thousands of years.

      On a psychological level, we all have the capacity to do ‘good’ and to do ‘evil’. There is not one person living on this planet who hasn’t done both, in one form or another. We can be selfish and selfless. We can be weak and we can be strong. We experiences peace as much as we experience war and we definitely have moments of support mixed in with moments of challenge. We cannot live without one or the other. In fact, the laws of nature dictate that these opposites come in pairs. They co-exist together, at the same time. They may not be present together in the same space. They can be far apart, like the opposite poles of the earth. This is called non-locality in Quantum Physics. Yet, they are synchronous.

      When we look deeper into the bullying dynamic, it is clear to see the two opposites. On one side is the challenger with strength, power, apparent confidence and control. On the other side, is the receiver who, to us, displays weakness, lack of power, lack of confidence and, what appears to be a lack of control. They are total opposites of one other. They co-exist together. It is hard, however, to separate our emotions from the facts and from what we observe. We allow our emotions, which often times stem from our own wounds, to determine the outcome of this pair of opposites. Since our desire for peace outweighs our understanding of war, we seek to stop one side and promote the other. We fail to see that each side has both strength and weakness and that they are both providers of challenge and recipients of challenge. They are one and the same, experiencing their journey through the situations they’ve grown up in, while showing the other how to embrace another way forward.

      We elevate the victim and suppress the bully. We favour one over the other. Would you do that with your right lung versus your left lung? Would you favour one side of your brain over the other? Would you shut down one part of your autonomic nervous system in favour of the other? Would you seek only darkness instead of daylight and land instead of water? In your relationships with your family, partners or children, would you want it to be happy all the time or would that get boring? I would imagine, that with all those examples, the answer would be no. Why is that? It’s because we know that in life, those opposites belong together. They require each other in order to fulfill their individual potentials. They can’t exist without supporting and challenging each other.

      So too is the case in the relationship between ‘bully’ and ‘victim’. They are part of a tapestry that promotes growth, evolution, individuality, purpose and deeper understanding within human beings. Denying that this balance or relationship is required is like denying half of who you are, and that is impossible. Accepting that life provides challenge, sometimes in the form of a ‘bully’, is a step forward for the evolution of humanity.

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      Entrepreneurship, Labels & Disabilities, Leadership

      The Zombie Epidemic

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • May 25, 2013
      • empower, inspire, living, pursuit of dreams, visionary, Zombie

      I recently watched a movie called Warm Bodies. For those of you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a movie about zombies who find their way back to being human, through the help of one zombie who somehow wants a different life. This isn’t the most amazing film I’ve ever seen but it had a message that I just had to write about.

      We live in a world where more than 80% of people aren’t doing what they love with their lives. That’s a an alarming statistic. How is it possible that so many of us are lost and not sure what we want to do or how to get there?

      In this movie, a zombie whose name is ‘R’ decides that he wants a different life than all the other zombies. He feels alone, isolated and unable to feel. In essence, he’s dead inside. His yearning to live takes him on a journey of re-discovery that, surprisingly, is somewhat inspiring.

      While watching this movie, I reflected on humanity. I wondered if this concept, portrayed through a zombie movie, depicts a truth about human beings and the way in which we live our lives. I wondered if most of us are walking around like zombies wanting a different life but just accepting the hand we got dealt. Then I thought to myself that this must be true. These zombie movies show the real tragedy of human civilisation in a very graphic light.

      We have been taught not to challenge the order of things. We’ve been conditioned to accept what we have and have been instructed not to try and change anything. The question I have is, what if we did? What if we broke out of our zombie comas, rediscovered who we really are and go do something magical in the world? What kind of life would be live? Who could we inspire?

      My goal is to help people break through this epidemic, by helping kids to live according to their values and by empowering them to inspire others to express their own uniqueness and individuality. It’s time for the zombies to wake up and start living. What do you think?

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      Bullying, Labels & Disabilities, Leadership

      Active and Passive Bullying – What’s the Difference?

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • February 24, 2013

      From a very young age, I was bullied quite consistently by a number of different people in my life. Some were peers, others my family and, in my later years, they showed up in my career.

      For many years, I believed the reason I was being bullied by other people was because of how I looked. I had big ears when I was younger and I stood out like a sore thumb. I came to believe the way to solve my problems was to fix my ears. That seemed to be the wisest solution.

      When I arrived in Australia in 1996, my parents and I decided we would go ahead with cosmetic surgery, before I started my new school in a new country. The surgery went well and low and behold, I was a new man.

      I started school a week after the surgery and I began to receive attention I’d never had before. My confidence levels grew and I became more extroverted. Definite upsides, after dealing with the pain and agony I experienced after the surgery.

      A year later, however, there was a dramatic turn of events which perplexed me, to the point it took the next 14 years to understand what had happened. In year (grade) 11, a big party was put on by the year 12’s and I decided I didn’t want to go.

      The reason I chose not to, was because I knew people would be drinking and smoking and it just wasn’t my idea of a good time. Instead of keeping that to myself, I voiced my opinions quite strongly. Some would say I even projected them onto the rest of my grade.

      As a consequence, there was a huge backlash and my classmates ostracized me for close to four weeks. I was alone and without friends to connect with. I experienced another form of bullying, yet it had nothing to do with my ears.

      In the last two years, I have expanded my knowledge of human behavior and universal laws and principles. I worked through my previous years of ‘bullying’ and developed a deeper and rich understanding of the dynamic based on my own personal experiences.

      I never perceived myself to be a bully, until I took the time to see where I was doing it in another form. I was, in my own mind, always the victim. I had this “always and never” attitude to life.

      Then not long ago, I revisited the bullying dynamic, but from a Chinese Medical Theory perspective. I knew from my experience the body is composed of two distinct energies – a masculine and feminine energy; principles I later grounded through the work of Dr. John F. Demartini.

      I also knew masculine energy is generally an active or outgoing energy and the feminine side is generally a passive or receiving energy. Both, however, do have their own respective passive and active components.

      When I looked deeper, I discovered something fascinating. Something I had overlooked and never seen before. A piece of the dynamic overlooked by most. I noticed on both sides of the dynamic, with the ‘bullied’ and the ‘bully’, there were active and passive components in each.

      The ‘bullied’ portrayed an active or masculine victim persona to the outside world. Yet, under the surface, there appeared to be a passive or silent ‘bully’ hiding no one could see. After taking a look into my life, I uncovered something about my reality I hadn’t recognized.

      For most of my childhood, I was over protected and, at the same time, propped up on a pedestal. I was led to believe, due to being challenged I was better than other people. That I was smarter, the bigger man and so on.

      In essence, my ego was silently being boosted on the inside. Naturally this helped to balance out what I was dealing with but at the same time it was also creating the very challenges I wanted to avoid.

      The passive bully was building inside of me and I actively engaged that part of myself by sounding more ‘intelligent’, using my body in certain ways to assert myself and walking around with an air of superiority. This was something I had never noticed when I looked into the dynamic, but it was now evident.

      I was both the ‘bully’ and the ‘bullied’ at the exact moment. I actively portrayed the victim and I was silently or passively ‘bullying’ my perpetrator without even know I was doing this. I was, to an equal degree, the cause of my own challenges by being over protected and put on a pedestal.

      I had somehow manifested this process, subconsciously, to break my addictions or infatuations I had, to empower myself more and to become more humble. What a revelation this was.

      I then took a look at the ‘bully’ and thought; if this pattern exists within me, then it must exist within the person or people who ‘bullied’ me. The ‘bully’ was actively challenging me. That was an obvious one and there could be no denying it, but what was the passive side? What was the feminine component in the bully?

      It took some time to uncover this but I realized behind all their aggression, verbal assaults and other tools, was a passive victim. Silently they were hiding deep wounds and covering them up with bravado. The people who I had labeled for years as terrible human beings, were going through the same challenges as I was, except no one could see it.

      Through all their challenges to me and others, and the subsequent punishments they received, they were getting what they needed to grow. They were subconsciously creating scenarios where they could receive nurturing, support, appreciation and care – everything I had been receiving in excess.

      At the same time, they were subconsciously humbling me and others, to enable themselves to gain more power and become stronger. Elements they perceived were lacking in their lives.

      In my experience, the bullying dynamic is far more complex and intricate than it looks on the surface. This issue has been tackled from so many different angles, all yielding similar results and no real transformation. Both sides of this dynamic are playing both sides towards each other at the time of interaction. They are both equally a victim and a bully.

      This may be a confronting idea to digest, yet there is no denying it. We all know our parents or loved ones have propped us up when we got challenged by other people, and this action most likely inflated our egos, which we then projected onto others.

      Any time a person projects their beliefs or values onto another human being, without caring about them, those people naturally close down, become defensive and aggressive in response.

      We as the bully, require this humbling process to bring us back to centre and we, as the bullied, require this process to help us validate ourselves. Nothing is ever missing. This dynamic is a perfect interplay and interconnection of energies, constantly aiming to balance each other out and achieve a position of neutrality and appreciation.

      “I am who I am both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly.” –Nelson Mandela

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      The Real Me!

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • February 12, 2013
      • be yourself, bullied, Bullying, different, empower yourself, hiding away, unique

      Almost 17 years ago, I chose to suppress and repress a part of myself that I perceived wouldn’t be accepted by the people around me. Today, on the 13th February 2013, I have made a decision to show everyone that part of me – what I’ve been hiding all this time. It’s nothing too major, in the big scheme of things. I’m not coming out or anything of that nature. For me, this is actually a big deal and I’m sure for those of you who have felt different in any way, it would be just as challenging to take this action step for yourselves.

      For those of you who know me and have known me for quite some time, you may already be aware of this but for those of you who don’t, this is something I wanted to share with you because of the impact it could have on your lives and even your children’s lives.

      When I was younger, up until 15 years old, I had big ears. I know that the build up I’ve created around this may seem silly, but my ears were a huge issue for me and that made me feel different to the point where I didn’t feel accepted. To some degree, my big ears made me an easier target for ‘bullies’ or ‘challengers’ when I was younger, even though my ‘bullying’ episodes came from much deeper roots.

      In 1996, my family immigrated to Australia from South Africa. I was starting fresh in a new country. I knew what I had been through over the last 15 years, especially when it came to my ears and so I decided, together with my parents, to get my ears pinned back. At the time, I felt this was the right step to take. It seemed appropriate considering this was a new beginning for me and I wanted it to be easier than the last 15 years. So, I chose to fit in with the crowd. I perceived they would accept me better that way. A week before school, I had the surgery on my ears. The recovery was excruciating! I would not wish that surgery on anyone.

      My business, Be Who You Wanna Be, and my personal philosophy is centered around helping children, as well as adults, be accepted for who they are. As you can probably tell, I had a huge void in this area. I perceived I wasn’t accepted for who I was so I felt I had to change myself, physically, in order for people to respond to me, appreciate me and care about me. It’s a shame that we feel so overpowered by the opinions of others, that the opinion we have about ourselves can be diminished to such a degree.

      My reason for sharing this is two-fold. Firstly, I wanted you all to see that I have been hiding a unique part of myself for quite some time and I am just as different as most of you. Secondly I want to show you how easy it can be to sub-ordinate to the opinions of others in order to fit in. No matter who you are or where you are in the world, nothing will bring you greater fulfillment in life than being who you are. We are all so beautiful, special and unique in our own individual ways and just because we may look a certain way, behave in a way that doesn’t fit in with people’s standards or be something other than people’s expectations, does not mean we have to change ourselves.

      I am a big eared guy. It may not look like it on the surface, but I’ll always be that kid. No amount of surgery will ever change who I am. Michael Jackson was a perfect example of this. No matter how much he changed his outer appearance, he was still that kid inside who felt he wasn’t noticed for who he was.

      Be yourselves! Embrace your differences! Stop trying to change who you are to suit the world around you. The world needs to learn how to appreciate and accept who you are, as you are. The only way they’ll do that, is if you stand strong and tall and accept everything that’s different about yourself.

      [headline_georgia_medium_centered color=”#000000″]“Don’t Change So People Will Like You. Be Yourself And The Right People Will Love The Real You.”[/headline_georgia_medium_centered]

      Greg Schreeuwer - 13 Years Old.

      Greg Schreeuwer – 13 Years Old.

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