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      Life is a Journey, Not a Destination

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • March 22, 2013
      • Beliefs, Destination, End Points, Goals, Journey, Milestones, Values

      I’d like to start this article with a question, but before I do that, I am going to preface my question with an insight. It may not make sense immediately, but I will bring this to light as you continue reading. One of the greatest challenges people face on this planet is overcoming the ‘powers that be’ in order to uncover, reveal and actualize their inner leader.

      I’d like to ask you the following question and suggest you think about this. Whether you reflect on this throughout the article or once it’s finished, that’s up to you. How many of you out there, who might be reading this right now, look at life as a series of steps or milestones that you need, should, ought to or have to accomplish instead of a life that’s laden with experience, insight, creativity, possibility and magnificence?

      From my own personal experience, I used to look at life as something I had to do. I had to be part of a religion, go to school, choose a career, go to university, find a job, get married, buy a house, have kids and eventually retire. That’s not to say I haven’t done most of those pieces, because I have. I would be a hypocrite if I said otherwise. However, my view on life has changed over the years, and this is an idea, concept, paradigm shift or possibly something you already know, I’d like to share with you to help you on your journey.

      So, when you look at the title of this article – Life is a Journey, Not a Destination – what does that make you think? What ideas pop in your mind? What opinions are you creating or have created about it? What beliefs do you have in relation to it? Do you agree with it? Does it irritate you or make you feel charged inside?

      What does the word journey mean to you? What does the word destination mean to you? To me, the word destination implies you’re starting at a certain point in time and space, and then ending somewhere else at a certain point in time and space. In essence, it appears to be finite. When I look at the word journey, it looks like something that has no particular end, there is color, vibrancy, change, surprises and even uncertainty. There is no specific end-point. In essence, a journey appears to be infinite because it continues on and on and never truly ends.

      When you look at your life, do you see yourself working towards reaching different destinations? The university destination or the marriage destination or the great job destination or the kids destination or even the retirement destination? Do you focus a lot on end-points and finite pieces of where you’re going? Or, do you look at life as a journey that is unpredictable, exciting, invigorating, full of surprises, where you’re in control and can dictate the flow or direction of where you’re going and has infinite possibilities? Something you know has milestones but your focus is on the process, not on what you’re going to get at the end of the race?

      Most people around the world look at life as a series of end-points. You might even hear some of your friends, family or even yourself say things like: “I gotta just get here and then it’ll be ok” or “I have to make this money so I can move on with my life” or “I just need a degree and then I’ll be able to do what I want.” All of these phrases or statements are infused with imperatives. Imperatives, for those of you who might not know, are words you use to indicate imposed beliefs or values. Words like ‘should’, ‘have to’, ‘ought to’ or even ‘need to’ are words we use because someone else, a perceived authority in our lives, projected a belief or value onto us about how to live life. As a consequence we injected that into our lives and are following their lead, setting end-points in life, based on their values or beliefs, rather than setting milestones along an infinite journey.

      Why do you think this is? Why do you think people out there are following others, working towards achieving destination end-points, instead of leading themselves and creating their own journey through life? Are you doing this right now? Would you like to be the one in the lead, setting the pace and tone of your own life and getting on the road that can take you wherever you want it to go? Are you missing out on the experience of being who you are and sacrificing it for that destination you’re trying to reach?

      A few years ago, when I was working as a chiropractor in a highly respected clinic in Sydney, Australia, I reached an end-point – a destination. I realized I wasn’t on the road I wanted to be on. I was following someone else’s journey through life and it didn’t work for me. It didn’t feel like a journey. It wasn’t exciting or full of new possibilities. I wasn’t completely in control. So, I decided to start creating my own journey. I decided it was time to empower myself and see the magnificence in my own story. It was in this moment, I chose to carve out my own life and become an inspired leader.

      In the time since I began to venture into my own life, I have waxed and waned. I have been destination focused and then journey focused. However, every time I paid attention to the journey, the process in between milestones or end-points, a great sense of fulfillment, wonder and inspiration surged through me. When the destination mindset crept back in, I felt myself feeling defeated, low, lacking in energy, overwhelmed and heavy. It didn’t really resonate with me but there was this voice inside of me that continued telling me I ‘should’ or ‘I have to.’ I was scared of fully embracing my own choice to live my life the way I wanted. Why? Well, for many years I subordinated to outer authorities in my life, like most of us do, and it was a challenge to go against those beliefs I’d bought into, as well as my mind, which was holding onto those perceived truths.

      The sooner I realized the way forward was to become my own authority in my life, the more I pursued it. I became aware life is not about reaching my next destination and only being focused on the end-points or what I’m trying to get to. Life is about what you can learn, gather, appreciate, share, experience, create, collaborate and do right now. Life, as a journey, seemed to be more appealing. I didn’t know where it would lead, but I knew what I wanted to achieve and I may never complete the journey, and it may continue on beyond my time. I just knew if I focused on embracing the process of living, being present and seeing everything as on the way, I would succeed and empower that leader I’d buried inside of myself and leave the journey to be travelled and continued by others.

      It may seem counter-intuitive to look at life as a journey, instead of a series of destinations to achieve, reach or accomplish. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be milestones or markers you’ll reach or strive for, but you’ll never truly achieve success and fulfillment by focusing on the concept of: ‘once I get there, everything will work out’. There will always be destinations but the journey, the process in between those destinations, is where the magic lays, not the end-points.

      As we all know, when we’re traveling through life, the ‘once I get there, everything will work out’ mindset, is never the reality. Life just hands us a new set of obstacles and challenges to face until the next milestone. The journey never truly ends because everything in this world is actually infinite in possibility, yet we create these end-points to try and make it a more finite world. We place limitations on what we can do by taking this type of action. We lose focus on what happens between each milestone and what we can accomplish for ourselves in those moments, what we can learn and how we can grow.

      So, I’ll leave you with a series of questions. When you’ve gone on a journey in your life, whether real or imagined, did it ever truly end when you reached that end-point or are you still wondering about it, looking at photos of it and sharing it with others in some form? In other words, has your journey persisted and continued beyond the destination? Is there still more you would like to do, be or have? If so, focus on the journey instead of where you’re heading. Have that in mind, for sure, but enjoy the moments you’ll get to experience along the way.

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      What Goes In, Must Come Out

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • December 24, 2012
      • ADD, ADHD, Computers, Dyslexia, Epilepsy, Lack of Alignment, Learning Disorders, Movement Disorders, Nervous System, Perception, Transformation, Values

      After having a conversation with someone close to me, I wanted to share some insights with you about ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Movement Disorders, Epilepsy and Learning Disorders. This may be a touchy subject for some of you, but by the end of this article, you may have a deeper appreciation and understanding, that you don’t have right now.

      I studied and practised Chiropractic for close to 11 years. I spent my time learning about physiology, biochemistry, neurology, Chinese Medicine and several other disciplines. I’m going to explain how the human body develops disorders like the ones I’ve mentioned above, by drawing on all the knowledge I’ve accumulated over this time. I will also refer a lot to human behavioural principles and aspects of physics to illustrate my point.

      Most of you may believe that the above ‘disorders’ are problems that need fixing, and that they are aberrations in function and should be dealt with. When we see these problems present themselves in children, we then perceive or believe that these ‘disorders’ are counter productive towards their growth and development. In reality, however, these ‘disorders’ are purely feedback mechanisms that have been designed by the body and the brain to alert us or you, to an imbalance occurring in a child’s environment.

      Your nervous system, in simplicity, has two ways to manage life. It receives information through a number of different senses and, then depending on what information it receives you will, through a number of different connections made inside your brain, respond to that information accordingly. In other words, what comes in to the body, must come out in some other form. The nervous system works perfectly in this way, even if the stimulus is perceived to be negative or positive. It still outputs a response based on what it perceives that it’s dealing with.

      Let’s use a computer as a metaphor. The hardware, which includes the processor, the memory, the hard drive, the graphics card and the motherboard, work together with the software or the programs. Computers are designed to have both of these parts, work together simultaneously. When we go and use a computer and load up 15 programs all at once, that use up a lot of speed, space, memory and power, what will be the output from the computer? Will it speed up and do what we want or will it crash or hang, until we shut down some of the input we just asked it to perform? Naturally, it will crash. It won’t be able to handle so much input, so it starts to do strange and unusual things that we don’t expect of it. When we put a lot of pressure on it to perform outside of it’s parameters, it let’s us down. We do the same thing to each other and to children.

      Our nervous systems and bodies are highly individualised and unique. They can only process input effectively and efficiently, that fits in with their parameters. If you force input or software into another human being, that wasn’t designed for that person or is not in alignment with them, you will see an outpouring of unexpected reactions.

      Each and every one of us has a set of values, that go from most important to least important. Everything we do is inline with those values and no two value systems are the same. We are all different. To use the computer metaphor, we are are all uniquely built computers. Our hardware and software don’t work in the same way as the next person. Although computers can be built and designed this way. Human beings cannot.

      When we are confronted with ‘disorders’ like the ones mentioned above, the solution to transforming them is not to necessarily medicate them or fix them. The person is not broken. That person is receiving too much input, coming through a number of different senses, that is not aligned with it’s values – it’s working parameters. As a consequence, the output from the body is not balanced. It’s in excess. You’ll find that these people or children, who experience this type of input, will overheat, shutdown, hang, crash, perform strange and unusual behaviours and may need a reboot after all that energy is dealt with.

      I know that I’m looking at these challenges very simply, yet they are not as complicated as they seem. When we can learn to communicate in our children’s values, when we can value them for who they are and when we can provide input into their bodies that is aligned with their specific parameters, we can transform all of these disorders. These ‘disorders’ are, in actuality, a way to balance out all the excess input they are receiving through their senses, that their nervous systems do not know how to deal with or manage. They are there to let you know, that what you think is best for them to be, do or have, is not necessarily in their best interest. In actual fact, it’s making them short circuit. Until their minds can perceive, that your input into their lives fits in with their parameters or their values, they will reject it and often use these ‘disorders’ to let you or society know.

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