Embracing the CCE

By James Tickel

The "CCE seeks to insure the quality of chiropractic education in the United States." Every institution, organization, and business, of any kind has big brother keeping them in line. The CCE is in place to make sure we are doing what we said we were going to do. Not just us either. Every Chiropractic College, Allied Health Colleges, and Chiropractic Physician Colleges in America. Life University is experiencing a re-birth of sorts. We are looking for acceptance by the CCE, SACS, and other committees in charge of the workings behind the University. We need to do whatever it takes to see our vision and our purpose fulfilled! If we don't embrace the CCE we're done. This isn't a matter of "I choose this..." or "they should do things this way..." or "when I get out I am taking them down!" The CCE is like the air we breathe. You don't think about whether you like it or not. You have NO say in it! You just breathe it. That is it. No discussion! This is one of the few times where there is only a small amount of dialogue. As a student accept everything, not always having to agree, but keeping the negative thoughts to yourself. So when your classmates or teachers say anything negative towards the CCE or anyone else for that matter. Get in their face. And in a constructive manner tell them they have a larger purpose to fulfill right now. That Purpose being the furthering of Principled Chiropractic to the next generation.

Students at Life?...

By Jamie Wyskiver

At the last Life Source meeting in April, many field doctors that were there talked about numerous different things that they and other chiropractors have been doing to help with the survival and security of Life University. One thing that they stated would help the most is to increase the student population at Life. So... upon this statement, a group of students made a commitment to recruit students for our campus. This group of students consists of Jennie Bennett, Jessie Stuart, Casey Sopkowicz, Liliana Warner, and myself. We have named ourselves The Enlightenment Project. To start things off, we, with the help of Adam Rodnick, went to a local high school a few weeks ago to talk to some of the students about choosing chiropractic as a profession. At first things started off a little slow, but before long, we were talking to all kinds of different people that seemed really interested in Life University and the idea of chiropractic. The response towards the end was amazing.

Overall, we had awesome conversations with these students about chiropractic and its purpose and philosophy. It was definitely something that I look forward to doing again in the future! If any of you would be interested in joining us in our mission, or creating a mission on your own, please do so! If you are interested or have any questions, feel free to talk to any of us or contact me, Jamie Wyskiver at 404-210-1641.

A Challenge

By Liliana Warner

Everybody loves chiropractic. At least, everybody I know loves it. So I posed a question to myself. Why, if everyone I know loves chiropractic so much, haven't they all decided to become chiropractors themselves? Now, granted, two people I know ARE starting at LIFE. But why not everyone else? So I challenged myself. I decided that I would personally "recruit" at least one person a year to become a chiropractor. That, of course, means they would come to LIFE. I support the profession, I support the school, and I support my belief that if I am talking the talk and walking the walk, then I'm doing my part to show everyone I meet that there is no better way to live than a life with chiropractic at its center. Really, who wouldn't want this? This is also YOUR profession. This is also YOUR school. And if you're really a chiropractor, then be one. Talk the talk. Walk the walk. Live the life and others will want what you have. Don't wait until you are in practice, make a difference now. I challenge you.

Life is Good! All the Time!

By James Tickel

LIFE is Good! ALL THE TIME! In this world you have the pleasure and the responsibility to live life to the fullest! Life more abundantly! Everyday is a gift. Enjoy it with a childlike heart. Receive it with open arms, mind, and spirit. Share this gift with as many people as you can reach. Give it away knowing that it was never yours for the keeping. Give more so that you may receive more. Give with a loving heart. A heart that knows no color, a heart that knows no prejudices, a heart that loves for the sake of loving. Become a clean vessel so that the truth may flow through you. Open your mind to allow the Great Spirit to work in you. Set aside your selfishness, arrogance, and pride as an act of servanthood knowing that you are undeserving. Know that you are no better than the next. Look at the flaws in your life before seeing them in others. Then accept yours and theirs because we are all in this as one. When your brother or sister falls down pick them up. In order for our spirits to dance we have to become one with our Creator. Our spirits cannot dance the dance of life with each other until we surrender ourselves to our Creator. Then and only then will our time together start to feel of true worth. You come in contact with your own spirit when you experience that Something more after you have let down your social facades that mask you from the reality of a perfect being created by the most amazing artist. Allow the Spirit to flow through you. And health, healing, and the miracle of life will manifest itself as a gift to you and me, each and every new day. Be thankful that you have received this new day. Be thankful that the Spirit brought you here. You didn't chose Chiropractic. Someone called you to a duty bigger than yourself and you showed up!

Defying Natural Law

By Brandan Lee

When God created earth and human beings and the other creatures that inhabit it, he created certain laws of nature, or processes. For example the water cycle of rain and evaporation, the blood clotting process and gravity. Since he created these he can change or bypass them anytime he wants. He can bypass the normal healing process to have supernatural healing, he can cause rain to fall from a clear sky, etc. Since He created gravity, only He has the ability to defy it. Another natural law He created is that life would flow through our bodies from the brain through the nervous system to the rest of the body. He isn't limited to flowing only through the nervous system, just as he isn't limited to the normal water cycle. Under normal circumstances, our body depends upon the nervous system to be the conduit for the Innate Intelligence He gave us to run our bodies. Aside from a supernatural touch from God (supernatural healing), Chiropractic care is the only method we have for making sure our bodies are capable of healing at their maximum potential.

The Bigness of the Fellow Within, Ch. 5

By BJ Palmer

The Difference between the great, near-great, or commoner, is in the limitations of matter-not in the limitations of the Innate Producer within them. And what limits matter? The vertebral subluxation-itself a limition of matter-which occludes an opening producing pressure upon nerves reducing the supply of the producer to the product limiting the action of the product to reproduce the producer. If there were no vertebral subluxation - no occlusion of any vertebral foramina - no pressure upon nerves - no reduction of supply between producer and product -no limitation of product to reproduce the producer all men would be equal in producer and product. That which scales human beings is their physical inability to climb to the heights of the innate producer within them. For this reason the salient and vital factor of human production is entirely wrapped up in the supreme importance of the vertebral subluxation. To adjust the subluxation, then, is to advance mankind, step up his efficiency, increase his ability, make him more natural and more at peace within himself; for all things are possible for him whose body equals his innate. Men, themselves, are not great. Men are great only insofar as they do something which is construed as great by other men. Why are there so few great and near-great; and so many so far removed from doing great things? They are down the ladder of accomplishment on the various rungs of the ladder, somewhere between the top and bottom. There is one fundamental answer, subject to two classifications: 1st. If there were 100 per cent continouus, uniterrupted flow between innate brain and educated brain, the educated thoughts and actions would be equivalent to the thoughts and actions of innate itself. These are few. There are few 100 per cent, fully alive, healthy and sane educations. In exact ratio as they are up the ladder, they are more nearly 100 per cent alive, healthy and sane. In exact ratio as they are down the ladder below 100 per cent, they are dying, unhealthy, and insane; and to that extent they are not great or near-great. Innate cannot produce a great 100 per cent external product, via education, in a less than 100 per cent sick or insane education. Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness. Innate cannot do when there is a vertebral subluxation between Innate and Educated brains which interferes with the 100 per cent normal quantity and quality flow. 2nd. In exact ration as the vertebral subluxation interferes with the normal 100 per cent flow between Innate and Educated, to that extent Innate takes second place to education; educated reduces its value of Innate and increases the value of education. As the vertebral subluxation creates an insane and unnatural value on education, to that extent the sane and natural becomes unreal-"uneducated."

Traffic on Life

By Aaron Rossi

In my time at Life University, as with most people, I had to deal with Atlanta traffic. Ever aware of a good lesson, I'll share with you a few that traffic has taught me about life and Chiropractic. Lessons of Focus: When my attention is on improving focus I will count things. The hard part, I found, is focusing on the count until the journey is done. For instance, counting how many times you change lanes to get to your destination, or how many different cars you're behind. One I find a bit more simple is keeping track of how many traffic lights I will pass through and/or how many green lights I pass in a row. Lessons in Change: When stopped at a red light it is easy to see that in order to "change" the flow of traffic the current flow must come to a complete stop to allow something new to begin. I see it the same in life. When walking a certain path, one that I desire to change, I realize that things do not really change. things do not really change. It must come to a complete end first. Only then within the "empty intersection" do I have the space to create a new direction for my life. Lessons in Forgiveness: This one is a big one. It needs to be experienced. And I can only share mine. The first ticket I ever received was for running a red light when I was 18 years old. I saw yellow and to this day am certain of it, but the police officer saw red, and that ended what little conversation we had. The lesson came when I recalled that I did run a red light but not that one. Twenty minutes before I was leaving a friends neighborhood well past midnight and I cautiously went through a light that would just stay red "forever." The point is I felt guilty about it. Guilt requires punishment and forgiveness ends that cycle. I have never received a ticket since if I have been able to genuinely feel forgiveness for my offense. There is much more but not for this article. The moral is that there are master teachers to be found everywhere. Can we be master students?

Acceptance of Chiropractic

By Isabelle Roy

Are we really relaying the message of Chiroprac-TIC? Are we being "accepted" for the right reasons? How much does our society really know about Chiroprac-TIC? And why? And, who's to blame for preaching the wrong idea instead of the Big Idea? Of course it's much easier to advertise and sell remedies for backaches and whiplash instead of "the Power that made the body heals the Body." BJ once said, "Following the paths of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked." Does osteopathy ring a bell? Obviously somewhere along the line this happened. Some so-called chiropractoids did not get the Big Idea, took the path of least resistance, and created this mess we're in today. But I believe everything happens for a reason. Are we really being accepted for what we really are by finally being covered by health insurance, letting them decide what Chiroprac-TIC is and is not? By letting them decide what the people need, how much of it and for how long? Are we really making progress or taking steps back? People are not getting the Big Idea. According to a survey done by the University of South Dakota, 67% of people "thought that chiropractors should be able to prescribe 'pain relievers and muscle relaxers.'" Or that "chiropractic patients were about three times more satisfied with the information given them, and nearly three times as likely to perceive the provider as confident and comfortable in dealing with low back pain." "Public opinion studies demonstrate how well chiropractors are now accepted." Chiroprac-TORS and the principles of Chiroprac-TIC are not what's being accepted, using the adjustment to correct low back pain is what's being accepted.

Angry In Deed

Poets are angry.
All over the world.

Life's roaring downpour
in springtime showers
penetrating and piercing
parched, eager soil.

Anger over
how things are.
Laughing for what
they could be.

Poets are angry.
After all these years,
the poets are still angry.
Angry in deed.

William E. Tickel DC.

(Note: The reader may substitute "chiropractors"
for "poets" in this piece, as both are concerned
for the rhyme and reason of life.)

Common Grounds Cafe

For the students run by students:

We have been approved for work-study and the opportunity to be open during the daytime is available - all we need is students that are interested in working. We are currently open Monday - Thursday 6pm-11pm. We are about to expand the menu to include protein shakes, smoothies, iced drinks, pizza, pretzels and quesadillas. The opportunity to make money independently by bringing in baked goods, crafts, or some type of lessons (dance, foreign language, etc.) also exists. If interested email Jen Conway.

Thanks, Mariana, Jen, Jay and Jamie

LP3

This is going to be the most Dynamic Chiropractic Gathering of the Year! History in the making! Make is a priority to be there, along with your friends, families and everyone else you know! LIFE is ALIVE!This is going to be the most Dynamic Chiropractic Gathering of the Year! History in the making! Make is a priority to be there, along with your friends, families and everyone else you know! LIFE is ALIVE!

"This is a proud and exciting time for Life University and me personally. This weekend may include the inauguration but it is so much more than that. I expect the pride of the moment to be far outweighed by the renewed courage and commitment experienced by everyone that joins us during LP3 weekend." - Guy Riekeman D.C.