Chiropractic Care Summerville, South Carolina

Call me anything. Call me a bad name. Challenge my intelligence. Question my choices. But, do not call me typical. Why? Take away someone’s uniqueness and you remove their very reason for living. Their life is forever “insignificant” and without “value.”

The foundation of psychological science is based on the work of Dr. Abraham Maslow. He discovered that the “typical” person is similar to a rodent in a cage – simply scurrying around the best it can to meet basic needs.

The lowest, primitive, rodent-like value system runs the polar opposite of the higher value systems God designed us to seek as the dominant, human life-forms on the planet.

Maslow’s Value Scale

*Lower values (scurrying for needs): Food, water, clothes, housing, security, protection, preservation

*Higher values (seeking and fulfilling a purpose): Self-actualization and significance

Lesser life forms – mice, rats, flies – are not very politically correct. They simply seek to meet needs at all costs. Today, we live in a world where typically people rush from place to place to simply, like a lower life-form, meet needs. Because this value system is incongruent with the one God created you to have, you must become stressed, frustrated, depressed, anxious, and exhibit poor health. It’s a law.

In fact, 60% of the U.S. and growing report being depressed and anxious or as Thoreau put it, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” 33% of adults are medicated and an ever booming part of the children in our country are now being medicated for this as well. This, in addition to other types of addictions (alcohol and drugs) and our penchant to do anything we can to distract our minds from our misery (cell phones, internet, pornography, T.V., iPod), “We have become comfortably numb.”

In my 7 years of being a doctor and consultant, I have never met a depressed, sick, medicated, addicted person who lived their life according to Maslow’s higher values. Seeking purpose and significance equals good mental and physical health- also a law!

Ironically, seeking lower values or simply looking to meet needs often ends up stopping you from ever meeting those needs. Truly, the best way to achieve in life is be on a mission towards higher values. Your needs get met, and then some.

Do not be typical. Look for more on this at our Stress, Time, and Energy Workshop – coming soon!

“Do not worry about what you will eat, or what you will drink, or what you will wear. …seek ye first the Kingdom and all it’s righteousness and all these (needs) will be given to you…..and then some!