This is a follow-up to my last blog post my about my experience with my holistic MD. The point of this information is that there is a risk or a penalty attached to being different. Again, perhaps for reasons listed in my “exploring the unknown” post, society seems not to value the outlier. 

Here are some examples:

1.   Most medical practitioners would be unlikely to endorse that heavy metals test and perhaps even argue against it. Most patients would probably rebel at the idea of paying $300, for what?

2.   My doctor indicated that his malpractice insurance went up 250% after he provided information to the insurance company about his practice and methods. Some of you will see that as evidence for avoiding him.

3.   The doctor described a situation with a patient who was extremely health conscious. So much so that he wanted his children to have the heavy metals test. Later, one of the children ate something at a party that caused a case of hives. Alarming, but not life threatening, the father took his daughter to the hospital emergency room. The doctor there wanted to prescribe steroids. The health conscious father did not want his daughter treated with steroids and left. Shortly thereafter, someone from a government agency designed to prevent child abuse showed up at his door and he is now immersed in explaining his behavior.

Thinking outside the box is not a risk-free endeavor. Remember, that in 1492, almost everyone, including the intelligentsia felt the world was flat.

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Being in the life insurance business has greatly expanded my view of both human interaction and the process of living itself.  A recent example of this “process of living” came up during a visit by my wife and me to our holistic MD.  We have been seeing this holistic practitioner for a number of years now and continue to be impressed by the shift in thinking that both caused these visits and results from them.  We both have had a heavy metals test that cost about $300 and is designed to show the presence of metals in your body which may cause toxicity and other problems.  While we are both relatively healthy and active, we both had a significant measure of lead and mercury as represented by the test.  This would likely be true for many individuals some of whom may be experiencing negative results with perhaps many more yet to be discovered.

What was most interesting about this visit were some examples provided by the doctor.  The point, for me, is that in life, as in life insurance there is more than one way to view the same set of facts and solutions.  Some people might describe this as “thinking outside the box.”  For reference purposes, you may need to understand that the heavy metals test produces a graph and a numeric score.  For example, the numeric score represented by the lead in my body was 18 and for my wife, 28.  Consider, however, a female, age 26, originally from India who has been suffering with fibromyalgia since age 16.  Her test revealed a numeric score of 9500 for lead.  Do you think there might be a connection between this and the symptoms she had been experiencing since age 16? 

We all operate from what we believe we know.  The problem for all of us may be that we don’t know what we don’t know.  Growth in life may very well come from one’s willingness to explore those “unknowns” in all areas where there exists a desire to get better or to produce a more desirable or better result.

In my experience impediments to this growth process are commonly uttered phrases such as “I already know;” “I have heard that before;” or “I did something just like that.”  I believe these three responses and other similar responses come from the necessity of the human brain to commoditize concepts and ideas for organizational purposes.  This way of thinking leads to the view that everything is the same, that all doctors will basically tell you the same thing; that all insurance agents have similar recommendations and ideas, etc.  In reality, we should all be looking for that “needle in the haystack” or the “pea under the mattress.”

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