The Iyer Clinic Update

Hello dear Iyer Clinic health & wellness seeker. This newsletter is our commitment to your health and wellness. We believe that health is a state of being..... as much a function of your mind as it is of your body and here at The Iyer Clinic we are constantly asking ourselves the question. How can we make the task of health more engaging, more educational and more empowering? Whether it is our incredibly affordable physician guided diabetes and weight management program, or our one of a kind world-renowned AyuRub muscle liniment that has relieved muscle joint and nerve pain for decades or our ground breaking anti-inflammatory supplement Zeus that has been shown to directly impact arthritic and psoriatic inflammation, or our in office retina photography that elevates our diabetes management to the best there is in the county, at the Iyer Clinic you will receive primary care of unparalleled excellence.

All my life I have been told a phrase that I never ever examined closely. “Always try to do your best” my parents and teachers would exhort me. “Don’t worry about the results”, they would say…. “If you tried your best, then you have nothing to be ashamed about, even if you did not succeed”. And so I spent my life striving, failing and succeeding…. But….. always “trying”!

Then one day, about 6 years ago, I was sitting and watching a movie with my son. It was “The Karate Kid”, a movie about a lightweight mild-mannered boy who is taught by an old Japanese-American World War II veteran about Karate and life. The movie is an all-time favorite of mine and my son simply loved it.

There is a scene where the boy, Daniel LaRusso arrives at the older, Mr. Miyagi’s house for his first karate lesson. The conversation goes like this….

Mr. Kesuke Miyagi: Now, ready?

Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, I guess so.

Mr, Kesuke Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk. [they both kneel] Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no". You karate do "guess so", [makes squish gesture] just like grape. Understand?

Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, I understand.

Mr. Kesuke Miyagi: Now, ready?

Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, I'm ready.

That conversation brought home to me the essential fallacy of the concept of “try”.

In life, one either “does” something or one “doesn’t do” something…. But “try” is what one says after one “doesn’t do”. But the fallacy of “try” goes deeper than that. There is a fundamental dishonesty buried within that word. When I don’t do a task and say “I didn’t do it”, then I am still holding myself totally accountable for all aspects of the execution or lack thereof. However when I say “I tried… but.. I couldn’t do it”, I am saying something far more disempowering. I am saying that my effort was not lacking but some other agency external to me was the source of my outcome. In this way, the concept of “try” robs me of the opportunity to be the sole author of my life and my experience. When “I do” something I get to be the sole creator of my experience and so it is with when “I don’t do”.

In either scenario, the road to a different experience is always open to me as the product of the application of my own will and execution. But when “I try”, I am setting myself up to fail before I even begin. When “I try”, I am never sure whether my success was a product of my effort or some chance confluence of factors beyond my control, just as when I fail it was something other than my actions that were the source of my failure. My “I tried” is the same as Daniel LaRusso’s “ I guess so”. We both get squished like a grape in the grinding mill of life.

Later in my clinic, I was talking to a gentleman who had diabetes and was struggling to lose 10 pounds of weight as well as quit smoking. “Doc”, he exclaimed, “You don’t know how much I tried. But I simply can’t lose the weight, and my sugars are still uncontrolled”.

I picked up a pen and held it out to him on my open palm. “Try to pick up this pen”, I said. As he reached for it, I cautioned, “Remember, I told you to only TRY to pick up. So keep trying but you can only try… not do”. He stopped and looked at me puzzled. “Then how am I to pick it up if I can only try?” he asked. Then a big smile spread over his face as understanding dawned on him.

“I can either do or I cannot do…..Right Doc?” he asked, “There is no try”.

“No!” I smiled back at him… “There never was”.

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