Question
How do you balance success and failure during specific tasks during the treatment session?
Answer
That will come down to a combination of a few things. Number one, I am going to take a look at the degenerative disease, the condition that we are dealing with so I can understand. Is fatigue playing a role here? Should I continue to work on this challenging balance exercise or am I taking this person a little too far? I want to keep that in mind because that is going to be a medical maker for me. Number two, I am going to take a look at how frequently are we currently being successful in the practice of this task. I am going to shoot for about a 70% success rate and a 30% failure rate. When I say 30% failure, it means that there is a correction necessary clearly and need for a balance adjustment at a very subtle level. That would be indicated and I want that to happen. I am going to make an adjustment off of that 70% success rate that I am seeing with these clients based on a third factor, and that is going to come down to personality. How much success, how much challenge, and if you want to categorize it as such, how much failure is this client willing to allow themselves to endure. Personalities are going to influence that equation. I am going to let an individual push the envelope of that 70% success ratio if they are willing to be challenged, fail, and willing to try and err. If I have a client that is very self-defeating and depressed by the diagnosis they have been given, I am going to give them a little greater incidence of success and gradually integrate more challenge.
