Australia’s ‘Miracle Man’ Celebrates 21 years

MEDIA ALERT
18 March 2009
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Dr John Hinwood speaks at Perth this Friday, 20 March, about Developing Relationships Based Practice to Doctors of Chiropractic.

For the past 21 years Australian chiropractor and author, Dr John Hinwood has been handing out a small white card to almost everyone he has met.

The card has just three words written on it: “Expect a Miracle”. Last Christmas marked the 21st anniversary of his crusade. He estimates he has handed out almost 70,000 cards.

The 62-year-old’s crusade to change people’s lives comes from observations through his chiropractic practice and coaching business that people go through life expecting the worst, create what they believe and miss out on opportunities.

He believes at least 70% of people’s healing comes from the placebo effect. The simple act of handing out a little card with EXPECT A MIRACLE written on it helps release endorphins in those who receive it.

“Henry David Thoreau said most people lead lives of quiet desperation. They want more from life but don’t know how to get it. People need to believe they are worthy of a miracle and that miracles large and small can happen to any one of us at any time,” says Dr Hinwood.

John and wife, Judy were awarded the International Humanitarian Award from the prestigious Parker Seminars of Dallas, Texas USA this year. Judy is also a chiropractor and the Hinwoods live in NSW but speak throughout the world.
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The Australian edition of John’s book, You Can Expect A Miracle has just been released. In it are chronicled extraordinary, believe-it-or-not miracles that those who have received his cards have experienced.

He is a great example of the power of miracles. Suffering from dyslexia as a child he was told that the best he should aspire to was a job as a postal clerk. He overcame his learning difficulties, won a scholarship, completed a Doctor of Chiropractic and went on to establish one of Australia’s most successful chiropractic practices.

In his personal life he adopted three older illiterate children from Chile in 1985. The children are all in 30s now and 1998 the Hinwoods returned to Chile and found their biological family including their separated parents.

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For eight years he was President of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation and is now a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Management, one of few health professionals to gain the distinction. He is widely published in academic journals and was once captain/coach of the Danish national rugby team.

Dr Hinwood’s own experience with miracles include a dramatic escape from a gun pointing hijacker in the Congo and weeks later from a freak blizzard near the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

You can arrange an interview with Dr John Hinwood or someone profiled in his book, You Can Expect a Miracle, by contacting Michael Walls (EAM media and publicity) on: 0407 783 413 or email: wallburg@bigpond.net.au.

Visit the website at: www.expectamiracle.com