We are healers.

We are healers.  What does that mean.  To heal, to help, is a version of to love.  Love is a version of Yes to you that overflows to others. It is honest and open, pure and simple. It is positive energy given, welcoming, sharing, opening, loosening, softening any hardness, smoothing any roughness, soothing any hurt.  There is no needing to succeed, needing to be right.  There is no possession.  There is no jealousy.  It carries no judgement. To become a healer, we must become love. We were born as spirit, innocent love, but this was drained out of us by a lifetime of expectation and control, leaving us living in our mind, the problem-solver, driven by fear, trying to find our place in the universe.  We must raise ourselves up new in love and kindness and fill that emptiness, so much that it overflows to everything we do, to everyone we touch. We become our pure spirit, which works through our mind and body.  It is the infinite wisdom and compassionof the Universe that flows through us.

 Detach from the expectation and intimidation of the workplace, note it with a smile, and return to the breath.  In that quiet place, embrace the anger and fear and let it remind you who you are,  “The power of the Universe flows through you.  You are a hand of the God-force.  You are important.  Your dreams and desires have been given to you to take you to your purpose.” You become Spirit, the loving energy of the Universe which radiates acceptance, compassion, trust. It is hope.

There was very little loving energy taught in my training.  We, residents, learned from a culture of control, defined by lines of authority, orders and protocol based on huge judgement of right and wrong. We did not, could not, make mistakes. The white coat provided the protective barrier from the diseased patient, from any human connection. The patient was an intellectual problem to be fixed.  The sleep deprivation from the grueling call schedule numbed us to the emotions of suffering. The patient became just one more thing to do. The resulting resentment from so much self abuse could be heard in the names we called patients“the appendix,””the trainwreck,” Of course there was superficial courtesy.  That was part of the protocol.  And, today, with the practitioner’s eyes glued to the computer screen, the patient is reduced to a list of medicines or lab results.

You may not be able to change the system but you can change yourself.  Give yourself the gift of the morning meditation.  Allow yourself, in that quiet, to connect to your spirit, to access the infinite wisdom and compassion of the universe, to feel that you are not alone.  And, in your affirmations, write:  I am in Gods will for me.  I am a hand of your healing.  I do enormous good.  I am confident and loving at work.  I am what the Universe intended, happy, joyous and free.

In between each patient, as you wash your hands, take the deep and cleansing breath and say,”I am a hand of your healing.  I do enormous good.”Offer a hearty handshake and a welcoming smile,  Move very slowly and gently in your exam.  As you touch, intend“healing calm."  Most importantly, look deeply into the eyes, listen intently to the words, and speak warmly from the heart.

After training perhaps you can create your own practice.  I meet with my patients in the comfort of my living room with music.  There is no office staff. I don’t use insurance. We meet for as long as it takes, two to three hours.  There is no clock.  I have made choices to care for myself and that love flows to my patients.

When you practice from a fullness of love, from spirit, it doesn’t matter if you know the answer.  It will come.  What matters is that there is no place within yourself for resentment and guilt and patients heal.