healing

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This reminds me of what I heard in a Mark Seem seminar years ago. He

said that there are spirit or mind or body treatments. (This is what I

remember the words as being, lets not blame him for any semantics.) A

patient will always come in to have two of them treated in any session.

They may not express it or be conscious of it but they won't feel

satisfied if only one is treated. (I suppose the question I would ask

now is what happens if you go for all three.)

doug

 

 

 

> As health care practitioners I think it behooves us to meet the

> patient where he is,

> and not overshoot (or undershoot) the mark. The patient who presents

> with a

> physical complaint is usually inviting us in on that level, and may

> not be ready to

> transcend that level. To impose a more 'spiritual' treatment strategy

> upon one who is

> not amenable (consciously or unconsciously) may constitute an

> inappropriate

> treatment - perhaps even an act of arrogance. And I think it is that

> sort of

> misalignment with the patient's place along the continuum that tends

> to trigger

> healing crises. The severity of the crisis will be commensurate with

> the extent of the

> misalignment.

>

> It may of course be helpful to facilitate some release of

> deeply-constrained emotion

> or desire, provided that the release is welcomed, and manageble, by

> the patient.

> We've all seen patients cry on the table, and we engage our

> communication skills and

> empathy to reassure the patient that this is a good thing. Part of

> our craft, after all, is

> to coax the patient up the spectrum toward greater awareness and

> personal

> responsibility. But if something we've done triggers so much

> resistance that the

> patient doesn't come back, we've done them a disservice. It happens,

> and will

> happen, to the best of us, but let's be honest with ourselves and

> refrain from blaming

> the patient, or even the patient's xie qi. Rather, let's learn from

> the experience and

> refine our approach.

>

> Best regards,

> Simcha Gottlieb

>