We live in a world of balance. Earth's delicate ecosystems work on a balance between predator and prey. There is also scavenger to help reset the balance all the way back to even as the clean up crew.
Balance is a difficult lesson.
I have a friend who is a bariatric surgeon. The entire specialty is one of guiding people who are out of balance--in the physical, because it is the scale that does not lie--back into the healthier weights for patients.
Bariatric surgery is very difficult for the surgeon, from the biomechanics perspective. There is a longer instrument used for the laparoscopic surgery. The abdominal wall is thick. So using the terms of physics, the lever arm of the instrument has to take into consideration the resistance of the thick abdominal wall. It takes muscles and leverage and skill to be able to safely dissect out and prepare the targets (stomach, intestine if doing a bypass) for the modification to be done in the surgery.
My friend doesn't use the robot. But many of the other general surgeons do, for things like hernias and bowel resections and gallbladder surgery. In my friend's opinion, the robot is 'the great equalizer'--it takes out the tremor of the hands, and it also uses the strength of the robot arms to actually do the work. The skills of the people who are using the surgical robot all become better because of the robot sharing the physical part of the work.
The great equalizer.
Hmmmm.
Would it be possible, if, in the world of the mind-body connection, for bedside manner to be the great equalizer in the realm of healing? You know, the practitioner/caregiver with the open heart who is grounded, detached in a healthy way, like a participant-observer, who has a vast array of healing skills?
And a lot of this goes by intuition while it is actually working.
For lack of a better example, I will use myself, to explain how it works:
- for the patient with many questions having their first anesthetic late in life, and the family member...I slow down the pace, make lots of eye contact, smile, answer every question as if I had all the time in the world, and remind the patient that everything will go at their pace and they are free to ask questions if any more new ones come up. Allaying fear and anxiety is important. There was an imbalance in the energy enough for physical illness to be present. The patient is here for repair. Without addressing the underlying energetic imbalance, the results are in the physical only but at risk too recur. It's the open heart of the practitioner, working with the mind and skill set, which launches the patient/family energy combination in the right direction.
- for the patient who has connections to the entertainment industry...this caregiver here doesn't really go to the movies or watch TV. So I don't recognize or make the connection. The care is the same. For the individual and their family like in the example above. This helps to bring normalcy back into balance in an imbalanced world where people who are entertainers are given special consideration in general due to their being widely known.
- For the patient who is in a state of panic, fear, and can't breathe...but too ashamed/afraid to call the call button, help is visible, effective, tangible, from the entire team. Some people slide out of the bed a little if the hip doesn't line up with the bend in the gurney. We flatten the bed and help the patient scoot up to the proper position and then raise the head of the bed. It's a slow slide, and if the gurney has the foot/knee part of the bed up it prevents the slide. The talk and the tone is reassuring and upbeat and caring. The examination shows wheezing in the chest, and medical treatment is given, even if it delays the surgery. First things first. It reminds me a little of the cetaceans. When a dolphin is sick, the others will take turns helping it to go to the surface to breathe. Not being able to breathe is the worst. It takes others to assist. To get back the balance of the lung/heart chakra. Many people with lung problems suffer from fearful memories of traumatic abuse, emotional, physical, mental. Trust is not easy for them. So in these situations, being trustworthy is key to restoring balance.
- The sicker the patient (the heavier the burden of physical disease, for example) the more gentle the caregiver needs to be in word, action, thought, and communication. These patients have been in the system a long time. This is not their first rodeo. So you factor in the accumulated interactions--possibly unpleasant--and ask the patient how their experiences have been. What went well, what might have gone better? Then you reassure you will do your absolute best to help make things go well.
- For the peer who comes to you seeking your advice and input on a problem, you give it, keeping the patient's needs first and then addressing the larger issue in this context, reassuring the physician that it's a situation best handled together and your presence is there for them.
Everyone is in need of healing. After being alive on Earth for so long, little 'nicks and dings' from normal wear and tear add up.
It's a lot of work, being a healer. There is a lot of imbalance Spirit is going to send your way. That's why it's important to be open to the possibilities that arise in your daily interactions for you to be a healing salve or balm to others, through your facial expressions, your eye contact, your positioning of your arms, legs and body during communication with others, your choice of words and tone, your memory of your past similar experiences...your listening skills...and your heart.
This is what you are being graded on by Spirit as one who is a healer; it's an open-book test, you can always ask for Divine Assistance, and unlike the ones in school Anthony has where you study and cram and take the test and then it's over...our lessons are always coming.
That's why it's so important to seek peace and contentment through your own free time. To meditate. To do things you enjoy (I cooked dinner last night, taking advantage of our tomato harvest. Pasta with a sauce of fresh tomato, garlic, and capers. Salad with celhgiline -- tiny cherry tomato size balls of fresh mozzarella with basil and tomatoes like a Caprese style, and seasoned sautéed zucchini and yellow squash...for example). Life can be fun, enjoyable, and warm. This is what sustains us -- plugging in to Source and All That Is Good.
Imbalance is unsustainable. Sometimes sudden events will move it back to balance. Sometimes a little guidance is all that is needed to coax it back towards balance. Sometimes limiting the imbalance and practicing acceptance that things aren't worse is needed.
There are so many ways to heal.
Take a moment to survey yourself, scan your own energy--for each of your bodies--your physical, your mental, your emotional, your subtle, your causal, and your soul/heart. Are they in balance? How does it feel to you? Are there any things you need to do to address them? Words to be spoken, actions to take? Do you need a little nature or exercise and fresh air? Would it be good to spend some quiet time doing something you enjoy, perhaps a hobby? Or is it time to reach out and contact a friend?
Be mindful of your own balance.
This way healing those who are sent to you will help you maintain your balance, and your healing will be more effective. With Reiki, every time you heal others a little bit comes back to heal you <3
Ross
Anthony tried out for the swim team and made it yesterday.
He has a ways to go to get back in shape. When he was smaller he was swimming twice a week and also participating in races on the weekends. He needs to take back what he once had. It will take effort.
His coach once taught his uncle. The coach saw the last name and made the connection. The family resemblance is strong too.
This was plan B for him.
Plan A was to make the freshman baseball team. Plan A didn't work out. Plan A-fallback, the fall baseball league in the community--is already in action and it's working beautifully.
The pre-plan for plan B was mom taking him to the pool and making him get back into the game before the tryouts. One day Carla said, 'Anthony you need to do twenty laps with the kick board (this works the legs and not the arms)' Anthony complained. His legs were sore. Was ten laps good enough if you count the warmup ten laps?
No.
You need to do the twenty or else.
Or else what?
Or. Else. Just do it!
He did.
Then Carla said, 'even though you are tired, I want you to swim two more laps and see how it goes.'
Carla, an experienced swimmer, knew what was to come next. Anthony didn't.
Mom! Oh my gosh I just swam so much FASTER! And it was easy too!
Yes, that's how swimming works. You build muscle memory and through adjustment of technique you are able to aim for increasing your speed, your times.
Dear Readers, sometimes Spirit is going to step you through something you don't want to do with an 'Or. Else.' or equivalent prod with a stick.
Do it.
Just do what you are asked/invited to do by Spirit.
You will notice the growth afterwards. Just like Anthony in the pool. Maintain your trust in us and our ability to see things that from your perspective as incarnate you cannot.
That way we all win. Everyone wins! We all grow and grow in our skills and our heart.
Always take the higher road, the more difficult of the two choices given, and you will inherit success as a byproduct of your willingness to extend effort on yourselves!
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Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
The Couple
