The Amanda Trujillo RN case prompted me to resurrected my Nurse Healer Blog. Amanda was fired for giving information about a Liver Transplant consult to her patient. This does not bode well for the patients of the world, for nurses, the majority of whom are women, or for the Health Care System.
Nurses are bullied by doctors, nurse administrators, Big Pharma and the Health Insurance Companies, all because Corporations have taken over health care.
Is this what you thought would happen when you entered the nursing profession?
I definitely drank too much coffee over the weekend when I worked 53 hours over a four day period at the hospital. And these hours were all done at night.
My main symptom of coffee overdose was: Heart Palpitations, and some fast heart rhythms. Darn. I just had to rest, and now I feel great, with no interest in coffee, at all!!
It is hard to believe that it is November already. But it is.
October 28 marked the and of the Mayan Calendar. Certainly everything has changed and all of the systems, Corporations and banks are falling apart.
Just now I passed the occupy encampment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania has a model occupy encampment and nonviolence is the rule. I went to the mayor's office here in Lancaster today to let him know how much we appreciate his leadership as pertains to the Occupy movement here.
Our mayor loves Harley-Davidson's. We gave him a book about Harley-Davidson motorcycles as a token of our appreciation.
Compassionate leadership is what is needed in all arenas right now. We certainly could use it in the hospitals where we work. Medicine has been taken over by the corporations, who are not people, contrary to what our Supreme Court thinks. The Corporations which have taken over medicine are the health insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies.
But we can do better. Last night on my radio show, Donna Smith, documentary subject of Michael Moore's SiCKO, was my guest. We had a wonderful time. You can listen here.
We did discuss the sorry health care situation in this country. 100,000 people die every year here in America because they lack access to healthcare.
Here is my dog, Ulysses, with Trouble The Dog Duncan. Ulysses was ill when this was taken, but the presence of Trouble and about fifteen other interventions, helped Ulysses to recover.
Healing comes from unexplained sources more often than not. As nurses, we would do well to allow the healing to happen, and accept it rather than deny it.
As nurses, we do a much better job when we open our minds, rather than close them.
This whole radio show was a Prayer Reading which turned out to be auspicious. Soon after, my radio show was picked up by New World Library, publisher of Eckhart Tolle's books, to interview newly published authors. For that, I will be eternally grateful!
A Prayer Reading is something I thought I would try on the radio show, to see if this practice would be a good one to continue in the future.
Prayer is a Universal Language. Certainly everyone in any religion or spiritual walk of life has the inner vision to pray, prayerfully. This practice has a humbling effect upon the psyche. It is a meditation. And meditation is also a prayer.
So Prayer Readings will become a regular spot on my radio show. The next one will be in the New Year.
Today, I closed out my extra blogs here at typepad, and will be concentrating exclusively on my Typepad Blog. Excusively as far as Typepad is concerned. I realize I will be doing bedside nursing for awhile more. So I will have a few more thoughts about healing and nurse healing. Stay tuned.
Just because it seems like I've said everything it is possible to say about this subject, I realize, just as I have been writing prayers for these last two years, that a new seed is always waiting to germinate, always waiting to take root and grow.
There is a never ending abundance of ideas that when fueled with good will, go on to heal the world.
I pulled this video off one of the blogs I shut down. Some of you may have seen this before. Notice the reaction of Ulysses The Dog when he hears the word, "Riffle." He loves the river, the rocks on the bottom of the river and the fish that jump out of the water. Now that Autumn is here, and the nights are chilly, Ulysses and I are no longer swimming up to the rock and back.
I've been thinking of Nurse Healers, again, and resurrected this Nurse Healer Blog yesterday. I feel there's so much that is good about nurses and nursing, but many of my colleagues are so close to what they do that a larger perspective is lost. No one even considers that she might be a healer.
The un-healing climate of most hospitals and clinics might have something to do with it. These places have become a business and therefore, very business like. Naturally, an individual can choose to ignore the Corporate Takeover of Medicine and concentrate on calling in the angels with her patients. But to ignore the noise and the machines and the toxic medicines can be like living in an Ivory Tower of truthlessness. Something's got to give.
And that's the point: Giving. Giving of self for others selflessly. Negating the complaining. Rising above the drama. Being there only for patients and their families.
And rising above the potential for burnout. We've all experienced burnout at some time or another by taking too much on before we learn to say "no." Sudden crises at home can disturb equilibrium. All of this and more can help us to establish a greater sense of Self. Or lose all sense of Self. The choice is entirely ours but please know that we don't have to be a victim.
Unless you want to be.
Please God/ess help the Healers take heed of what needs to be done in the world. This is not the time to recede in a weakened position or condition. This is the time to own Personal Strength and Power.
This is the time to shine brightly, like the light upon the river or the most luminous Planet near a waxing moon. This may be the most exciting time that Humans have ever experienced in Linear History.
This blog is waiting for me to take it to a whole new level. It is urging me to use it in a unique way that stands out from simply another place to repost the prayers from the Pray To Heal Blog at Crabbysbeach.
The name of this blog is Nurse Healers. So from now on, Nurse Healer issues will be addressed.
Dear Godess, The energy of prayer is not something that is "sent" and "received." We do not require that it go anywhere, because it is omnipresent: it exists everywhere. A prayer that is focused on a person or an animal halfway across the world is as powerful as a prayer that is focused on the family next door.
All energy exists in the now and it is not stronger or weaker the farther it goes. The energy of prayer is immediate, meaning that which is focused near or far is happening in the present moment, and happens simultaneously. This is how Quantum Physics describes the effects of prayer.
ESP and clairvoyance works in this way, as well. Naturally these explanations add to the mystery of how and why prayer works. We are satisfied that it does work, and as we learn to drop the need for rational explanations, we work more on the energy of Faith to pray, and to pray often.
Love, compassion and non-judgment set the foundation for prayer and its effects. A good time to pray is when you feel your buttons being pushed, and a resistance rising up to confront the "what is" of what is occurring in your life.
Why do we fight on the battleground of the mind? Why can't we detached and find that the battleground is not a fact but a figment of a made up illusion?
A good example for me is the Bush Era torture practices still employed now by the military. Obama could outlaw torture but he so far has not. Whenever I think of this, I lose all sense of balance or calm.
I am sure we all have our own push button hot points.
What do we do about these?
Pause and pray, asking the Divine to erase and clean the identity we cling to, and replace it with the Identity we aspire to.
Dear God/ess, I was thinking, over the weekend, of the Eckhart Tolle/Oprah Winfrey webinar exploring each chapter in depth of "A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose" and how it deepened my awareness and practice of Mindfulness, a spiritual discipline I've loved for many years.
Each week the webinar attracted several million more people who downloaded and streamed the program. People called in and asked Oprah and Eckhart great questions about the concepts in the book. It was a pleasure to watch Eckhart Tolle teach the spiritual principles calmly and peacefully and when he became excited by a certain concept, he half chuckled and giggled, which was fun to watch! I went to my Oral Surgeon soon after the Webinar for an implant, carrying "A New Earth" under my arm. The surgeon immediately made a comment about the book and the webinar on Oprah.com.
So we discussed the ideas in the book. What I noticed is that he "got it." He knew exactly what I was talking about when I said that the book is about how to live mindfully, consciously and in the Now. When I said the Egoic Mind can be eradicated by present moment living, the surgeon went into a rant about rude behavior, unkind people and violence in American Society.
I said, Yes but you don't need to react to the chaos. Inner peaceful presence is always available for your pleasure and inward sense of solace.
I wondered if he was referring to a client who was having a melt down in the waiting room as I was led back to my exam room. She insisted that the office did not call her that morning to tell her about her rescheduled appointment. The woman was angry, tense and had the look of someone who was just about to commit a violent act right there in the waiting room.
The other people there looked anxious as she kept yelling at the receptionist. Eckhart Tolle would call this woman's negative energy her "pain body."
As we reacted negatively to her energy, our own pain body was triggered. The pain body is the energy field of old emotions that live in almost every human being. The pain body is not just individual in nature. It accounts for all the suffering of collective humanity as in the case of rape, pillage, tribal warfare, wars, slavery and genocide.
The pain body is an addiction to unhappiness.
So there it was in the waiting room that day: A living breathing pain body that triggered everyone else's pain body to react, to feel better than, to judge this woman and even to use her as an example as to why people in today's society are so screwed up.
Since so few of us like going to the Dentist let alone an Oral Surgeon, the pain body is perhaps more easily triggered in places such as these. This is a beautiful example of an activated pain body, but every day we can find at least one. The beauty is found when reaction ceases, and we become the Compassionate Presence or witness who really is a spark of our own divinity. True happiness arises out of present moment atunement and is always available as soon as we allow it!
I loved the way Tolle describes dogs: as Guardians of Being.
As I watched and absorbed the webinar, I was simultaneously taking care of my dog Mukunda, as he recovered from major surgery, the removal of 3 large cysts: 1 from the left side and 2 from the right side.
My dogs Mukunda, and now Ulysses, like it best when I'm focused on their antics, when I hang out with them exclusively, when I walk with them, throw balls for them, swim in the river and ocean with them, and stroke, brush and tell them how much I love them.
When I absorb myself in cyberspace, read a book or especially when I talk on the phone, Mukunda used to bark excitedly, reminding me to resume my love affair with him.
The world tells me these dogs are spoiled. But I know that they are telling me to Be Here Now, to look to them to best teach me exactly how to do this. So I look to them to teach me how this is done. And they have been my best teachers, counselors, companions and all around best pals.
I look to them.
I look up to them.
They are my Guardians of Being.
The waiting rooms of the world may always have unhappy people in them, people who still can absorb the truth that the present moment is exactly where their happiness is found, even if the Nowness is found in the waiting room of an Oral Surgeon.
I can't take my dogs there. But they will always be found in my heart, where ever I go, in the joy of the quiet mind.
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