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In these IDG reflections, in the middle of our healthcare workday, my intention is to offer useful pointers and effective methods to remember the circle of care… which we are a part of… and to midwife that wholistic care into the present moment - no matter what is in front of us. They are a better remembering… to what we already know but as human beings we forget. We are better and healthcare is better when we care for ourselves, as much as we do our patients…. (or how about this... as we care for our patients on our good days...) because it can be quite challenging in these trenches of caring. One of my basic tools are the Buddhist concepts of the NEAR ENEMIES. This balance a spiritual-secular check list… because we live on the edge of worlds in hospice and palliative care… and even in healthcare. Life is uncertain. We are better able to meet it when WE are balanced. If we don’t recognize these near enemies, it will deaden us… our lives and our care. There are several Near Enemies but I will review four. 1. Loving kindness and attachment 2. Empathy and pity 3. Sympathetic joy and comparison 4. Equanimity and indifference If we don’t recognize this near enemies, it will deaden us… our lives and our care. I end with a Native American Prayer… which is deeply interwoven with nature… May all that I say and all that I do be in harmony with thee. God within us, God beyond us, Maker of the Trees. Blessings on your day, week, patients and your own good self, Rev. Em Garden of Change IDG 3 min. Self-Sustaining Staff Reflections WWW.GardenofChange.Org Offering head, heart, body, & spirit staff-care for healthcare workers in disciplined 3 min reflections… because what we do is hard. Each day we work on the edge of the medical model and walk with our patients to the edge of the Great Mystery. It takes daily self-sustaining practices to stay the course. Garden of Change also offers branded bereavement mailings for mandates by MCoP/CMS 13 month aftercare.
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| The mind and body connection was newly documented last month in an article from NATURE. How we move has an impact on how we feel... and how we feel is going to have an impact on how we move. | |
It reminds me of the deep and simple instructions for mindful breath by Thich Nhat Hahn:
• Breathe in: calming your body.
• Breathe out: smiling
• Breathe in: calming your body.
• Breathe out: smiling
The motor cortex was found to be interwoven: with body-controlling mechanisms connected to organs, connected to your to-do lists. The data says that if stand up straight, you'll feel better… (Does that sound like a good mother?)
Textbooks previously showed an unbroken ribbon of cortex, with segments devoted to specific muscle groups, like the tongue or a toe. But scientists were seeing areas between these segments that were not in textbooks, and these areas were not controlling muscles. It's a checkerboard pattern. Specific body parts-like your fingers and your hand, were integrated essentially in the whole-body action.
The interleaved system probably helps explain the mysterious connection between what's going on in our bodies and what's going on in brain areas involved in thoughts and emotions. The region that controls your finger is connected to a region that has something to do with like, what am I going to do today…
This very non-linear connectivity gives us real power over our reactions of stress to any situation before us… If how we feel is related to how we move and how we move is related to how we feel…then we have a powerful tool for feeling better… now.
We are connected in mystery and a miracle.
Here is Thich Nhat Hahn’s directions again for mindful breathing. You have to breathe anyway…. so it takes no longer to breathe mindfully:
• Breathe in: think of calming your body.
• Breathe out: actually smiling
When I do this, I find that smiling is viral… it spreads throughout my body. It changes me and … that changes the room.
Try that on your own and let me know if you don't feel better immediately.
Garden of Change IDG 3 min. Self-Sustaining Staff Reflections WWW.GardenofChange.Org
Offering head, heart & body staff-care for healthcare workers in disciplined 3 min reflections… because what we do is hard. Each day we work on the edge of the medical model and walk with our pt to the edge of the Great Mystery. It takes daily self-sustaining practices to stay the course.
Garden of Change offers branded bereavement mailings for mandates by MCoP/CMS 13 month aftercare.
Garden of Change IDG 3 min. Self-Sustaining Staff Reflections WWW.GardenofChange.Org
Offering head, heart & body staff-care for healthcare workers in disciplined 3 min reflections… because what we do is hard. Each day we work on the edge of the medical model and walk with our pt to the edge of the Great Mystery. It takes daily self-sustaining practices to stay the course.
Garden of Change offers branded bereavement mailings for mandates by MCoP/CMS 13 month aftercare.
ALL WE CAN DO - a 3 minute IDG Staff Reflection
In hospice and palliative care, we walk with our patients as they are… mid -loss. At the EOL, there are a lot of goodbyes. That’s just he way it is.
We all, as a team, flavored with our different disciplines, to our best to offer comfort, kindness and love. We all approach it differently, but that is the work. To offer comfort, kindness and love into the losses.
But loss is a life long process. We practice every day in the letting go of control… which we realize we don’t have… or don’t have much.
We - in our own ways- and in small steps - surrender to the Higher and the Mystery… each day. And if we are wise, we let go of what is NOT working… and do more of what is working in our lives… toward our needs for comfort, kindness and love.
We all do this. It is all we can do because we are up against the early vicissitudes.
All we can do is cultivate, in ourselves and inner patients, a willingness to deepen into the losses and the mysteries that well up through the cracks in our lives… and we all have cracks in our human plans… from time to them. It’s just the way it is.
Poem by William Stafford: The Way It Is
There's a thread you follow.
It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.
Don’t let go of that thread; do more of what is working.
Blessings and thank you.
In hospice and palliative care, we walk with our patients as they are… mid -loss. At the EOL, there are a lot of goodbyes. That’s just he way it is.
We all, as a team, flavored with our different disciplines, to our best to offer comfort, kindness and love. We all approach it differently, but that is the work. To offer comfort, kindness and love into the losses.
But loss is a life long process. We practice every day in the letting go of control… which we realize we don’t have… or don’t have much.
We - in our own ways- and in small steps - surrender to the Higher and the Mystery… each day. And if we are wise, we let go of what is NOT working… and do more of what is working in our lives… toward our needs for comfort, kindness and love.
We all do this. It is all we can do because we are up against the early vicissitudes.
All we can do is cultivate, in ourselves and inner patients, a willingness to deepen into the losses and the mysteries that well up through the cracks in our lives… and we all have cracks in our human plans… from time to them. It’s just the way it is.
Poem by William Stafford: The Way It Is
There's a thread you follow.
It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.
Don’t let go of that thread; do more of what is working.
Blessings and thank you.
IDG 3 Min. Staff Reflection: The Value of Listening
Here is the second post of our IDG Staff Reflections Series for Healthcare Teams. It is in three formats for your free use: video, audio and text. Make it work for your own team, your offerings and your IDG team's unique culture. Use them stand along or as inspiration to prepare your own.
They are free for your use. Drop us a line. Let us know how it worked for you.
Best blessings,
Rev. Eleesabeth Hager
They are free for your use. Drop us a line. Let us know how it worked for you.
Best blessings,
Rev. Eleesabeth Hager
| x_idg_1.26.23_-_value_of_listening.pdf |
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