The timing for the third principle from The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention, by Dawson Church, Ph.D., is perfect because it defines the nature of the healing relationship between a patient and a doctor. For sure, it is relevant to me at this time, having just gone through the successful removal of a 21 cm benign tumor. Interestingly, two of the doctors I met during some post-surgical complications had been at the hospital less than two weeks…. You have to appreciate timing like that!
Principle Number 3: Heart-Centered
When you think about the way medicine was originally practiced, by loved ones or those with special gifting (such as a priest, shaman, or medicine man or woman), it makes sense that modern medicine is now placing more emphasis on the importance of a heart-centered connection as being an “essential aspect of the healing connection.”
A lot of research has gone into the understanding of the benefit of that connection. One of the earliest observers, was Sidney Jourard (1926-1974), a leading force in Humanistic Psychology. Jourard was ahead of his time, for sure, and his books, including The Transparent Self (1964), provided ample clinical evidence of the therapeutic value of appropriate disclosure and genuine connection, as opposed to “professional detachment.”
More recent scientific understanding has come by way of the functional brain observations (fMRI), which show how good feelings are transferred from one person to another. We have previously looked at this idea, and however you are able to truly understand it, as Church writes “simply being met by another human being, heart to heart, at the level of soul and emotion, can be a profoundly healing experience.”
And your benefiting from this connection at the level of soul and emotion goes way beyond just patient-doctor relationships. My co-author, Joel Bowman, has been quoted as asking, “What if every person you meet is your spiritual partner?”
Franchesca was one of my “angel” nurses. She grew up in Nigeria and her grandfather was an African priest before being converted to Catholicism. We loved hearing her wonderful stories of how she would talk to the gods of the mango tree before enjoying the fruit. As she said, “The gods are in everything, so you need to speak to everything with respect and love.”
This week, take the opportunity to begin to see your life more this way. If you would enjoy a story that provides a lovely way to see this, read “The Little Soul and The Sun”.
The last line in the story is, “Always remember, I have sent you nothing but angels.” Your living with that awareness truly is heart-centered! (edited and reposted from 2010)
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Rev. Debra BashamVoice: (269) 921-2217
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