This week's post will be the first in a series of guest-posts, written by readers of this blog. Marcela De Vivo is a freelance health writer in Southern California. In this post, she shares an intimate view into how meditation has helped her to deal with her son's illness and with the depression that has arisen in her life around his care.
What makes you powerful is something that you already have, it’s within your heart and it’s within your mind. What makes you powerful is the fact that you have awareness and that you have compassion.
Meditation can be used for many things. Today, I'm using it to prepare for surgery.
Many people have problems learning to meditate because of their thoughts. What if thoughts aren't real? What if they're so unreal that they can't distract your meditation?
While this week's post is directed towards nurses and healthcare professionals, I encourage all of my readers to have a look. Since healthcare and its practitioners can impact all of us at some point in our lives, it's important to know what nursing is doing about showing up at the bedside, mindful and compassionate. Enjoy!
How to Meditate Every once in a while, I receive an email or correspondence from a reader that speaks to the heart of what meditation is or, oppositely, poses an important question related to what meditation isn't. Recently I received the following email from one on the readers of this site. I've changed it up ever-so-slightly to maintain the confidentiality of it. I never want to force any of you into the spotlight. Here's the reader's email: Hi Jerome, I have a question...how long does it take to see real lasting change of any kind. I am a healthcare provider [...]
Why Meditate? Science Has Proven the Benefits As a Westerner, and a skeptic, there's something about "hard science" that puts me at ease. While I am delighted with the mysteries of the universe, and truly believe that there are some things that have no "rationale" answers, like healing at a distance, I like it when science confirms my perception of the universe.
What if I said that you could actually meditate in a state of anger to learn how to loosen its hold on your mind? Does that sound impossible or difficult? Actually, that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do. But, before we begin with that…
If you work as a nurse or work in the healthcare field, or even know someone who does, meditation is an important tool to help you be more present in your work...and your life!
Meditation is about being in the present, experiencing the immediacy of the present, taking the "now" and showing up for it. Yet we rarely reflect on the immediacy of death and the potential that death...can come...at any time. We fret about losing our wallet, or our car-keys, or - on a more serious note - losing our job or a relationship. Yet how often do we reflect on our own death as a means for living fully in the moment? How often do we reflect on losing our life?