Empowerment Is Already Within You
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.
Nurses Need to Meditate! Eight Reasons Why and How to Do It…
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 and Compassion: Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind
Even though this post is written with nurses and healthcare professional in mind, its content may be valuable for anyone who reads it. Give it a read and see. Let me know whether it works for you, regardless of what profession you're in. Enjoy!
Breaking News: Meditation Heals Healthcare’s Woes!
If meditation can heal your mind, can it also heal the state of healthcare? I've never been known to think small, so my ideas about how meditation can help to bring change to the world of healthcare aren't small either. But what about this title, "Meditation Heals Healthcare's Woes!," is it possible? If you can learn to stabilize your mind, and heal its negative habits, can you take that healing into the workplace? Let's see...
What is Meditation? What is Compassion?
Meditation is the practice or the art of non-distraction and compassion (in meditation) is the art of being compassionate for ourselves when we are distracted.
Meditation and Compassion, Part 3: Open Your Mind, Open Your Heart
In the past two weeks, we've talked a lot about meditation and compassion, and how the meditative mind opens up the heart of compassion. This week we'll continue on this topic by reflecting on a comment made by Sogyal Rinpoche, meditation master and author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In a teaching that Sogyal Rinpoche presented on July 6, 1999, at the retreat center in Lerab Ling, France, he stated that, "...without an open heart, the practice of your mind [meditation] won't work...The true nature of your mind is wisdom and compassion..." I had to think about [...]
Meditation and Compassion in Nursing. Five Handy Hints…
When we think about how to show up either in life, it’s good to remember that compassion isn’t something foreign to our minds and our hearts, we have it already.
Compassion Fatigue in Nursing? There’s No Such Thing! Five Reminders…
BOLD STATEMENT: there’s no such thing as compassion fatigue! What? Have you heard all of the talk in healthcare and in the literature about "compassion fatigue?" I just did a Google® search for the keywords "compassion fatigue in nurses" and came up with 104,000 links, up from 46,700 links just last spring! What?! You’d think that we’re all suffering from burnout, which can’t be possible…or, is it? The notion that being compassionate can cause fatigue gives me cause to pause, how about you? Can compassion really lead to fatigue? Can caring so much for another cause burnout? Perhaps the [...]
Why Meditation Matters in Healthcare! Five Simple Reasons…
Meditation Matters in Everything that You Do... Meditation matters in your life. It matters in your relationships and in your family. It matters when you drive the car and when you eat your meals. (starting to see the pattern here?) Meditation matters everywhere! It almost seems like I could start a Dr. Seuss rhyme here, "...in a park, on a train, in the dark, in the rain!..." Previous posts on this site, as well as posts on other sites like What Meditation Really Is, The Promise of Mindfulness Meditation, and even on Richer Life, have stressed the importance of [...]
Meditation in the Workplace…Meditating at the Bedside?
The topic of bringing our meditation practice into our workplace, whether as a nurse or as a supermarket cashier, requires of us an understanding of what we mean when we use the word, "meditate." For many people, meditation brings up images of monks or solitary souls seated on a cushion, mumbling "om" with incense and candles. Sure, that can be meditation, but more often than not, this isn't the case. And, in the case of how we bring our meditation practice to the bedside, these images don't represent what a meditative presence truly embodies when caring for another. As was [...]