Healing of Body, Mind, and Spirit

Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong

connection with our soul. We heal ourselves on the mental level as

we become aware of our core beliefs, release those that limit us, and

open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding. Emotional

healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range

of our feelings. And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn

to honor and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us.

Shakti Gawain

During my lunch hour, I was surfing the net and came across the above which really touched me, and I wanted to share it with you.  You know, I never really did take my lunch hours. I was always the one who had to have their work up-to-date, the one to have everything caught up. I typed my notes while eating my food. The problem is, and it took me a long time to realize it, in this field one can never get caught up.  Healing clients has never been the number one priority.  It is the paperwork that counts.  That's because the funding sources have to SEE the work you have done, and without being there to watch over us, it's the paperwork that counts.   They want to SEE a note for each individual session and each group the client participated in.  If that is not there, the program doesn't get paid. 

This causes quite a dilemma for those of us in the field who really DO want to do our best for the client.  We either spend time with the client and let our notes fall behind, concentrate on our notes and not spend time with the client, or over-extend ourselves and try to do both resulting in an increasingly high stress level, hypertension, and a feeling of helplessness.   We find ourselves broken...in body, in mind, and in spirit, and changes MUST be made if we are to survive.

For all of us who today find ourselves broken--physically, mentally, emotionally--we must begin healing ourselves from within.  

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. 

--James H. West--