In the art of helping patients heal, we must connect and synchronize with our patients. This puts us in a very vulnerable state. If we do not know how to properly ground and protect ourselves, we can potentially take on the dysfunctional patterns that exist in our patients. I'll give an example- when you help a patient release the energy built up in a tight muscle, that stored energy becomes kinetic and moves out of the body. Some energy is also lost as heat. Where else might that energy go? Into you, the physician. What kind of energy is it? Charges, emotions, it varies from patient to patient. But honestly, how long will you last if you have no protection against that energy, or grounding to help you center and realize the potency of your own healing mechanism?
There's something to note about the ALS researcher who ends up dying of ALS, and the motor accident researcher who dies in a car accident. A life's passion could consume a person so much that it ends up being the device of her demise. Grounding and protection is the only way to explore that passion and creative energy without letting something in that could potentially weaken or destroy the spirit.
Grounding- imagining there is a solid connection between you and the center of the earth. A tether, going from your core, to the earth's core.
Protection- a filter through which only the things on your frequency can pass through. Everything else bounces off and is not integrated into your persona/spirit.
I have to work on this a little bit every day. Hopefully I can become strong enough to have a long, healthy career empowering patients with the ability to realize their healing potential.
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