Been a while since I posted. I've been really busy doing radio interviews into the US by phone - and setting up my 'page' on the IHI website (Institute for Healthcare Improvement), since they offered me a spot (2 in fact) to help doctors understand how they can use better words in better ways to help us; the ones with the cancer experience. Any ill health for that matter.
It's on in Dallas, Texas 20th - 22nd March 2011. Let me know if you're in the vicinity, we might meet.
It's on in Dallas, Texas 20th - 22nd March 2011. Let me know if you're in the vicinity, we might meet.
How often do you, or somehow you know, say 'My doctor isn't listening to me'? Well, that's what my presentations for the '12th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community' are about.
As it is with cancer, so it is with life. We only learn really well through experiencing what was previously unknown.
Pain and fear and suffering are excellent teachers and the lessons we can learn from them are truly wonderful.
How to endure what we cannot change, live through and beyond the pain we never thought we could live through. See that shining light on the hill as we climb towards it; only realising as we arrive that we have indeed come up from where we formerly lived.
We have captured the 'knowing'; left behind our 'not knowing'; swapped the darkness for the light. And we shall never again lose that magic moment when, standing at the top and looking behind, we realise where wisdom comes from. Wisdom, like compassion, grows as we climb.
Doing the hard work joins us with all others who also struggle - creates fellow feeling that becomes love.
Of course there are always some who reject the lesson, decide to turn instead to a path of bitterness and envy of those who seem to be having an easier life.
They lack understanding - are blind to the reality that fear and envy are their own enemies.
All negativity can only be matched by more reasons to be negative. As Christ said, 'they heap coals of fire on their own heads'.
And as Rhonda Byrne wrote in 'The Power' -" the opposite of love is not hate, but lack of love". The opposite of anything positive is the lack of the glory of that positive - the emptiness.
'I hate' is an actively destructive force; whereas 'I do not love' can be simply a statement of fact, even a peaceful realisation that we are allowed to 'not love' when that is appropriate - and to be instead self-full. An acknowledgement that sometimes we do need to withdraw any emotional investment in people who would do us harm.
Let me know what you think.
