Hello all,
When I listened to "Meeting Asciepius" i have to admit that I fell asleep on the couch. My husband had gone to bed and I decided to break out the CD. By the time I woke up, the exercise was over and I went to bed. I find that my quiet time is in the early evening and I can let go of the day's stresses. I'm going to try the exercise again perhaps on a Sunday afternoon when the house is quiet and I'm not running around trying to do 300 things at once.
Meditation is always something that I want to explore. While I do some form of it as I travel between home and work (I drive in silence) I would like to explore a deeper sense of meditation that is practiced every day. I can definetely see myself do this as a daily routine.
The saying "one cannot lead another where one has not gone" sounds to me like I have to practice what I preach. I cannot be a compassionate and empathetic nurse to others if I cannot demonstrate the behaviors to myself and close people around me. In the line of nursing that I'm in, it's not about the patient only. I deal with the families and close friends that support the patient as well. I become part of the patient's inner circle of life and there when they take their last breath. I am a caregiver, consoler, and sense of reliability when the patient and his family need me at their most critical time. I take that responsibilty seriously. I cannot do this line of work if I have no sense of what is going on. It would be impossible to achieve.
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