Summary: Another aspect of what we are doing is engaging with our patients. By stilling the mind, listening, seeing and talking with our patients, we connect with them. We enter and understand their world and we invite them into ours. We use all the tools of our trade, be it nursing, medicine, naturopathy or any other, plus all our other skills as a human being, to learn about our patients. The more we can learn about them, the better we can enter their world. As the mind stills this process becomes more efficient. As thoughts subside, intuition is more free to act. For example I recently went into a new patients room and said to the family “You look like people who have spent too much time in hospital.” And in turned out that indeed the whole family has been at the grandmother’s bedside in ICU for 2 days. And we connected with a better understanding of what was going on for them. As we connect with the essence of the patient, not the chest pain in room 3 or even Joe Smith, but really commune with their soul, we find that each new patient is a fascinating individual. We find those points of interest, those points of commonality. We find what makes us laugh together. We touch each others soul. As the patient feels that you care and are interested in them, as you reassure them as they enter this strange new world of the hospital or clinic, or perhaps the strange new world of their injury or illness, they will relax and will be better able to connect to you. As they connect with you, they will connect with your vitality and aliveness and by induction they will become more vital and alive. You will have helped them enter your world. You will have welcomed them into the healing space you have created. You will have welcomed them to the healing space that you are.
