Summary: Hopefully if you have got to this page you have been trying some of the techniques I have been suggesting for a while. Hopefully you have found yourself calmer at work and out of work, and you have noticed that you are connecting better with your patients and colleagues. I now want to guide you through a short meditation to consolidate these changes. Please close your eyes and turn your attention to stillness, that part of you that surfaces when you allow your thoughts, memories and worries to settle. That part of you that is there all the time below the surface: calm, still, unshaken and unshakable. That part of you that comes to the fore when all the mental chit chat quietens down. Rest in that stillness, be that quiet, be that calm. And as always, if something comes along that distracts you from that stillness, notice it, and chose to be the stillness again. Be aware that each time you remind yourself of this stillness you become more still, more calm, in your day to day life. Things bother you less and less. You are more able to concentrate on the patient in front of you instead of worrying about how you are going to get all this work done. You find you have time to really listen to them - even if only for a minute - and they know they have really been listened to. You are finding your work is becoming easier and more satisfying because you are actually dong a better job. You are more able to see the goodness in other people. You are become calmer and more reassuring for your patients. Your patients feel safe and at ease when they are with you. Without even saying anything they see the calmness in your movements, they see the confidence in your eyes and they feel at peace. And with your words, your explanations, your reassuring touch you put them even more at ease. With this they stop being paralysed by fear, start to muster their own resources, find their own solutions, see a way forward for themselves, or acceptance of their situation. They become more alive. The peace, the stillness, is contagious and wonderful. Now just relax in that stillness, luxuriate in that stillness. Be aware you have created a healing space. Enjoy your day :-)
