A reflection on this little quote ...is there ever such a place as a
perfect world? Wouldn't that imply a static situation...and could that ever
be? So, we live in an imperfect world, marked by chaos, ever changing, ever
evolving, ever more wondrous, even though there are the downward spirals
that follow, as does the day the night, the upward ones and the twisting
ones...so much motion all the time might sometimes make "centering"
impossible, if you think about it. And then we can forgive ourselves for
being less than perfect, for committing the mistakes and errors that always
have the potential to teach how to do things better the next time, and
sometimes even show us something new and better than we had intended the
first time...
Just a thought
Joanne




At 05:19 AM 2/15/2005, bear wrote:


>Found this old quote - author likely an unknown student at some
>provincial little nursing school - on some website, somewhere...
>
>"one thing I like to do when I am not feeling totally frazzled is
>"center" myself before I approach a client - in a perfect world I would
>always be centered before such interaction..."
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>:-)
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>bear
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>--- Francis Biley <sys812000@...> wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks to all who have contributed to this discussion...
> >
> > I have come across a couple of things. Firstly, a paper by Epstein on
> > 'Mindful
> > Practice' (JAMA, 1999; Bears fav journal) which is related to what I
> > was trying
> > to get at...
> >
> > "...engage in moment-to-moment self-monitoring, bring into
> > consciousness their
> > tacit personal knowledge [isnt this a misinterpreation of Polanyi
> > here?? -
> > Fran] and deeply held values, use peripheral vision and subsidiary
> > awareness to
> > become aware of new informations..."
> >
> > and Watson's new book "Caring Science as Sacred Science", although
> > Ive not
> > closely read it yet, may be a good lead.
> >
> > I guess what I am trying to get at is that I think that, for example,
> > much as
> > there is a need to 'centre' before doing TT, there should be a
> > similar need (to
> > centre/meditate/etc) before engaging in any other kind of nursing
> > practice.
> >
> > How does that sound? Fran
> >
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