This week I completed the meeting Aesclepius meditation
experience. I chose a person who is very close to my heart and someone I have
been morning the loss of. I found this experience touching and meaningful in a
very warming way. I found myself smile at times and when I was done I was in
tears, but not in a bad way, but in the way that Ryan and I have been brought
so close so many times lately. Last night I gathered with a group of family and
friends in order to celebrate Ryan’s 28th birthday and let him know
that all of us here on earth are still missing him, loving him and thinking of
him. We lit 28 fire lanterns and sent them off to the heavens as our message of
love and thoughts, it was truly touching in every since. Today doing this
meditation experience he was the first person that came into my vision and I
felt that this experience was just one more step of closeness between us.
"One cannot lead another where one has not gone
himself" (p.477), in life there are so many experiences and as a nurse
there are situations that I am going to enter into with my patients that I have
not personal gone myself before. This does not mean that I will not have an
understanding or that I cannot help that person through these times. I thank the
Lord have not had brain cancer or liver cancer or many other diseases or
conditions, but that does not mean I cannot give strength to those who I am
caring for with the illness it just simply means that my personal experience of
the situation will be different. I will never tell someone that I understand
when it is a situation I have never experienced myself and most times I won’t
even if it is an experience I have experienced myself as each experience is
unique to that individual. My obligation to my patients is to care for them the
best I possibly can and to push them to achieve their optimal health, and through
them I also grow. Many times no matter how much I feel I have given to a
patient I feel I have grown even more from meeting them and the strength and
wisdom that they obtain. I can assist them with spiritual growth by encouraging
them to discuss their thoughts and feelings and to use their personal religious
beliefs as strength; there are so many ways as a nurse that we can help others
as well as ourselves.
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