Mindfulness
As it says in the Tao te Ching (I paraphrase):
“we all know it to be true but, somehow,
we don’t really believe it”
Namely, that our thoughts reach out beyond us in time and space. But not only do we, as observers, change the observed, but also we are simply products of our own minds. The Buddha had it that:
“It is your mind that creates this world”
In other words, as we emerge from the womb and the mind takes over from the Spirit (the Universal Mind), the conscious takes over from the subconscious, the Zong takes over from the Yuan, the Taiji takes over from the Wuji etc, we create a world with all the preconceptions, expectations and learnt behaviours that comfort us – and we believe it to be real.
But the mind is continuously tapping into the Spirit, the conscious into the subconscious, the Zong into the Yuan and Taiji into the Wuji. So just as any thought we have can affect our own health through the subconscious automatic functioning of our bodies and emotions, likewise any thought we have becomes a part of the Universal Mind affecting others; some say the Universal Mind is independent of time and space and hence the present can affect the past or the future (always assuming that they are different). Prayer and distance healing have been proven to be effective – so how else could they be so?
Many stress the power of positive thinking; Ghandi advised, “be the world you want it to be”; Ford said “whether you think you can or can’t, you’re most probably right”; the Barefoot Doctor raves about affirmations (see his ‘Manifesto’) etc. Essentially, they are all saying that there is an infinite potential to make your world (and that of others) what you want them to be.
Your thoughts affect the Universe in all dimensions.
So you have a difficult patient, and they’ve booked in to see you. What do you think? What do you say to your colleagues? What is the impression you are making on the Universe, and hence onto your patient? Simply thinking negative thoughts will have a detrimental effect on how you treat them – be they thoughts you think before or after the treatment – destructive thoughts may even make them ill (or even you). Your thoughts go ahead of you in all directions - interesting, huh?
So think good thoughts and good things will come to you and to those with whom you come into contact. This is not some abstract musing, but fundamental to the world in which we live. Take it or leave it.
“we all know it to be true but, somehow,
we don’t really believe it”
Metta