Unit 7

Wow, I really do enjoy these meditations.
It took me sometime to focus in on a wise person in my life.  Finally, I settled on someone I have never met. 
My birth mother (I was adopted) lived on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.  I was adopted when I was 6 weeks old.  I have never met my mother or grandmother.  In this meditation I imagined my grandmother as my wise person.  An old Alaskan Indian that practiced the ways of her ancestors.  I imagined that she knew many things and was a respected person in her community.  That she was loving and kind and was willing to impart her knowledge to me, as her granddaughter.  It was great.  The sounds of the flutes in the background made it even easier to imagine.  Feeling her essence become my own was awesome.  I will certainly be doing this exercise again.

I definitely believe that a profession should "practice what they preach".  Otherwise how can they have any empathy for what their clients are going though?  I do have an obligation to my patients to develop myself psychologicaly, spiritually, and physically.  If I don't it will be difficult for them to believe what I am trying to help them with.

~Helen