Mindful Medicine.

/ Talk Story Café / By Peter J Hughes

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the healing process with the power of their humanity intact, rather than with quotas they are pressured to meet and prescriptions they are forced to fill, then medicine can be navigated as the power tool it is designed to be in support of the healing process.

To make the shift from unconscious naivety to conscious intention, it is imperative that we consider what we are working with—the tools we are using to create our reality and manifest our highest potential. As is the case with any tool, it is import- ant to understand its purpose and potential, how to use it safely and effectively, and to be clear on what we intend to achieve. Much like a chef ’s knife, picked up by the handle, it is an artisan’s tool; picked up by the blade, it becomes a self-inflicting assault weapon. Social media, science, and medicine are profound tools with expansive potential. Like any tool, they can be a power tool for thriving or an assault weapon of self-destruction, depending on how we use them, the power we give them, and the intention with which we use them. Our reclaimed and nurtured humanity is the foundation on which we launch the effectiveness of any tool we use to evolve and expand our experience. The choice is ours.

There is a distinction in A Course In Miracles instructs the teacher and the student alike to use the tools of this world but do not be deceived by them. In other words, the awesome advances in medicine are tools to be used to support the patient in the patient’s healing process.
For medicine to be effective in its healing potential, the patient must reclaim the healing power of their own mind and become a cooperative component in their individual healing process. <

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the healing process with the power of their humanity intact, rather than with quotas they are pressured to meet and prescriptions they are forced to fill, then medicine can be navigated as the power tool it is designed to be in support of the healing process.

To make the shift from unconscious naivety to conscious intention, it is imperative that we consider what we are working with—the tools we are using to create our reality and manifest our highest potential. As is the case with any tool, it is import- ant to understand its purpose and potential, how to use it safely and effectively, and to be clear on what we intend to achieve. Much like a chef ’s knife, picked up by the handle, it is an artisan’s tool; picked up by the blade, it becomes a self-inflicting assault weapon. Social media, science, and medicine are profound tools with expansive potential. Like any tool, they can be a power tool for thriving or an assault weapon of self-destruction, depending on how we use them, the power we give them, and the intention with which we use them. Our reclaimed and nurtured humanity is the foundation on which we launch the effectiveness of any tool we use to evolve and expand our experience. The choice is ours.

This is not to say the advances in medicine aren’t spectacular and even miraculous. But what we have forgotten to bring into the equation is how the authentic healing of any disease, be it emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual, is influenced by the mindset of the patient.

There is a distinction in A Course In Miracles instructs the teacher and the student alike to use the tools of this world but do not be deceived by them. In other words, the awesome advances in medicine are tools to be used to support the patient in the patient’s healing process.
For medicine to be effective in its healing potential, the patient must reclaim the healing power of their own mind and become a cooperative component in their individual healing process. <

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the healing process with the power of their humanity intact, rather than with quotas they are pressured to meet and prescriptions they are forced to fill, then medicine can be navigated as the power tool it is designed to be in support of the healing process.

To make the shift from unconscious naivety to conscious intention, it is imperative that we consider what we are working with—the tools we are using to create our reality and manifest our highest potential. As is the case with any tool, it is import- ant to understand its purpose and potential, how to use it safely and effectively, and to be clear on what we intend to achieve. Much like a chef ’s knife, picked up by the handle, it is an artisan’s tool; picked up by the blade, it becomes a self-inflicting assault weapon. Social media, science, and medicine are profound tools with expansive potential. Like any tool, they can be a power tool for thriving or an assault weapon of self-destruction, depending on how we use them, the power we give them, and the intention with which we use them. Our reclaimed and nurtured humanity is the foundation on which we launch the effectiveness of any tool we use to evolve and expand our experience. The choice is ours.

When it comes to the profound lifesaving developments in medicine, we have, at times, wandered far from the path of our humanity and fallen under the influence of the business of pill-pushing, generating the clientele necessary to keep a multi- billion-dollar industry thriving. And, to sustain the industry, a pill-popping mindset must be created and then convinced it must have the product at all costs to stay alive. (To be fair, in order for a culture to be seduced by a manipulative influence, the culture must first believe it is diseased and powerless to save itself.) Add to this an unregulated insurance industry and a steady stream of newly discovered diseases, and we have the ideal model for supply and demand.

This is not to say the advances in medicine aren’t spectacular and even miraculous. But what we have forgotten to bring into the equation is how the authentic healing of any disease, be it emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual, is influenced by the mindset of the patient.

There is a distinction in A Course In Miracles instructs the teacher and the student alike to use the tools of this world but do not be deceived by them. In other words, the awesome advances in medicine are tools to be used to support the patient in the patient’s healing process.
For medicine to be effective in its healing potential, the patient must reclaim the healing power of their own mind and become a cooperative component in their individual healing process. <

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the healing process with the power of their humanity intact, rather than with quotas they are pressured to meet and prescriptions they are forced to fill, then medicine can be navigated as the power tool it is designed to be in support of the healing process.

To make the shift from unconscious naivety to conscious intention, it is imperative that we consider what we are working with—the tools we are using to create our reality and manifest our highest potential. As is the case with any tool, it is import- ant to understand its purpose and potential, how to use it safely and effectively, and to be clear on what we intend to achieve. Much like a chef ’s knife, picked up by the handle, it is an artisan’s tool; picked up by the blade, it becomes a self-inflicting assault weapon. Social media, science, and medicine are profound tools with expansive potential. Like any tool, they can be a power tool for thriving or an assault weapon of self-destruction, depending on how we use them, the power we give them, and the intention with which we use them. Our reclaimed and nurtured humanity is the foundation on which we launch the effectiveness of any tool we use to evolve and expand our experience. The choice is ours.

When it comes to the profound lifesaving developments in medicine, we have, at times, wandered far from the path of our humanity and fallen under the influence of the business of pill-pushing, generating the clientele necessary to keep a multi- billion-dollar industry thriving. And, to sustain the industry, a pill-popping mindset must be created and then convinced it must have the product at all costs to stay alive. (To be fair, in order for a culture to be seduced by a manipulative influence, the culture must first believe it is diseased and powerless to save itself.) Add to this an unregulated insurance industry and a steady stream of newly discovered diseases, and we have the ideal model for supply and demand.

This is not to say the advances in medicine aren’t spectacular and even miraculous. But what we have forgotten to bring into the equation is how the authentic healing of any disease, be it emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual, is influenced by the mindset of the patient.

There is a distinction in A Course In Miracles instructs the teacher and the student alike to use the tools of this world but do not be deceived by them. In other words, the awesome advances in medicine are tools to be used to support the patient in the patient’s healing process.
For medicine to be effective in its healing potential, the patient must reclaim the healing power of their own mind and become a cooperative component in their individual healing process. <

Many Western doctors are beginning to implement this approach into their interactions with both patients and support staff, embracing and integrating the teachings of thousands of years of Eastern medicine. The effectiveness and sustainability of the shift in this awareness ride on honoring the presence of our humanity. When patients and practitioners come to the healing process with the power of their humanity intact, rather than with quotas they are pressured to meet and prescriptions they are forced to fill, then medicine can be navigated as the power tool it is designed to be in support of the healing process.

To make the shift from unconscious naivety to conscious intention, it is imperative that we consider what we are working with—the tools we are using to create our reality and manifest our highest potential. As is the case with any tool, it is import- ant to understand its purpose and potential, how to use it safely and effectively, and to be clear on what we intend to achieve. Much like a chef ’s knife, picked up by the handle, it is an artisan’s tool; picked up by the blade, it becomes a self-inflicting assault weapon. Social media, science, and medicine are profound tools with expansive potential. Like any tool, they can be a power tool for thriving or an assault weapon of self-destruction, depending on how we use them, the power we give them, and the intention with which we use them. Our reclaimed and nurtured humanity is the foundation on which we launch the effectiveness of any tool we use to evolve and expand our experience. The choice is ours.

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