When you do what you came here to do, then I can do what I came here to do. When I do what I came here to do, then you can do what you came here to do.
Showing up: first step.
The retreat is called "Re-Membering the Healer's Spirit" because the healer is first, and foremost, found within each of us. When we find ourselves in a "burnout" situation, whether on the job or in our personal life, our healer's spirit has lost the connection with our authentic Self. This burnout retreat is offered as a way to Re-Member what we already know deep inside.
I am very grateful for the opportunities I have had for studying with the above teachers, healers and poets. They grace the world with their courageous, enduring and generous work.
The burnout blips are posted on twitter first thing in the morning (PST) on both @burnoutblip and @thedeeperwell. Soon after I wake up I open twitter, and, literally, I type exactly whatever shows up in my mind. I then edit it just a bit so it will fit exactly into the 140 spaces that Twitter allows. I never know what is going to show up, and I feel no pressure to come up with a new burnout blip. This morning practice was started on February 19, 2009. It has changed my life.
Rumi one:
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.
Rumi two:
I look for one simple and open enough to see the Friend, not an intelligence weighing several perspectives. I want an empty shell to hold this pearl, not a stone who pretends to have a secret center, when the surface is all through. I want one who can quit seeing himself, fill with God and, instead of being irritated by interruption and daily resentments, feel those as kindness.
a footnote…
The future of the healing professions depends on access to a deeper understanding that health is not a destination but a path. Burnout is a signal that the path needs tending.
|| let the bulb of who you really are bloom into the you you really are ||
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