Sometimes we remember singular, stick-to-your-bones things about an endeavor. One of the stand-out learning modules in my MA program in Integrative Health and Healing at
I've seen this in training new nurses in regards to having them learn to open their energy field, creating a more spacious sense of awareness and sensitizing themselves to what is in the moment. They do this and then often become prey to the hostile or negative because although they've practiced grounding and centering before, they've not practiced both at the same time. They lose one or the other in trying to strengthen one or the other. And so it is with us. We are so in the habit of forming belief, attaching to something, anything to identify ourselves, we forget our feet on the floor, the sense of breath moving through our bodies. In particular in the "knowing" professions like medicine, it is supremely uncomfortable to entertain the unknown; we're indoctrinated to know (or pretend we know) lest there be any errors. Most ER, critical care nurses hate this relaxation, sensitizing I do with them. They feel they can't "be on their game" if they're all relaxed. And they are (partially) right, they can't if they don't value the (sometimes appearing opposite) sense of being grounded, which isn't in their automatic reactions (valuable in their own right) but present in the discriminating (more present) self who is practicing letting go of tensions while centering energies in the body. They often, without knowing it while in the ER capacity, have attached to the high they get from the hormones released from the sympathetic nervous system (adrenalin primarily) and the subsequent sense of being almost omnipotent. It can be hard to give that up and hard not to believe the cascade of self-importance felt and one's elevated capacity.
Lack and Unknown are not of the ego's world (unless the ego has been trained to live there). Most of us need to get trained to co-exist with them, as our human upbringing in culture hasn't provided that. Someone in us needs to "believe", to value this other reality. Otherwise, all our beliefs are entrenched in something ego feeds off of, creating attitudes, habits, addictions most of me will gladly tolerate, narrowing my world exponentially. I have to want a different reality
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I've seen this in training new nurses in regards to having them learn to open their energy field, creating a more spacious sense of awareness and sensitizing themselves to what is in the moment. They do this and then often become prey to the hostile or negative because although they've practiced grounding and centering before, they've not practiced both at the same time. They lose one or the other in trying to strengthen one or the other. And so it is with us. We are so in the habit of forming belief, attaching to something, anything to identify ourselves, we forget our feet on the floor, the sense of breath moving through our bodies. In particular in the "knowing" professions like medicine, it is supremely uncomfortable to entertain the unknown; we're indoctrinated to know (or pretend we know) lest there be any errors. Most ER, critical care nurses hate this relaxation, sensitizing I do with them. They feel they can't "be on their game" if they're all relaxed. And they are (partially) right, they can't if they don't value the (sometimes appearing opposite) sense of being grounded, which isn't in their automatic reactions (valuable in their own right) but present in the discriminating (more present) self who is practicing letting go of tensions while centering energies in the body. They often, without knowing it while in the ER capacity, have attached to the high they get from the hormones released from the sympathetic nervous system (adrenalin primarily) and the subsequent sense of being almost omnipotent. It can be hard to give that up and hard not to believe the cascade of self-importance felt and one's elevated capacity.
Lack and Unknown are not of the ego's world (unless the ego has been trained to live there). Most of us need to get trained to co-exist with them, as our human upbringing in culture hasn't provided that. Someone in us needs to "believe", to value this other reality. Otherwise, all our beliefs are entrenched in something ego feeds off of, creating attitudes, habits, addictions most of me will gladly tolerate, narrowing my world exponentially. I have to want a different reality
nicely done, I believe...
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