BodhiCare Enlightened Healthcare

The Gold Dollar or Sylvia's Ah Ha! Moment

"How did we get started?!"

For over 10 years Sylvia had envisioned a new kind of healthcare, one that added value to patient’s lives, a healthcare that would offer a comprehensive system of continuous healing relationships, and a healthcare that would provide fulfilling work for physicians, nurses and other caregivers.

"So, are you going to think about it, or do it?!!"

In October of 2008, she went to a meeting at a resort on Amelia Island, Florida. The afternoon before the meeting began walking on the beach, watching and listening to the ebb and flow of the ocean, she suddenly found herself in a conversation with her soul. The conversation went something like this – "Are you going to keep talking about this vision, or are you going to take action to manifest it?!!" This was a big question. It went on throughout the rest of the day. That evening she tucked the question into her heart and went to sleep.

The next day when the meeting began, the host hospital welcomed everyone and asked each meeting participant to take a "local treasure" from sand filled boxes. There were sand dollars, starfish, many other shells as well as plastic "gold" coins (symbols of the gold pirates left in the ocean) visible in the boxes. Sylvia took a plastic gold doubloon as a metaphor for the money she would need if she was going to manifest her vision.

Later in the day, after buying something in the gift shop, she was given a one dollar gold coin as part of the change for her purchase. She had never seen one before. In wonder she turned the coin over and over in her hand. She felt it was a sign for her to actualize her dream of healing healthcare. This coin was the real thing. Not a plastic replica of pirate gold! No more talking. She needed to do it!

The next morning sitting on the balcony overlooking the sunrise on the ocean she wrote a promise to herself and to humanity to build a new model of healing healthcare. Of course, this was a life changing commitment. She had fully opened herself to what had been in her heart and soul for years. It seemed as if the forces for an entirely new vision for healthcare flowed into her life and filled it with trust and enthusiasm for its fulfillment.

Within two months Sylvia had resigned her position at the hospital and began the journey of manifesting this great vision. After that she talked to everyone that would listen or expressed an interest – physicians, nurses, administrators, directors, physical therapists, radiology technicians, patients and friends - about the vision, the new kind of healing healthcare.

Many responded enthusiastically and offered encouragement. Some wanted to be remembered for work when the doors opened. Others volunteered to be part of the Board of Directors to develop and evolve the vision. Still others have joined in the work through serving on the Advisory Board.

BodhiCare® is the emerging form of a new model of healthcare based on healing relationships with a deep belief that patients have the inner wisdom to heal themselves in partnership with a caregiver / physician.