‘Heart’ Category

Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project promotes a caring relationship between nurses, their patients and the planet.  Below is a description of it taken from the Watson Caring Science Institute web site.  Meditating on the virtues of the heart heals self and others.  Imagine the healing power of a million nurses meditating at once on the virtues of the heart!  You can join them on New Year’s Day.

“Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project: Radiating a field of Worldwide Energetic Caring Consciousness for Global Healing and Health for all.

Goal:  Connect simultaneously with a million nurses (or more) around the globe: to create and radiate an energetic Caring Field of Heart-Centered Love for Self, Others, and the Planet Earth. This intentional focused experience honors and extends the human caring vibration of nurses into the universal energy field of humanity facilitating healing and health for all.

Launch Date:

The formal launch of the Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project is planned for January 1, 2010 at 12 pm / Noon – Eastern Standard Time (EST/ UTC -0500). A series of heart-centered meditations and events led by Dr. Jean Watson and other dignitaries will be scheduled and broadcast around the world.  Visit the Watson Caring Science Institute or our FaceBook profile and event page regularly for the most up-to-date information, links to scheduled events and emerging opportunities to be a part of this special global healing experience.

This latest evidenced based science of the heart confirms that humans meditating on Heart-centered feelings of Love, Gratitude, Forgiveness, Compassion, and Caring (higher vibration positive emotions associated with the heart) radiate an electromagnetic field several feet beyond themselves.  When working from a heart centered loving –caring consciousness, there is more ‘coherence’ in the human electromagnetic field radiating from the heart.

Nurses around the world bring this loving heart-centered caring energy of Love and Caring to their individual work every day. However, nurses may be silently unaware of their actual energetic linkage and connection they have with others in their environment, and their natural capability of unlimited expansive potential to affect the universal consciousness field of humanity.”

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Compassion: Not An Industrial Model of Medicine

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

I have worked in allopathic or traditional healthcare for 12 years. I have seen extraordinary, compassionate caring that touched the patient’s life and heart in uplifting and healing ways. I also have witnessed cold, detached relations with a patient and their loved ones that left them feeling helpless and without comfort. As a patient I have left more physician office visits feeling depressed about my health than I care to recall.

Healthcare can be a noble profession. However, its noble garments are pretty tattered and worn. This is the results of the imposition of an industrial model of medicine on a profession of caring for human beings. Time, volumes of patients, productivity and margins are the measures of the industrial healthcare model. Industrial measures are focused on the immediate short-term. The hearts and souls of the practitioner and the patient are left disappointed and blocked by the short-term goals of financial health.

Many have heard the mantra so popular now: “No margin, No mission.” How many times is that used as an excuse to shave a few minutes off a patient conversation or eliminate a step in a process in the name of cost?! In the quality and process improvement world it well known, and unfortunately demonstrated over and over again, that when productivity is focused on, quality goes down and costs go up.

What I want as a patient is a healing relationship with my caregivers. Not a transaction. There are many caring individuals within health systems who are compassionate in the face of an organizational quest for margin. However, it is the entire system that needs to demonstrate loving care toward me as a patient. The system needs to say we will take care of you; we will help you consider the options, and we will create a healing space for you to have hope and a sense of control over what you are facing. As a patient I want the system to enable compassion and caring.

The Fetzer Institute is dedicated to compassion in the world. Check it out. Their work should inform the work of healthcare systems and organizations.

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