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Abasdarhon – angel of the fifth hour of the night.
Abraxos – ancient name attributed to an angel.
Adnachiel – angel who rules November.
Adonael – an archangel.
Adonai – one of seven angels of the presence, or elohim; creator.
Aeshma – Persian archangel.
Af – angel of light.
Agla – angel who saved Lot and his family.
Akriel – angel who aids those with infertility.
Amitiel – angel of truth.
Amriel – angel of the month of May.
Anael – angel influencing love, passion and sexuality.
Anapiel – angel whose name means “branch of God.”
Anahel – angel who rules the third heaven.
Anpiel – angel who protects birds.
Ansiel – name of an angel known as “the constrainer.”
Arael – variation of Uriel; prince over the people.
Araqiel – angel with dominion over the earth.
Araton – one of seven ruling angels over the provinces of heaven.
Ariel – “lion of God;” angel of protection.
Armisael – angel of the womb.
Asariel – “whom God has bound;” rules the moon.
Asroilu – guardian angel of the seventh heaven.
Astanphaeus – one of the seven angels of the presence; third gate guardian.
Asteraoth – name of an angel who thwarts power.
Atrugiel – great prince of the seventh heaven.
Ayil – angel of the zodiac sign Sagittarius.
Azbogah – name of the high ranking angel of judgment.
Azrael – archangel of death.
Azriel – name for the angel of destruction.
Balthioul – angel with the power to thwart distress.
Baradiel – angel of hail.
Barakiel – angel of lightning.
Barrattiel – angel of support.
Barbiel – angel of October.
Bariel – ruling angel of the eleventh hour of the day.
Barman – angel of intelligence.
Barquiel – ruling angel of the seventh hour of the day.
Baruchiel – angel with power over strife.
Bath Kol – female angel of divine prophecy.
Bazazath – archangel of the second heaven.
Bethor – one of seven ruling angels of the province of heaven.
Briathos – name of an angel who thwarts demons.
Cahethal – seraphim angel over agriculture.
Camael – angel name that means “he who sees God;” chief angel of powers.
Cassiel – angel of Saturn.
Cerviel – angel ruler of the principalities.
Chamuel – archangel whose name means “he who seeks God.”
Chayyliel – angel whose name means “army;” a powerful angel.
Cochabiel – angel prince who stands before God.
Dabriel – angel of the first heaven who rules over Monday.
Dagiel – angel who has dominion over fish.
Dalquiel – angel prince of the third heaven.
Damabiath – angel of naval construction.
Dardariel – ruling angel of the eleventh hour.
Diniel – angel who protects infants.
Domiel – angel who guards the sixth hall of the seventh heaven.
Dubbiel – guardian angel of Persia; name means “bear-God.”
Duma – angel prince of dreams.
Dumah – angel of silence.
Eae – angel who thwarts demons.
Eiael – angel with dominion over the occult sciences.
Elyon – ministering angel who brought the plague of hail upon Egypt.
Emmanuel – angel whose name means “God with us.”
Erathaol – one of seven great archon angels.
Eremiel – great angel who presides over the Abyss and Hades.
Gabriel – archangel whose name means “man or hero of God.”
Gadriel – angel who rules the fifth heaven.
Galgaliel – prince angel of the sun, like Raphael.
Galizur – great angel who rules the second heaven.
Gamaliel – angel who takes the elect unto heaven.
Gazardiel – angel who supervises the east.
Geburatiel – angel prince who guards the seventh heaven.
Guriel – angel of the zodiac sign of Leo.
Gzrel – angel who revokes any evil decree against another in heaven.
Hadraniel – angel who stands at the second gate in heaven; “majesty of God.”
Hadriel – guardian angel of the gates of the east wind.
Hagith – one of the seven ruling angels of the provinces of heaven.
Halaliel – archangel known as “the lord of karma.”
Hamaliel – angel who rules the order of virtues.
Hamon – a great, honored, beautiful prince angel in heaven.
Haniel – an archangel who guards the tree of life.
Harahel – angel who oversees libraries.
Hasdiel – angel of benevolance.
Hasmal – fire speaking angel of the throne of God.
Hayliel – angel prince in the seventh heaven.
Haziel – angel whose name means “vision of God.”
Heman – angel leader of the heavenly choir, whose name means “trust.”
Hermesiel – angel who leads one of the heavenly choirs.
Hofniel – ruling angel of the bene elohim; name means “fighter of God.”
Iaoel – an angel of the lord; angel of visions.
Iaoth – archangel who has power to thwart demons.
Leo – an angel who thwarts demons.
Iofiel – archangel whose name means “beauty of God.”
Israfil – Islamic angel whose name means “the burning one.”
Jael – cherub who guards the ark of the covenant.
Jahoel – one of the angels of the presence and chief of the seraphim.
Jaoel – guardian angel who lives in the seventh heaven.
Jeduthun – angel whose name means “master of howling” or chanting to God.
Jefischa – ruling angel of the fourth hour of the night.
Jehudiel – archangel who rules the movements of the celestial spheres.
Jeremiel – archangel whose name means “mercy of God.”
Kabshiel – angel of grace and favor.
Kafziel – archangel who rules the planet Saturn.
Kakabel – angel who rules over stars and constellations.
Kalaziel – angel who has the power to thwart demons of disease.
Karael – angel who has the power to thwart demons.
Kemuel – archon angel and chief of the seraphim.
Kerubiel – prince angel of the cherubim.
Kokabiel – prince angel of the stars.
Kutiel – angel of water and the use of diving rods.
Labbiel – angel whose name was changed to Raphael.
Lahabiel – angel who protects against evil spirits.
Lamechial – angel who thwarts deception.
Lassuarium – angel who rules the tenth hour of the night.
Laylah – angel who oversees and protects childbirth.
Machidiel – angel governing the zodiac sign of Aries and the month of March.
Marmaroth – angel who has power to thwart fate.
Mendrion – angel who rules the seventh hour of the night.
Metatron – one of the greatest archangels, second only to God.
Michael – great archangel whose name means “who is as God.”
Mihr – angel of divine mercy; angel that governs September.
Miniel – angel invoked to induce love.
Mitatron – an angel of the third heaven.
Morael – angel of awe that rules the months of August-September.
Moroni – brought messages to Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism.
Muriel – angel who rules the dominions and the month of June.
Naaririel – great prince angel of the seventh heaven.
Nahaliel – angel who governs running streams; “valley of God.”
Nanael – angel who governs the sciences, and philosophy.
Narcariel – angel that rules the eighth hour of the night.
Nasargiel – good angel with a lion head that rules hell.
Nathanael – angel ruling over hidden things, fire and vengeance.
Naya’il – angel of testing.
Nelchael – angel of the schemhamphorae.
Nuriel – angel of spellbinding power and of hail storms.
Och – one ruling angel of the provinces of heaven.
Omael – angel of chemistry and species perpetuation.
Onoel – name of an archon angel…
Ophaniel – prince angel over the ophanim.
Ophiel – one ruling angel of the provinces of heaven and Mercury.
Oriel – ruling angel of the tenth hour of the day.
Orifiel – archangel over thrones, and the second hour of the day.
Orphamiel – angel known as the “great finger of the Father.”
Osmadiel – ruling angel of the eighth hour of the day.
Ouriel – archangel who commands demons.
Pamyel – ruling angel of the ninth hour of night.
Pathiel – angel whose name means “opener of God.”
Peliel – angel who rules the virtues.
Peniel – angel who rules Friday and resides in the third heaven.
Pesagniyah – angel who ushers prayers of grief to heaven.
Phaleg – one of the seven ruling angels of the provinces of heaven.
Phanuel – archangel who is an interpreter of revelations.
Phounebiel – disease thwarting angel.
Phul one of the seven ruling angels of the provinces of heaven.
Pravuil – an archangel who keeps all the records of heaven.
Pronoia – an archon angel who helped make mankind.
Purah – angel of forgetfulness.
Puriel – angel whose name means “the fire of God;” angel of punishment.
Qaspiel – angel who rules the moon.
Quabriel – ruling angel of the ninth hour of the day.
Rachiel – ophanim angel who rules Venus and governs sexuality.
Rachmiel – angel of mercy whose name also means the same.
Radueriel – angel who can create other angels and oversees archives.
Raguel – angel who watches over the behavior of angels; “friend of God.”
Rahab – angel of death, destruction, but also the sea.
Rahatiel – angel prince of the constellations; name means “to run.”
Rahmiel – angel of mercy and love.
Ramiel – angel who oversees visions and souls during the day of judgment.
Raphael – great archangel whose name means “the shining one who heals.”
Rathanael – angel of the third heaven and thwarter of demons.
Raziel – angel chief over the thrones, guarding the secrets of the universe.
Remiel – angel who leads souls to judgment; name means “mercy of God.”
Rikbiel – angel who oversees the divine chariot; chief of wheels.
Rizoel – angel with power to thwart demons.
Rogziel – angel of punishment whose name means “the wrath of God.”
Ruman – angel who takes account of evil men’s deeds while in hell.
Sabaoth – archon angel of the presence.
Sabathiel – angel or intelligence who communicates divine light.
Sablo – angel of graciousness and protection.
Sabrael – archangel who guards the first heaven.
Sabrathan – ruling angel of the first hour of the night.
Sachiel – ruling angel of Jupiter whose name means “covering of God.”
Sagnessagiel – angel who guards the fourth hall of the seventh heaven.
Sahaqiel – angel prince of the fourth heaven.
Salathiel – rescuing angel of Adam and Eve.
Samkiel – angel of destruction and purifier of souls from sheol.
Samuel – fruling angel of the first hour of the day.
Sandalphon – giant angel whose name means “co-brother” (of Metratron).
Saniel – ruling angel of the sixth hour of the day.
Sarakiel – angel who rules the ministering angels.
Sarandiel – ruling angel of the twelfth hour of the night.
Satqiel – angel prince of the fifth heaven.
Seraphiel – chief angel of the seraphim angels.
Shamsiel – angel whose name means “light of day.”
Shepherd – angel of repentance.
Shoftiel – angel whose name means “the judge of God.”
Sidqiel – angel prince of the ophanim; ruler of Venus.
Sidriel – angel prince of the first heaven.
Simiel – archangel.
Sizouze – angel of prayer.
Sophia – angel whose name means “wisdom.”
Soqedhozi – angel who weighs the merits of of men before God.
Sorath – angel who is the spirit of the sun.
Sorush – angel who punishes souls on judgment day.
Soterasiel – angel whose name means “who stirs up the fire of God.”
Sraosha – angel who sets the world in motion.
Suriel – angel of healing whose name means “God’s command.”
Tagas – governing angel of singing angels.
Tartys – ruling angel of the second hour of the night.
Tatrasiel – great angelic prince.
Temeluch – angel caretaker who protects newborn babies and children.
Temperance – angel of the elixir of life.
Theliel – angel prince of love.
Tubiel – angel of summer.
Tzadkiel – angel of justice and guardian of the gates of the east wind.
Ubaviel – angel of the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
Umabel – angel of physics and astronomy.
Uriel – great archangel whose name means “God is my light.”
Usiel – an angel who stands before the throne of God.
Uzziel – cherubim angel whose name means “strength of God.”
Varhmiel – ruling angel of the fourth hour of the day.
Vequaniel – ruling angel of the third hour of the day.
Verchiel – ruling angel of the month of July and of the zodiac sign Leo.
Vretiel – swift in wisdom archangel responsible for recording God’s deeds.
Xathanael – the sixth angel created by God.
Yabbashael – an angel of the earth whose name means “the mainland.”
Yefefiah – archangel who is the prince of the Torah.
Yehudiah – benevolant angel of death.
Yerachmiel – an archangel who rules earth.
Yeshamiel – angel who rules the zodiac sign of Libra.
Yofiel – angel prince of the Torah commanding 53 legions of angels.
Zaapiel – angel punisher of wicked souls.
Zaazenach – ruling angel of the sixth hour of the night.
Zabkiel – angel who rules over the thrones.
Zachariel – angel governor of Jupiter.
Zachriel – angel who governs memories.
Zadkeil – archangel who rules heaven and stands in the presence of God.
Zagzagel – angel prince of the Torah and of wisdom.
Zakzakiel – angel of the seventh heaven who records good deeds.
Zaphiel – angel ruler of the cherubim.
Zaphkiel – archangel whose name means “knowledge of God.”
Zarall – cherub angel who guards the ark of the covenant.
Zazriel – angel whose name means “strength of God.”
Zehanpuryu – high ranking angel whose name means “one who sets free.”
Zerachiel – angel of the month of July and the sun.
Zophiel – angel whose name means “God’s spy.”
Zuriel – angel ruler of the principalities whose name means “my rock is God.”

Gratitude and Praise Quotes by Ann Ree Colton:

“Gratitude is the beginning of ecstasy.”

“Gratitude has a palette of its own; it paints everything with the brush of grace newborn.”

“Healing begins in praising.”

“From the songs of our praise shall we dissolve the barriers of weakness.”

“To kneel, to pray, and to give praise is the first freedom of the soul.”

“Gratitude is like diamonds and jewels ignited by thousands of stars. The angels use your gratitude to widen the portals of your consciousness.”

“All persons having the inward and unceasing praise and gratitude to God manifest a powerful life-force in harmony with the Laws of the Universal.”

“There are those who go out of this life with a grunt, and those who go out of this life with a song of praise.”

“To be thankful for the smallest things is to build a healthy emotional body and a flexible mental attitude.”

Angel names find their roots within ancient cultures, such as Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt, as well as within Jewish, Christian and Muslim lore.

Over thousands of years, angel names have evolved in spelling, meaning and use within religions, mysticism and magic.

When the name of an angel is thought important in order to invoke angelic help.

Many of the angel names include a suffix word meaning, “of God” (-el), or yah, which means, “Lord.” This way, angel names portray the importance of the angel’s connection with the divine. Angel names are, thus, traditionally viewed as being powerful. Most angel names will have the “el” incorporated; most fallen angel names will not.

Angel names used most frequently and best known are Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, and Ariel.

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Can My Friends Send Me Angels?

It is true, you cannot live happy or healthy with type 2 diabetes for a long period of time. What scares most people are the long term survival rates with painful conditions requiring family help!

You Can begin with your tongue to begin a new relationship with your body!

The Taste Map of the Tongue You Learned in School Is All Wrong

• Sweet
• Sour
• Salty
• Pungent
• Bitter
• Astringent

Each of these tastes has specific functions in your physiology, either for energy (macronutrients) or healthy information (micronutrients), so it is important to try to get each taste in every meal, or in a day while favoring the tastes that are better for your current dosha imbalance and reducing the ones that will get you more out of balance.

These taste category of pungent, as it is underutilized in many diets, yet is very important for optimizing and supporting the digestion of food. Some simple tips for those with uncontrolled type 2 Diabetes!

Modern biology shows that taste receptors aren’t nearly as simple as that cordoned-off model would lead you to believe

What can I do to move me closer to healing?

• Cook some seeds, such as cumin or mustard seed, in a little bit of oil before cooking your veggies.
  
• Add the ground spices into food to make it more flavorful and healthier.
  
• Use herbs such as oregano, rosemary, and parsley, which also support the natural detoxification pathways.

What can I do to move me closer to Wholeness?

In the book, You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay says that diabetes is caused by not realizing the sweetness in life, which you can take to mean as not living in the moment, or by complaining and therefore, not praising what good things ARE abundantly available.

So, here are some things to remind yourself if you would like to heal from either type of diabetes, remembering that you must EXPECT IT, DESIRE IT, AND BELIEVE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN.  

If you have limiting beliefs in any of these three topics, you will not achieve your goal. But, if you really expect to heal, you desire it greatly, and then also believe that it will happen (as it has for so many of BOTH types) then it will–as long as you don’t offer a lot of resistance around healing.

Everything is energy! To help your Energy ~ Practice Feeling in the moment!

Say out loud:

“I am happy with where I am at, and I am choosing healthier thoughts and feelings every day.  I am on a really interesting journey, learning about myself, my body, and how my thoughts and feelings create my physical reality.  I know that I am connected to my higher power, and I can easily access the most loving and appreciative thoughts.  I continue to grow each day into the person I wish to be…”

FEEL HAPPY! ~Listen to Music, Be in the Moment! Grow your ability to feel Happiness! Call your best friend! Take action to lean into happiness!

In the Mirror look into your left eye and Say:

“Every day, I love finding lots of things I appreciate and love about myself, and I’m going to spend some time just thinking about those things now…(do this on your own but keep it general)…I love how I’ve overcome lots of obstacles only to find success, I appreciate how good I feel outside and in nature.  I so enjoy looking at the trees and flowers, and seeing animals.  They always make me feel so good.  I love the smell of the ocean, the smell of forests, the feeling of sitting under a tree on a warm day, and the crisp autumn air.  I love knowing that my appreciation helps me feel good, but also helps anyone who notices it as well.”

Imagine and Angel or a beloved one listen to you as you say:

“I know that my current physical conditions (whatever they may be) are temporary and that feeling better and thinking better comes easily to me.

 My life force is strong, and flows easily, just like breathing air, in and out.  

Meditate on and Feel:

Just like drinking pure water, I am filled with the divine presence, I know the feeling of the divine because whenever I feel appreciative, I am on the highest vibration, the one of love.  The more I love and appreciate myself and others, I am there!  I am ready to allow more good into my life.  I am ready to consistently and happily allow fun, freedom, and joy into my experience.”

What can I do to move me closer to Health?

Each Cause for any Illness is unique. Your reason and your process for healing is also unique!

Call in on Thursdays and we are happy to answer your questions about your Diabetic state and the solution to “Ease” your “Dis”- disease.

BREATHE:

How to Let Go of Things from the Past

1. Create a positive mantra to counter the painful thoughts. …
   
   Choose that mantra now!
   
   Write it down now!
   
   Feel what it feels like to be free right now!
   
   The Mantras that may free you
   1. You are forgiven before you do anything!
   2. Who would you be without that thought? (How would you show up?)
   3. You can grow a bigger heart, thicker skin, and assert I am willing!
   4. I generate true freedom because I own my choices!
   
   
2. Create physical distance. …
   
   (CLEAR MIND< OPEN HEART< RELAXED BEING)
   
   Use your imagination. In your imagination, mind’s eye, see it as smaller than the image of the future!
   
3. Do your own work. …
   
   Only you can rebuild yourself
   
4. Practice mindfulness. …
   
   Be in the present moment! Cause yourself by turning on an alarm to allow you to get into the current moment!
   
   
5. Eat healthy living foods
   
   This moves you and your body!
   
   
6. Drink water
   
   Water is the solution to rebuilding our world because water has the ability to change your emotions
   
   
7. Be gentle with yourself. …
   
   Know that you are probably healing your family linage by becoming present and doing this work. You are healing you with being gentle and not judging your experience.
   
8. Allow negative emotions to flow. …
   
   Someone has to feel the emotions that are around and not be taken over. This is where breathing becomes important.
   
   
9. Accept that the other person. place, the event may not apologize. …
   
   Be okay that the other has to live with what has happened. You have the ability to clear the field!
   
   
10. Engage in self-care. Repeat this over and over again!

Programming of the past:

How do I decide my Reality? You decide by choosing you! You as much as anyone else deserves your love! Make a beautiful moment for your self each day and then ~when you are ready ~ give love from your overflow!!!!

Photo by Annapurna Bobba:

The Following Channel is from higher powers, Divine, the ancestral plane and is prophetic through Quornesha S. Lemon
Whether the White Rhino appears in dreams, visions, waking life or synchronicities, it is a sign and message that you are in some way affecting those around you or those that come to you, some come with gratitude and there are some who feel threatened by you. You are a loving and caring being, and it is time to call in the courage of the Rhino to help you with any feedback you may be receiving at this time. You may not need a “thicker skin” but you need to call in the strength of the Rhino. The White Rhino will also help you purify areas and emotions that appear weak or sensitive in any way right now. If you are an empath, it is okay, you will begin to learn to swim and fly high, as opposed to feeling victimized. Invoke this spirit animal. It symbolizes strength, rigor, courage, tenacity, confidence, and a gentle spirit. You are capable of being mentally and emotionally tough, yet gentle. And it’s message is that you’re more than ready for the world and what it entails. 

If this is not you, then it is time to get clear to rejoin your tribe or the rest of the world of infinite beings. It’s time to bring your light to the forefront. However, if you aren’t able to invoke, heal or otherwise on your own, call on Thursday:

In groups, we are awakening the LOVE!

How do you label with words the “Great Mystery force/power in everything?”

Some label it, “The Universe” some label it “God”!

However you label it, it gives you opportunities!

REAL MAGIC by Dean Radin

Penguin Random House

Dean Radin (pronounced Ray’ din), PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned a BS in electrical engineering (magna cum laude, with honors in physics), and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 500 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is author or coauthor of hundreds of scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, two technical books, and four popular books translated so far into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), and Real Magic (2018).  

Every relationship you have is healing itself through you.

This is not wishful thinking, this is the latest scientific research!

BEING A DOCTOR

The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.— Francis Weld Peabody, MD, 1881–1927, American physician

At a difficult turn in my life about 15 years ago, Henry Seidel agreed to meet me for coffee at a shopping mall. It was a couple of days after Christmas, and I wanted to talk with him about my decision to stop practicing clinical medicine. After listening carefully, he said only this, “Bob, I will tell you what my mother told me when I faced a similar decision. ‘Henry, you will always be a doctor. Being a doctor is about what is in your heart and not what is in your little black bag.’” Indeed, Henry’s mother was right. I have probably healed as many people outside the formal practice of medicine as I have within it.

Many things got in the way of answering my call to be a healer. One of the things that got in the way was the medical profession itself. During my psychiatry rotation, late in my second year of medical school, I was approached by my attending physician. He asked me if I had considered a career in psychiatry. I recall this moment rather vividly. I told him that I had considered psychiatry but had decided against it. I told him that during the psychiatry rotation I had learned that relationships are what heal people, and I did not think I could maintain that many relationships.

This was an example of what Henry had mentioned, “What a student said was not necessarily what the student thought.” Looking back, I suspect what I thought was that psychiatry was using pills more than relationships to heal people and that the field would not fully support my desire to heal people through relationships. This period, in the mid-1980s, marked the beginning of a strong movement toward biological psychiatry, and many on the Hopkins faculty strongly supported that movement. What we know now about psychiatry is what we know about nearly every field in medicine—that medications and procedures are rarely sufficient to heal suffering; sometimes they are not even necessary. However, what is almost always necessary to heal people is to enter into a relationship with them.

By saying that relationships heal, I am not making a romantic call to a bygone era and urging a move away from the scientific evidence that has helped make the practice of modern medicine credible, ethical, and socially valued. In fact, you are entering medicine at a time when there is new scientific evidence to support the part of medical practice that was often called an art. Science has permitted us to reclaim what medicine has mistakenly forsaken and what I was once afraid to embrace—the healing power of relationships.

For example, the new field of interpersonal neurobiology has explained how relationships matter for healing. Because of advances in neuroscience and epigenetics, we have broken down some constraints in our thinking about the distinctions between mind and body and between nature and nurture. Therefore, we now understand how our biography, especially our relationships, becomes our biology.2 Today it is safer in our profession to give voice to the fact that relationships matter for healing, and it is okay to practice medicine as if our relationships with patients mattered. That is great news, because relationships are the part of your practice you will likely find most gratifying and sustainable.

LINGERING, LISTENING, AND LOVING

So, how will listening to your authentic call as a healer make a difference? How will you enter into relationships with patients in a way that is effective and sustainable? In closing, I will give you three interrelated practices to consider: lingering, listening, and loving.

First, there is lingering. Slow your physical and mental pace as much as possible. It is what Henry Seidel called approaching problems with a “deliberate speed”—work as fast as necessary, but no faster. At times, we think we must solve every problem immediately. We no longer use time to either heal or diagnose. We succumb easily to the trap of viewing our effectiveness and self-worth in medicine through the metric of speed. This trap makes us avoid a moment of silence in an encounter with a patient, even when that silence can be healing. It prevents us from taking time to reflect on questions like, “I wonder what is going on with this patient?” These reflective and humble “wondering” questions are often the ones that lead to the correct diagnosis or therapy, including the possibility of doing nothing else but more waiting, watching, and wondering.

Lingering allows one to be mindful rather than mindless. To be mindful is to achieve a deep awareness that arises from paying attention to what is happening in the moment, to our sensations, thoughts, and feelings. This awareness comes from noticing things in us and in others and not judging them harshly. Lingering can allow us to feel what is going on in an encounter with another person—what the patient is feeling and how we are feeling. That sense you convey to your patients that you understand what they are feeling or experiencing changes their brains, and this is part of how relationships heal. This conveyed understanding places the person in a physiologically safe state. In that state, the biologic and behavioral process of integration, restoration, growth, and positive adaption occur.

Next, there is listening. People are healed by the process of telling their stories and feeling heard. Indeed this is the very process by which people feel worthy and included, and much chronic illness arises simply because people feel persistently unworthy or excluded. Train your mind to hear every detail of people’s stories, and always wonder what has been left out and why. Never judge people’s stories as incoherent. The less coherent a person seems, the more likely it is that person needs your help. Everyone who has experienced significant suffering from pain and worry has trouble making coherent narratives. Ask every patient you see some open-ended questions: “What brings you here today?” or “What happened to you?” And never forget that the most powerful and underutilized utterance in medical practice is this: “Tell me more about that.” Do all you can to keep eye contact with your patients. The eyes are the window to the mind. How you cast your eyes upon another can change the mind of that person, and the mind can heal the body.

Finally, there is loving. What relationship is therapeutic if it does not involve positive emotion, and what is a relationship with positive emotion if it is not some form of what we call love? Love is essential to our health and to healing. Indeed, our profession has harmed itself, in my opinion, by its prescription for objectivity and emotional distance from our patients. Current scientific evidence suggests that emotional distance is bad for patients and physicians alike. This dated prescription of emotional distance has left us trying to heal patients by using only what is in our black bags and not what is in our hearts. It has left us feeling empathic towards the suffering of others but limited in our responses of compassion—our helping actions. There must be something more to use than scalpel, pill, laser, or patch. Care of the dying, if nothing else, calls for more.

Cutting-edge and science-informed practice in 2015 has us working well beyond the old boundaries of our profession that limited our emotional involvement with patients. There is no healing relationship without empathy, and empathy involves the emotion centers of the brain. When we are empathic to the suffering of another, the areas of our brain that are active are similar to the areas of the brain that are active in the person who is suffering. Indeed, empathy is painful, and too much empathy can lead to burnout, unless that empathy is accompanied by a compassionate response. Compassion is experienced in the brain where we experience love—romantic love and parent-child love—with all its elevating emotions. Compassion is a helping action in relation to another. It feels good to the healer and the healed. Compassion may be what sustains us through our empathy, because it is the proper and adaptive response to the pain we can experience during empathy.

The powerful tools of modern biomedical therapeutics, which you have learned in medical school, are tools of compassion. Immunizations and opiates alleviate suffering. But your time in medical school also permitted you to develop some tools of compassion that you had when you arrived here. These are relationship tools, like encouraging, touching, listening, and being silent and fully present. These are also acts of love. They are acts of patience, tenderness, and kindness. That is how they are received, and this is why they heal people.

FOR YOURSELF

I will end today by giving all five of you a compassionate prescription. It contains the three Ls—linger with yourself, listen to yourself, and love yourself. Parents and friends, please remind these graduates of the prescription. Help them use it.

First, linger with yourself. Your medical degree is a portal to many careers. You may well be blessed with a long work life that has distinct epochs that seem like separate careers. You do not need to accomplish everything in one career. Over time and with patient, deliberate, and reflective lingering, the proper next career will reveal itself.

Never forget to listen to yourself. If your work and your relationships are not feeling right, you probably need to change something. Pain and suffering are part of our experience as healers. It is not just the experience of our patients. Listen to your pain and suffering and never be afraid to seek care for yourself. That care might be as simple as a walk in the woods, sleeping late one day, or playing your musical instrument.

Finally, love yourself. This is a call to the practice of self-compassion, and this practice will yield several important freedoms. Self-compassion allows you to say no and to set limits on your caregiving without feeling guilty. This ability frees you from the perilous trap of always feeling the need to be needed by others. Self-compassion allows you to live peacefully with your mistakes and to learn from them. It keeps you from fretting about your ignorance and limitations. Freedom from that worry will keep you open-minded and wanting every day to learn and grow. Finally, self-compassion will keep you from denying what you don’t understand. Freedom from this denial allows you to enter a place of humble and joyous wonder about the deep mystery of healing and the privilege of participating in that mystery.

The Secret

The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in the personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.— Francis Weld Peabody, MD, 1881–1927, American physician

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Articles from The Permanente Journal are provided here courtesy of Kaiser Permanente

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