Love Yourself, Love The World
Synchronically, I was told about and bought the book by Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, called "Ending Nurse-To-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young And Each Other."
I consider myself blessed because I work in a supportive environment with my colleagues. Yet the problems described in the book, and by my new friend, outline patterns of behavior that nurses have developed in recent years due to the ideocyncrities of the profession that point to the subjection of women and nurses by proxy. As much as I don't want to look, I see all of this where I work, as well.
Forinstance, the following observations and statistics were eye opening:
1) The United States Justice Department reported 429,100 violent crimes against nurses on duty from 1993-1999
2) That nurses are an oppressed group, as characterized by in- fighting, back-biting, and the inability to honestly communicate with one another
3) That nurses are a subordinate group as characterized by the fact that Doctors and administrators devalue the caring aspect of nursing responsibilities
4) And this devaluing directly results in burnout, and what is called horizontal hostility, or aggression between nursesNurses are the foundation of the health-care industry. We are losing nurses without replacing them because of this culture of hostility, overwork, and alienation.
In Kathleen Bartholomew's book: "Ending Nurse-To-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young And Each Other," she concluded that management must take the lead to change the organization from the top, down.
Horizontal hostility defined as a consistent pattern of behavior designed to control, diminish or devalue another, is a rampant problem where nurses are employed.
Yet it all starts with feelings of low self-esteem and self-worth, co-dependency issues, all leading to a sense that nursing and nurses are invisible in our society.
Yet, I am convinced that all work of healing must begin within ourselves, within myself.
If I create my own reality, which every one of us does, then if I don't like what I see on the outside, which mirrors my internal world, then I must get back to the task of loving and healing myself, starting from within myself.
Dr. Joe Vitale explains this in a recent letter to his e-mail list, which is, as follows:
"In my new book, "Zero Limits," I talk about the unusual therapist who helped heal an entire hospital ward of mentally ill criminals -- without seeing any of them."
I've since learned his method for healing, which involves "cleaning" yourself of all negativity in order to see change in others.
"It seems bizarre, but when you take care of your own issues, they disappear in other people."
The whole idea is to love the problems away. You do it by saying "I love you," and a few other statements, non-stop. I've been doing it for two years now and my life is astonishing. I live in an almost moment-by-moment state of bliss."
Once I learned this method, I started to use it on other things besides illness. Since I'm a practical metaphysician and an entrepreneur, I wanted to see if this wild method would work on sales and other bottom line results."
Whenever I would write an article -- much like this one -- I would send love into it."
Whenever I would write another book -- like my new one, "Zero Limits" -- I would keep saying "I love you" in my mind."
What I noticed is my emails and articles would get read and distributed to *millions* of people."
And my book, "Zero Limits," became an Amazon bestseller -- six months *before* it was published.
"But I didn't stop there in my testing."
Because I want to be sure this method works for others and not just me, I taught it to my close friends."
Bill Hibbler, coauthor with me of the book "Meet and Grow Rich," was skeptical. But he borrowed a pre-publication copy of my book, "Zero Limits," read it, and started loving his products and his list of subscribers. Here's what he said:"
Sales for Jan 1-4 were 41.39% higher than Dec 1-4. During the four day period in January, I didn't mail my list or launch any new promotion during that time. All I did was clean while reading your book and throughout the day."
"Bill went on to tell me he saw sales increase from his sites which he wasn't promoting *at all*."
How is this possible?"How can "cleaning" yourself with a mantra like "I love you" make a difference in your sales?"It appears that there is nothing "out there." The entire world is a projection of what you feel inside."
So, if you feel love, you will attract love. Because love contains gratitude, you attract more things to be grateful for. This is the essence of my book, "The Attractor Factor," and of course of the movie, "The Secret."
"You get what you feel."
That's it.
"At heart I think you (I) just want love. Well, so does everyone else. When you say "I love you" inside yourself, you cleanse yourself and you radiate an energy that others feel."
So rather than complicate the issue with Nursing Theory and making others change or thinking that "they" should, I have opted to try this simple technique to create the kind of workplace and world I want to live in.
And guess what?When I change my mind, everything around me changes.
This is called The Miracle Mind!!
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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator of the e-book called "Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover Your Calling and Destiny." Click here to find out how to order the e-book: http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com Check Out Kate's Blog: http://www.nursehealers.typepad.com Your Article Search Directory : Find in Articles
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