In this radio interview, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen talked about the
course called “The Healer’s
Art” which
she created for the medical students to teach them the difference between curing and healing beyond
the western scientific knowledge. According to the transcript in the
website, she says:
“It reminds them that healing is a different relationship than a curing relationship. It reminds them of their power to make a difference through their human response and connection to their patients. …I happen to see medicine as a spiritual path. That’s my personal thing, that medicine is a spiritual path, which is characterized by compassion, harmlessness, service, reverence for life, courage, and love”.
I agree with
her. As an acupuncturist and a massage therapist, I have seen many sad-looking patients who came to me after
being disappointed with
conventional western medical treatments with a variety of
medications.
However after a series of my hands-on body
works or acupuncture treatments, those patients often start looking very
differently. One of them had such a significant change in her facial expression, such as
her eyes brightening, laughs more, and she looked overall more alive than
before, even when there was little improvement in her physical symptoms.
Through
her treatments, I started wondering if the failure of the western medicine
might have been the lack of close spiritual connection with the patients.
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