Bonjour groupe!

En surfant sur le net à la recherche d’info sur le Burnout, j’ai trouvé un article qui s’addresse à nous, acupuncteurs. Quelques judicieux conseils pour éviter de se bruler, de devenir une boule de yang… qui s’autodétruit…

Désolé, c’est en anglais et le temps me manque

source:

http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=30393

Dear Felice:

I became a practitioner in 1989, although last year I almost quit due to burn out. Any ideas how I can continue to be a good healer without killing myself?

MB

Hey, MB. You aren’t walking your talk, are you? This medicine teaches the importance of balance between yin/yang, between receiving/giving. I bet you teach your patients about living balanced lives every day. Here you are plugging away through our yang culture, sacrificing your life’s blood. You aren’t the only practitioner struggling with this. We are raised to be giveaholics. It is how we succeed. Giving (yang) creates accomplishment, accomplishment creates success, success creates self-respect, and self-respect (balanced yin and yang) allows for inner peace (yin). It works conceptually, but in that cycle we lose the capacity to enjoy the ride and often do not get to the planned end result. When we overgive, we do not find peace. We find burnout.

How do we avoid burnout? By receiving in balance with how much we give. You have to put into your pot to get value out of it. You have to walk the talk of this medicine.

Seven Ways to Receive Chi

1. Find a photo of someone you enjoy looking at. It might be someone you know, but it also could be out of a magazine or online source. Look into the eyes of that person and allow yourself to receive from their gaze. Let the energy from that person come into you and feed you. I had a photo of several models from an advertisement whose bodies and faces I would gaze at throughout my workday. I took a deep breath and relaxed as I let their chi nourish mine.
2. Experience delicious hugs with friends and loved ones, during which you allow yourself to feel the gift of someone else’s energy coming in to you and nourishing you. Don’t rush through hugs. Absorb them like a sponge.
3. Spend five minutes of quiet with your eyes closed (to make your liver happier) and your ears open to beautiful music (kidneys like that) between patients. Chi comes in and out through all the holes of the body. The more holes you close, the more self-contained you are and the better you can recycle chi in your body. If you keep your holes open consciously, take positive energy in through them.
4. Budget your time and finances for self-healing. Take 3 percent of your gross and use it to pay people to heal you. Let others stick pins into you, give you massages, and take good care of you on a regular basis. This is the « walking your talk » part.
5. Chew each bite 10 times before you swallow it. And sit while you eat. Duh!
6. Breathe three times deeply into your dan tien before you enter each treatment room.
7. Fill in the blank here. What do you tell your patients to do when creating balance in their lives? Well, doctor, heal thyself!

Remember, peacefulness (yin) leads to motivation, which leads to enthusiasm, which leads to accomplishment (yang), success and inner peace. Isn’t that the way you want your energetic spirals to flow?

If you have questions or comments, please contact me at felice@felicedunas.com .