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"The Principle of Harmony in Healing is a pioneering work that reveals many surprising links between the indigenous medical traditions of antiquity, suggesting that the world’s oldest medical systems were likely conjoined or coordinated across the planet in ancient times. This captivating book not only unearths the forgotten role of harmony between patient and healer, but also exposes innumerable other startling connections among the ancient cultures that emphasized such a harmony in their medicine. How is the Hindu god Brahma, and his consort Saraswati, linked with the Hebrew luminary Abrahm, and his wife Sara? How is the Hindu Kush mountain range related to the Land of Kush along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia? Sowa Rigpa—the indigenous medicine of Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Siberia, Mongolia, and Himalayan regions of India—fused many ancient medical traditions together in a unified system that has not only benefited countless patients throughout history, but also exhibits many key characteristics of the other medical traditions that thrived in distant parts of the world in past millennia, including Mesoamerica and Indonesia. How and why did these traditions come to have such an uncanny resemblance in an era when they are not believed to have developed any contact with each other? Is there a connection between the Amchi shamans of the Himalayas and the Hampchi healers of the Andes? These are just a few of the alluring questions covered in deBecker’s ground-breaking work, The Principle of Harmony in Healing."

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Publié par	Xlibris NZ
Date de parution	30 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781499099546
Langue	English
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PRINCIPLE OF HARMONY IN HEALING
Unity in the Mystery and History of Medicine
GUNASILAN DEBECKER

Copyright © 2017 by Gunasilan deBecker.

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2017907890
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Harmony in the History and Mystery of All Medicine
Chapter 2: The Harmony in the Medical Knowledge of Ancient Civilizations
Chapter 3: Harmonious Doctor-Patient Relationships
Chapter 4: Harmonizing the Traditional Medical Relationship with Today’s World
Chapter 5: Harmony between People: The Role of Compassion in Healing
Chapter 6: Exercises in Openness and Other Harmonious Techniques
Chapter 7: Harmony, Sowa Rigpa, and the Traditional Principles

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About the Author

“Using the medicine of compassionate skillful means - On the inner level, I eliminate diseases of the three poison afflicted mind; on the outer level, bodily diseases of the three humors of rloong, tripa and bedkan. Thus I am known as Doctor”

From the last song of Yuthok the Younger, as recorded by his chief disciple, Sumton Yeshe Zung.
FOREWORD
Throughout the history of medicine, the relationship between patient and doctor has been essential for healing. Healing is about trust, belief, faith, and spiritual connection and is therefore a spiritual event .
From the spiritual perspective, healing is an expression of the karmic connection between the doctor and the patient. Their relationship comes not just from the doctor balancing the patient’s constitution, but also from the patient balancing the doctor’s karma. Both sides of the relationship benefit, and the importance of the patient’s attitude and effect on the doctor should not be overlooked.
Unfortunately, the conventional healing industry is now largely commercialized and institutionalized. The emphasis on paying for the doctor’s services, or being blindly paired with a doctor by an HMO or insurance carrier, inserts an artificial and alienating layer between doctor and patient that overlooks their spiritual connection. To avoid such corruptions, Tibetan Medicine, now known throughout the world by its traditional name, Sowa Rigpa, has always focused on the quality of the connection between patient and doctor. The doctor’s ‘bodhichitta’, or kindness and compassion, is central to the connection with the patient. Affectionate care, love, understanding, and trust are essential , not arbitrary, in the art of healing.
Yuthok, the father of Sowa Rigpa, said that the middle path represents the doctor’s proper orientation. The doctor should not have any extreme views. This is the best stance for the doctor to take. The best medical prayer is thus for unconditional loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. This four-fold ensemble is known in Buddhist philosophy as ‘The Four Immeasurables’. These qualities are to be extended as offerings to all beings, as the doctor treats all patients equally, without distinguishing between patients according to characteristics such as ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. A healer must go beyond all boundaries or politics of any sort. It is vital to treat every living thing as important, even a tiny insect.
The prayer, ‘May all beings have freedom from suffering and the causes of suffering; may all beings have happiness and the cause of happiness; may all beings be free of disease and the cause of disease’ is the first practice of the doctor. The doctor’s unconditional love is reflected in this practice of wishing universal happiness to everything equally. Yuthok insisted that healers must practice this way, and that the practice embodies the doctor’s ideal attitude toward the patient. So, as a doctor, you work to help your patients as if they were your own children. This is why it is important that the doctor-patient relationship be pure, genuine, and transparent.
My wish for the twenty-first century is that modern doctors reevaluate matters of healing, and that freely offered compassionate relationship be restored as a basic ingredient of the doctor’s care. From the mistrust and fear of the doctor, with which the patient enters into the modern medical relationship, to the misjudgment, misunderstanding, and fear of the patient that modern doctors have toward their patients, the importance of caring for one another will hopefully re-emerge as the central tenet of medicine.
From the patient’s side, there must be a ‘pure’ view of the doctor (e.g. good feelings and trust in the doctor’s character and abilities). The healing then becomes much easier, because of the complete trust and the absence of doubt in the healer. Sometimes this belief and trust alone is enough to facilitate healing. So the patient should also avoid judging the doctor negatively. The doctor can likewise help by minimizing fear and anger toward the patient.
Today’s social connections are more full of mistrust and fear. This kind of connection is often what doctors and patients also create. Yet, when the connection is based on fear, then the healing process does not proceed well. From a holistic view, it is very important to have the correct relationship. It’s an integral part of the entire healing process.
Gunasilan has been involved in yoga, meditation, and spirituality for decades. He even spent seven years traveling to Tibet, Nepal, and India, fervently searching for knowledge—often leaving his beautiful family temporarily behind. This intense effort, however, led to a deeper understanding in the subtler meanings of Sowa Rigpa, 1 through which he personally realized the importance of the relationship I’m discussing here. This book, therefore, is unique. If many healers and patients benefit from this book, or at least achieve a clearer understanding as to what healing means on the energetic, physical, and spiritual levels, then the years he spent writing will be well worth it.
‘The healing power supplied by nature is only half of the medicine’s far-reaching effect.’ 2
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
INTRODUCTION
Today, we each awoke from sleep, probably drank something, and ate some food. We also probably awoke in a dwelling of some kind that kept us safe from the weather. Obviously, not everybody in the world has these luxuries, and in our busyness with the pursuit of ‘something more’, it can be easy to forget this fact. Yet, when we do remember those less fortunate than us, it is easy to have compassion for people who barely have enough to survive. The reality that they and their children live in sickness, and will struggle just to live through today, is not the most popular subject in most social scenes. But no one denies that it happens.
Feeling compassion for such circumstances is pretty easy for most of us. The stress and struggle that we have once our needs are met, however, are not as easily appreciated. We often forget compassion in considering the concerns of those who do have their basic needs met. When those who live a life of plenty get sick, we may feel unconcerned, even if it seems obvious that we still should be compassionate toward such people. Moreover, in a busy institution such as a hospital, or a busy clinic, many doctors feel that compassion and sympathy can actually get in the way of giving good care, distracting the medical staff from giving focused attention.
For the professional health care worker, I hope the ideas in this book will assist in giving a broader picture of the history and connection of all medical systems, and thus enhance and improve the warmth and effectiveness of what is commonly referred to as ‘bedside manner’ (and perhaps even give rise to a more flexible approach toward integrative medicine). At any time, we may be called upon to help relieve the physical or mental suffering of another, so the exercises in this book can be of help in many scenarios outside of a professional practice as well.
I have seen surprising similarities between diverse indigenous healing traditions. Even without a translator, I noted common threads in the indigenous healing systems of many non-English-speaking tribal communities, so surely other similarities exist beyond those I personally uncovered. I will mention these common threads throughout this book.
At their origins, the traditional medicines of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia are made up of consistent ideas, and stem from similar foundations. These ideas evolved over millennia, and that process in Europe unfortunately came to an end shortly after the Catholic Church was created. The Dark Ages, book burning, and superstitions suppressed the progress of these traditions, and that general attitude of the Church was to prohibit the development of medic