I have been reading an update on a friends father who is battling cancer and some thoughts came to mind. The wonders of medical world. We are very fortunate to live in a world where our physical ailments can be healed via medicine and if that fails through surgery. Not don`t misunderstand me, we do not have the cure for every disease out there but if we check back 100 years we are truly blessed to live in this time. We here in North America have clean air and clean water and a host of medical interventions at our disposal. We truly our fortunate to have these things at our disposal to heal our physical wounds.But what about our emotional wounds, what 'medicine' do we have for that? What about those painful diseases that we experienced. What 'medicine' is there for them, if any? And how come it is not readily at our disposal as is our medical interventions? Do these wounds, these diseases not count quite as much? Is it because they live in our hearts and souls and therfore hidden? if no one sees them do they not count? I am in quite an interesting position.....I am in a community that strives to develop and practice heart medicine, we strive to heal those inner emotional wounds. Yet is a difficult venture as for most even the admittance of it is shameful and therefore it gets left, until we have a full blown disease on our hands. So many pursue happiness and yet feel shameful that they may have emotional wounds. Based on that shame, many do not seek treatment until the wound is into a full blown disease requiring drastic surgery. Why the hesitancy in seeking medicine for those wounds, for they matter jsut as much and form my perpsective, more as they fester and will lead to a slow torturous death of the heart and soul.And now why this is such an interesting position for me....I too suffer from some of those emotional wounds and so I experience that shame that says I am less of a person if I don't have it all together, that shame that holds my tongue so I don't look weak, for emotional weakness, unlike physical weakness is something akin to horror. And so although I strive to be a healer, I know the depths of being a patient. I struggle with seeking the medicine to my emotional wounds, in part because I do not know what that looks like and it is costly, maybe not moentarily but it is costly to obtain the emotional medicine. It's not quite as simple as swallowing a pill, or hooking myself up to a machine that can heal me for when dealing with the emotional wounding I am the patient and in part the healer at the same time. Whereas, in the physical medical community, I take myself TO a doctor and he prescribes the medicine I need, in the emotional world it is something quite different. I, as the patient, can only seek someone to walk along side me that might be able to give me some skills to alleviate some of the symptoms but I have to be the doctor too as only i can do the work within myself that is required to heal. There is not magical pill for me to swallow to alleviate the pain of the emotional wounds that I suffer from.Quite a situation and therefore kudos to one and all who seek out the heart medicine that they need....