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Monday, May 16, 2016

Vibrations: How Do You Share Your Love?

             So just yesterday, while reflecting upon a podcast from The Evolution of Medicine's Functional Forum entitled: Anatomy of a Calling- an interview with holistic physician Dr. Lissa Rankin MD, I realized (among many other things) why writing, studying medicine, and blessing others with my thoughts brings me so much joy: I have precisely no clue who or how any of my words or ideas will touch others. I have mentioned this concept before in some previous posts, specifically on the impact of the written word and my interest in writing, but as I wandered in the Pennsylvania woods, hearing Dr. Rankin speak of compassion and “wholism,” all within the context of her passion for psycho-spiritual healing, I couldn’t help but consider the reality that, yes, her “whole health” practice of nourishing the spiritual body was exactly the type of medicine, or dare I say, the type of “healer” that had been born in me, before I would ever consciously decide to attend medical school. Since discovering my desire to pursue functional, “root-cause resolution” medicine as a way to understand the complex nature of the human web of physiologic systems, I have only slowly begun to realize that this functional, evolutionary framework of understanding is only a piece of the puzzle, only one page of the story, merely a starting point for seeing the true capacity for healing made possible by acknowledging a relative unknown spiritual energy- our essence- the human soul. For a profession so profoundly defined by science and what can be experimentally determined, psycho-spiritual healing relies on nearly polar opposite values: intuition, belief, the acceptance and embracing of uncertainty, and the genuine desire to, perhaps, never know the answer to the question: Why? So while I share all of this perspective, knowing it is personal and focused primarily on my beliefs in the medical profession, there is, however, a powerful, imaginative thread that can be woven from these concepts into the larger stories of all humans alike. 

           During her intimate conversation (podcast) with James Maskell, Dr. Rankin describes an incredible image of an interconnected universe whereby there exists “a vibrational bowl” where love and light are intertwined, and we, as humans, have the capacity to instill a more positive, harmonious vibration, capable of travelling, in a state of dynamic continuity, to some other distant part of the “vibrational bowl.” Taking this imagery to a more practical level, and thinking within the scope of our Earth, we can imagine each small act of love, every moment of “paying it forward,” each gift of altruism as actually impacting or influencing the actions of another on the other side of the globe. Share some parenting wisdom with your child, give a hug to your ailing grandmother, or mow the grass for your currently disabled father- all of these acts of light and love can travel through this vibrational network and bless the spirit of someone in Australia, Slovakia or Mozambique, and make it all the more possible (or more likely) that he or she can share his or her love through a reciprocal act of kindness, or at the very least, make it all the more unlikely and impossible to create more suffering for another human being. No longer can we confine ourselves to only see the positive or negative effects of our actions through the lenses of our eyes, for these “vibrations of love” can disperse farther than we will ever be capable of seeing. Wouldn’t the world be a better place, if we all added vibrations of love, of light, of hope into this great bowl? While I may never be able to prove that my small vibrations ever influence the lives of those a thousand miles away, I can most assuredly tell you that I have felt the ripples of light wash over my soul from the acts of love and kindness shared by people I will likely never meet. For somehow this belief, stemming from the simple choice of being a source of light and warmth, for a person living in a world “obsessed” with rationality in science, is all the evidence I will ever need.

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