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.
