Today I spent 10,5 hours working for the Red Cross, on a first aid shift like I do them all the time. This time it was a congress for people in the psychology/health business, on Integrative Psychiatry. My first question was what Integrative Psychiatry is, turns out it is regular psychiatry with the integration of alternative and complementary ways of healing. This was the 4th congress and the theme was Self-healing. The point made was that apart from solely focusing on the human body and mind as a machine, with separate parts, a physician should look at the human body as a complicated and interconnected function of all involved parts. Concerning the 'theme' it told us to also equip the body of the patient to combat illness, aside curing the illness at hand, since many illnesses return or are chronic. This way of practising psychiatry is of course subject to the principles of Evidence Based Medicine and is not just conjuring up a remedial; Integrative Psychiatry binds itself to protocols, making sure critical needs get served first. We had several plenary sessions with several speakers, of which two from the USA, whose names I can't remember. But they were damn good, a man and a woman. They appeared to be famous...
But there were also three Tibetan monks. Now, there were two workshop sessions and one workshop was given by the lama's. After sitting out the first session just talking with the ladies of the garderobe, I thought it would be interesting to see what the lama had to tell us. I was deeply disappointed. They started of nice with explaining the profitability of meditation. Then they stopped doing it nicely and started explaining what their culture was about. I was neutral toward them at that point. But it only got worse... When they started doing the session with the 40-or-so people in the theatre, it soon became evident that this was 99% bullshit and 1% meditation. I mean, they call the genital area the "secret shaka" or something, and they were calling to all these elements, which represented syllables, which represented shapes and colours, which represented astrological connections and ancient mothers. It turned out to be a complete waste of time and the only relief I got in that hour and a half of sheer boredom and agitation, was a kind-of-cute blond technician who joined his fellow technician behind the sound board. My colleague was sleeping after fifteen minutes. I kept up watching the awful show, wearing a very critical face and being very disappointed in all those physicians in the front rows (we sat in the back, indicating we were not there to join in).
Now, maybe this voodoo stuff about healing the world by meditating has some purpose to psychiatrists; but that doesn't mean you have to hug the lama afterwards, or completely join in the 'world healing' making all those preposterous sounds and waving your arms around. I mean: how is that helping the world? And the text of the prayer, was horrible. It was all about world peace, global warming, etc. etc. Great stuff, but not to pray for, stuff to actually do something about. The religious bullshit was too much for me, what little hope I had for Buddhists to be interesting people, is now vanished.
All in all the shift was way too long and way too little happened. I got to deliver one plaster on someone's finger, who was not even one of the psychiatrists but someone who worked for the place we had the congress. Not that I enjoy seeing people in agony or pain because of injury; but I do like to help them with injuries, and basically, that's what we were there for. 10,5 hours without any action, of course we were there and IF something happened we would have been able to respond quickly and professionally; but nothing happened... again.
Don't get me wrong: it was hugely interesting and I've enjoyed the plenary sessions a lot, but the lama's and the lack of first aid action were disappointing. Besides, I didn't get much sleep the past couple of days, so I might not be as appreciative of the congress as I should be, just yet.
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Talking of which, this is pretty awesome too.
But there were also three Tibetan monks. Now, there were two workshop sessions and one workshop was given by the lama's. After sitting out the first session just talking with the ladies of the garderobe, I thought it would be interesting to see what the lama had to tell us. I was deeply disappointed. They started of nice with explaining the profitability of meditation. Then they stopped doing it nicely and started explaining what their culture was about. I was neutral toward them at that point. But it only got worse... When they started doing the session with the 40-or-so people in the theatre, it soon became evident that this was 99% bullshit and 1% meditation. I mean, they call the genital area the "secret shaka" or something, and they were calling to all these elements, which represented syllables, which represented shapes and colours, which represented astrological connections and ancient mothers. It turned out to be a complete waste of time and the only relief I got in that hour and a half of sheer boredom and agitation, was a kind-of-cute blond technician who joined his fellow technician behind the sound board. My colleague was sleeping after fifteen minutes. I kept up watching the awful show, wearing a very critical face and being very disappointed in all those physicians in the front rows (we sat in the back, indicating we were not there to join in).
Now, maybe this voodoo stuff about healing the world by meditating has some purpose to psychiatrists; but that doesn't mean you have to hug the lama afterwards, or completely join in the 'world healing' making all those preposterous sounds and waving your arms around. I mean: how is that helping the world? And the text of the prayer, was horrible. It was all about world peace, global warming, etc. etc. Great stuff, but not to pray for, stuff to actually do something about. The religious bullshit was too much for me, what little hope I had for Buddhists to be interesting people, is now vanished.
All in all the shift was way too long and way too little happened. I got to deliver one plaster on someone's finger, who was not even one of the psychiatrists but someone who worked for the place we had the congress. Not that I enjoy seeing people in agony or pain because of injury; but I do like to help them with injuries, and basically, that's what we were there for. 10,5 hours without any action, of course we were there and IF something happened we would have been able to respond quickly and professionally; but nothing happened... again.
Don't get me wrong: it was hugely interesting and I've enjoyed the plenary sessions a lot, but the lama's and the lack of first aid action were disappointing. Besides, I didn't get much sleep the past couple of days, so I might not be as appreciative of the congress as I should be, just yet.
This is awesome, if you do porn, try this on. You know how I love blonds, and this is just perfect, I was stunned at how many of my favourite actors are in this movie! Very hot, great stuff and it's raw - which only adds up to the hotness.
Talking of which, this is pretty awesome too.
3 comments:
a physician should look at the human body as a complicated and interconnected function of all involved parts.
I should hope so!
Your post makes me think about a lot of things; I will be back.
Integrative psychotherapy has been around in the West since the late 60s. It came out of the human potential movement. The graduate schools I attended in the early 80s were integrative-oriented, and I have always applied integrative therapies to patients that are adept to them. Those that are not are dealt with from a humanistic approach.
As you witnessed, traditional Tibetan medicine is very integrative as related to mystical "sciences" rooted in ancient Hindu teachings, such as chi or prana energy and chakras. Chinese acupuncture and acupressure is based on the manipulation of chi energy.
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