Day 35 - Possibility of well being and Healing

Jog - missed. Got up, got ready and then felt like sleeping. So I slept off :(

Today evening I was speaking to my friend about a colleague who has been not keeping well for few months now. Tomorrow I am going to meet him. I have not spoken to him since I came to know of his illness. All along I was thinking that if I called him up to enquire what's happening I would be disturbing him. At the same time I was feeling bad that I am not being of any help.

So I was asking my friend as to what difference I could make to my colleague's situation. We had a very empowering discussion and my friend suggested many things that I was not seeing. He distinguished that when one goes through any kind of trouble it's actually an opportunity for learning and growth.

When some one comes to me for career advice I keep saying similar thing. I say that failure is good for growth. When one fails he will use those strengths he never knew he had, just to come out of the failure. And we all have such strengths simply because we it's a matter of survival and we have very strong survival instincts - we are made to survive. So we use these dormant strengths to come out of the failure. Once we are out of that phase, the trouble is no more there but now we have the new strength, which we add to our repertoire. The failure can serve as an access to discover and use the dormant strength, in the future, forever.

When my friend distinguished it with regards to health I saw that ill-health is also yet another kind of failure. It is God's way of providing us an opportunity to learn the 'dormant' strength and grow. And that the day we discover the presence of the strength, we are on the path of recovery.

Another thing, my friend said, touched me. He said that while I visit my colleague tomorrow I could be a possibility of well being and Healing and stand in a place that nothing's wrong here. It gave a very empowering context to me visiting my colleague.

It also changed my perspective about visiting someone when they are not feeling well or are hospitalized. All these days I never liked visiting someone in the hospital thinking that there's no use of me going there since I won't make any difference. Besides, I felt that the patient would be disturbed. I thought that it was just a social obligation.

Now, I see the visit in a whole new empowering context. When I can constitute myself to be a stand for well being and healing and when I am coming from 'there's nothing wrong here', my very presence will make the difference. It's definitely worth visiting.