Compassion
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 2:59 pm
Gratitude to all,
The names of all the kind and generous homeopaths on this list flow through my mind like a river. Although I have never met any of you in person, I feel like I know you much better than my neighbors. I am thankful for the kindness that you express in your participation in Minutus. Yesterday the kind voices on this list helped be to be a better homeopath.
Yesterday at 5 am a client emailed me from jail. She had been trying to reach me since 1 am. She had attempted to jump in front of a train and was caught. She did not want to me leak her identity to the police. I talked on the telephone to a policeman and told him that I could not supply them with information about her. I had taken her case so I could say nothing. They asked me to talk to her and persuade her to tell them her name. She felt ashamed of her attempted suicide, so she would not tell her name.
So as requested by the police, I was going to email her. I was asked to convice her to give them her name. My first impluse was to write a rant about the huge fine that her family would have to pay had she succeeded. Train suicides regularily stop large portions of the rail system in any large Japanese city. So the fine is hefty and the surviving family has to pay. I got stuck thinking, is she liable for attempted suicide?
The rational rant to persuade her did not sound right. My real goal was to get into a position where I could give her a remedy and stop the suicidal impulses. Trust was the issue.
I stopped typing and talked in my mind with one of our Minutus members. Instead of the initial rant, through out the day I sent her emails and left phone calls telling her that I was so happy that she was alive. Actually I hardly know her. But, I wrote and talked as if she were my sister.
I come from a family where if you disagree with someone, they cannot be your friend. You withdraw and say nothing, but you put a black x in front of their name. Rationality rules where I come from. Of course, there are plenty of emotional explosions, so rationality does not rule. I see this behavior on Minutus too, but what I take into my heart is the compassion that I feel in most of our communication.
Those kind voices helped me yesterday and I thank-you for helping me to overcome my upbringing.
That night she called. She said she had not cried throughout the entire ordeal but she was crying as she talked to me. She was so happy that I had protected her privacy. Beating, being stripped naked to prevent suicide possibilities ect., added up to a true ordeal. If I had not been listening to my fellow homeopath's voices, I might have sent the original rational email and I would have never have received this call. I went to bed feeling very happy.
May Peace and Love Rule,
Ellen Madono
The names of all the kind and generous homeopaths on this list flow through my mind like a river. Although I have never met any of you in person, I feel like I know you much better than my neighbors. I am thankful for the kindness that you express in your participation in Minutus. Yesterday the kind voices on this list helped be to be a better homeopath.
Yesterday at 5 am a client emailed me from jail. She had been trying to reach me since 1 am. She had attempted to jump in front of a train and was caught. She did not want to me leak her identity to the police. I talked on the telephone to a policeman and told him that I could not supply them with information about her. I had taken her case so I could say nothing. They asked me to talk to her and persuade her to tell them her name. She felt ashamed of her attempted suicide, so she would not tell her name.
So as requested by the police, I was going to email her. I was asked to convice her to give them her name. My first impluse was to write a rant about the huge fine that her family would have to pay had she succeeded. Train suicides regularily stop large portions of the rail system in any large Japanese city. So the fine is hefty and the surviving family has to pay. I got stuck thinking, is she liable for attempted suicide?
The rational rant to persuade her did not sound right. My real goal was to get into a position where I could give her a remedy and stop the suicidal impulses. Trust was the issue.
I stopped typing and talked in my mind with one of our Minutus members. Instead of the initial rant, through out the day I sent her emails and left phone calls telling her that I was so happy that she was alive. Actually I hardly know her. But, I wrote and talked as if she were my sister.
I come from a family where if you disagree with someone, they cannot be your friend. You withdraw and say nothing, but you put a black x in front of their name. Rationality rules where I come from. Of course, there are plenty of emotional explosions, so rationality does not rule. I see this behavior on Minutus too, but what I take into my heart is the compassion that I feel in most of our communication.
Those kind voices helped me yesterday and I thank-you for helping me to overcome my upbringing.
That night she called. She said she had not cried throughout the entire ordeal but she was crying as she talked to me. She was so happy that I had protected her privacy. Beating, being stripped naked to prevent suicide possibilities ect., added up to a true ordeal. If I had not been listening to my fellow homeopath's voices, I might have sent the original rational email and I would have never have received this call. I went to bed feeling very happy.
May Peace and Love Rule,
Ellen Madono