Comments on: When Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong

By: Angelwitch

Angelwitch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:36:12 +0000

Very good advice! I believe most of us go through periods like this in our lives and I was just searching online for some inspiration and found it in your blog post—thank you!

By: Nancy Hill

Nancy Hill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:40:11 +0000

I only recently came across your blog, because its title is the same as a Gosho it took me 25 years of practice to understand and appreciate.

I enjoy the posting and would only add one thing: sometimes when I feel overwhelmed by all that needs to be done, it helps just to write a list of all those things—and usually there aren’t as many as I thought. And once I have a handle on what there really is to confront, I can chant, take action, delegate, etc.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:37:08 +0000

Hi Alex.

Just thought you’d like to know that the story about the desk happened to—and was related by—the SGI member who introduced me back in 1982. I then put it into the book I ghosted for Dick Causton, ‘The Buddha in Daily Life’.

I’ve reprinted this at thiswayupezine.com—hope that’s OK with you and we’ll bring you more traffic.

Eddy

By: Pierrette Mimi Poinsett MD

Pierrette Mimi Poinsett MD — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:06:34 +0000

Wonderful piece! A welcome reminder as I am facing an avalanche of health related, employment and ADL issues. At a crucial moment right now—article helped me to redirect. I will continue to follow you.

By: Laurie Cohen

Laurie Cohen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:59:09 +0000

Platitudes, while too often used, are only one way a doctor can communicate with a patient with, let’s say in my case, chronic pain.

Never underestimate the power of touch. A hand on a shoulder, a “sorry you feel so poorly” pat…not condescending or a way to push a patient off but a way to tell the patient you accept her problem as reality and want to help her overcome it.

Through malpractice, disfiguring surgeries, unknown disorders, and a failed back requiring new surgery in the next few weeks, I am mostly treated but not listened to, ignored completely when another person is in the room, or passed off as someone who complains too much (that was the major comparison when I had a severe infection after surgery that was largely ignored..I complained!)

Hello doctor! I am here! See me!