I was watching a rerun of House the other night. I just love House – he’s such a curmudgeon. The show started out with a 15 yr. old faith healer who was in church using his healing ability on an elderly woman who needed to use a walker. While healing the woman he had some sort of an attack which was obviously very painful as he fell to the floor in a fetal position.
When the young man is in the emergency room he tells the attending physician that God talks to him and proceeds to tell her a little bit about herself and for the Dr., this little bit of news hits home and stuns her. Of course Dr. House thinks that the young man’s healing ability is all hooey. House believes that it’s the afflicted person’s strong desire to be healed that actually makes them feel as though they are getting better. After running a ton of medical tests and after the young man heals a terminal cancer patient, it is found that he has a form of herpes virus that causes delusions. [Read more…]
I’m sure you’ve read something I’ve written saying that it’s important to be able to give to yourself so that you can continue to give to others… and that continues to be true. However, giving to yourself is much different than taking (receiving) from someone else.
All too often I have clients that come to me asking one question… “What am I supposed to be doing with my life?” It may come as a surprise to you, but there’s no pat answer. And while I truly believe that this is why many are stuck in the rut of their lives, they stay grounded to the trap that they led themselves into.
