( 9:42 AM ) shut up christine
i wish i could say
these challenging moments exist to show us what we're made of
that i rose to the occasion
that i persevered gracefully
nope.
last week was a bitch.
i clawed my way through it
it made me sick to my stomach, literally
one day i consumed so much caffeine that my body couldn't take it and i kept vomiting while studying
on our last mental clinical day
i had my own mental breakdown
but aside from that
i facilitated an activity on mandalas
image via yoga108.org
mandala is a sanskrit word meaning circle or center
monks spend hundreds and hundreds of hours painstakingly creating these very intricate sand paintings and do you know what they do once they finish?
they take a broom and destroy it
(much to the dismay of one of my patients - what?!? no. why would they do that? oh no no no and then she went on a rant about nazis)
the point is
the journey is more important than the end
vomiting and sleep deprivation and mental breakdowns
all of it
my mandala
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