In the same boat
Hello David,
I am a busy surgeon. I have not had too much time to read many books on spirituality. I read the Power of Now a few months ago and since then, I have also read New Earth (Eckhart Tolle also). I have listened to Jon Kabat-Zinn (Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life).
I am sure there are many many great books out there regarding stress reduction. One thing that I have learned over the past year is that meditation has allowed me to see what I have been too busy realize most of my life. I come into contact with many people every day. I appreciate people like I have never appreciated them before. I have also a new found appreciation for the preciousness of every moment that my physical body exists. I see so much suffering every day I am at work in the hospital. I "become one" with my patients. In a state of peace. I have been very successful at making no judgments about my patients (obese, smoker, alcoholic etc..). I can see clearly into them. I am them and they are me. I just talk to them and feel their presence.
Since then, I have been a far superior surgeon over the past few months. And I can sense that my patients see something different in me. Sometimes I feel they they can't quite figure out what is different about me (in a good sense...).
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