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21 Days Of Gratitude At Aravind!
Apr 02, 2018, 4 comments, 16 smiles
A few months back, Chandni gifted me a journal on "21 Days of Gratitude". And recently, in an online conversation on Healing + Transformation, Priya mentioned research on the Happiness Advantage, which talks about the power of a gratitude practice.
It got me thinking, that it could be great to engage a 21-day Gratitude Challenge with physicians and staff at the eye hospital where I work.
With the support of KindSpring volunteers, I shared the online version of the gratitude challenge with our design team, and they crafted this incredible workbook below! The drawings themselves are from a remarkable artist with extraordinary pin-hole vision. :)
Lots to be grateful for! :)
A Radiologist Who Held Space
Feb 15, 2018, 5 comments, 18 smiles
[Last week, we had a stirring call with doctors. It was the third of our six weekly calls as part of our Laddership Circle for doctors, and the theme we explored more deeply was on "holding space". Venu Julapalli, a gastroenterologist who's co-conspiring a Health 3.0 movement and a thoughtful member of our circle, shared a stirring encounter with an "old-timer " radiologist who simply held space. Below is a transcript of his story.]
My friend had an experience around the death of his father. He had a decision to make in terms of withdrawing support and his family convinced him to withdraw it. Medically, after he told me the details, I think it was the only decision he could have made. But he had never forgiven himself for essentially -- in his perception -- giving up on his father. By pulling the plug, he destroyed himself for it for years.
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