House is quiet again. I’m having a lovely cup of tea with my new tea pot! Family has come, celebrated and returned home safely. Amazingly I have done a good bit of things on my “To-Do” list over the holiday break. There is a little yet to do - at my leisure. As I’ve said before I’ve learned to pace myself better.
I’ve even done a little After-Christmas sale shopping. But the best part, and the part that holds the pieces together, was just being able to rest and take a few naps. Finding myself able to play games with friends again and not actually being concerned with big life changing projects; that was really nice to see myself be able to do. That’s how I know I will be able to go on to the next step. I guess it’s like “self-parenting.” LOL, that is; taking stock of my “self.” We all need to do this I guess.
So, what’s next? Mmmm…just more of the same.
Yet because I feel like I have more “standing power”… like I can keep my inner balance better…I feel more able to calmly see the challenges as they arrive. I kinda feel like a catcher that is watching the pitcher and is ready for the incoming ball. Maybe before I felt like there were too many pitchers throwing too many balls at me! I had to catch all of them.
Something has sorted. Yet it was not just me. I think it was also other people in my life that have been sorted. It takes time for family members and friends to understand what you do at chiropractic college.
Family and friends may want to be supportive yet somehow they also want you to stay the same. They want you to be there for them, visit, chat…hang out, and continue to have the time to do the same types of things as before. In other words; they don’t want you to change. But guess what? Chiropractic college does change you. It must.
In essence we are becoming doctors that take care of… the World At Large.
Our patients will be/are the WORLD - those individuals that feel “dis-ease.” We soon will tend to those individuals that are in pain, uncomfortable, whose nervous systems are not working right because of subluxation. We will also tend to those that are not yet subluxated making sure that they are doing well. The patients will be large, small and in between. Tall, short, dark, light, rainbow… it doesn’t matter…sad, happy, young or old…our patients will need care. And it will become our responsibility to tend to them.
Just as we are developing our understanding of what Chiropractic is - our significant others/friends/family members are coming to view us in a new light. We and they are finding that this vision exists in our hearts, minds, spirits and in our Innate Intelligence. It is something we feel, express and work through our hands.
We Chiropractic Students are not the same people we once were, exactly. We are transforming. Our relationships are transforming. This is rather important. For we cannot be the people we once were and the people we are to become at the same time. We step from here to there, learning to walk in a new way.
So somewhere along this journey we must allow others to learn to share us…to help out where we once helped out, pick up some of our old duties, come to visit us when we need a visit, and learn to allow us to focus on our work.
When this happens, there are fewer pitchers to focus on, fewer throwing balls at us and fewer balls to catch.
The game plays much better this way. And our game is quite challenging - we’re playing in the big leagues now! And on Wednesday it will be time for us to “Play Ball!” once again.
Mary “Binnie” Baker, pictured in Life Magazine June 4, 1945! I love this picture! What fire in her eyes! I would love to meet this woman! :)
