Dr Chris Cresswell, Emergency Medicine Physician, New Zealand
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A 15 minute talk to health professionals at Whanganui Hospital, New Zealand, February 2011 by Chris CresswellKa tangi te tuiKa tangi te piwhakawhakaKa tangi hoki ahauTei hei maurioraKia ora kautoaEmpowermentI invite you to join me in a conversa
Hopefully if you have got to this page you have been trying some of the techniques I have been suggesting for a while. Hopefully you have found yourself calmer at work and out of work, and you have noticed that you are connecting better with y
So we have New Zealand's first mutimodal, in hospital, natural therapy clinic up and running. Yay.One of the big lessons for me in this process was that so many people in "Health" want the Health System to be about healing. Most of us got int
Sometimes we feel we aren’t getting anywhere with what we are trying to achieve in or work, but often your work has wonderful effects that you cannot see at the time.I remet a vivacious woman a few days ago who said “I want to talk to you about
The human brain is a simple computer and easily reprogrammable.Hypnosis is just a way of reprogramming some one elses brain. Self-hypnosis is reprogramming your own brain.One of the simplest forms of hypnosis is reassurance. We do this every
Alternative therapiesOne of my medical students sent me a marvelous spoof about the use of homeopathy in ED (attached). What is the place of alternative therapies?First thing to be remembered is that many conventional therapies are based on na
One person can do some good in the world. A team can do a huge amount more.Aristotle said “The whole is great than the sum of the parts.” A so it is: a team can achieve much more than the sum of the individuals’ work.We perceive ourselves to b
Most people in our society spend most of our time thinking about the past or the future, rather than being here, now.There is a voice in our head saying “I can’t believe she said that”, “Man, you are so dumb, what did you do that for” and “I’ve
Some people say I see the world through rose tinted glasses.It is true. I do see a rosy world. I choose to see a rosy world.Some say I am unrealistic, that there is a lot of bad in the world.Yes there appears to be a lot of bad in the world,
Another description of how we are helping our patients, is that we are encouraging them to make the switch from negative/passive/victim to positive/active/creative.In our society most people perceive themselves as relatively powerless, life hap
Another aspect of what we are doing is engaging with our patients. By stilling the mind, listening, seeing and talking with our patients, we connect with them. We enter and understand their world and we invite them into ours.We use all the to
I recently met a couple of very lively 90 year old patients which reminded me about vitalityHealth is a bland word in our language. What we really want for ourselves and our patients is vitality: being alive with energy.Vitality is an elusive,
Attached is a section of a talk by Eckart Tolle, from his website Eckart Tolle TV. He suggests a way to be when you are in meetings with hospital administrators ... and other conflict filled situations!Download audio
So what does it mean to create a healing space?It's creating an environment which allows people to heal themselves.An example:In the last few weeks I've run into two woman who both said "I used to be your patient years ago. You gave me the stre
You will by now have had some practice at quietening the mind and will be better able to listen to your patients, family, friends +/- partner. Another way we can change the way we relate to people is changing the way we see them. We can chang
Listening, really listening, to your patients is a great way to create the healing space.Hopefully by now you are spending some time each day paying attention to your breathing and/ or your whole body breathing, sounds, thoughts or to nothing o
It is helpful to make the physical space you work in as conducive to healing as possible. Your ability to do this will vary depending on on the type of workspace you have: are you sharing a hospital ward with many other staff and patients or do
The final of these short meditations focuses on nothing ... or everything. Try is out.Download audio
This meditation turns your attention to the sounds around you, then to your thoughts.Download audio
This is another type of meditation focusing your attention on the whole of your body as you breathe.Download audio
This is Professor Kabat-Zinn's Breathing meditation as a separate audio file so you can listen to it with out having to listen to me!Download audio.
Most of us have a lot of negative thoughts cluttering our minds and colouring our view of the world. We have lots of mind chatter reviewing the events of the day and thinking and worrying about upcoming events.Some of us don’t even notice the
Most of us want to help other people. Those of us in the healing professions and crafts usually started out really wanting to help our fellow humans. Often along the way we end up feeling frustrated and ineffectual, annoyed at our patients fo
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