Healing with Heart from Moss Communications

Healing with Intention

Moss Communications is proud to offer Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care Professionals as an antidote to the malaise, burnout and stress facing health care professionals every day. The book reminds us of the importance of practicing the art as well as the science of healing.

In this reflection, Healing with Heart uses an analogy of an artist drawing a portrait to suggest that our technical competence and use of technology are not solely what make us good at our job. When we slow down and practice the art of healing, patients are better served and as health care professionals, we know we’ve truly done our very best. Here is an excerpt from the reflection, Healing with Intention, from the book, Healing with Heart:

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch a highly accomplished artist draw a man’s face. She would stare at him for a time, then look down at her paper, draw a few lines, and then lift her gaze to study his face again. She must have done this a hundred times, maybe more. She spent much more time looking than drawing. The result was remarkable. Her sketch, while not an exact likeness, caught the personality of the fellow in an astonishing way. She saw what many of us who knew the man, never saw.

Do you think patients know the difference between being cared for by someone who is rushed, who simply wants to get the job done, and someone who moves slowly enough and with a conscious awareness of the impact their actions have on the people around them? Do you think our coworkers can sense the same thing?