The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook_ A Home Manual - James Green [188]
“But so many individuals get lost in the struggle. Many counselors search for something or someone who seeks their help, but then upon finding this, they get focused on the needy part. They acclimate to the needy part and feel the despair of it—and call this compassion. This only lowers an individual’s vibration separating the counselor from his or her power to uplift and inspire.
“If a counselor is empathizing with the client’s struggle—now, instead of maintaining the higher, faster vibration and bringing the other person to it, their experience is empathy with the client’s lower, slower vibration and their feelings of discomfort.
“At this point it depends on how the counselor is feeling. True compassion feels very good, and when feeling this, whomever a health counselor holds as their object of attention will feel good also. This is true upliftment!
“Set the tone of the consultation to a vibration of upliftment.” Chiron stated with impassioned emphasis, “This is the health counselor’s power of true compassion.
“What good can we do another unless we see them in their perfect health and hold this in our thought as we counsel? If we see them any less than this, what good are we doing them? We must inspire them to be their wholeness which includes perfect health. If we see them in their disease where can either of us go, except to merely palliate their symptoms?
“By holding this state of inspired vision and upliftment, you radiate it. As you think, you feel; as you feel, you radiate, and all is affected by your offering. This is the power of your influence as a health seer, herbalist, physician, and health ally.
“When a client experiencing temporary disconnection from their inner source of joy comes to you for assistance, your intent, as you are interacting with this person, is to bring them closer to remembering and appreciating who they are. This means appreciation and reassurance coming from you is in order. Focus your attention on them wholly. Listen to the words they offer, acknowledge their experience of illness, suffering, and discomfort, but behind it all hear the singing of their spirit. Therein abides their wellness. See their beauty and perfection, and offer soothing words like, “I assure you, it will be all right,” and ‘It too will pass, things will get better.’ When you offer your words of reassurance from your place of knowing that all is well, they will begin to feel it. This fresh feeling within them will be the first step in the manifestation of their re-experience of health. Encourage them to flow their energy to concordant feelings, to the ideas that inspire them and feel good to them, to the feelings that stem from deciding more clearly what they truly want.
“Use gentle humor. It is the unbounded expression of appreciation. Laughter is life force reflected through a physical being who is willing to be light enough to let it flow. Keep the session buoyant; relax, spend more time looking for things to appreciate, to laugh about, and to play with. Let cheerfulness deflect all oppressive doubt and depression. It is most efficient to view all that is right with the individual, focusing upon those areas in their life that feel good to them—and there are so very many when one looks from a perspective of appreciation and laughter—As these positive aspects are identified and felt, others, one after another after another, those aspects that are in harmony with their spirit make themselves known, and the appreciation for that which feels good in their own life grows. The temporary disconnection from inner joy dissolves.” Chiron fell quiet for a moment, looked deep into Asclepius’s eyes and continued, “and once a person finds himself, it no longer matters where he was when he was lost.
“See another’s suffering only long enough to feel your desire erupting within you to help them, but do not let their suffering take you to it. See your client’s health, don’t use the time