Creating a healing community: the role for physicians and nurses
Nickens, W.; Patchell, B.
Journal of Cultural Diversity 12(2): 59-61
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 1071-5568 PMID: 16028451 Document Number: 587767
Most of what is written and said about healing is focused on the individual and their personal pursuit of the experience of being healed. The Healing Community shifts that focus to a larger perspective. Indigenous people have recognized the importance of community for centuries, identifying the worst possible consequence for behavior as banishment or exile from their community, not death. In the holistic view, life and death are seen as being on a continuum that occurs within a community, with all being valued. It is time to release our self-imposed and society endorsed exile from what truly heals our relationship with a greater Power and each other.