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Sam Oliver - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Sam has cared for the needs of the dying in palliative care for over 17 years. During that time, Sam has served as the Chair, and now, Co-Chair of the Hospice Ethics Committee at a Hospice Care Center in Northern Ohio. He has served several years as a State Continuing Education Chairperson for the Association of Professional Chaplains. For well over a decade, Sam has been an active editorial review board member and contributing ... [More]
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- Focused Intentions
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you have a dream? What is it? Have you been focusing on this dream for years? Why not make it a reality? Put your dream into reality by making small goals you can attain one step at a time until you reach your ultimate focused intention.
- One Pointed Desire
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] A miracle is Energy In Formation. Anything you hold your attention on over time is energy in formation. We are transformed by what we hold dear to us and fill our heart with the experience of what we desire. Our intent to dwell upon what we hold sacred is our soul. Thus, the miracle of transformation that occurs from this quality of existence creates a manifestation of the formless into form.
- Remember Who You Are
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] After caring to dying people for over 17 years now, I have come to the conclusion that people are physically dying and awakening at the same time. We spend a great deal of our time defining ourselves in this work and making our way through it through the titles we obtain along the way such as minister, chaplain, counselor, etc... Much attention is placed on what we are. Such actions lead us away from the place we often will attempt to guide other's to in their dying after long years of experience in the opposite.
- The Ways We Grieve
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] To be known as we are truly known is not an afterlife experience. To be fully human and fully divine is one of the best kept secrets we all pretend we are not aware of until the afterlife. There is no afterlife. We came from eternity and to eternity we return. When we let go of the notion that eternity begins at death, we are free to utilize eternal resources to help us live in the here and now.
- Concentrate On Effort
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Concentrate on effort. All of life is energy and information. Seeds of awareness are in constant growth. "Where one attention goes - energy flows." I am sure you have heard this many times. It is true. Life comes through you and not from you. Life is the greatest gift a person can receive upon this earth.
- The Importance of Focus
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] There are many distractions in the world. This would be a good day for you to focus. Focus on your needs, as well as, the needs of others. Keep the needs of yourself and the needs of the self in balance. You will notice that you and others have this need to keep life in balance.
- The Power of Prayer to Heal
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] On one occasion, I was asked to go into a room and be with a daughter whose Mom was dying. Mom was expected to die not long after I was to enter the room. When I went into the room, the daughter was at her Mom's bedside. She did die not long after I had entered the room. Her husband was on his way to be with his wife and daughter of this patient. He did not make it in time.
- The Path to Abundance
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] If you were a dying patient, you would have to trust me as though you life depended on it. This kind of trust is what I want from you. This kind of trust will give you peace in knowing that all can and should be yours through such a strong connection to the wisdom that brought you into this world, and somehow, knows how to lead you home.
- Forgive Everyone in Every Way
[Self-Improvement] There is no set way to wholeness. Simply being aware that you have a self-defined understanding of wholeness that is within you is what we simply need to give attention to within us. This continued attention on what we seek the most within us will grow in our awareness until the need to place our attention on forgiveness fades away.
- Caring About Others
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] At the end of the day, do take some time for yourself. You will need to find ways to balance the needs of others with the needs of the self. In the end, you will notice that one of the greatest gifts we do have to give to others is to give our lives away knowing we have helped another person's day a little bit better. This will also meet your own need to fulfill your reason for living or purpose in life.
- Grace Filled Moments
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] In my work as a Hospice Chaplain, I witness dying people realize just how fortunate they were in having been given so much. This is not to say that sadness and anger is not present. If you look a little closer, sadness and anger are the result of being grateful for what we have been given and not wanting to let it go.
- From Beliefs to Knowing
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Dying people are on a similar journey. They have to trust that an inner path is being created for them in their soul.
- Two Kinds of Grief
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] I have noticed two kinds of grief in dealing with Hospice families dealing with the loss of their loved ones. One is mourning. The other is grieving with hope.
- The Womb of Creation
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Any work of art, manuscript, play, or movie is created out of the feminine spirit’s intent to bring into manifestation the deepest longings of a person’s soul. She does not do this with conditions. The conditional world is the world around us we seek to find our identity. Yet, to really know who we really are requires the intent to seek out what cannot be seen. As we enter into the world of insight, the ability to see from within, we are entering into this wisdom that created us.
- Integrating the Feminine Spirit: Returning to the Womb of Creation
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Within these seeds of awareness is the womb of creation. It feels like a loving mother whose soul purpose is to unconditionally love what comes into being. Out of this spacious quality of life are invisible bonds. These invisible bonds create a sense of security. A sense of knowing we are loved by a power greater than ourselves. This power guides us and sustains us. And, it is filled with enough love to carry us through each day.
- Why Does My Loved One Have to Suffer?
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Not long ago, I visited a man whose wife was dying of cancer. He retired early in life, so he and his wife could travel the country on his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He was a big man, and his wife was tiny. But, their love for one another was deep and knew no size and shape after 45 years of being married to one another. He shared with me many stories of there life together. He was deep in grief.
- Dying into Life
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] In the dying experience, people come face to face with their mortality. Dying people begin to reflect over their life and feel the effects of the life they have lived. As each experience is pondered, an accumulation of experiences creates a perspective. Each perspective builds upon another. An accumulation of perspectives in a lifetime is called wisdom.
- Dancing with Angels
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Throughout history, angels have been known as guiding spirits. They have been called "Messengers of God." Angels have been seen as encouraging souls whose purpose is to lead us through transformative events in our lives.
- Hospice Care Services
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] In this article, I will outline key points my fellow hospice team members and I have observed in our day to day work.. I have worked over 12 years as a Spiritual Counselor in Hospice Care. Each person teaches me something, though it is I who is supposed to minister to them in the final moments.
- The Wisdom of Uncertainty
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] There is really only one certainty in life. Life is uncertain. We often live as though nothing will change, but it does. This continuous battle between wanting things to stay the same and finding that nothing does stay the same creates something inside us. This creation of constant change is a movement, a force of nature, and a guiding path.
- Being Flexible
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In each of our lives, there will be times of joy and times of sorrow. In trauma, we are born. In trauma, we leave the world. Somewhere in the midst of living, growing, and understanding life in our maturity, we find ourselves seeking to find what we were born with.
- The Landscape of the Soul
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Through the years, we accumulate a series of experiences. Our tendency is to evaluate and simply reflect on what we have been through and what we have learned. This inward site into what we can no longer see with our eyes allows us to see through them through our soul.
- When the Morning Dawns
[News-and-Society:Religion] When darkness turns to day, the sun moves over the horizon and touches everything in sight. This movement across the landscape brightens everything. Such an illumination awakens us all. We rise with energy moving in and through us allowing us to create a new day. A day unique from all the rest and creatively woven into our soul.
- Ethical and Religious Considerations in Physician Assisted Suicide
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Some terminally ill patients are in so much pain that they would rather end their life than to go on suffering and experience a poor quality of life. Because of physical and mental limitations, people in pain have a much different view on living than people with good health.
- Approaches to Care in Physician Assisted Suicide
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] There is a growing interest in suicide. When people start looking for more information about suicide, you'll be in a position to meet their needs. This article is a brief description of much information on this subject. Let's start with 3 levels to discern in the act of euthanasia.
- The Wind in My Heart & The Heart's Descent
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] This poem reflects the moving of spirit in our soul. Listen with your heart as you read this poem.
- Physician Assisted Suicide And The Art of Care
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In an age of managed care, rationing of care, and technological care, there is The Art of Care. We live in a society that has been given various choices to "self-determine" one’s destiny in dying as one has been able to "self-determine" one’s destiny in life itself. We have medicines and technological capabilities, and areas of the country allowing us to hasten or postpone one’s dying. The purpose of this position paper is to outline the legal, ethical, religious, and philosophical ramifications involved in Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) and how affects of such decisions effect those connected to this issue.
- Where Souls Meet
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. As you read this article you'll find that the subject of human beings meeting in soul is certainly no exception.
- Online Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Much of online marketing can be a real task. The fact that you are reading this article on home business ideas tells me you are open to ideas. You may be more of an idea person than you know.
- Death and Dying
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Think about it for a moment. When you buy a new car, it eventually wears out. Along the way your car will change. You adjust to the changes and shift your lifestyle to live in accordance to the car's ability and capability of use. The same is true with your body. It is your vehicle. It is what you use to get around the world in.
- Death Resources
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Insight is to see from within what we cannot see with our physical eyes. It is a deliberate intention to discover what is most alive within us. It is the discovery of who we really are.
- A Place Inside Us That Never Dies
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Life is a series of reflections upon meaning and existence beyond the physical body. These words are formed together to find that place inside us that never dies.
- Echoes of the Distant Past
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Inside us are waves of vibrations we call memories and heart felt images of our past. It is our soul coming alive within us. These poems are a reflection on what gives us meaning and hope for living.
- Imprints on the Soul
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Sometimes, it is the smallest of experiences that leave the largest impacts on our soul.
- The Heart of Grief
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Inside our grief, our heart longs for wholeness only the soul can embrace.
- The Spirit of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Their is a spirit to each of our existence. It is our soul. It is the which we cannot see, but we know is alive and well within us.
- The Senses of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Each of us have a sense that their is more to life than what we can sense with our five senses. Read this article to affirm what you know to be true from the essence of your being.
- The Sound of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Have you ever thought about Soul having a sound? Give this article a try. You might find yourself trusting in the very wisdom that has created us all.
- The Characteristics of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Soul has a character - a way of making itself known. This part of us finds meaning and hope when none is able to be found in the physical world. Enjoy!
- The Nature of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Inside each of us is our true nature - it is our soul. This article shares how ordinary experiences are more than ordinary.
- The Heart of Soul
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Dying people have much to teach us about living. As a dying person becomes more soul than body, we learn to touch inside each other what can only be embraced with one's heart.
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