Welcome Message
 
 
     

The heart of healing is found
in focused action and intention
wrapped in the arms of surrender.

From "The Heart of Healing"
spoken by Jeremy Geffen
(complete transcript of his message below)
Jeremy Geffen, MD, FACP

 

Messages on CD:

Volume One:
The Heart of Healing

Volume Two:
Self-Compassion

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Message Transcription

The Heart of Healing

What is the heart of healing?

The heart of healing is found in focused action and intention wrapped in the arms of surrender. Focused action and intention wrapped gently in the arms of surrender. Not only for patients and their loved ones, but also those of us who’ve devoted our lives to the service of healing.

To remember, even in our work of service, at the end of the day, we are really not in control. 

All we can do is bring our love, our presence, our consciousness, our intent to be present with what is happening, to smile with love if we can, to take action whenever we can, and to try always, to have our actions, and our intention, and our efforts, wrapped in the arms of surrender and gratitude.


Self-Care

The path of healing at times can be filled with periods where you feel tired, where you feel discouraged. Those times are part of the journey as well. And If you are feeling tired, or discouraged, and not sure of yourself, not sure of your path, it’s most important to remember to stop and give to yourself, some moments of the kindness and the love and the caring, that you give to so many others, and have given to so many others for so long.

Sometimes that’s all that we can do, is to stop and close our eyes, and with our heart, and our intention, send love deep into the innermost core of your heart and being, and wrap your own spirit and your own soul in your own arms of kindness and forgiveness.

In that tender act of bringing love and kindness to yourself, especially when you may feel tired and unsure, the love that you give to yourself is the same love that ultimately will heal the world.


 Jeremy R. Geffen MD, FACP is a board-certified medical oncologist, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, and President of Geffen Visions International (GVI), a company devoted to exploring multidimensional approaches to life and medicine. A gifted and inspiring writer, speaker and seminar leader, he is the author of the highly-acclaimed book The Journey Through Cancer and audiotape program The Seven Levels of Healing. Described as an ìoncologist of the future,î Dr. Geffen practiced medical oncology and hematology in Vero Beach, Florida for 11 years, before leaving clinical practice in 2003 to work full-time for GVI. From 1994 to 2003 he ran the Geffen Cancer Center and Research Institute, one of the first cancer centers in the United States designed explicitly to combine state-of-the-art conventional cancer treatments with a broad array of complementary therapies and mind-body approaches to healing.