Fw: [Acharyas] Meditation - a basic necessity for some professions!
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Chitra Hari [email protected] Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM To: [email protected], [email protected]
--- On Fri, 11/11/05, Nithyananda Premeshwari <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> From: Nithyananda Premeshwari <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> > Subject: [Acharyas] Meditation - a basic necessity for some professions! > To: "group" <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> > Date: Friday, November 11, 2005, 9:17 AM > > ```text > Dear Anandas, > > During Swami's tak at AAPI, he emphasized the need for > meditation especially among physicians, psychiatrists, > etc. He explained how they unconsciously meditate on > the patients' problems, and that can eventually become > their problem by haunting them... so meditation is an > option for common man, but its absolutely essential > for some professions!! > > Here is a real life example that validates Swami's > every statement in this regard. Its a very tragic > story of Iris Chang, an extrodinary Chinese American > woman who single handedly researched and brought to > surface the atrocities of Japanese army in China > during world war 2, in a book called "The Rape of > Nanking". She was so sensitive as a person that she > related completely with the survivors of the crimes... > to the extent that the pain and sufferring became > unbearable and she committed suicide a year ago! > > If only she had learnt to meditate and disengage > herself from the suffering, she could have kept her > sanity and continued her service to humanity by > finishing her other unfinished projects! > > See the link below to read the complete article. > http://www.sanfranciscomagazine.com/home/view story/242/ > > If you don't have the time, see some clippings below. > > Maybe, acharyas can mention such real life incidents > as part of their introduction to show very clearly why > ```
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Clippings from the article:
It seems clear that the very qualities that made Chang such a gifted chronicler of human suffering-her empathy, compassion, deep sense of justice, even her amazing drive and determination-may have made her work increasingly painful and at the same time made it difficult for her to seek help until it was too late.
The Nanking slaughter was only one particularly vicious chapter in the savage history of the Japanese occupation. For eight years, the Japanese terrorized the Chinese population, wiping out entire villages, experimenting with biological weapons, and forcing women into sexual slavery. Historians estimate that 10 million Chinese were murdered; another 9 million died from starvation and disease.
The images Chang viewed that day-the first of the massacre she'd ever seen-had a searing effect. "I walked around for an entire day in a state of shock," Chang later recalled.
Iris was such an amazing reporter: she felt everything so deeply. There were no boundaries between herself and the things she was reporting."
Yet this is where Chang's problems may have begun. Her inability to distance herself from her work may have made her vulnerable to what psychologists call secondary, or vicarious, traumatization, a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that can be a problem among therapists, emergency workers, translators, and journalists.
Bay Area psychologist Tato Torres, a PTSD expert who has treated torture survivors, points out that for Nanking victims, the lack of acknowledgment exacerbated the trauma. "Iris Chang sought out and talked to people who had never told their stories before," he says. "The trouble is, these stories are toxic. They create extreme disorganization in the person who experienced them, as well as an altered sense of self. Even a highly trained therapist would have had a hard time dealing with that level of trauma. Iris Chang was doing this difficult work without training, without social support."
"We hear about some of the most atrocious acts imaginable," says Uwe Jacobs, a neuropsychologist and therapist who directs Survivors International, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works with torture
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