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a d m i ni s t er ing s acr e d n u r s in g ac t s

Figure 15. Mine Workers, by Bendor Mark. Collection, The Denver Art Museum.

CF/CP 5: promotion and acceptance of the expression of posi-
tive and negative feelings. Further, Caritas Process 1: practice of
loving-kindness and equanimity is a foundational practice for the
nurse’s own health, which can be transferred directly to a car-
ing-healing modality of breath work, relaxation, and so on, to
improve healthy ventilation for patients.
• In cultivating healthy breath-work practices for self, we thus
assist others in understanding the depth of this basic need and its
influence on the whole person.

Human need for aCtivity-inaCtivity
The major questions for us . . . are: Are we doing work that serves
others or generates a meaningful legacy? If not, why not? What do
we want to contribute to this world? As we rediscover our interests
and passions in work and service . . . we are guided, in the words
of the Persian poet Rumi to “Let the beauty of what we love be
[the beauty] of what we do.”
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