Naomi Saks
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374 appearances
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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There's so many of these big words about the experience of human existence that we kind of talk about, especially in palliative care and geriatrics.
And we never have this like really nice, intimate time to unpack them.
And we also assume that we all are saying the same thing.
And the other thing is, I think a lot about suffering.
I think I wouldn't be here if I didn't suffer in my life.
And I think that's very similar to a lot of people that we work with and a lot of people that are attracted to this work is something caused them anguish.
or pain or multiple things.
And it brought them to this idea of how do we move with that?
And how do we feel the pulse and rhythm and movement of suffering?
And so I just thought this is a great opportunity to sort of, for all of us just to kind of unpack it a little bit and see what we actually mean and start thinking about it.
Yeah, and it is something that I pay a lot of attention to because I know that I can only be as intimate with people suffering as I am with my own at any given moment.
And so when I think about my own suffering, and again, I also like to always invite people to be the expert in their own experience with suffering.
I think in medicine, and especially with the Tate and Perlman article that we read before this,
And we lean towards suffering as a loss of sense of self, which is a real presumption that we all know what self is, which comes from a really powerful, very specific culture, autonomy-driven idea that if we lose sense of self and we have negative feelings, then we suffer.
And I think...
suffering for a lot of people it can be positive it's actually not a problem for some people it's purifying for other
it's redemptive for other people it stretches them in ways they never could have understood and other people it opens them up to unity consciousness or a sense of self beyond their small thought created identity so i'd like to think that but for me i think about it more as a psychological spiritual existential suffering that's where the i really i really hurt myself
That means I notice this pattern that if I continually want to keep grasping and looking outside of myself and looking for things that will make me happy from a sense of whatever it is, whatever my core thing is, whether it's loneliness, whether it's abandonment, whether it's lack, if a continuous cycle of searching outside of myself and
for the happiness or the better or what I like and continually pushing away what I don't like over and over and over again.
And it can be anything from simple boredom.
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