Week 5 - Thu Cao

I have heard about spiritual healing long time ago but I have not much ideas about it and how it work in more detail. Moreover, I have never thought it could happen in our real life because it seems just belongs to the abstract theory. Today reading leads me to some thoughts. Since our bodies are the combination of mind and body - the spirit part and the physical part, so each one has its own method to heal its diseases. They are seems separately entities, however, they are in one human body. When one get disease the other one also be affected. Our physical health can be improve if we have a strong happy spirit. That why spirit healing is being considered nowadays. It can be become a mandatory  subject in specific school such as friary school. 

The reading mentions about the transpersonal mindfulness process in which the chaplain will have the empathy with the patients and through that the patients are healed by reaching a ataractic state of peace. More than that, this could be a feasible method to heal metal disorder disease. Somehow, spirit and physical body relationship is still a broad subject. Anyway, would clinical chaplain process heal physical disease in future? 

My question for this week reading: I wonder if the clinical chaplain can really feel the pain and the emotion from the patient during the transpersonal mindfulness process?

My second doubt: Let’s assume the spiritual care process happens, so  after the process, I mean when the chaplain “log out” of the patient’s mind will they remember anything that from the patient’s mind? Something can be stuck in the chaplain mind? Will they really “log off”?