Maneesha James Blog

I’ve just completed a 2-day training as a volunteer at a local hospital. Some of the group want to work in Rehab., some in the Psychiatric Unit, but the majority, like me, are interested to work in the Palliative Care Unit.

I’ve only recently come to learn that not all those in ‘pallcare’ (as it is chummily known as at Greenwich Hospital!) are expected to die within the next weeks. However, by and large, it is with those whose death is imminent that I should like to be.

To date, I have only worked in the US and Europe with the dying; and those people with whom I did work were all meditators (specifically Osho sannyasins).I am curious to know if the kind of people I meet in an Australian hospital context, are interested in/open to my meditative approach and the using of meditative methods.

I’d be interested to know if there are other meditators who are already working in a similar way? – either here in Australia or anywhere else in the world.