March 2024 Still PointAuthor: Ian Dorsa, OMS I Chapter: University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, Chapter President Title: Surrender Description: I wanted to write a haiku to honor my love for osteopathy because I view them as analogous art forms: deceptively simple rules with profound impact. Any given technique has a short, simple execution with an often incongruously large effect. The act of writing a good haiku, like the delivery of OMT, is a sort of surrender. An acknowledgment of the visceral and imperfect approach, lightly touching on the goal of truth. A good haiku has a sharp and knowing way of revealing the truth. You feel it long before ever knowing it. I feel like this is true for OMM as well. We acknowledge that the body, mind, and spirit are the unity of health, and everything is reciprocally interconnected. We hope to affect this system by manipulating it and trusting in these principles. But coming as we are from the same system being manipulated, can that ever really be understood? Can we gain a greater understanding of our nature by exploring and healing the nature of others? We feel the truth about things and relentlessly pursue our knowledge of them. Herein lies immense value, and one I hope to express with this “simple” poem. SurrenderMind, Body, Spirit, |