The Healing Consciousness is the book on which Dr. DuPree has been working for several years. It was released in June 2006. Go to The Healing Consciousness website.

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I have been asked why am I writing a book and when do I find the time? Great questions! I needed to write the book and now I am making the time to complete the manuscript. I started the book during a trip to the Greek Islands.

I awoke from my sleep and took my travel journal into the tiny bathroom at two in the morning in our cabin on The Wind Spirit cruise ship. My husband and I were on a cruise of the Greek Islands with Brian Weiss and James Van Praagh. We were on “The Voyage of Enlightenment”.

That evening, a week before September 11, 2001, we had rescued two Afghani refuges from the Aegean Sea who would have died on their deflated raft, had it not been for the chance meeting with our ship that was under sail to Rhoades Greece.

When I was awakened at two in the morning, I began to write in my journal about the shift in thinking that needed to occur in our society. We needed to look at health care differently than we currently did. We needed to regain focus on healing and shift away from curing as our ultimate goal. And so was born ‘The Healing Consciousness”.

Of course I was too busy to even think about writing a book, given my practice, my husband and my two small boys. Then I realized that I had to write my story about how I was awakened to the healer that resided with in me. The healer that society and modern medicine had suppressed.

I have, over the years, shared many of the experiences that are detailed in the book with my patients and friends. It just seemed like the logical thing to do to write the book so that I would be able to share my spiritual awakening with my friends, patients, colleagues and anyone else that cares to listen. When you awaken to your essence then you can’t help but listen to the messages that you receive.

Below is the introduction to The Healing Consciousness.

-Dr. Beth DuPree, 2004

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How quickly we have forgotten the tremendous gift we have to impart upon our patients. As physicians, we should be healers first and work toward cure when we can.

The art of healing has been lost by the technologically advanced society that we have become. Historically male energy has developed the technology and the wonders of modern medicine, which focus on cure as its ultimate goal. With the addition of female energy, which focuses on the mind, body, and spirit connection, we can embrace the concept of healing as being greater than simply curing disease.

I pride myself on staying current with the latest technological advancements in breast cancer care. I offer my patients the best that science has to offer both surgically and medically to treat their body when they are found to have this disease and dis-ease we call cancer. My definition of dis-ease, the departure from mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, is often manifested in the processes we know as disease.

Curing the disease and its physical symptoms will not guarantee healing of the dis-ease. I can no longer treat my patients with only surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, as this concentrates solely on the physical body. My patients need more and deserve more than the standard treatment and care traditional medicine has offered them.

Once the body has been treated for cancer the healing process is just beginning. Adopting a holistic approach to breast cancer care has made a tremendous difference in my patients’ lives and also in my satisfaction as a physician and healer.

I truly understand I cannot cure the disease in everyone with cancer that walks through my office door. As a healer I know I can empower my patients that I cannot cure of their disease to heal their dis-ease.

Through the passing of my patients and friends I have learned the most precious gift: the gift of healing. When I began my journey in medicine my goals were very different than they are today. I have always considered myself to be a very compassionate caring individual.

I credit the physicians who have trained me as a surgeon. They gave me the opportunity to develop my surgical skills to perform state-of-the-art surgery on my patients. However, only through my spiritual growth over the past seven years have I truly come to understand the gift of healing that we as physicians have to share with our patients.

The human interaction and connection you make with another human being is the greatest gift a physician can share with their patient. It sounds so simple, but the only thing we have eternally is the energy between two individuals.

When modern medicine cannot cure melanoma, colon cancer, breast cancer, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, when it strikes a fellow physician, it is time to look beyond traditional medicine to find a new understanding of what is really needed to heal.

As physicians, we often attach ourselves to outcomes and feel responsible for everything that happens to our patients. As a society, we often blame physicians for outcomes that are well beyond the responsibility of the physician.

The paternalistic aspect of medicine has created a situation where the patient allows the physician to make decisions about their care without taking any responsibility for their health care treatments. They hold the physician completely responsible for any adverse outcomes. It is this mindset that contributes to the current malpractice crisis and the ego of the physician.

If the physician and the patient are not partners in the treatment of disease, the possibility exists for blame when the outcome is not as expected. Physicians need to be held accountable and need to practice medicine to the highest standards that are humanly possible. We’ve created a health-care system that demands physicians practice defensive medicine. As a result, the art of medicine being a healing profession has gone by the wayside.

The greatest lesson treating cancer in my patients has taught me is to be truly present in the moment. Making a connection with another human being is the ultimate gift medicine gives to both the patient and the physician.

To be truly present in the moment requires continual self-awareness by the physician. We must stop the constant chatter in our minds long enough to connect with another human being, which allows us to access the healing consciousness. As we utilize this higher consciousness while working with patients toward their personal healing, we are using this energy in its purest form.

My spiritual growth has been, and continues to be, a wonderful journey. I have learned from the multitude of synchronicities in my life that led me on this path of self-awareness: there are no coincidences in life. By writing this book and sharing my experiences with you, the reader, I hope to awaken you to your higher consciousness. When you ‘get it’, you, too, will be aware of the gifts the synchronicities in your life offer you.

None of us are guaranteed tomorrow. That is why we must cherish the present.

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“Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is a Mystery
Today is a Gift, That Is Why We Call It the Present”

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