Jalma has been featured on "Beginnings" by The American Holistic Nurses Association, "Your Next Shift" by Living Sublime Well and Business Inovators Magazine.
Your Next Shift offers a dynamic listening experience. Host Elizabeth Scala has strategically crafted a program that provides both practical tactics and universal truths. Weekly episodes present listeners with spiritual mindsets to be themselves and entrepreneurial tools to do their best. Guest interviews illustrate the importance of showing up as ourselves in our work, while giving us concrete methods to do so. Your Next Shift, which informs, educates and up-levels our nursing career, certainly is cutting edge in the healthcare environments of today.
I recently had the great pleasure of speaking with Jalma Mesnick Marcus, Board Certified Holistic Nurse, Holistic Practitioner, Creator and Founder of the Quantum Alignment System.
It became quite apparent throughout our conversation, that from birth, Jalma was destined to “be different,” be an innovator, stand out from the crowd, be an influencer, a person who had interest in how everything worked as a whole and how system approaches link everything vs only treating the parts.
Every organization is different – different people, processes,structures, and relationships (Marcus, 2018). Therefore, the wayeach organization defines its values will vary depending uponits personality/culture.
In order for a body, a machine, or an organization to function well, all parts must be operating at their most efficacious (economic and effective) level. When something goes wrong, symptoms appear. Sometimes the symptoms are gross and immediate, but frequently they are subtle and evolving. We are well aware of that, in the fields of medicine and mechanics, the professionals teach us to keep ourselves and our machines in the best shape, to be alert to all operational signs for symptoms, and to conduct preventative maintenance to avoid the radical and devastating harm which results from breakdowns.
Ongoing and intentional self- aware of the essential acts of listening discovery and reflection are at to ourselves with compassion, finding the core of every form of self- meaning in our actions, understanding care (AHNA & ANA, 2013). It our beliefs, intentionally being present, is through these actions that we learn new and embracing all aspects of ourselves.
Away of being is the translation of a complex matrix of experiences, biochemical interactions, and emotions into behaviors unique to the individual. Carl Rogers (1951) explains that a way of being is a “state of focus that incorporates a total togetherness of body and mind” and that “The best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual.”
In 1980, Charlotte (Charlie) McGuire, AHNA’s founder, brought together a small group of nurses who were angry, “disillusioned and disappointed with conventional healthcare” (AHNA, 2008).
This small group shared some basic personal values. These values provided a foundation for sharing a collective consciousness that formed a group structure and process – a guiding light for the development of AHNA. Over the years, the values resonated as a frequency that has attracted thousands of others to our organization.
Sixteen years ago, in December 2004, I got a cold. After a few days, the symptoms disappeared, but what remained was a low grade fever that lasted six weeks. Other than the fever, I had no symptoms. Nothing indicated a reason for this fever, so I was referred to an infectious disease specialist. "It's probably a virus." he concluded. But alas, the fever continued. And so did a nagging feeling - I knew something was wrong with my appendix.
Nursing – and especially Holistic Nursing – is poised to extend its reach. I see a future where nurses play a vital role in changing healthcare delivery systems and in so doing affect the opportunity for health to emerge at a higher level for many at the same time. But first, it is necessary to develop language that captures our holistic understanding of a single, whole, inseparable, organizational energy system. I call this energy system the Space that SurroundsTM.
