Your Daily Prayer For Healing

Dear God/ess, When I think of freedom, the anarchist /saint Ammon Hennacy, pictured here,  comes to mind: when he spent seven months in solitary confinement, because he refused to fight in World War I.

Ammon was a family friend, and my mother’s spiritual teacher. He was born in Salt Lake City just like an old dog of mine,
beloved, Boop-A-Doop. He was a brave and honest man, and he had the capacity to make my mother truly happy when she was
in his presence.

His natural inquisitiveness was refreshing, yet he did not question to excess. He had just the right balance of question, non-question, acceptance of what is, non-acceptance of hypocrisy and the incongruencies of American society.

Ammon first came to our house in the late fifties and jolted us out of the slumbering and sleeping lifestyle of our contemporaneity, and into a wakeful state.  He was a composite of the Peace Pilgrim, Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Jesus. He walked the streets and back roads of America with leatherless shoes and refused to pay the war tax.
His mantra-like motto was “change yourself, and you  change the world”.

His great expose’ of prison life was that freedom was in the mind and not outside the bars of oppression.  The inner life held the answer to freedom, to expansive thought, to the understanding and fulfillment of the collective unconscious, by way of the Christ consciousness– “the kingdom of god is within.”

The tall man from Salt Lake City was as free as a rooster crowing in the predawn spring morn, as free as the
limitless mind expanding and reaching for that elusive moment of clarity given to Ammon while in solitary confinement, contemplating the Sermon On The Mount, and realizing he had to also love the warden in order to be free.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Nurse Healers

Dear God/ess, Healing the self is the beginning of the healing journey.

How best to do this?

How have you been healed in the past, and how did it feel?

What spiritual practices have you previously practiced that brought you strength that you continue to use to raise your energy, to gather courage to meet the challenges of the job? and every other challenge of life!

If you no longer are practicing meditation or yoga or any other practice you once did regularly, what would it take to get back to the practice–without excuses!!

Just do it!! Ask your angels for assistance! They will be ecstatic that you remembered them.

Nothing is as it should be. And everything is exactly as it is.

The first statement implies resistance to the dance of life– the second recognizes a situation for what it is, and acceptance oversees all.

I remember this as I walk into the confines of my hospital walls. We see scenarios all the time that we all proclaim, “NOT FAIR!!”

Who are we to say? But we certainly can say it is exactly as it is–no more, no less.

I have to ask myself: What is in the realm of my ability to help, to change the situation for the better, to help a grieving person, to give comfort and grace?

As I think of ways to help other people, I must be constantly on the lookout for all the ways I must heal.

Because I can’t help anyone nor can I help myself as long as I judge, lack acceptance and resist everything that presents –disguised as problems –but truly are opportunities for growth and enlightenment.

And continue to take good care of myself, every moment along the way.

As I age wisely, I’ve come to realize that Not Thinking is the heart of my own spiritual practice.

Everyday, I meditate, take long slow walks by the river that runs by my house, and do my entrainment brain exercises–giving my brain the same aerobic workout that the rest of my body enjoys with exercise.

And consequently, my mind slows down, and I feel at peace. I am taking care of myself, and can take better care of everyone else.

“Caring” is what a nurse does–in the framework of Being. We listen, give what is needed, take care of machines and do a lot of charting–not necessarily in that order.

Because of our ability to care in this state of Being, and ability as healers, others in the healthcare arena may see nurses as weak and as easy prey–to verbally abuse, to sexually harass, to make her think she is an idiot.

This is what needs to be healed within our profession. We need to take back our strength and our courage. We need to stand together, and protect the new nurses coming in. We need to create a forum to make sure our voices are heard.

And continue to take good care of ourselves, every moment, with every breath.

Om, Peace, Amen

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You will be rewarded.

Dear God/ess, One cannot help others by taking on their troubles, nor can the world be saved by carrying burdens as a sign of caring.

The idea is not to ignore the dire circumstances of the world, but to acknowledge one’s own strength and creativity, and from that viewpoint, look at those areas in need of constructive help.

Unfortunate life situations should have no power over us if we realize that events do not exist by themselves: They exist first in the mind. If every person changed her attitude, the world will change for the better. Empowering new laws would follow.

The ideal is to join with every human being, all living creatures, the sun, earth, wind and flower, and pray.  Prayer connects us to all things in the universe. This is why it works so well to bring about healing.

Another ancient art that is powerfully helpful is to tune into the message of our dreams. This requires an acknowledgment that beneath the world we know, there is another. Adjacent to our familiar focus there are other realities that are just as legitimate. We can draw from these worlds to heal our lives.

Long term illnesses have often resolved suddenly through a dream or dream series. Dreams often allow for the prevention of a chronic condition without our having any conscious awareness of how this happens.

I had a vision for my calling as a nurse. I wanted to be the kind of person who could encourage my patients to pursue personal potential in a strictly unique style, to pursue and develop awareness as a prerequisite to peace of mind. The official, accepted view of the world no longer applies, then and now, as new suppositions of the will are built upon and encouraged to evolve, bringing a new base and foundation upon which to formulate individual and cultural action, as a manifestation of life-as an art form.

Medicine is an art form, too, a spontaneous and life giving approach, an evaluation of exteriorly manifested conditions as a reflection of attitudes and beliefs, and the act of remaining flexible and playful in one’s approach to life. The choice is a personal one. But once the journey has begun, the adventure becomes a colorful kaleidoscope of unpredictable action; the art-form never finished, always giving to new creation.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Nurse Healers

Dear God/ess, Self-healing with Ho’oponopono is simple yet shakes up the mind, because we’ve all been raised to see the world as separate from us, outside of us.

If I am 100% responsible for actualizing a problem, then I am 100% responsible for resolving it. All erroneous thoughts within myself, and within my patients are transmuted to perfect Love.

We work directly with Divinity, who does the alchemy of transforming all thoughts to Love.

I Love You and Thank You is a forgiveness appeal to Divinity, and Love begins this mystical process of transmuting all erroneous thought, by neutralizing them.

Resentment, fear, anger, blame or confusion is released by Love whose energy sends them into a state of void, emptiness and true freedom.

With the thoughts now empty and free, it is Love which fills the void. The result is renewal. You are restored in Love and so is your patient or client and all involved in the problem.

Where there was anger in your patient or client, there is now Love. Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of Love.

The following affirmations are crucial when caring for your patients and clients as well as in all of your relationaships:

1) The physical universe is a manifestation of my thoughts.
2) If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.
3) If my thoughts harmonize with perfect Love, they create a physical reality overflowing with Love.
4) I am 100% responsible for creating my physical reality. I am 100% responsible for correcting thoughts that create a diseased reality.
5) There’s no such thing as “out there.” Everything exists as thoughts in my mind. Let these thoughts be Loving Thoughts, expanding with Loving-Compassion.

These truths will set me free.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, I am thinking about self-healing and Ho’oponopono this evening, one of the most monumental self-healing gifts ever given to us.

Interestingly, my profession as a nurse and others such as doctor or therapist, traditionally sees the illness or problem inside the patient or client. We all believe, like a mass hypnotic agreement, that our responsibility is to help the patient or client work through their problem.

The belief that all problems lie in the person we are trying to help may be responsible for the systematic burnout in all these professions, not to mention the mass corruption within the Health Insurance Industry.

Ho’oponopono teaches that as a nurse, when I take 100% responsibility for any and all patient care issues, no matter how large or small, and instead of concentrating on healing others, I concentrate on healing myself with Divinity’s assistance, the so-called problem is out of my hands.

I have Let Go/ Let God and completely surrendered these challenges to Divine guidance which is waiting and willing to help me.

I am now free to help by inwardly chanting the Ho’oponopono phrases, “I Love You, Thank You–I Love You, Thank You.” These phrases cast a healing balm upon the collective psyche.

I can also inwardly say, “I am sorry” and “Please Forgive Me,” (for the part I played creating these problems).

The source of any problem stems from erroneous thoughts within myself.

Love is all anyone needs to eradicate any inner strife or angst.

Let it begin with me.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, It is snowing here in the early morning hours. The night sky is bright, the ground is white, and the sound of peace is silent and all encompassing.

We discussed letting go on Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom tonight. Ener-G of Squidoo was our guest. We also discussed unresolved grief. How long must a person sit with her loss before she knows she can move on? Days, weeks years?

Sitting with grief is not easy. We think we must stay busy to soften the pain but avoidance will only postphone release of the floodgates.

When the next loss arrives to say hello,  and if we avoided the last one, the present loss just runs into seemingly endless tears.

Since we’ve all been through it, or will at some point, how can we help and empower others who have lost their way, either by minimizing the magnitude of their loss, or pretending it does not exist, or by suffering to such an degree as to become powerless before their pain?

No one is is ever alone either in their responsibility or decision that when made will impact the rest of their lives.

Our prayers for a person activates unseen forces and the divine presence of Angels.

If a person learns to sit and ask for Divine Guidance, the Divine Forces will reveal themselves. No prayer has ever gone unanswered.

The emptiness in times of grief are gifts because when our lives fill back up again, we stop and appreciate just how magnificent the people are who love us and share their lives with us.

Grief is a gift. We cannot hide from it because it will always find us. It wants us to look it in the eye of razor like truth and say: Thank you for your blessings. I am courageous enough to accept what ever it is you send my way.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, I just realized that I forgot to apply for what amounts to major hoop jumping and defense building for my standing as a good nurse to a jury of colleagues who try and prove my ineligibility: something like being turned away at Heaven’s Gate.

The whole concept is based on the old ideology of thinking: I am only good enough if you tell me I am, or I am a failure if you tell me I am.

The fact I forgot to apply comes as a great relief to me tonight. It means that I can write this prayer and go to bed at a decent hour instead of driving to the hospital to submit the paperwork the stroke before midnight.

It means that I can surrender my self-worth to the higher jury of Angels, Prayer, Daily Blogging and gazing into the eyes of my dog.

It also means I can thoroughly enjoy the next several months without writing papers proving my worth as a nurse, and adding up points to prove I am a better nurse than someone else.

I feel as if I’ve been given the blessing to move ahead with my life, instead of staying stuck  in Old World Paradigms  that invariably kill spirit and styme growth as a whole person. I am no longer a nurse who grovels before the corporation or a person who compromises her values to do some agreed upon act that encourages competition instead of cooperation.

By conveniently forgetting to apply, I can remember who I am instead of falling asleep because I agreed to be a silent partner with a philosophy I no longer want in my life.

I agree to awaken in the here and now.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, Grassroots and political movements come and they go but the REAL Healthcare Reform Movement is here to stay. Last night we had dinner with a large gathering of Single Payer advocates to decide how to sweep Pennsylvania into the win/win position of implementing healthcare for all here in the Commonwealth.

I sat with Donna and Larry Smith, stars of Michael Moore’s SiCKO. I’ve met Donna and Larry before and I just love them.

I found out that Donna was responsible for the story featuring Nataline Sarkisyan on the Dateline special about Healthcare Reform that aired last week. The story is helping Nataline’s mother, Hilda Sarkisyan, take tiny steps towards moving further along in the grieving process. Hilda and her husband were off fighting Cigna Insurance when they received word that Nataline died.

I am concerned for the need for forgiveness in this tragedy. Wendell Potter, Cigna executive and eventual whistle blower, quit his job after Nataline died, just hours after Cigna agreed to pay for the transplant. Wendell went to visit the Sarkisyan’s and apologized for his role in the health insurance game of delay, deny, and ultimately for the deaths of untold thousands.

But forgiveness is not done for the Insurance Companies. It’s not done to let anyone off the hook. It’s done because by not forgiving, you’ve locked yourself in a prison of hate and constriction.

It’s done because if you don’t forgive, you remain in the prison and continue to suffer.

But if you do forgive, you can go anywhere and be free. You can even be locked up behind bars and if you do the work of forgiveness, you are free.

My friend Ammon Hennacy, pictured here, after being imprisoned many times for refusing to pay the war tax, once said that the second he forgave the sadistic prison warden, his burden was lifted. The warden suddenly looked different, like an innocent child of God/ess.

Once we truly forgive the Health Insurance Company injustices, is that when our Healthcare System will truly transform? And not one moment before?

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, Everything, every person, my daily work, every relationship, and every person I meet, every one I help and who helps me allows me to set my inner compass. All of it teaches me how to work/play on my own personal power, how to refine my own personal energy as well as give insight as to how I give and receive all of the available energy in the world.

God/ess works through the personal power of Love, Grace and Faith. God/ess works through our animals and the messages we receive daily through books, media and so called chance meetings.

How do we choose to learn from all of this seemingly random stimuli? Do we slow down and pause in order  to receive messages coherently and deliberately? Or does the incoming data speed up our senses, our reaction times? Do we walk and breathe faster, allowing the mind to run rampant with recycled thoughts that go round and round with nothing real to offer?

Today is the day we wake up collectively to the music of the spheres, the great cosmic messages that are ours if we receive them. Also we can learn to give what we receive ten-fold because we understand the beauty of the gift.

Look in the eyes of your companion animal, today. What revelation can be garnered from those soulful windows into the fathomless pool of spirit?

Who is speaking to you through those eyes? Listen without doubt or fear. Receive with the Love that brought you into this world.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, Ulysses is reminding me of my father lately. He is quiet, patient, kind and preoccupied with his own stuff.

I feel as if my dad is communicating with me through the dear soul of my dog.

Mukunda reminded me of my mother. He was outspoken, demanded to get all of his needs met, and he over shadowed Ulysses, just like my mom did with my dad. But dad used to simply go into his stereo room and meditate to jazz music.

When my mother died, Dad came into his own until dementia gradually eased him out of this dimension.

Ulysses came into his own the moment he watched as Mukunda passed on. He has never looked for him because he knows what happened to him. Now he has my full attention and he basks in the joyful sunshine of every golden moment because he is, after all, the Golden Child.

He sits and looks quietly into my eyes, soulfully and angelically, and I suddenly feel my dad around.

Hi there, Dad! How nice to see you again, old friend!

I remember our friendship deepened after my mother’s passing. We had long telephone conversations. I visited him several times a week. He told me one deep dark secret that I know he never told anyone else.

Now that I know that our dear departed loved ones speak to us through our animals, I just want to say, “Hello In There! You are friend to all the seasons of Life!”

Om, Peace, Amen

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