Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

Day #211 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/31/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/31/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I need a shot in the arm from one who has liberated himself from the workplace.

That's Captain Robert Lee, who lives with his family on a sailboat. He is an internet marketer whom I originally met through Pat O'Bryan.

The Cap was on our show, MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom and is back to reveal his multitude of successes, 6/1/2010 at 6 PM EST.

Our Blue Heron Farm Spiritual Retreat Center will open the door for online and offline entrepreneurial activities. I see the vision, now.

And as this comes together, I will In-Joy every blessed moment.

Another of my Milagro World friends (on Pat O'Bryan's forum) told me that Cap has a TV channel on You Tube where he puts up short 2-3 minute videos called Pirate Lifestyle TV Quickies. I am watching a segment right now.

He says, "My job is to motivate you to live the Pirate Lifestyle." He reveals a simple message, one that perhaps we've heard before, but Rob brands himself as one who has done what many of us are still in process of doing. He promises to help us achieve what he has achieved, in our own style (not his!)

I am interested in how he uses these videos to make money. For one thing, his facebook page is a rocking place! People comment and interact with almost everything he posts. He tweets avidly. He creates products and blogs regularly.

He's lived on his boat without going to a J.O.B. for  going on 5  years. I want to hear again how he does it.

I remember him telling us on his last show with us how he simplified his life. He and his family In-Joy the here and now, knowing that money cannot buy what a simple meditation on the deck of his boat provides.

Once again, our Internet friends supply us with inspiration and a vision to Never Give Up.

Just keep doing what we are inspired to do.

Do what you love, and the Universe always Divinely Blesses.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #205 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/25/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/25/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I've been in the workplace as a full time RN/CRNP (Nurse Practitioner) for 26 years. I've seen the side of "Time" that holds people prisoner without ransom or the ability to be free.

So it is no surprise to learn that most people have no idea that time is the greatest illusion known to any person.

For instance, I never watched an episode of "Lost," but did hear how the final episode ended and also along the way, heard what the entire series was about.

The writers of "Lost" had the final laugh, the final "Gotcha." When I heard how the whole series ended, I needed time to ponder it.

The people I spoke to felt let down because they were hooked for six entire seasons of the show, only to realize all the characters they came to love and admired were all an illusion and a dream. They did not exist in "real time" but in an alternate dimension. People felt duped that the characters they thought were very much alive were in fact dead the whole time.

The show seems to be questioning people's false beliefs about life and death, about life after death, about simultaneous dimensions, about the eternal now, and that we are all alive, someplace, somehow.

Many people are so hooked into linear time that they actually believe that when you're dead, you're dead. I saw this early yesterday morning when one of my nursing colleagues told me about the series grand finale. She was disappointed, she said, and "let down."

Another person said, "You mean, they were all really dead the whole time?" Like somehow, it was the final reality.

So this prayer is for the writers of "Lost." Kudos to you for making people think. Also for making people deep down question how they feel about life, death and the nature of linear time.

Here is the Rap version of yesterday's prayer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofHCZSMe1Ag

May we all be liberated in the here and now to the full realization that the full spectrum of light is available to everyone.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #203 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/23/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/23/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, The act of prayer and praying can add a healing balm to the psyche. It can pull you up and help deflect negativity when it arises. It can protect you when everyone else is going down. And it also can protect others in your life.

Recently, I decided to write short prayers to share with anyone who wanted to read them.

I will write one prayer every day for one year as an experiment to prove that not only does prayer heal, but also to prove (to myself) that prayer is nourishment to every cell and tissue in my flesh and blood body, and reveals the full spectrum of perception that not only is rooted in this world but the spiritual world, as well.

Already these prayers have become a beautiful meditation piece (peace) a vision board with the prayer and an accompanying photograph I take on most occasions to illuminate the flow of the prayer, on the platform I have chosen to put them.

Here are 10 reasons why I have decided to write prayers:

1) to heal myself
2) to heal other people
3) as a meditation
4) as a way to concentrate
5) as a way to create something meaningful
6) as a way to create something meaningful everyday
7) It's good writing practice to write a prayer every day.
8) In order to write a prayer a day, I must have organized times of solitude. This means I do not listen to the news or any other form of mindless chatter.
9) I am finding that my intuition is strengthened by the practice of writing prayers. For instance, I am more tuned into the art of taking care of myself, eating foods that agree with me, and staying away from those don't.
10 )I love the act of reading the prayers I have written to people, like our 100 year old Aunt. She loves them!

I read a story one time written by Carolyn Myss. She said that a woman she knew was in a serious car crash, and had an out of body experience. The accident caused a multi-car pile up on a freeway in one of the major cities in America. Many of the people were complaining because they were going to be late for work.

But from one of the cars she saw the vibrations of a person who was praying for her. The energy field of the area all around the car was expansive. The woman who was in the crash felt the love. She felt it might be worth going back to the body because of the beauty of the love.

But before she returned, she took note of the person's license plate number.

After several months of recuperation, she sought out that person and thanked her.

My hope for these prayers is that they help to raise the energy of those recipients of the prayer and that they soothe your spirit, as it reverberates outwardly to calm everyone in your life.

May the prayer calm your inward fears.

May it be your friend.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #202 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/22/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/22/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, As we work on getting the house ready for our August workshop entitled : "Opening To Onesness Through Love," I suddenly realized a book that I wrote was in an unknown box in the barn. I found it last night, and now it is in a safe place.

I wrote the book about the eight dogs who were shot and killed by a neighbor who hated so called hippies, as we were called in the day.

It took more than 25 years to get another dog. Thus began my personal thirty plus year addiction history that put me in an almost permanent fog of denial. In this state of mind, it was impossible to be honest about the dire truth of my situation. Yet there were moments of clarity when God/ess tapped me on the shoulder and pointed out some of my skewed thinking patterns.

After the death of the dogs, I reacted by drinking myself into repeated blackouts for several years.

When we finally got Mukunda, he helped me to fully grieve the losses. Sometimes he reminded me of my beloved Jorma, especially around the mouth. Or of Boopy, when he was wet.

Or of Alphia Lee who used to stare at me for hours, beaming sense into my soul.

The first book about the dogs was written with another commune comrade called: "For The Love of Dog: Peace Chronicles Of The 1960's."

Mainly the book was about the dogs who were shot and how they saved us from death on numerous occasions.

One time, as I proof read the book, readying it for publication, a strong inner voice said, "This book is going to anger many people because it lacks a recovery perspective."

I thought, "What is a recovery perspective?" That knawing thought propelled me into the rooms of AA.

Thank you also to my beloved dogs, who saved my life again.

In the midst of our grave emotional and mental disorders, God/ess taps us until we get the message that in order to be the people we were born to be, that alcohol and drugs has no place where God/ess yearns to be.

So we allow our Higher Power to safely guide us to the other shore where we finally plant both feet firmly on Mother Earth and learn to live as God/ess would have us live.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #200 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/20/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/20/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, My thoughts turn to Leonard Laskow returning to MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom May 25,2010 at 6PM EST. He is offering a three day workshop at the Blue Heron Farm Retreat Center 8/13, 8/14, 8/15 2010, called Opening To Oneness Through Love. I am very excited about it as we get the house and grounds ready for the event.

I have spoken about Len Laskow many times on this prayer blog. One of the things I am working on is having Len talk at my hospital. The title of the talk is: "Bringing The heart Back Into Medicine."

This is a topic that will resonate with many caregivers if they are honest about their stress and burnout levels. One needs to have insight into their own stress levels and admit to the need for de-stressing!

So I am waiting to hear from the powers that be about this exciting event!

I remember very well bringing Len to the hospital where I used to work. The former head of the OB/Gyn Department, a conservative allopath who only gave his OK to have Len come and speak because so many others agreed to it, was so angry at all the excitement surrounding the Laskow event that he threw a book a book at me, authored by Len: "Healing With Love."

The ironey of that act of aggression juxtaposed with the book title did not escape me.

I escaped the blow by a quick side step!

The Art and Science of medicine is farther ahead thirteen years later as more and more patients access Integrative, Wholistic Medicine. More and more people are meditating, praying, fostering creativity, and making spiritual practices a way of life.

The time is now for an expansion into the healing vibration of Love. It's time to bring our healing hearts back into all areas of our lives.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #198 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/18/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/18/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, Today is election day for a local primary we are having in Pennsylvania. Local primaries are happening all over the country, and people are busy trying to get out the vote.

I am involved in the political campaign of a friend of mine and was surprised about the old world ideas that still swirl around politics. These ideas give us more false beliefs to mull over.

For instance, the "opponent" my friend is running against; the need to "win" the election; the "us vs. them" mentality; the we are right, they are wrong mind set; and much, much more.

The people running this campaign are wonderful people. Being involved in this venture gets me "out among em," as my father used to say.

Then there's the idea that the voter is some kind of idiot.

I don't blame anyone for not watching the news or reading the newspaper. In fact, they may be happier than the people who do.

I have a word from the wise to every politician who is running today, in the past or in the future.

Love the voter. Sincerely love them. You will have more success in your life if you do.

Love your opponent, your so called "enemy." What is this adversarial attitude doing to your liver?

And it's time to realize that the voter doesn't want tired incumbents who take money from the oil companies, the banks and the health insurance companies. And the pharmaceutical companies, too.

The voter does not like mud slinging. They turn away from that immediately these days.

More than likely the voter will stay home, today. It's raining, and old school politics is deadly for us all.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #195 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/15/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/15/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I am thinking about Amy Flynn's Time Alchemy Webinar we had the other evening. Ulysses was ecstatic about the call, so I had to mute myself so he could pant and stare at me and the phone for about an hour before he settled down.

Amy's "Collective" explored all aspects of time on the call. The idea that when we go to work, we are just biding time until we can do what we like to do or would prefer to do at a late "time" was scrutinized when one of the attendees brought it up.

THAT is a prevalent false belief that permeates every work place I have ever graced. I will always remember a woman years ago where I used to work as a Nurse Practitioner. She'd walk by like "clock-work" saying many times through the course of everyday while simultaneously looking at her wrist: "Is it 3:00 yet?" (That's when she was liberated from the hospital.)

After awhile, we all played the game  to see who would say it first on any given day.

"Is It 3:00 Yet?"

The time thing is so entrenched that I think the best thing we can do is just notice. For instance, this morning I asked my husband Tom if he minded if I took the Nissan to work.

We had the Nissan years  ago and now have a Saab. I didn't even notice that I was truly thinking we still had that Nissan--like a wierd bleed through from another era in our lives. And because of the truly meditative feeling on the call, I didn't even apologize or correct myself because of the memory lapse.

"Kate, we haven't had the Nissan in years."

My response to that was just to laugh.

A time warp.

Isn't that what time really is?

The only way to live timelessly is to dwell fully in the here and now, un-apologetically and yes, heroically.

All the lives we ever lived are being lived now. Who I am is who I've always been and always will be. We don't get to "come back" because we are already here.

We are already here, now and forever.

That blows the Reincarnation Theory which is based on linear time.

I believe the trick to accessing the full dimension of any moment is to have fun and In-Joy it all.

The In-Joyment can be viewed as a quiet appreciation of All That Is.

Simple. Quiet. Abundant.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #192 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/12/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/12/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, Ah, the appraisal is almost here. Soon the time will come, and then the time will pass. This is linear time in motion.

However, as I created space this evening to write my prayers and do our radio shows, I felt a sense that everything I ever needed is here with me, now. And this is not just your ordinary spring cleaning. Rooms are painted, whole rooms are emptied out and "stuff" is purged.

What a wonderful feeling of renewal!

The restructuring of this space is giving time an added dimension. "Linear time" is flat and non-dimensional whereas the space here and now as I write these words feels like deja vu. I remember feeling this way in a third floor room where I grew up in Lancaster, PA, about 2 1/2 miles from where I sit, now.

I am sitting at my father's desk. This must be why I have that familiar feeling of my childhood home. And I rarely hangout here, but will be doing most of my work here from now on.

While cleaning out books on the third floor, I found a rare, out of print copy of Kazantzakis "Saint Francis," the book Wayne Dyer recommends in his spiritual classic, "There Is A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem."

The book was my mother's. On the cover is a painting of a blue Saint Francis surrounded by birds. The book is safely up in the desk, and I see it now through the glass door. I definitely plan to read this one after the appraisal!

Two pictures of Yogananda stare at me on the front of the desk. And a beautiful angel with golden wings is staring at me carved in a circular stone with the inscription, "You Are Loved."

I am thankful for this new time and space, with the added joy of knowing that soon, we can slow down in the lazy dazy summertime, swim with Ulysses in the Conestoga River, and allow the fire flies and crickets stretch out time like a gigantic elastic band where memories surface to add color to an Infinite World.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #187 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/07/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/07/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, Recently, I decided to meditate on a situation that happened 35 years ago, where I had so far failed to forgive a person who shot and killed
8 of my dogs.

I practiced the ancient Hawaiian healing art to erase and clean the memory by ceaselessly and silently chanting: I love you,
Thank you, Please forgive me, (for the part I played in this  situation), and I am sorry (for the part I played).

One day I received a gift. I wrote a note to Byron Katie International, asking what I needed to do to become certified in "The Work" of  Byron Katie.

A few days later, I noticed I was placed on a "round robin" group of Byron Katie graduates of the 9 day intensive "the school." The idea is that every month we pair up with a different graduate and do Inquiry with our designated partner.

I was excited by this opportunity! Even though I'm not a graduate of  "the school," I didn't have time to be intimidated by that, because  my partner and I arranged to do the process of Inquiry the next day.

I've seen You Tube videos of people who are in the middle of taking  the life changing nine day course. They couldn't find words to  describe the experience they were having. They reminded me of people having a peak spiritual/religious experience, without drugs.

They looked like they had been to the mountain top: they appeared radiant, free, ecstatic.

I prepared for this opportunity by filling out the Judge-Your-Neighbor worksheet, found in all of Byron Katie's books, and on her websites and blog.

THE 4 QUESTION AND TURNAROUND

1) Is it true?

2) (If the answer is "yes"): Can you absolutely know that this is true?

3) How do you react when you think that thought?

4) Who would you be without that thought?

And turn it around.

I. I am still angry at my neighbor because he shot 8 of my dogs 34 years ago. His name is John Barley.

While I writing this out, I suddenly realized that I don't know if  John Barley was the person who shot my dogs.

I never saw who actually did these acts. It could have been a son, nephew or daughter, or his wife.

For 34 years, I assumed John Barley killed my dogs because all my friends who lived with me told me he was the one who did it.

But did he really do it?

I told my partner about this revelation the next day on the phone.  We were 3500 miles and 3 hours removed, yet "the work" brought us together in a timeless orb of transformation.

I held a deep resentment towards a person for 34 years, going over and over the crime in my mind like an unending movie frame, creating a story, a drama, a scenario that everyone agrees who hears it: isn't that terrible? How did you survive? He is a terrible person!

I am angry at my neighbor because he shot my dogs.

Is this true?

Well I am angry but he probably wasn't the one who really shot the dogs.

Here the story, brought to the scrutiny of Inquiry, begins to unravel.

How do I react when I think the thought, that I am still angry at my neighbor for killing my eight dogs?

I feel constricted and judgmental, yet have a sense that I don't want to carry this around anymore.

I am relieved that the light of Inquiry makes assumptions seem laughable and inconsequential.

Is there a stress free reason to keep this thought?

No, never is.

Who would I be without the thought, that i am still angry at my neighbor for killing my dogs?

I would be a person who sees that people commit atrocities, mass genocide, wage wars, and they kill dogs. From this perspective,
I let it go.

Turn it around?

I am no longer angry (at whomever did it) for killing my dogs.

I am not angry at my self for having this belief because I don't need to beat myself up.

The dogs aren't angry because they were killed. Dogs take death fully in stride. They live in the present moment.

They know how to love unconditionally.

So I choose to be more like my dogs!!!

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I did this process under a beautiful maple tree down along the banks of the Conestoga River. Then I went to work.

A thunderstorm blew through and later in the day, I went down to the tree and the chair where I was sitting. A huge tree branch was struck by lightening and landed exactly where I was sitting while doing "The Work."

Now when I think about the death of those dogs, I feel free.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Day #186 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-5/02/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-05/06/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, In discussing something as important, agreed upon and rigid as time, false beliefs are sure to arise to "assure the safe passage of time." Here are a few I came up with.

1) "There isn't enough time in the day to get everything done." The excuses that arise here are numerous, such as impatience with others and a victim consciousness about all YOU do and others just can't live up to.

2) "I need large blocks of uninterrupted time to get things done." The main attitude here is: get out of my way--my work is more important than you.

3) "It's possible to have high levels of productivity day after day." This one is a recipe for burnout.

4) "It's not possible to have high levels of productivity day after day." This one may be an excuse for not getting anything done.

5)  "I should do what my boss tells me to do before doing what I know is better for the organization." Sounds to me as if better communication is needed.

6) "If you can't get it all done, you aren't working hard enough." This creates a punitive work environment all the way around the very broken circle.

7) "If you have only five minutes to devote to a project, that's five minutes more than you are doing right now." This sounds like GUILT, to me.

8)  "Everything must be in order before I can write my article." This one is a great excuse to never write another word again!

9) "Think outside the box." Who ever said there was a box to begin with? Who created the box? Who ever said it was real?

10) "I am accomplishing something if I can check it off my list." If you believe this, then keep doing it.

11) "If I want to do something right, I'll do it myself." More victim issues, in this one.

12) "More time devoted to a project guarantees a better outcome." This one is a great excuse to be such a perfectionist, that you never release anything out into the world.

13) "I cannot manage time but can manage how I use it." A little control issue here?

14) "Your value is measured by how much you do for others." Sounds like a set up for being under appreciated, to me, and over worked.

In musing about these time management beliefs, false or otherwise, I see a common thread going through it all: Doing is more desirable than being. Time is more important than living in the present moment, where true timelessness exists.
It's all a process and the sooner we learn to release it all, pause and relax, our grip on time will loosen, and a whole new world will reveal itself.
Om, Peace, Amen

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