Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

Nurse Healers: Own Your Power

I've been thinking of Nurse Healers, again, and resurrected this Nurse Healer Blog yesterday. I feel there's so much that is good about nurses and nursing, but many of my colleagues are so close to what they do that a larger perspective is lost. No one even considers that she might be a healer.

The un-healing climate of most hospitals and clinics might have something to do with it. These places have become a business and therefore, very business like. Naturally, an individual can choose to ignore the Corporate Takeover of Medicine and concentrate on calling in the angels with her patients. But to ignore the noise and the machines and the toxic medicines can be like living in an Ivory Tower of truthlessness. Something's got to give.

And that's the point: Giving. Giving of self for others selflessly. Negating the complaining. Rising above the drama. Being there only for patients and their families.

And rising above the potential for burnout.  We've all experienced burnout at some time or another by taking too much on before we learn to say "no." Sudden crises at home can disturb equilibrium. All of this and more can help us to establish a greater sense of Self. Or lose all sense of Self. The choice is entirely ours but please know that we don't have to be a victim.

Unless you want to be.

Please God/ess help the Healers take heed of what needs to be done in the world. This is not the time to recede in a weakened position or condition. This is the time to own Personal Strength and Power.

This is the time to shine brightly, like the light upon the river or the most luminous Planet near a waxing moon. This may be the most exciting time that Humans have ever experienced in Linear History.

Help us to live it and love it fully.

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-12/28/2010-Your Prayer For Today

Dear Godess, The energy of prayer is not something that is "sent" and "received." We do not require that it go anywhere, because it is omnipresent: it exists everywhere. A prayer that is focused on a person or an animal halfway across the world is as powerful as a prayer that is focused on the family next door.

All energy exists in the now and it is not stronger or weaker the farther it goes. The energy of prayer is immediate, meaning that which is focused near or far is happening in the present moment, and happens simultaneously. This is how Quantum Physics describes the effects of prayer.

ESP and clairvoyance works in this way, as well. Naturally these explanations add to the mystery of how and why prayer works. We are satisfied that it does work, and as we learn to drop the need for rational explanations, we work more on the energy of Faith to pray, and to pray often.

Love, compassion and non-judgment set the foundation for prayer and its effects. A good time to pray is when you feel your buttons being pushed, and a resistance rising up to confront the "what is" of what is occurring in your life.

Why do we fight on the battleground of the mind? Why can't we detached and find that the battleground is not a fact but a figment of a made up illusion?

A good example for me is the Bush Era torture practices still employed now by the military. Obama could outlaw torture but he so far has not. Whenever I think of this, I lose all sense of balance or calm.

I am sure we all have our own push button hot points.

What do we do about these?

Pause and pray, asking the Divine to erase and clean the identity we cling to, and replace it with the Identity we aspire to.

Who are we, really?

Om Peace Amen

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Our Dogs Are Guardians Of Being!

 

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-12/13/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I was thinking, over the weekend, of the Eckhart Tolle/Oprah Winfrey webinar exploring each chapter in depth of "A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose" and how it  deepened my awareness and practice of Mindfulness, a spiritual discipline I've loved for many years.

Each week the webinar attracted several million more people who downloaded and streamed the program. People called in and asked Oprah and Eckhart great questions about the concepts in the book. It was a  pleasure to watch Eckhart Tolle teach the spiritual principles calmly and peacefully and when he became excited by a certain concept, he half chuckled and giggled, which was fun to watch!
I went to my Oral Surgeon soon after the Webinar for an implant, carrying "A New Earth" under my arm. The surgeon immediately made a comment about the book and the webinar on Oprah.com.

So we discussed the ideas in the book. What I noticed is that he "got it." He knew exactly what I was talking about when I said that the book is about how to live mindfully, consciously and in the Now. When I said the Egoic Mind can be eradicated by present moment living, the surgeon went into a rant about rude behavior, unkind people and violence in American Society.

I said, Yes but you don't need to react to the chaos. Inner peaceful presence is always available for your pleasure and inward sense of solace.

I wondered if he was referring to a client who was having a melt down in the waiting room as I was led back to my exam room. She insisted that the office did not call her that morning to tell her about her rescheduled appointment. The woman was angry, tense and had the look of someone who was just about to commit a violent act right there in the waiting room.

The other people there looked anxious as she kept yelling at the receptionist.
Eckhart Tolle would call this woman's negative energy her "pain body."

As we reacted negatively to her energy, our own pain body was triggered.
The pain body is the energy field of old emotions that live in almost every human being. The pain body is not just individual in nature. It accounts for all the suffering of collective humanity as in the case of rape, pillage, tribal warfare, wars, slavery and genocide.

The pain body is an addiction to unhappiness.

So there it was in the waiting room that day: A living breathing pain body that triggered everyone else's pain body to react, to feel better than, to judge this woman and even to use her as an example as to why people in today's society are so screwed up.

Since so few of us like going to the Dentist let alone an Oral Surgeon, the pain body is perhaps more easily triggered in places such as these.
This is a beautiful example of an activated pain body, but every day we can find at least one. The beauty is found when reaction ceases, and we become the Compassionate Presence or witness who really is a spark of our own divinity.
True happiness arises out of present moment atunement and is always available as soon as we allow it!

I loved the way Tolle describes dogs: as Guardians of Being.

As I watched and absorbed the webinar, I was simultaneously taking care of my dog Mukunda, as he recovered from major surgery, the removal of 3 large cysts: 1 from the left side and 2 from the right side.

My dogs Mukunda,  and now Ulysses, like it best when I'm focused on their antics, when I hang out with them exclusively, when I walk with them, throw balls for them, swim in the river and ocean with them, and stroke, brush and tell them how much I love them.

When I absorb myself in cyberspace, read a book or especially when I talk on the phone, Mukunda used to bark excitedly, reminding me to resume my love affair with him.

The world tells me these dogs are spoiled. But I know that they are telling me to Be Here Now, to look to them to best teach me exactly how to do this.
So I look to them to teach me how this is done.
And they have been my best teachers, counselors, companions and all around best pals.

I look to them.

I look up to them.

They are my Guardians of Being.

The waiting rooms of the world may always have unhappy people in them, people who still can absorb the truth that the present moment is exactly where their happiness is found, even if the Nowness is found in the waiting room of an Oral Surgeon.

I can't take my dogs there. But they will always be found in my heart, where ever I go, in the joy of the quiet mind.

Om Peace Amen

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How Do We Redeem Our Social Humanitarian Values From the Ashes? PTH 12/9/10

 

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Dear God/ess, On MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom this week, I loudly proclaimed  to my guest, Joel Wechsler, that I was 100% against Capitol Punishment. A society that kills people as a punishment is not modeling a redemptive example to our children and grandchildren. A society that kills animals and people is not going to convince anyone to do the right thing.

We have a strictly punitive criminal justice system here in this country. What happens to a person who has not committed murder, and is locked up for years, treated like an animal without rehabilitation and then released to an unsuspecting population? How does this serve anyone, the person who committed the crime and the people s/he must go forth and co-mingle with?

The American tax-payer subsidizes this barbaric and medieval system of so called justice, which in fact creates  more criminals. When society  judges a person on the worst thing s/he ever did in his (or her)  life, there is very little room for redemption.

Since 1973, 138 Americans have been convicted of murder and sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated, that is found to be innocent of their crime. An untold number have been put to death, claiming to be innocent. Many people  have lost respect for bureaucrats and politicians these days because they commit crimes and escape punishment. If our government is indeed convicting and killing innocent people, how can We The People continue to allow these atrocities to continue?

How can we redeem our social humanitarian values from the ashes of a system that no longer serves the Common Good?

Today over half the countries of the world have abolished the Death Penalty, while we continue to execute folks at a rate unparalleled  at any other time in American History.

So we take personal responsibility. We face the truth of our broken system and become honest and integrated people. In this process, we discover our inner grace and ability to forgive.

We do this because there is no other choice.

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-12/02/2010-Your Prayer For Today

Dear God/ess, One of the wonderful things I have learned by writing prayers, and this lesson came to me spontaneously and automatically, is that I don't need to know or have proof of why things happen, like illness, pain or crisis.

Yes, it is human nature to need proof and even statistics for the events and experiences of our lives. And when challenges arise, we all tend to want to find reasons that point to something we did or did not do to make "it" happen. People might think if they "Come To Jesus," for instance, nothing "bad" will ever happen again. And when it does, God/ess is secretly held up as the Power that let them down.

"God is a Creator, not a custodian," someone recently told me.

Real healing seldom occurs if we try and reason our way out of a crisis, an illness or a death.

Real healing only happens when we give up the need to know WHY, the ultimate addiction of human-kind.

Surrender to What Is. Surrender to the Universal Intelligence. Surrender to God/ess.

The act of surrendering is not a rational process, but is a mystical and radical transformation. The Leap Of Faith comes to mind, because leaping into the unknown defies our rational mind. We must develop blind courage to undergo such an adventure.
Releasing the need to know immediately brings a cheerful light into our collective heart. It also brings us immediately to this wonderful moment, the only moment there is. In this releasing and letting go, old wounds, resentments and the need to play victim vanish.

This is the only thing we need to know.

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/29/2010-Your Prayer For Today | Your Daily Prayer For Healing

 

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/29/2010-Your Prayer For Today


Dear God/ess, Old Baxter, friend of Mukunda, who just turned 13 last week, slipped his tether up on the hill and ran for freedom to the river.

Tom woke me up to tell me to bring a lead for Ulysses, who was the one who found Baxter stuck in the mud in the cold water. Then Ulysses picked a fight with him. From Hero to Buffoon in the space of five minute's time.

I took muddy Uly into the house, prepared some Miracle Drops for Baxter, and went to help Tom hoist the dog up the river embankment to safety.

To the God/ess of Ulysses and Baxter and all the dogs of this world, hear this: we humans are willing to crawl around in the mud to save your lives. And even though Ulysses wanted to pick a fight with you, dear Baxter, in reality he's the one who saved your life.

Earlier, Tom and G were going to go swimming at the Y, but G called at the last minute and canceled. Did G save your life, dear Baxter?

In reality, a whole orchestration of helpers synchronized to save your precious life.

When Mukunda was in his prime, he'd go visit Baxter on the hill sometimes three times a day. Once in a while, Muki ate Baxter's food,  but mostly he went for the comradery. Then when Ulysses joined our family, Muki and Uly went up to visit Baxter together.

One Easter, Ulysses stole an Easter Bunny toy from Baxter. Six weeks later, Baxter broke his tether and came down to our house looking for his toy. When I saw him running up the lane with bunny in mouth, looking over his shoulder to see if Ulysses was following, I immediately called his mistress.

I said, "Your dog is brilliant! He remembered where his toy bunny was for weeks and when he got away, came down to our house looking for it.

"Never underestimate the memory of a dog for his toy."

Om Peace Amen

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A Beautiful Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2010

Dear God/ess, On this beautiful Thanksgiving Day, we look back over the year and give thanks for all of our answered prayers. We give thanks for  the unanswered prayers, too.

Where were we one year ago? For all of us prayerfully reading Prayer To Heal and commented, you can track your odyssey by looking back over your comments, here.

Read your journals. A journal is a reflection of your unique journey through this lifetime.
This day is the beginning of a season of joyful communion and also is a time to pull inwardly as we track where we've been and now envision the next leg of our destiny. The nights grow longer and we can use this "time" to contemplate the moments which expand to encompass all of eternity. The short days and ever lengthening nights are now ours for the creation of inner resilience and courage. These moments in time last until the Solstice when the days grow longer, again. What a miracle!

Use this time for your solitude. Resist the distractions of materialism, and empty yourself of all anticipation of future events.

'Tis the season to fill yourself with tranquillity by the simple act of prayer and meditation. In these moments, as you expand into the quiet times, you come to know the true meaning of Grace, not by reading about it, not by discussing it, but by experiencing it.

This season IS an exercise in Grace and the quiet contemplation of the Love we have in the here and now.

We are the inner Light and the Joy of the season.

Om Peace Amen

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Today Is A Good Day To Practice "Easy World"

Dear God/ess, Today is a good day to practice "Easy World."

Julia Rogers Hamrick, in her recently published book, "Easy World," says one of the ways to pinpoint where your mind and heart resides is to recognize the symptoms of "Difficult World." Julia will be on MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom tonight, 11/23/10 at 6 PM/EST!

My guiding star, and you all probably have another one, is the presence of impatience, resulting in judgment, lack of compassion and mindless hurry.

We have 100% control and responsibility over which world we choose to reside in.
Difficult world is wrought with knee jerk reactions and loveless perception, and therefore never brings anyone happiness.

Easy world synchronizes with healing breath and breathing, with radiant peaceful love, and as we consciously choose this reality, and make this way of thinking a habit, the more we see that our entire essence is nothing more or less than Love.

Why do we need constant reminders to stay rooted in Easy World? Why can't we suddenly arrive and never again slide back to unconscious, linear, left brain reality?

This Pray To Heal Blog is one example of a daily (now sans weekends) gentle reminder to make each moment a quiet adventure of the heart.

Ulysses feels the love that emanates from all of you here on this blog and elsewhere. His tumor is almost gone and this is a miracle of resting in daily prayer and learning to receive--baby step by baby step--the power of Unseen Forces.

Let us remember that Ulysses always lives in Easy World, whether he has a tumor, or not.
This is one of Life's greatest lessons, taught to us by Ulysses Zen Master.

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/22/2010-Your Prayer For Today

 

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/22/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, Julia Rogers Hammrick is on our radio show this week, 11/23/2010 at 6 PM/EST. Joan and I have had her on the show before and she is an absolute delight!

Her book, "Choosing Easy World" was published this year and we will be discussing and experiencing the concepts in her book. Julia will teach us how to consciously choose Easy World over the mindset of resistance, struggle and strife. I think Julia would agree that we aspire to Easy World right here on the Pray To Heal Blog, and everyday, we manage to sustain it.

In the process of fixing up this Pray To Heal Blog, which is an exercise in reflection, contemplation and naturally, prayer, I came to the realization that taken as a whole, what is contained here is a stand alone spiritual practice. Each entry is a jewel placed in the heart of all human kind, as well as the trees, beasts and stones.

Yet isn't that what our kindred souls here on the Internet and elsewhere are all successfully achieving? We reach out to all souls everywhere and encourage a letting go of all that has gone before.

That leaves all of us right here in the Present Moment, the only true reality and preferred place to be.

We are exactly where we are supposed to be. This is exactly what the word and celebration of "Thanksgiving" is all about. We gather together with family and friends and experience the true meaning of communing: communing with Self, with spirit, and the preciousness of those who are with us today.

We cherish the moment and surrender as we move on to the next breath, the next step, the next Holy Peace of the season.

Om Peace Amen

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Day #271 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-7/30/2010

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Dear God/ess, One of our frequent Prayer Blog visitors, dear Heidi, is getting married to Greg today. She is my niece. I am with her in spirit. We wish she and Greg the greatest life together, full of joy and great abundance.

I am still in a meditative state after the Crystalline Grid call last night. It was a real blessing to hear that some major force is now activated, the Crystalline Grid itself, and this emboldens Love and Loving thoughts and facilitates loving states in more effortless ways. Love is God and God is Love.Love was the gospel of Jesus and all of the saints of every religion. Love is Universal truth.

Len Laskow is a bearer of Love. I can hardly wait to tell him about the Crystalline Grid. He may already know about it. We will all plug into it at our "Opening to Oneness Through Love" workshop 8/13-15/2010, at the Blue Heron Farm Spiritual Retreat Center!

It's almost as if this grid is a place where we ground the energy of love which is spreading now in the sphere of human consciousness. Love, when grounded, can then align and center itself, herself into our etheric bodies, where there is no separation. The activated Crystalline Grid is an energy that no one can ignore. It is a massive life force, and the only choice is to go with the energy. Working against this energy is a self-destructive act.

I imagine a non-physical energy that more and more people will be feeling, in states of compassion and empathy. More and more, desires for solitude will be yearned for instead of feared.

More and more, creative states will be ignited and amazing art forms will spring from the imagination to the canvas, or from the musical instrument, or to the blank white page.

These are the breath of God/ess.

Om Peace Amen
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