Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

Day #256 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge!

 

Dear God/ess, As we embark on completing the steps needed to have a spiritual retreat center, with painting and sanding and cleaning and decluttering, I look to the unseen forces to provide strength and perseverance to see the efforts to the end, and beyond.

Our efforts need not be derailed by crazy making and crazy makers who bear gifts if you look hard enough for them. What are the gifts of the crazy makers in your life? They help you stand your ground, stay firm within your own boundaries, and as people act out their own dramas, you calmly realize they are projecting their own pain and suffering right into your lap with fragments from their past, fear of the future and even of their own mortality.

I first heard the term "Crazy Maker" in "The Artists Way" by Julia Cameron. Since that time, my antennae are always on the alert for chaos and dysfunction that take me away from focus and from the daily writing of these prayers.

According to Julia Cameron: "Crazy makers are those personalities that create storm centers. They are often charismatic, frequently charming, highly inventive and powerfully persuasive. And for the creative person in their vicinity, they are enormously destructive.

"Crazy makers create dramas--but seldom where they belong. Crazy makers are often blocked creatives themselves. Afraid to effectively tap their own creativity, they loath to allow that same creativity in others. It makes them jealous. It makes them threatened. It makes them threatened at your expense."

Ah yes, you are entitled to your opinions, judgments and reactions but do not expect me to save you from yourself, says I.

I have an appointment with the clean blank white page.

You don't have to like what I write.

You don't have to read what I write.

But I am happy to say, I will keep on writing no matter what.

And as Julia Cameron also says, "I practice what I preach: If you dump drama into my life, I will put it, and you, onto the page."

Why would I do this? because Crazy makers don't have to cause us to question our motives, our art or our integrity as a person.

I have an appointment with the moment at hand that leads me to pick up the fountain pen of choice, and to joyfully write exactly what inspires me at that time.

This is my unwavering commitment: with the pen, the paper, the text editor and keyboard.

Synchronistically, I picked up a book on the subject: "Dealing With the Crazy Makers In Your Life," by Dr. David Hawkins.

Crazy makers can "hook" you if you are unaware. Awareness and alert consciousness will help to shorten the time you are effected by this venom.

The following 10 keys will help you deal with the Crazy Makers in your life:

1) Realize that by reacting negatively to the Crazy Makers you strengthen that negativity within yourself.

2) If you condemn the Crazy Maker, you are displacing negativity onto the Crazy Maker which she/he has already done to you.

3) Labeling a Crazy Maker a Crazy Maker may help at first to identify the upsetting situation but to successfully detach and unhook from the situation, you need to move beyond the labels by grounding yourself in the breath and the here and now.

4) By detaching from the label of Crazy Maker and from the Crazy Maker herself, you allow yourself to settle into your core, your essence and gain peace of mind in the situation.

5) If you feel hurt or even crazy by the situation, realize that you have created a mental image of yourself and a story about yourself that now wants to defend against perceived accusation.

6) When you realize that you are reacting with your egoic mind (based upon past conditioning), you naturally begin the process of forgiveness of yourself (because you reacted) and also for the Crazy Maker, who was doing the best she knew how to do in that moment.

7) Disidentify with the need to be right within the situation. Whatever you are engaged in, whatever makes you feel more alive, get back to that project.

8) After becoming conscious about how you've been hooked by the Crazy Maker, sit with yourself in silence and feel the inner spaces, the stillness, and reconnect with the consciousness that heals all wounds.

9) Walk in nature, write in your journal, unhook from the guilt and from the need to defend.

10) Lastly, you have an appointment with the Joy of Living; find that joy; elevate your vibrations, turn off the TV.

Be alive to the happiness that already exists, and when you do, you have come home to your True Self.

Om Peace Amen

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Day #239 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-6/28/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-6/28/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I feel as if I am living out the long night of the soul. Sometimes sitting at the birthing bed does that to us because so much is at stake. So I pray and stay in the present moment with a small light shining on this page, while the patient sleeps and so does her husband, on a couch across the room.

If you are a nurse, then you are on an important spiritual path. In order for me to continue at the bedside, I must renew my vow to keep the spirit alive as I go about caring for my patients.

Our patients are the most important thing, not politics, not big business, not the frustrating health insurance or pharmaceutical companies.

Moving energy to heal at the bedside is one of the most liberating meditations there is, especially at 3 AM. The spirits of the night grace the spheres, if you stop and recognize their existence. Or even if you don't they are watching.

The spirits of the night grace this summer night, and the spirits of the full moon linger as a result of the powerful lunar eclipse early Saturday morning.

I call on the angelic spirits tonight and early morning, right here, right now, to keep our patients safe, and an extra wish that they are blessed with healthy babies. The angels of the night are listening and they spread their wings tonight in protection.

I also wish that these hospitals one day soon become a place of healing. One day they will because of the celestial speedup of consciousness taking place in small pockets on the planet, right now. Soon the speed up will reach a critical mass and people will have no choice but to join the flow of this enlightened opening of consciousness.

I plan to see this in my lifetime. Our show MoonMooYou is a proclamation of this evolutionary spiritual revolution. This week, Deborah Levine Herman will join Joan and I to discuss her seven lessons of the spirit, which she discusses on her radio show, as well as her book "Spiritual Writing." The internet is populated  with people who seek spiritual truth. Our Blue Heron Farm Spiritual Retreat Center will push forth the New/Old Age, a paradigm waiting to take root and blossom.

We are heralding in a new consciousness as we meet kindred karmic souls along the way.

Om Peace Amen

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"Who Else Is Blogging About the Squidoo Step by Step Guidebook"

Life is Good. The Launch of the "The Squidoo Step By Step Guidebook"  is today at 2 PM Eastern Standard!!

We must ask Astrology's Astrologer's opinion on the destiny of this digital book. Especially how it will help our reader understand how to navigate around Squidoo!! And how our reader might make better lenses, how to put it all together with a focused message with meaning and originality.

I am proud to say that I wrote a section in this book, along with nine other members of the Tenfinity group! We've been hanging out together since July of 2009, getting to know one another and learning how to utilize the Power of Ten! We've been learning how to educate and learn from one another!

So I invite you to read the book, form your own group of Ten, and teach each other how to Rock The World!!

The Squidoo Step By Step Guide Book Lens

Please join Professional Squids so a larger community may congregate and form!

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The New Age Of Internet Marketing On Giant Squid Open Mike Monday 9/14

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But we all know that there are many in the world who have made their fortunes doing exactly the opposite of what they love. Money can't buy you love. But does Love buy or guarantee you money?

Inspiration and passion is a magnetic force that draws to you the people and events that align you with your destiny. Promote yourself even as you promote your product. Much was said about people trying to make a fast buck on the internet today. But hiding behind your product with a fast talking rap about making thousands of dollars in 30 minutes has lost the interest of almost everyone I know on the internet.

Suffice to say that the new era of marketing in all walks of life is to share what it is you love, what inspires you and what you are enthusiastic about. Share what it is you have experienced. And by all means, have fun while doing everything that you do.

Chef Keem and Squidster were the guests on this show. They announced the future of Squidlog, the internet magazine that has become popular for Squidoo Lensmasters as well as those not affiliated with Squidoo. The future of Squidlog is to create a single membership hub where members can learn all things about Internet Marketing, at a place they already trust to deliver solid information.

This new hub will also be a community of people who largely know each other already, because of the relationships already established over on Squidoo, and elsewhere, on Internet forums and communities. This community will prevent many from giving up too soon in their pursuit of online business success. There's a learning curve involved with what we do online, and a danger of veering off the path you have chosen for yourself by following some "get rich quick scheme."

The community has great potential to keep a serious person on task with their goals and their business plan. Online marketing success is a process. A solid foundation can be built through the vehicle of a community that Chef Keem and Squidster envision. Instead of searching a hundred different places to find the information I need to build my internet presence, I will find it on the Squidlog Membership site.

Chef Keem wants feedback from his Squidlog and Squidoo friends as to what it is they would like to see on the membership site, but the idea so far includes tutorial screen captured videos that teach a series of skills, as well as built in one on one consulting and coaching services, and a forum where members can share their expertise and support.

What we learn here will apply to internet business in general, not just to the art of Squidoo lensmaking. The marketing trends of the future involve less affiliate marketing, and less Google ad word revenue, and more of a need to teach local business and municipalities how to streamline their efforts to achieve their community goals. This could be the new role of online marketers as they bring their virtual wares to the so called real world.

At the end of the show, Pot Pie Girl showed up in the chat room. And she said she would be a guest on Giant Squid Open Mike on 9/28. I look forward to meeting her. She had a great energy that I noticed right away, and everyone is excited to see what she has to say.

Thanks to Chef Keem and Squidster for being gracious guests on the show 9/14. We look forward to see what you have in store for us on Squidlog.

Kate Loving Shenk

Nursing Career Transformation

Squid Angels On Giant Squid Open Mike Monday

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The subject matter for the 9/7 Giant Squid Open Mike Monday show was the all pervasive, sometimes elusive, Squid Angel team at Squidoo.

Why would anyone want to be a Squid Angel?

As an Angel, do you feel more angelic?

Do you feel less human and more divine?

When you go to a party, and when asked, "What do you do?' do you say, "I am a Squidoo Angel" instead of a Nurse, Police Officer or Fire Person?

AJ, bonafide Squid Angel Sweetheart, said "No" to this without doubt or hesitation. She joined Squidoo to tell the story of how her child was bullied in school. Because she doesn't want to draw attention to her daughter in a way that would start the bullying up all over again, she remains anonymous on Squidoo.

We may not know AJ's real name nor what she looks like, but we do know her and love her.

Her bullying lens remains her top lens. People write to her from all over the world telling her how much they have been helped by the advice provided in the lens as to how to stop bullying and how to be courageous in the face of it. In order to come out and reveal her true identity on Squidoo, she'd have to give up the lens, or delete it, or sell it. She is not ready to do this.

I suggested that the post-traumatic stress of the experience was greatly alleviated by making this lens.

Come to think of it, is this why lens making is such a healing act for so many of us?

Is Squid Angeling as therapeutic as Squid Lens Making?

AJ said her categories for Angeling are health, business and working at home. She said that she saw another side of Squidoo when she became an angel.

Every morning, she receives a list of 400 to 500 lenses to read. More likely, scan. As an angel, she is in the unique position to spot upcoming lensmasters. She can encourage them to make more lenses, to join the community, to join the forum, to become Giant Squids and to visit other lensmasters to see how they do it.

Then there are those who abuse the Squidoo Terms Of Service by making multiple accounts for the sole purpose of visiting their lenses made by the different name in order to give it a 5 star rating.

One of the many purposes of the Squid Angel is to weed out spam and junk lenses. ThomasC, a Squidoo Angel in the chat room said that spam is a lens filled with affiliate products unrelated to the subject of the lens, if indeed, the lens has a subject at all.

ThomasC said that junk lenses are just poorly put together lenses.

How does AJ keep from feeling overwhelmed? She says it is all about balance. You could easily sacrifice your own success by doing too much on Squidoo. But she learns to say "No" and move on.

Does she ever "ding" a lens? Both AJ and ThomaC denied ever dinging a lens, even if it's a lens on Viagra or any such related topic, with a G Rating. Both AJ and ThomasC have the attitude that there's lots of good stuff on Squidoo, and the Angel Job is to find the best of the best, and eliminate the worst of the worst.

AJ says she refuses to Angel if she's in a bad mood. She doesn't want to ever be unkind to a lensmaster just because a lens pushes one of her buttons, or rubs her the wrong way.

However, Angeling can help a bad mood too, especially when you come across a reason to feel grateful for everything you do have in your life.

Aj encourages aspiring lensmasters to go to the forum to receive answers to their questions. There usually is someone there to help.

Has Squidoo ever taken away an angel's wings? What would you have to do to have this happen? Publish a viagra lens? Ding a lens to get back at someone you don't like?

We have a reputation to uphold here on Squidoo, all across the internet, and of course, in our personal lives. Kindness is the word of the day in all endeavors. We may think we're all alone, tapping away on the computer keys, but by flaming a person, word gets around.

If you feel strongly about something, let it go. Treat others exactly how you want to be treated.

Treat them better than that.

My take on the whole angel thing is that as an Angel, you are in a position to be the best you can be. You are an example that others may want to follow. And at the end of the day, you know you've done work that has raised the vibration of Squidoo, to make it a place that others will be drawn to.

A_Willow got on the line briefly to say hello from Croachia. We had a truly international moment. She said AJ sounded younger than she expected. A_Willow sounded older, as in Old Soul? All in all we had a marvelous time.

That's what GSOM is all about.

Mukunda22 aka Kate Loving Shenk

Giant Squid!!

I am so amazed by the blessings I have everywhere I look!! They certainly are reflected in both of my dogs!!

They are reflected in the beautiful greening of this beautiful Springtime!!

And I am so happy with our radio show: Moon, Moo &You: The Collective Wisdom!! I made it to Giant Squid this week!! That is also a miracle!! Onward to Giant 100!!

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