Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

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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Day #219 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-6/8/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-06/08/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I was in a quandary about where to start yet another blog, but this one is a video blog, called "Blue Heron Farm Retreat Video Blog." Joan4 suggested it last week, and I've been thinking about it ever since.

The first post reveals birdsong, Ulysses fetching a ball in the river and the river bank magic and the flow of the Conestoga River. Plus an invitation to come join us at our first event 8/13-15.

What is the point in having all of these blogs? Yes, I am a blog-a-holic. But combining online Blogs, lenses, hub pages and articles with the offline work of, as in our case, having a Spiritual Retreat Center, may do very well for engaging trust and credibility for those who are attracted to spiritual matters.

Many potential blog topics occur to me but are either too controversial or entirely too ridiculous for me to write about. When my buttons get pushed, I always consider writing about that exact button pushing idea, and either write about it or not.

But I have a real knee jerk reaction to what I have always called "The Medical Gestapo." I wish I could say that Medicine has become more of a healing environment. The Post 911 years seems to have unleashed a whole new era of punitive suffocation. People in the medical workplace seem to think they are in the law enforcement profession or the military instead of what could or should be healing and transformational, or at the least emotionally intelligent.

A startling example of this is a "Falls Protocol" that has recently come to haunt all the nurses at our hospital. Every patient has to sign a "Falls Safety Agreement" which amounts to a consent form asking the patient to call her nurse if she feels dizzy or if she needs help.  If the patient falls, and if she did not sign the agreement, a Falls Investigation Team comes to the hospital and investigates the fall like it's a crime scene.

If the patient falls on your shift, you are written up, with a great punitive flourish. If anything else ever happens again to question your good standing as a nurse, you are automatically fired.

There. I feel better now. I just wrote the most ridiculous thing I ever heard in my entire professional career.

Om Peace Amen

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Day #174 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge!

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-4/23/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

What beauty there is in stepping out of routine and doing something entirely different, meeting people I’ve heard about for several years and dancing to the tune of their music for a short time.

Pray To Heal

D. D. Delaney Returns On MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom 03/23/2010 On Blog Talk Radio!!

“Journalist, poet, playwright, flack,

from one to the other then circling back,

I practiced my art, or worked as a hack.”

 

Those lines are from “Part-Time Person,” one of a dozen or so of D.D. Delaney’s Collected Poems which he will perform for us on next week’s Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom on their Blog Talk Radio program.

 

We are delighted to have Delaney back. Regular listeners will remember his “Concise Dickens’ Christmas Carol,” which he performed for our audience last December.

 

A native of Lancaster, PA, who now lives in Norfolk, VA, Delaney began performing his own poetry in 2005, inspired by the dramatic presentations of slam poets appearing in southeastern Virginia’s small theaters and coffee houses.

 

“I was doing a lot of journalism at the time,” he says, “and felt the need to put aside objectivity and express my thoughts and feelings directly to an audience. Then I started going to poetry slams, where I saw poets who were already doing that. I thought, I can write poetry, and I’m an actor. There’s no reason I can’t do that, too.”

 

He began writing poetry then and has been performing it ever since, bringing 30 years of experience as a stage actor to his new-found craft. His idea is to lift the poems off the page and set them before an audience with as much dynamic energy as he can call forth.

 

“That way I feel I have the best chance of getting my message across,” he says.

 

His poems deal with visions, spiritual experiences, peace and justice, love, war, and death.

 

Tune in next week, 3/23/10 at 6 PM EST for D.D. Delaney, performing selections from his Collected Poems and talking with radio talk show hosts Kate Loving Shenk (Moo) and Joan Adams (Moon) about how they came to be written and the ideas they inspire.

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Call In #: 1-347-205-9200

 

CDJensen Plays Silent Night!!

I just added this video to my Ebenezer Scrooge Lens. The replay of the "Concise Dickens' Christmas Carol" has also been added to the lens.  

Claus Jensen gave us permission to play his music, Music For Mother And Child, before and after our radio show, Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom.

It has added an even deeper dimension to a very deep show. And this rendition to "Silent Night" is beautiful with beautiful nature scenes to illustrate the music.

In-Joy!!

And Merry Holiday!!

Wisdom Of The Free Mind

The Death Of Our Father

Last night, Astrology's Astrologer was on MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom and we discussed DDDelaney's Astrological Chart, which is now on Sheila's Blog.

Next week on the show, Delaney will be doing his own adaptation of the Christmas Carol: 12/15/2009 at 6 PM EST. Call in number is: (347) 205-9200

It will be like the old Radio Show days, when we snuggled up to the radio and listened to stories complete with sound effects.

Yes, Delaney is my brother, but he is a tremendous talent, and I would not have him on the show if he wasn't one.

I also am looking forward to catapulting myself into the Christmas Spirit!

Interestingly, Delaney came back to Lancaster with life partner Jala Magick to do The Christmas Carol and play Ebenezer Scrooge via Theater Of The Seventh Sister in December, 2000. Our dad was still living. He was in a weakened condition and was living in a nursing home, at the time.

Our dad decided to pass into the Great Beyond at this time. In other words, he died, 12/20/2000. 

This was quite a shock, on one hand, but perfectly synchronistic, on the other.

So we had the moments before the Solstice, Scrooge and the transcendence of soul passing from the shortest day, and immediately moving to the returning sun.

And the death of our father.

So there you go. I just needed to say this.

All of this will add to the power of the show.

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