Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

The iPhone 4S

The iPhone 4S is here and today was the day of its launch! Here where I live, the phones weren't sold out. But plenty of people were visiting the Apple Store and they were buying the iPhone 4S as well as a brisk iPad business ..

This picture was spontaneously taken outside my window, and place right here in this blog post, right on the iPhone, itself.

I am taking the phone to Wall Street to take live video. And after that, I will use the phone to promote my new book: "Prayers To Heal."

I need to think about exactly how I should be doing that.

But this weekend, I refuse to think about my book. It is already completed in the world of spirit. So I will allow it to have a life of its own!

My friend Joel is meeting me and we are going to see Thich Nhat Hahn together for a day of mindfulness. I know I am in for a change. I know not what it is, but that is the beauty and the healing of it all.

Peace.

Kate Loving Shenk

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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Customer Service Zombies Do The Thriller Dance!

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-12/01/2010-Your Prayer For Today

 

Dear God/ess, The Thriller Dance we did for our Customer Service presentation is finally up on You Tube, and is shown here.

In truth, I could do the Thriller Dance all day long. There is something  exhilarating about mastering a dance routine on the caliber of a Michael Jackson original, although we dumbed it down to make the whole experience less overwhelming.

Our friend Sheila Audet, aka Astrology's Astrologer, helped us as we got our bearings on what the hell we were supposed to do. Sheila danced since she was young. When she discovered she was a choreographer, the world of dance blossomed forth to give new meaning to her life.

But that was a whole other lifetime ago. Maybe two.

I gained new respect for Michael Jackson through the process of learning to do this dance. Suffice to say, he was a little understood genius. It is possible to get a glimpse of his genius. All you have to do is dance like Michael Jackson dances! It's not as easy as it looks.

The rest of the Customer Service Presentation was an exercise in helping staff to think differently about what happens in all aspects of their lives. My theory is that a shift in thinking comes about when we take personal responsibility for loving and living rather than fearing and fretting.

We used Team Hoyt, (a father, Dick Hoyt, who pushes his son, Rick Hoyt, in a wheelchair in marathons and triathlons across the country), as a living example of love and the ability to overcome odds that seemingly most people are not willing to undertake. Suddenly it occurred to me that gracefullady aka Mary McManus must know this family, who after all, live in Boston and run the Boston Marathon, just like Mary does. This was one of those skin tingling synchronicities, because Mary does know the family well. It must be fun to live in Boston with all of that enthusiasm for running the Boston Marathon!

We used a simple example of a smile in our Customer Service Presentation. Imagine what it feels like to honestly feel like smiling, like laughing, and giving this as a gift to everyone you meet in the world. You can fake it until you make it, as far as a smile goes, but what I am talking about is an honest smile, an authentic smile, a smile that feels the earth and the heavens smiling with you.

These customer service sessions are truly inspiring to the people who show up. For me, it inspires me to walk the walk, to love every patient I am honored to take care of. Those nurses who recoil at an assignment, for instance, are crying "Burnout" to everyone they meet. Our presentations are designed to prevent so-called burnout. But those who are truly burned out never show up to these performances.

May they learn to smile, very soon!

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/29/2010

 

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

Dear God/ess, The Mechano Magic is evolving with breath and loving intention as I proceed to give Ulysses Mechano treatments several times a day, which he loves.

All of your prayers and thoughts of love also work as energizing agents. Within this Squidoo Lens lies another healing secret. See if you can find it. Email me privately with any questions you may have about it.

The Mechano Magic is most effective if done in a spirit of prayer. Choose your favorite prayer. Then with each in and out breath, during the Mechano, the prayer is inwardly chanted and whispered to the recipient of the healing touch.

Heal as Jesus heals. My friend Jala read a prayer to me the other night , which said that the breath of the Christ heals when we release the ego and humbly invite the saints in to the inner sanctity of our beings. Only then does true healing occurs.

Jesus was the greatest healer of all, yet so little was written about His healing power. So we prayer, "Dear God, help me to heal as Jesus heals."

My favorite prayer for doing the Mechano is the Our Father. In breath: Our Father--Out breath: Who art in heaven-In breath: Hallowed Be Thy Name. And so on.

It doesn't hurt to call in BaBaji, when I think of it, too.

Om Peace Amen

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/24/2010-Your Prayer For Today

Dear God/ess, Julia Rogers Hamrick had a fall that sent her to the hospital some time before our show last evening. We will send her healing and wish her painless moments today and every day.

Mary McManus aka Gracefullady joined Joan and me spontaneously instead. What fun that was! We discussed the themes running through the Pray to Heal Blog of which there are many. It would be easier and faster to page through a book and tell you what they are. Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to read through the blog and place pictures in places that needed them, and fix anything that needed fixing.

Here are some of the themes weaving through the words, phrases and intentions:

1) Ho'oponopono: I love you, Thank you.
2) Byron Katie's The Work
2) Prayer, meditation, reflection, contemplation
4) Warren Beatty
5) JFK Assassination and Peace On Earth
6) Ammon Hennacy, The One Man Revolution
7) My parents
 Guests on MoonMooYou: The Collective Wisdom and what we learned
9) Surrender
10) Alcoholism and Recovery
11) Blue Heron Farm Spiritual Retreat Center and the Conestoga River that runs through it
12) Single Payer and Social Injustice

I also noticed that the Pray To Heal Blog is a stand alone document for continuing spiritual practice. I think it has the potential to ease the brain into a state of harmonious equilibrium.

What do you think?

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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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/16/2010-Your Prayer For Today

 

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-11/16/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Because President Obama did not exclude the Health Insurance Companies from his Health Care Reform Plan, we cannot call what we have in this country health care reform.

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Your Daily Prayer For Healing-4/13/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

I did my homework for Moon, Moon and You: The Collective Wisdom last night! I saw “Alice In Wonderland.” Astrology’s Astrologer will be doing Johnney Depp’s chart tonight on the show, as well as tell us how she uses fairy tales to do Astrological Charts for children.

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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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