Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

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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Our Impermanent Experience PTH 12/10/10

 

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Dear God/ess, I just got off the phone with our friend, Sheila Audet, Astrology's Astrologer. (She hates it when I call her that).

I delivered flowers to her house the other day to thank her for teaching our Customer Service Team how to do the Thriller Dance. I told her that our team was way over our head on that one, and if not for her guidance, we would never have been able to do it.

However, Sheila was still asleep when I delivered the flowers, and I was laughing and talking with her partner, Jo-an, whose presence in both of our lives is a loving gift.

Sheila thought I was my mother, as she drifted in and out of sleep. Years ago, Sheila came to visit my mother at 9 am every morning and they discussed what Sheila was learning, Astrologically speaking. It happened to be 9 am when I arrived to Sheila and Jo-an's house and Sheila was transported in "time" to my mother's round kitchen table at my family home across the town where we still live.
Certain experiences have a certain timeless feeling to them. Those times around my mother's table were  an example of infinite infinity. I never thought my mother would ever die, and even now, I doubt if she ever did, esoterically speaking.
I never thought my dog Mukunda would ever die, either. Why is it we think certain experiences will never end?

As we age, the impermanence of time begins to enlighten our perspective. We realize that all of our moments are precious, and we fully live them in the moments we have left.

But I still have a difficult time accepting death.

Now that I've admitted it, I can now fully release it to the angels for healing.

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

Dear God/ess, We had our first interview with Jim Douglass 7/6/2010. I managed to finish the book "JFK And The Unspeakable" one hour before the show.

Jim Douglass fits in well with my entire upbringing. The moment JFK was assassinated, my mother said, "The CIA killed President Kennedy."

Almost fifty years later, I find that she was right.

Jim and my mother have more in common. They knew Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy, Catholic Worker Activists, both of whom made you feel suddenly exhilarated and touched by many wise thoughts at once.

The Catholic Worker Movement is another thing Jim Douglass and Kitty Loving Shenk have in common. I remember well the thin Catholic Worker newspaper arriving to to our home week after week, via the American Postal Service.  My mom read every issue. Perhaps she even read articles written by James Douglass.

My main question after reading the book and having Jim on the show, is how can I or anyone else ever trust the American Government again? Especially since it doesn't seem to be evolving, at all?

Recently I stepped out of the political scene. It became far too much to reconcile any kind of spiritual perspective with it especially since the governments of the world are addicted to power and are stuck in old ways of thinking: war, nationalism, colonialism, genocide, greed, dishonesty, corruption.

So we don't look to governments for guidance because we will always be disappointed.

Instead we seek out peace in our lives: Love Thy neighbor (as thyself), forgive, reconcile with so called enemies. Strive to see another person's point of view and walk a mile in her moccasins. Listen deeply to what she is saying, not to your opinion or preconceived notion of what you THINK she is saying.

Strive to empty your mind of thought through meditative prayer.

This is how we want to be treated, so this is how we treat others.

Om Peace Amen

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Day #243 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge!

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Dear God/ess, I am so happy to hear the crickets, again. It has been a full 360 days since I last heard them. Nothing is quite as peaceful or as wonderful, soothing or eternal.

This prayer is dedicated to the crickets. Think back to all the times you listened to nothing but that sound. Last year i wasn't writing these prayers everyday. Now that I am, I want to remember the sounds, the music played seemingly just for me, and also for you.

The cricket sounds create a kind of silence in the background of your mind. Other sounds like speeding cars or sirens in the distance do not at all dwarf the musical sound of these hopping creatures.

I remember lying in bed or camping outdoors and being lulled into a trace by their musical sound. As the summer progresses, the cricket sounds grow louder and louder, as a crescendo. Tonight, they are just beginning their musical journey through the rest of the season.

So I listen and watch the fire flies and the twinkling stars through my bedroom window. I stay awake as long as I can.

Crickets represent the world of spirit and spiritual resonance. The sound soothes the soul. it feels as if you are not alone, that the whole world sings in your spirit.

Listening to the crickets during sleep enhances dream life and may help you remember your dreams because of their vivid quality. Your intuition is strengthened. You feel a more heightened sensitivity. You feel as if you have awakened to a new day of courage and resilience.

As you tune into the cricket sounds night after night, you feel protected and well cared for. You feel like writing down your true feelings. You may suddenly write an entire symphony.

The true nature of creativity is found and applied to every aspect of your like.

Good night and hello to my friends the cricket, the lightening bug and star and moon light.

Om Peace Amen

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Day #226 of the 360 Day Blogging Challenge! Your Daily Prayer For Healing-6/15/2010

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-6/15/2010-Your Prayer For Today.

Dear God/ess, I will be in a meditative state today to prepare for the Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom show tonight, when we will focus positive energy on healing the core of the earth after the oil spill event in the Gulf of Mexico. The time is 6 PM EST and here is where you can access the show live, and/or get the archived show. The call in number is: 347-205-9200.

Let us meditate on the vibrancy of the planet we call Mother Earth. Let us concentrate on the beautiful green, the waterways where we live, the bird life that thrives all around us. Let us pray for the protection of all our nature friends, all the nature spirits, the wind spirits, the air fairies and the entire unseen dimensions.

Let us call on the angels to find a miracle and a healing of the Earth's Core. Let us call in the special emissaries who always help in times of trouble when called upon: Mother Mary, all the saints, Christ Consciousness, and one of my own personal favorites, Babaji. Mother Mary recently saved our lives here on the Blue Heron Farm Retreat and I know she will miraculously heal the gaping wound which requires swift repair, especially if we call on her.

And we pray that the consciousness of human life finds a way to elevate its vibrational field through this catastrophe, and that we stop the finger pointing and take responsibility for our collective addiction to oil, to buying SUV's and gas guzzlers that do not preserve the ecology of our beautiful planet.

We pray for a loving essence to settle into the human vibrational field. We pray for a collective awakening that takes all of us to the realization that the planet when seen from several hundred or thousand miles away is a thriving consciousness all of its own.

She will survive.

The human propensity to resent, hate, conduct wars, and depend on oil is not going to destroy the planet.

We must pray that human ignorance be brought to the light for purification.

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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