Nov
30
2010
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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Nov
29
2010
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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Nov
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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Nov
24
2010
After those years of blackout alcoholic drinking, I got a GED and went back to school, got nursing degrees, and thought I was keeping my drinking under control, the great alcoholic delusion.
But the truth of it was, I was a binge drinker and suffered from 4-6 drunks every year with maintenance drinking in between for 30 years.
I put the cork back in the bottle for 6-9 months at a time, but always returned to my drinking behaviors, each time a little closer to self-destructive consequences.
I never got a DUI and was never arrested for any other reason because of alcohol, but plenty of my alcoholic friends were.
One day I knew I had enough and found the answers as to how to stay sober, one day at a time.
Finally, I have reached a level of emotional sobriety that Bill W. discusses in his wonderful essay entitled “Emotional Sobriety,” which says quite simply that dependence on people, places or things is not the way of an alcoholic who Truly is in recovery.
This is a very important ingredient of my sobriety today.
Kate L. S.
02/02/2002
This lens was awarded a Purple Star Yesterday. Please in-Joy–and save a life, today!
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Nov
24
2010
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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Nov
23
2010
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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Nov
22
2010
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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Nov
19
2010
Dear God/ess, I will have to ask all of you to continue your prayers for Ulysses.
While doing our Customer Service performance yesterday, Tom took Ulysses to the Vet for a followup appointment. Another biopsy taken from the swelling surrounding the area around the penis revealed cancer cells.
Now that the Customer Service gig is over, I have a few days to commune with Ulysses. When I think about a scientific diagnosis of cancer and the weight of these words, I feel a need to defy the heaviness of the scientific and rational mind that comes up with such a diagnosis to begin with.
Perhaps a blending of an intellectual and creative mind with that of the ability to perceive the Universe through the Eye of the Soul is a way to begin the healing process.
Therefore, the healing of Cancer, or any other life threatening disease, which is impossible in the physical world of reason and logic, becomes completely possible in the world of prayer and Mystical Grace.
In the process of healing self, Ulysses or anyone else, we must transcend the limitations of reason alone and connect with the inner realms of mystical perception and reality.
What a beautiful opportunity to begin again!
I remember the story of Dr. Ella Kilgus, creator of the Mechano, and her retreat on the Atlantic Coast at the turn of the 20th century. She did Mechano Neural Treatments, renamed Mechano Magic by the nurse healers who receive it, fed good food to her patients, who then relaxed on long spreading porches overlooking Old Oak and the sound of the breaking, healing ocean waves.
I think of Dr. Ella as I go about communing with Ulysses and giving Mechano along with prayerful breath in the days and weeks ahead.
I believe it is possible to defy a diagnosis and embrace the possibility of mystical communion with Light and Love.
Om Peace Amen
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Nov
18
2010
Please send healing prayers to Ulysses, who received a dire diagnosis just this morning. He is doing well and is happy. Thank you!
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Nov
18
2010
Dear God/ess, Thank you one and all for your prayers of healing for Ulysses The Dog. I felt a shift in my thinking during morning meditation yesterday, and as the day progressed, I felt so much loving, prayerful thoughts coming our way. Thank you all for that.
Once again, I am astounded by the slowing down of time when presented with the opportunity to send (and receive) healing energy.
The object of my contemplation today and yesterday is the healing of Ulysses, resulting in feelings of self-awareness, peacefulness, compassion and a sense of heightened spiritual perception.
Breathing with Ulysses reminds me of the word “prana,” a sanskrit word meaning vital energy or life force.
In Hindu or Taoist traditions, the breath is a metaphor for spirit and soul. Thus by regulating the breath, your spirituality deepens. Furthermore, Buddhist breathing exercises help the practitioner gain greater control over mental and emotional states.
In Eastern Traditions, developing consciousness and mental control all begins with the breath, leading to greater and ever joyful spiritual awakenings.
So this is my practice in the coming days and weeks: Breathing With Ulysses.
As we come into resonance with one another, the sense of calm and tranquility will transform both of our lives.
In addition to the birthing bed, the sick bed, and the death bed, is the healing bed. Healing flows through all of these, but holds a special place in and of itself.
Om Peace Amen
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