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
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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Nov
17
2010
Dear God/ess, Please pray for Ulysses. This evening (last evening by the time you read this), I took him to my favorite Vet of all time, Frank Abel, who found a tumor near his Penis that Frank had never seen before in all his years of practicing as a Veterinarian.
I want you all to send healing prayers to Ulysses, as we do our own praying, healing and meditation for him, and also for ourselves.
There is something reassuring to me that Frank Abel never saw a tumor like this before. Perhaps it’s a blood collection that gathered after Ulysses’ strenuous dog fight the other day 11/11/10, or the mile long swim he insisted on taking that very day in cold Conestoga River water.
Ulysses is back to eating and drinking water again. He also is urinating. I am not convinced he is ready to go, although if he is, I will let him go. These animals have a life of their own. Yes, Ulysses is a Zen Master, and yes, he loves us dearly.
But get him near a body of water or another dog and pure instinct takes over.
The Mechano-Magic is working to help bring peace to Ulysses tonight. The prayerful touch up and down his spine seems to be exactly what he wants and needs. The pure and simple act of doing the Mechano-Magic has released the feeling I had earlier after initially hearing the news and feeling Frank Abel’s concern over Uly’s state of health.
The Mechano-Magic healed my mother of Lymphoma many years ago. If this is Lymphoma, I will draw the energy of my mother to Ulysses and ask for her help and her healing.
Yet even in Death, there is also great healing.
Om Peace Amen
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Nov
16
2010
Dear Godess, To those of you who know me well, by now you realize one of my greatest passions is Universal Health Care For All, a delivery system that works with out Health Insurance Corporations.
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. Health Insurance Corporations are still denying claims and causing tragedy all over America.
My nursing colleague, for instance, has her husband on the health insurance plan through the hospital where we work. He recently had a $30,000.00 orthopedic surgery with resultant complications which the Insurance Company is refusing to pay. The reason? He is a self-employed Dairy Farmer and he injured himself while caring for his magnificent Jersey Cows. (Aren’t they pretty?)
My friends are just about to become another statistic of the more than 67% of Americans who declare bankruptcy due to an inability to pay for exorbitant health care costs.
Here is my 5 pronged plan to help my friend: 1) Schedule a fund raiser 2) create publicity for the fundraiser and the problem in the context of the fundraiser 3) my friend contacts her State Rep 4) We find a lawyer among our progressive Single Payer friends and ask her/him to write a letter to the Insurance Company 5) alert the Docs who did not bother to find out what my friend’s insurance covers and does not cover.
This is my belief: It is the health care provider’s responsibility to prevent catastrophe in the form of medical bankruptcy, which by the way, is strictly an American phenomenon. Doctors et al need to become better informed about what is covered and help to get coverage when needed.
Wendell Potter, former Cigna CEO and author of the newly published book “Deadly Spin,” was in Philadelphia last night and we took the trek in rush hour traffic to see him. He told his story of his “Road To Damascus” that aha moment when he saw first hand the suffering of the uninsured at a free clinic set up in rural Tennessee. Hundreds of people were lined up for hours, waiting to see a doctor or Nurse practitioner or Physician’s Assistant. Some were undoubtedly turned away at the end of the day.
Wendell took responsibility for the suffering because of the role he played at Cigna, and had to leave the job to free his conscience.
Wendell told the audience to “Speak Your Truth.”
“Do the right thing.”
And Wendell Potter also reads this Pray To Heal Blog, something I did not know until he told me last night!
Om Peace Amen
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Nov
15
2010
As we cultivate love and compassion in even the most difficult moments with even the most perceived difficult people, let us remember that Love and Compassion are action verbs and are not weak or sentimental. They demand the highest level of courage and integrity that anyone is capable of.
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Nov
12
2010
I spent the last several hours with Ulysses, and just returned from a romp in the park. I asked him to be “good” around the dogs we were without a doubt going to encounter.
He gave me a side long look which told me to shove it.
Ulysses does not like other dogs, except for a select few small dogs. And Mukunda. He adored Mukunda and still does.
Ulysses has a quiet, constant awareness about him. He is awake and tuned in. He is honest about who he is.
If he chooses not to like other dogs, he has a reason. Before I’d say he was just stubborn. But he has a natural wisdom which I trust and surrender to.
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Nov
11
2010
We may never understand how Divine Intelligence works, yet when we come to realize that nothing else can be trusted, we find real freedom and peace of mind.
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Nov
10
2010
Acquiring great material gain can appear to offer simple solutions to emotional and spiritual discomforts. But the inner quest of spirit is a subtle one because at the heart of it is the search for purpose, meaning and the sacred beauty and mystery of life.
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