Late at night, one night after the time change, working an extra hour at warp speed, I taught one of my nurse colleagues how to do Mechano Magic! I taught her first by asking her to watch another nurse friend do the treatment on me, then she received the treatment.

Now she needs to give me the treatment so I can evaluate her touch.

She asked me: do patients think it’s weird when you offer to give them a treatment? Do they ever say No?

I had to think about this. No, no one has ever refused the treatment, unless she is in active labor, at which time, she doesn’t want anyone to come near her. This is not always true, but is true most of the time.

One of my patients is in the hospital for pre-term labor prevention. She used her call bell to call out, and said she was in excruciating pain.

She said she felt like her vagina was in flames.

Here, I said, come towards me on your right side facing those windows.

Then I did the Mechano Magic with a little Matrix Energetics thrown in (as taught by Richard Bartlett).

After ten minutes, she was back to hooking a rug. Within an hour, she had the rug hanging on the bulletin board in her room, and was starting on another project.

She didn’t seem to put the pain relief and the Mechano Magic treatment together. But that’s OK!! She didn’t know what hit her, but pain relief was the result.

And the baby lived another day inside her womb.

Mechano Magic was popular in the early 1900′s in America. Ella Kilgus originated the treatment and she opened her first clinic in Newark, New Jersey.

I’ve seen pictures of this clinic, with long, sprawling porches, balconies, long green lawns.

The patients came for Mechano Magic, ate healthy food, and relaxed under old growth oaks, sometimes for weeks at a time.

Dr Ella, as we all called her, then opened another clinic in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where patients came for treatments and extended stays, with the additional healing of ocean power and lunar tidal rhythms.

This was Dr. Ella’s favorite location, but she eventually settled in Philadelphia and had a thriving Mechano-Magic practice there until her death, well into her nineties.

I’d go there with Dr Ella’s friend, Dorothea Williams, whose husband, Hal, a homeopath and my family doctor, learned the treatment and treated many of his patients, including my family.

I learned how to do the treatment from Hal Williams.

Receiving the treatment from Dr Ella was an experience I’ll always remember.

She was old.

She was literally carried to the treatment table by two of her attendants, one on each side of her.

But when she arrived at the table,she straightened up, stood by herself, placed her powerful hands on my back, and began her magic.

Mechano Magic.

From a child’s perspective, this was amazing, potentially terrifying, maybe a bit odd.

But I was mesmerized by this experience.

Dr Ella was a healer of the highest order.

Now only a few of us know how to do the treatment.

I teach my nurse healer friends, I practice on my patients, my husband and two dogs.

I go to the home of Dorthea Williams, who has since passed, and exchange Mechano-Magic with her daughter almost every week.

This has improved my technique.

I am now ready to teach this amazing healing modality to a wider audience.

Is anyone reading this interested in learning this healing method?

Kate Loving Shenk

I have a weekly Radio Show called Kate Loving And The Collective Wisdom. New World Library, publisher of Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra, has recently commissioned me to do radio interviews with their new authors! This is exciting!

Listen in to Kate Loving And The Collective Wisdom, 7 PM EST, every Tuesday night! The call in number is: 347-205-9200

This is what happens as you read my books. The words clear your mind and suddenly, an experience of “no thought” clears the way to a peaceful perception.

The experience of writing these books made me think a spirit higher than myself is doing the writing.

In-Joy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbm_czB-Wjc

Life events stalled the publication of Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health. Three more Prayer Prescription Books were published before this one. In my book promotion studies, I learned that writing a series was THE way to get your books noticed in the world. This tidbit resonated with me.

Since Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health is a serious lyrical Spiritual Epic, I wanted it to get the spot light it deserves.

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Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.

Houston Vetter Hosted Day 5 Of my tour on 3/29/2012.

I would also add that the only way to transcend fear is with mystical insight. Here is what I wrote on Houston’s  Balanced Living Magazine:

It began November 1, 2009 when I started the 365 day Prayer Blog challenge, and continues to this day. Writing prayers everyday was a necessity at the time. My beloved dog Mukunda had a tumor on his snout that would take his life two months later. Mukunda’s soul mate, Ulysses, got sick less than a year later, and he threatened to move on. But the prayers saved his life, and also my own.

Daily prayer allow me to see all of life through a prism of grace and humor. The light that filters through is a rainbow of clarity and precision. Now my spiritual practice revolves around prayer and praying. These are not the foxhole kind of prayers that a soldier, who may never have prayed a day in his/her life, suddenly begins as bombs comes splintering towards her platoon. Nor are they prayers to a male god or a female god. Nor are they strictly Christian in nature, although Christ Consciousness flows through all of them.

Prayer is like meditation. The moment we drop these practices and think we don’t need them anymore, life challenges sweep in to teach us that the stress brings us faster to our knees with acute suffering than if we were practicing daily as a way to transcend the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes.” Prayer and meditation may bring us to our knees, too, but as an act of thankfulness for all the beauty in our lives.

What does Prayer Teach Us?

Looking back over a year of the prayers and the many themes running through them, I am reminded of a river which took us along in her flow. The Conestoga River which runs by our house is a lesson in how rivers dance from moment to moment. For one thing, she never looks the same because of the light which gives new dimension to the current. Captured light is a real joy to all five senses and helps to develop the sixth sense of intuition, too.

Whereas the writing of 365 prayers is an accomplishment of “doing,” the real gift of these prayers is the aura of “being,” given to anyone who reads them. They have at their heart a happiness of non-striving, allowing all of us to strive for nothing more than to “be”: calm,
peaceful, serene, loving and kind.

These prayers also have at their core a gift of helping us to question our thoughts. They help us to let go of the deep attachment we have to thoughts of judgment, criticism and suffering. These kinds of thoughts are at best, unreliable and inaccurate.

Most of all, let us be kind, first of all to ourselves. The Dalai Lama says compassion is not a luxury but a necessity as we take the next step forward. Compassion is as important to the earth as recycling and getting off the grid. So let us practice compassion today in the spirit of being, without concern of doing it the right or the wrong way! Surrender to “what is” in a spirit of Love.

Prayer Is Insight

For those of us moved by prayer, we realize that subjects arise that stir within us the direct experience of unceasing change that turns the wheel of life.

Perhaps we see that we can dwell peacefully and wholeheartedly in this lifetime even in the face and the promise of aging, illness and death. In this spirit of acceptance and peace, we may have caught a glimpse of our true selves: eternal and infinite beings. We are not anything we may have previously thought we were. We certainly are not our aging, our youth, our illness or our death. We are not our wealth, our poverty, our hopes and our dreams, nor are we our ambitions.

When we face great change in our lives, we may suddenly realize that what we thought was important, the money, the job, the perfect family; when all of these things are thrown into the cauldron of life’s messy lessons, we can only hope to dwell peacefully in the belly of suffering, so that we re-emerge as a humble human, free of ego, content to live finally here: The only moment there is.

Prayer Is Gratitude

Thank you for showing us that our prayers today are Kindness in motion. Kindness as endless love, giving the endurance to overcome those things that without Love, is unendurable. Kindness as Patience and Humility, stepping back and allowing life to enfold without any need to control it. Kindness always waits for us to use it, for it is changeless and eternal, like Love is.

The power of Kindness is the Power of Prayer: both break down the barriers that prevent us from experiencing the great river of endless Love. For we are the River. We are the Love.

And how shall we receive the Prayers as we Pray them?

Today is the day to receive prayers of all kinds: Prayers for happy endings; Prayers for triple rainbows; Prayers for multiple shooting stars! I pray that my heart receives one crystal clear insight and carries it forth to all I meet today: Patients, friends and family.I pray that my heart opens to receive love even though I am not always aware of the Love that exists everywhere. I pray that my awareness of Love’s Presence only grows and expands and filters through every mind, simultaneously.

What happens after writing a never ending series of  prayers?

After over 600 days of writing and praying prayers, I have come to experience the powerful healing that prayer unleashes in the physical body and the spirit and the beautiful pulsating effect prayer has in healing receptive living beings near and far.

The more we work in harmony with the cosmic level of Universal Laws, we realize that life is really ruled by prayer and grace rather than by so called negative forces, such as revenge, un-forgiveness and retaliation. Nor is life ruled by the goings on of the world.

If we seek rational explanations for why an illness, a death or an accident occurs, we will rarely come forth with a thinking process that leads to peace of mind. Rational explanations seem to tread into the guilt, shame and blame areas of thinking and thus do not help or heal.

These revelations are a relief to me. They release me to explore the realms of prayer and grace, knowing that while these are uncharted territory, they yield great love and support in the journey.

Prayer is not a passive activity. Often prayers are answered by introducing an answer in the area of Allopathic or Complementary Medicine, for instance, and action is required to implement the solution the prayer offers. Prayer does not replace common sense in our search for answers to life’s more difficult challenges.

In fact, perhaps a daily prayer asking to sharpen our common sense in accordance with our mystical sixth sense is the answer to softening many a blow that comes our way.

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Life events stalled the publication of Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health. Three more Prayer Prescription Books were published before this one. In my book promotion studies, I learned that writing a series was THE way to get your books noticed in the world. This tidbit resonated with me.

Since Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health is a serious lyrical Spiritual Epic, I wanted it to get the spot light it deserves.

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Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.

It is frankly amazing that this journey continues and is continuing.

I remember thinking that prayers are a universal language,  not to be co-opted by any religion. Yet Christianity would have you believe that prayers are strictly in the domain  of accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

I never knew what that meant, and still don’t.  What I do know is that the Gospel of Jesus was Love. Prayer is Love. And that falls into every spiritual philosophy on the planet.

Today’s Virtual Book Tour took and takes me to Trapper Sherwood’s Blog, originally on 3/27/2012.

Here is the video I made for that special day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7K_mYcYQyE

Life events stalled the publication of Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health. Three more Prayer Prescription Books were published before this one. In my book promotion studies, I learned that writing a series was THE way to get your books noticed in the world. This tidbit resonated with me.

Since Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health is a serious lyrical Spiritual Epic, I wanted it to get the spot light it deserves.

It may be easier to see and hear the video I made for the occasion here on this site, today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6-R9jP2Ew

“I started writing prayers as a last ditch attempt to save my own life, because various family issues were looming precariously over a cliff, and my beloved dogs were soon going to pass on to the next dimension.

“Writing prayers has a calming effect on the psyche. When the inside is at peace, nothing on the outside can go wrong. The harmonizing effect of prayer tends to quiet the mind and brings peace to every other mind, also. It truly is a miracle.

“Thank you for celebrating the publication of my book with Kip and me. The book was published (June, 2012).”

Life events stalled the publication of Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health. Three more Prayer Prescription Books were published before this one. In my book promotion studies, I learned that writing a series was THE way to get your books noticed in the world. This tidbit resonated with me.

Since Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health is a serious lyrical Spiritual Epic, I wanted it to get the spot light it deserves.

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Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.

Life events stalled the publication of Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health. Three more Prayer Prescription Books were published before this one. In my book promotion studies, I learned that writing a series was THE way to get your books noticed in the world. This tidbit resonated with me.

Since Prayer Prescriptions: 14 Spiritual Remedies To Long Lasting Health is a serious lyrical Spiritual Epic, I wanted it to get the spot light it deserves.

Here is Day #2 of the Prayer Prescription: 14 Spiritual Remedies For Long Lasting Health Virtual Book Tour–Revitalized for the purpose of the launching of this book.

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Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.

My name is Kate Loving Shenk of

Remember to always ask for help. That is what prayer is for. And remember that all of your prayers are answered  sooner than later!

I read her book very carefully, called Bouncing Back. Why are we bouncing back from? From trauma, pain, suffering, lack of love and much more.

I was drawn to what Linda had to say about compassion, and most importantly self compassion. Self-esteem and self compassion are not the same thing at all. Self-esteem is rooted in competition, achievement and is based on whether the outside world approves of you or not. If you “fail,” your self-esteem plummets. If you “succeed,” your self-esteem is intact.

Self compassion on the other hand, is based on a genuine love of self, no matter what.

We can do self compassion check in’s several times a day. Simply put your right hand on your heart and breathe consciously and attentively. At the same time, place your left hand on your lower abdomen and as you breathe, be mindful of the in breath and the out breath.

The warm touch of your hand releases the hormone, oxytocin, producing a feeling of attachment, safety and peace.

Self compassion check in’s may be the most important thing we do for ourselves every day.

Wisdom teaches me I am nothing. Love teaches me I am everything.
Between the two, my life flows. – Sri Nisargadatta

Om Peace Amen
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Kate Loving Shenk RN, BSN is a writer, healer, musician and resident creator. Kate’s fourth Prayer Prescription book will be published Spring, 2013. It is called: Prayer Prescriptions: 13 Spiritual Remedies For Long Lasting Health. (The Prayer Prescription Series)
Kate is the author of Prayer Prescriptions For Nurse Healers, 365 Prayer Prescriptions For Dog And Cat Lovers and 22 Keys To Self-Healing: The Prayer Prescription Series, all available on Amazon.

Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.

What does the turtle represent in American Indian lore? When box turtle comes into our lives, there is a spiritual message to be gleaned. Box Turtles are nearly extinct in our part of the world.

Persevere. Sure, long and steady.

Protection.

“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.” Benjamin Disraeli

The turtle has few predators. This  gives it an energy of innocence. This also increases its lifespan, and so holds the symbolic meaning for longevity in many cultures as well as endurance, persistence, and the continuation of life (sometimes against incredible odds).

The oldest fossils of turtles are dated at over 200 million years old.

Its body is symbolic of the earth.

Its shell represents the grounding inherent in the earth energy.

Its under shell represents the underworld.

Kate Loving Shenk RN, BSN is a writer, healer, musician and resident creator. Kate’s fourth Prayer Prescription book will be published Spring, 2013. It is called: Prayer Prescriptions: 13 Spiritual Remedies For Long Lasting Health. (The Prayer Prescription Series)

Kate is the author of Prayer Prescriptions For Nurse Healers, 365 Prayer Prescriptions For Dog And Cat Lovers and 22 Keys To Self-Healing: The Prayer Prescription Series, all available on Amazon.

Kate’s Prayer Prescription Series and her mission has, at its foundation, the intent to relieve suffering through the spiritual practice and the remedies brought about through the healing power of Prayer, Love and Compassion.