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Call to Prayer for the Healing of Our Waters
MARCH 30TH, 2011
You may remember when I shared with you in June the healing work of Dr. Masaru Emoto. Dr. Emoto is the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water. Among other things, his research revealed that water physically responds to emotions. Many of us have predominantly fearful and angry emotions when we consider what is happening with the radioactive materials seeping into the water from the nuclear reactors in Japan. And while perhaps justified in those emotions, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr. Emoto, himself, has proposed. His beautiful prayer incorporates the wisdom of the Huna process called Ho’ponopono. Please share this with all your friends and family!
The prayer procedure is as follows.
Name of ceremony: “Let’s send our thoughts of love and gratitude to all water in the nuclear plants in Fukushima”
Day and Time: March 31 st , 2011 (Thursday) 12:00 noon in each time zone
Please say the following phrase:
“The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”
Please say it aloud or in your mind. Repeat it three times as you put your hands together in a prayer position.
Please offer your sincere prayer.
Thank you very much from my heart.
With love and gratitude,
Masaru Emoto
Messenger of Water
Please share this with all your friends and family!
Embodying Your Prayers
OCTOBER 7TH, 2010When I was growing up I had the hardest time sitting still in church. I played hangman and tic-tac-toe with my sister on the back of the church bulletin, scribbled notes to my dad on communion cards, and generally squirmed in my seat. So you can imagine what a revelation and a relief it was when I discovered that I could embody one of my favorite prayers – the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer – by doing the 8 movements of a sun salutation with the 8 lines of the prayer!
This summer I shared my “moving prayer” at the National Wellness Conference. It has become such an important part of my daily spiritual practice that I wanted to share it with you, too.
How do you embody your prayers? I’d love for you to share your comments with me here…
The Healing Power of Forgiveness
AUGUST 23RD, 2010
Today I was interviewed by the lovely Tanya Triber for an article she is writing on forgiveness. I can’t say enough about the importance of SELF-FORGIVENESS as well as FORGIVING OTHERS. I remember hearing once that holding onto resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Staying in a state on unforgiveness is exactly the same – it is a poison to your system. When we hold critical, judgmental, unforgiving thoughts about ourselves or others, a cascade of chemical activity occurs that weakens our immune system, impairs digestion and metabolism and constricts your body. But that’s not all. Those critical, judgmental, unforgiving thoughts also negatively affect our relationships with everyone in our lives.
Unfortunately, forgiveness of self and others is sometimes a difficult challenge. I’ve had experiences in my life where I’ve wanted to forgive but have felt stuck. So I wanted to share a few of my favorite resources with you:
- Collin Tipping has written a book and created workshops called “Radical Forgiveness.” I benefited greatly from his work at a time in my life when I was having a difficult time releasing resentment. He teaches that radical forgiveness occurs simply as a consequence of our opening up to the possibility that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes. If we could see the spiritual big picture (which we cannot), we would understand that the situation was Divinely guided and happened not TO us, but FOR us. It was meant to happen that way for the highest good of all concerned. Also, that our Higher Selves actually called forth the experience for our healing and our spiritual growth. To download free worksheets, go to www.RadicalForgiveness.com
- Byron Katie’s teachings called “The Work” have been very helpful to me in releasing judgment, criticism and blame. Her method is deceptively simple and always creates a shift in my perception. You can download a free worksheet at www.TheWork.com
- The most powerful tool for me has been learning and understanding the full and deeper meaning of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer. The line that is translated in English as “Forgive us our trespasses (sins or debts) as we forgive those who trespass against us” has an expanded meaning in the original Aramaic translation. In the original translation, Jesus spoke about releasing the cords or knots that bind us to other’s mistakes and to our own mistakes.
In my most challenging moments when I’m having difficulty forgiving myself or another person, I chant this line of the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic over and over and over….and I have had the experience of being able to forgive through some sort of grace that was not my own doing. I realize now that there are times that no matter how many worksheets I do I cannot seem to forgive – and it is in those times that I ask for Divine intervention by using the Lord’s Prayer.
A great resource for the Aramaic translation of the Lord’s Prayer is “Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meaning of Jesus’s Words” 
