Posts Tagged ‘healing’
Faith and the Soul
Posted on: March 15, 2013
Last week I introduced you to Dr. Raj and his mantra for healing a damaged soul. This week I’d like to share with you my affirmations, or maybe just thoughts, on the subject.
There are a lot of things in life that are difficult to understand. It is my faith that allows my soul to travel beyond what my eyes can see. My faith helps me trust in advance the things that will only make sense in the next leg of my journey back to my eternal home. It’s my faith that motivates me to seek to broaden my perspective — to see life from a heavenly vantage point –to know that as I grow closer to God things will increasingly make more sense.
Not that Dr. Raj’s mantra isn’t enlightening, and I did add it to my morning and evening ritual of affirming my newly adopted values. But for me, it has been my faith that has helped to heal my soul. As my faith has grown stronger, I have gained added meaning and wider perspective. It has helped me keep my stress level down and my sense of well-being up.
S. G. Holland (Former Prime Minister of New Zealand) wrote:
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.
Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present. Faith has given me strength and made me more resilient. The motto, “With faith, nothing is impossible” really does ring true. Mother Theresa was quoted as saying that faith keeps the person who keeps the faith (or something to that effect). Though that quote may not be exact, it expresses my belief that my faith acts as a sheltering blanket. It may not keep all of the cold, wind, rain, hail, snow, etc, away, but it helps to shield me from the worst effects of the storms I find myself battered by.
Romans 12:2
“Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking.”
Healing Your Soul
Posted on: March 8, 2013
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once stated, “I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity continues through eternity.”
Teilhard de Chardin once stated, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
There have been longings of my soul that I have tried and failed to meet in material ways. I now realize that these needs can only be met with spiritual experiences.
But though the soul may be immortal, it can be hurt or damaged and at times it may require time and effort to help it heal.
Rajiv Parti, MD (aka Dr. Raj) wrote an article titled “A Simple Mantra for Healing Your Dark Night of the Soul” that gives us a series of steps to take when we “can’t see the sun shining” to help us “find the light within.”
- FORGIVE: This is a change within our minds. Start to live in the present — in the ‘Now’ and not be stuck in what our circumstances were in the past or what we want them to be in future.
- LOVE: This is a change within our hearts. We must strive to love ourselves, our lives, and our circumstances. One can only love others when one becomes ‘love’ itself. Have gratitude and love re-kindled for the Spirit, the people, the world, the environment.
- HEAL: This is a change of our spirit, within our souls. To really heal, a ‘shift’ has to happen at a deep level of our consciousness. Effectively, the consciousness has to not just heal but evolve too.
Dr. Raj and I have something in common. He writes:
I am thankful to the Spirit for the circumstances I had to go through. It has brought love, compassion, ‘Seva’ (service with gratitude), sharing, and creativity as my guiding principles – where as before I lived for cancerous materialism, expensive toys, the satisfaction of myself above all others: it really was all about me: my status.
Dr. Raj’s advice is to not just say the mantra, “Forgive, Love, Heal,” but to practice it; to BE the change it beckons from us.
PS: Happy Birthday, Sis.
Forgiveness by Matthew West
Posted on: November 2, 2012
“Forgiveness”
And the last thing on your mind today
It always goes to those that don’t deserveIt’s the opposite of how you feel
When the pain they caused is just too real
It takes everything you have just to say the word…Forgiveness
Forgiveness
It flies in the face of all your pride
It moves away the mad inside
It’s always anger’s own worst enemy
Even when the jury and the judge
Say you gotta right to hold a grudge
It’s the whisper in your ear saying ‘Set It Free’
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
It’ll clear the bitterness away
It can even set a prisoner free
There is no end to what it’s power can do
So, let it go and be amazed
By what you see through eyes of grace
The prisoner that it really frees is you
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
I want to finally set it free
So show me how to see what Your mercy sees
Help me now to give what You gave to me
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Prayer 7/10/11
Posted on: July 10, 2011
My Dearest Heavenly Father;
I thank thee for this day, and for this and every opportunity I am given to serve others.
Please bless the hands that do Thy good works this day, as well as all those they touch, that all may be open to Thy healing power and know that through faith, and diligence, and purpose miracles really can happen.
These things I pray humbly in the name of Thy loving Son, my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen
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