Hello,
Welcome to the Meditation on Healing.
This is a part of the Meditations from the Hammock series,
So perhaps you are in a hammock as well,
Or perhaps you would prefer to be seated in a comfortable chair,
On a meditation cushion,
Or in some other way,
Or perhaps you would prefer to be to be reclined,
Maybe on a mat,
In bed,
Or in another comfortable way.
Today's topic is healing.
So I invite you to soften into your space,
And we'll take a few breaths to help bring our whole selves to this place.
As you inhale,
Begin to breathe in God's healing breath,
And as you exhale,
Let that holy breath flow to any area in the body that needs healing.
Inhale,
Holy breath,
Healing breath,
And exhale that holy breath.
Inhale,
And exhale.
Inhale,
Holy breath,
And exhale,
Holy breath,
Softening into the body,
Softening into this space.
We'll take a few more moments in peace and silence for breathing.
After your next holy exhale,
Allow your natural breath to take over.
Allow the whole body to soften,
Including the jaw,
The shoulders,
The hips.
If you prefer to experience this meditation in more stillness,
Go ahead and try to make yourself a little bit more comfortable.
If you would like to have a little bit more movement during this meditation,
You might choose to sketch,
Draw,
Or journal whichever you choose,
Whether you're imagining in stillness or being more creative in movement.
Let your imagination have full rein here.
Take creative license and let your heart,
Body,
Mind,
Soul,
And spirit heal.
I'll share with you some scriptures and quotes about healing,
And then I'll allow for some time of silence and pause for reflection.
Proverbs 12 18,
The tongue of the wise brings healing.
The tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 16 24,
Gracious words are a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Gracious words are a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Jeremiah 30 17,
Heal me Lord and I will be healed for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah 30 17,
Heal me Lord and I will be healed for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah 30 17,
Heal me Lord and I will be healed for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah 33 6,
Nevertheless I will bring health and healing to it.
I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.
I will bring health and healing to it.
I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.
Healing takes courage and we all have courage even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos.
Healing takes courage and we all have courage even if we have to dig a little to find it.
If you just allow your body and mind to rest the healing will come by itself.
If you just allow your body and mind to rest the healing will come by itself.
Everybody has losses.
It's unavoidable in life.
Sharing our pain is very healing.
Isabel Allende.
Everybody has losses.
It's unavoidable in life.
Sharing our pain is very healing.
Meditation is key.
It's a crazy world we live in so take a moment and clear the mind.
Just being totally present is so healing.
Jamie Anderson.
Meditation is key.
It's a crazy world we live in so take a moment and clear the mind.
Just being totally present is so healing.
Leonard Nimoy.
Music in itself is healing.
Billie Joe.
Music in itself is healing.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind.
Caroline Miss.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind.
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Buddha.
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
I'd like to offer now a blessing of healing hands.
So if you wish you might bring one hand to the heart or maybe both hands to the heart or to any area on the body that might need healing.
And like James 5 14 says,
Is anyone among you sick?
Let him or her call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him or her anointing with oil in the name of the Lord.
So perhaps you might even have some oil nearby that you might use to place on any areas in the body that could use some healing.
Or perhaps as we mentioned just laying your hands your healing hands on those areas of the body that might need healing.
You may even wish to rub the hands together and employ self Reiki placing the hands on or above the area of the body that needs healing.
Here's a blessing of healing hands.
The author is unknown.
Yours are the hands full of experience and skill.
Yours are the hands reaching out with compassion taking time to show care taking action.
Yours are the hands with gentle touching.
Yours are the hands that show you care.
You lift the hearts of those who suffer.
Your hands celebrate the joy of healing.
Your hands bless all they touch with the spirit of compassion.
Thank you for sharing your abundance and gifts for touching lives and lifting spirits.
Blessings and thanks for the many works of your hands.
May your hands bring healing to all those you touch.
May God bless your hands for healing.
We will now take some time for personal prayer or reflection.
We will now take some time for personal prayer or reflection.
We will now take some time for personal prayer or reflection.
We will close this session with a blessing and prayer for healing.
Oh Lord,
You know how life has been.
You have seen each moment of our day and night.
You feel our pain and understand our discomfort.
You are beside us through grief and sorrow.
You are within each moment to comfort us.
Oh Lord,
Heal our suffering.
You have encountered sorrow and laid a glorious path of hope,
Healing,
And the promise of heaven in our hearts.
May it be so.
And may all God's beautiful souls say amen and amen.
Thank you so much for being here for this meditation on healing.
Blessings,
Blessings,
Blessings.
