What if we trusted in the Divine Mystery’s vision for our lives?
What if we completely turned it over to the
Highest Intelligence accessible to us, at all times?”
These are the questions that inspired a Divinely guided healing meditation during an Awakening the Healer Within class.
This spontaneous healing meditation focuses on recalibrating our energies to be in better alignment with the original intentions of our unique incarnations.
As I was posting it to the group’s private page, I was nudged to share it with the entire community.
Listen to it now!
As we prepare for the next Awakening the Healer Within Teleretreat (visit www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html for the details), I have been reflecting a lot about my own healing in 1997.
I'm often asked what it feels like to be a walking miracle. Afterall, I healed from a disease (Lupus) that no one said was remotely curable. For me, although the wonder has not departed, what I have felt more than anything else is RESPONSIBLE.
My healing did not just occur at the physical level. I was given the first of many messages that I was asked to share with others.
"We can not heal absent of love...Anita. You must help people understand this...not jus conceptually...it must be embodied."
These were the first whispers that began an incredible journey. I resisted many times. I fought my purpose. When I received one particularly challenging vision, I completely rejected it. I was being asked to do something that I didn't understand, not yet. And, honestly, I didn't trust in my Creator's vision for my life.
I didn't feel either capable or worthy. Wasn't there an easier way, a less grueling path to saying yes to being a healer?
Years later, after the visions literally became hauntings (they would not leave me alone), I embarked on my first hanbleceya (a vision quest in the Lakota tradition that translates to "Crying for a Vision."
I had supported (ate, drank, tended the sacred fire and prayed) several times and had pictured myself "on the blanket" in the wilderness many times during my year of preparation. A series of unexpected events occured on my way to Maryland and I was threatened with the very real possibility of not being able to quest, which meant my main supporter would have to "go out on the hill" for me.
After all these years of resisting, I faced the very real possibility of my first hanbleceya being completed by someone else! But, after surrendering and receiving the awareness that my prayer could be made true simply by me choosing, everything changed and I was told that I could complete my commitment.
The rain was torrential and the thunder and lightening that fired the air with electricity was not very inviting. I looked at my supporter and said, "Let's pray!" We stood huddled under a tarp and sang a traditional prayer song. The skies parted, the rain clouds disappeared and the sun emerged as if to say, "Well, thank you for that song!"
All I could feel was gratitude and humility for I knew I was facing an opportunity to commune with Spirit in a way I had never known.
During that first hanbleceya I experienced a series of events that can only be called supernatural. I was also given another vision, and soon another. Each time, it has required me to transcend fear, unworthiness, or some sort of denial or resistance.
Regardless of your spiritual or religious path, you too have met God's nudgings with arguments and excuses. It is part of our nature and predictable given the insanity of our conditioning.
BUT...AND...I'm here to tell you that whatever it is that you are denying about yourself, your life and a potential whose time has been Divinely ordered and arranged, it is not worth the fight. It is however, totally worth what comes on the other side of surrender.
I've seen and experienced...and witnessed (often with other witnesses, thank goodness) real, bonafide miracles. Although thy have become ordinary, they are no less extraordinary. Right in the middle of the most recent Awakening the Healer Within program one of our "awakeners" experienced the disappearance of a tumor in her breast and when she arrived for surgery they had no choice but to send her home!
Her doctors, just as mine experienced when I healed from Lupus, were baffled and will never be the same. Mine still cries every time I see him because he remembered how close to death I was. He remembers me crying in pain and he remembers how one day I was just simply, healed.
When you visit www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html you can read and listen to many of the amazing folks who have chosen to say yes to a deeper part of themselves and Awaken the Healer Within.
If this is your path, and your heart and spirit is beckoning you to join us, take advantage of the early registration and I'll see you on the 22nd!
Namaste, Ani
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