Healing Origins: Self Care and Inner Transformation

H. Elizabeth Burke MA, Buddhist, Taoist and Hawaiian Insights, Wisdom, Prayers & Healing.
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Happy New Year.

December 31st, 2011 Posted in Energy and Spiritual Healing

2012 is fast approaching and we are in the midst of a turning in the world. Breath in Peace and Breath out Love .

Love is the key as it was in the beginning of time it still endures. It is the way of healing. So while the world is birthing itself anew with this turning of the year may you do so as well. Birth your essential  Self in love, peace compassion and wisdom.

Aloha and Namaste.

 

Halloween: A Day for the Dead

Here is a prayer I received many years ago.

On this day when the veil between the worlds is thin and we can invite our  ancestors and friends back  into our lives with ease and grace,  I offer this prayer for all my family who have gone before me. I honor them and love them all.

Eternal Spirit, I bring you my grief  in the loss of Rellie, Amelia, Rel, Koa, Bob, Dru, Augustus, Butch, Ike, Bob, Tazi,  Ada,  Bru, Dorothy, Matt, Keith, Jettie, Charles, Miyoshi, Kea, Mana, Kiren, Strider.

I  ask for courage to bear my grief to walk thru it with grace and patience

I bring you my thanks for the time we spent and the love we shared.  I commit each  into your loving hands. Let their Spirits be free the ride the waves of time.

Give me eyes to see how love embraces all, and ears to hear the voice of Spirit that sings all around us.

Haipule: The Art of Manifestation

I have taught this techniques and used this with success for many yrs, may you manifest that which your heart desires.
To help you manifest and for this to be effective you need 3 things …….. Motivation, Concentration and Confidence.

You need to: build your inner energy, know what you want, and concentrate using words, images and action then you need to let your wish or desire go, sending it out into the universe.

Focus on the benefits,  how you will feel when you have …. how your life will be like when you get what you want. Really concentrate on this—— with confidence and without doubt.

NO fears. uncertainty or doubt allowed.

This derails haipule.
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So here we go  Speak this blessing  to open the prayer.

Aumakua, Aloha and Mahalo

Here are the steps:

Begin by building your energy.  This is HA.
You can do this with your breath. Imagine energy streaming into your lower abdomen and into your heart. Just feel  light or energy streaming into your body each time you inhale. You can augment this by holding a clear crystal if  you like.

Second use words to affirm and give direction. This is I .
Define what you want, say it out loud, write it out. make it true for your entire being. Really allow your body-mind to get a hold of this.  Make a decision…. that this is what I want to achieve. Send out a blessing or affirmation to the universe.

Third imagine , visualize and see what you want.  This is PU.
Here is where it gets fun, imagine yourself with that which you desire, really experience the joy you will feel and hold that energy within your heart. Use images to affirm your words to give power and weight to the words  that you used in step 2.  Imagine the end result as fully as you can.

Make a gesture or action This is LE. It can be a movement or gesture that release your wish and symbolizes success. Raise your hands to your mouth and imagine you are holding this wish in your open hands and blow gently over your hands sending your wish into the world for your High  Self ( aumakua ) to manifest.

When I learned this technique  we put one arm out in front of us with our hand in a fist then  we brought the other arm over our head from behind and placed our open hand over the fist saying  Amama…So be it as the palm of our hand covered our fist. This is a powerful gesture of success and I personally use both actions. One as an offering and a release of my will, as I hand it over to aumakua. and the second as a gesture of success.

And Lastly  you end by saying: So be it. Amama. or Amama ua noa lele walea kua la

A blessing chant you can also use is:  Aumakua, mai ka po wai ole ho’ikea mai I ke ola. High Self bring forth the water of life and manifest these blessings.   From Serge Kahili King

Fear & Japan’s Triple Disaster : the energy of hope.

I had a friend ask recently about the fallout from Japan and how it would affect CA. She has just had a baby and was concerned as any new mom would be. Here are my initial hits.

We are living in an age where there has been radiation around us for some time. My feeling about Japan is that it is making CA a bit like Santa Fe NM to a lesser degree. I have not been picking up any energy shifts or spikes but the energy this spring has been intense.

Humans are always evolving. I believe with the plutonium energy, is also an energy that transforms.  It amplifies and intensifies the energy around us. I know that may sound weird but it was always the way Santa Fe felt and nuclear testing there was much closer .

It is so much about belief and if you let the collective alter our reality about our own safety and well being.

Fear is still a demon that the world is facing right now. As we move ahead we all must hold a vision that is clear, so ask yourself what do you want you world to reflect?

Freedom is another energy that is really alive in the world right now. And  my hope is that this nuclear disaster will help us shape a energy policy that will create viable alternative more quickly.

Energy wise though I do feel we are safe. I have never been a pollyanna person or a gloom and doom person, more a reality chick. Clear and present wisdom……. That is the key.

Be prepared, stay aware and change any negative fears and anxieties into positive beliefs. .

I do feel that there are certain astrological aspects that may be affecting the middle east and asian regions that are shaking things up—quiet literally, these aspect have been moving for some time now. We see it on the news each day.

The world is changing and I know with a little one it is a bit frightening, but that little shining being, like yourself choose to incarnate now and may have something valuable to add to the equation.

Be hopeful and awake. Stay engaged and help shape energy and nuclear policy for your future Use this as an opportunity to reshape the world for your child.

Renewal and Revitalization

Happy Easter Week

It is so interesting how my clients have been recreating themselves this past few days. Old patterns are surfacing and the roots of problems since childhood are finding  new resolutions.

This time is so potent as we move toward Easter. The theme of resurrection and rebirth is floating all around us. So what ever each of you is working on, may you finally get to the bottom of it . May you experience radiant light as you move beyond the suffering that has been a part of your life for so long. Use this time to dig deep to look within and  understand your passion and agony so you can finally let it go once and for all.

Blessing and peace.

Memory in Our Bones is a finalist in Eric Hoffer and Montaigne Awards

Wanted to share the news:

 

Congratulations.

As part of the Eric Hoffer Award, Memory In Our Bones  was nominated for the Montaigne Medal

Your book is still on track for a category prize, including the Hoffer Grand Prize.

The Montaigne Medal is an additional distinction, awarded to the most thought-provoking book each year. Approximately two to three books receive this award each year.

Regardless of the judges determination, your book at the very will carry the distinction of  Montaigne Medal Finalis  and Eric Hoffer Award Finalist.

The Montaigne Medalists will be announced in the spring prior to the category and grand prize announcements.

 

Hard work ( 13 yrs)  and long hours do pay off.

Lovely Letter From Japan

March 21st, 2011 Posted in Environmental issues

Reminds me of Kauai during the big hurricane, Ineki

Here is an e-mail from the friend of a friend presently in Japan. She very movingly describes the way people are coming together in the course of this disaster. This sort of personal report is worth so much more than what the cnn puts out …. love Rosie

Hello My Lovely Family
and Friends,

First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend’s home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out sign so people can
come to fill up their jugs and buckets.

Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, “Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another.”

Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on.

But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or
laundry out drying in the sun.

People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled.

The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.

And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on,and I find food and water left in my entrance way. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.

They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that isa bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend’s husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don’t. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,