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The Healing Prayer of the Elements
Introduction
For our practice today, we’re going to work with a prayer that came through me a number of years ago and has been modified periodically as I continue to tune to it.
This is the Healing Prayer of the Elements.
Today we’ll do it a little differently than we sometimes have before. We’ll tone each line together, and then take a few breaths to tune into what that line is expressing. We’ll move slowly, allowing each quality to land in the body and the field before moving on.
We’ll do this in a call-and-response format. I’ll say each line, and then we’ll tone it together.
The Healing Prayer of the Elements
Oh Divine healer
Through the warmth of the sun,
the intuition of the moon,
the nourishment of the Earth and trees,
the strength of the mountains,
the cleansing purification of water,
the life filled power of the air
May all these
heal my body,
heal my heart and emotions,
heal my mind and thoughts
heal my spirit
may they heal all beings
Amin
(Audio Practice – listen to audio file)
Oh, Divine Healer.
As you tone this, tune into that aspect of the divine healer that is both within and without—so we know who or what we are directing this prayer toward.
You can place “O Divine Healer” on both the in-breath and the out-breath.
Through the warmth of the sun.
On the in-breath, warmth of the sun.
On the out-breath, warmth of the sun.
Feel that quality—feel the warmth of the sun radiating through you, radiating around you, or radiating toward you. Whatever works most naturally.
The intuition of the moon.
On the in-breath and the out-breath, intuition of the moon.
Feel that lunar quality—its receptivity, the intuitive knowing that arises from stillness.
Feel it coming from the moon, and also from the moon-part of ourselves.
The nourishment of the earth and trees.
On the in-breath, nourishment of the earth and trees.
On the out-breath, the same.
Feel the earth energy rising through you.
Sense yourself in a place of trees that are special to you—breathing in that tree energy, holding a tree, feeling the forest around you.
Let the earth and trees nourish you, bringing this nourishment into whatever part of you needs it.
The strength of the mountains.
Feel yourself on a mountain, near a mountain, or within a mountain that carries power for you.
Sense that condensed, steady quality—the way mountains simply are.
Feel that strength moving into you, supporting whatever parts of you need that strength now.
The cleansing, purification of water.
Feel yourself in or near a body of water that has deep power and connection for you.
Sense the water flowing into you, through you, and around you.
Let it move into whatever parts of you need cleansing and purification.
The life-filled power of the air and ether.
This is the energy that’s all around us—the qi that surrounds everything.
Feel that life breathing into you, and gently direct it to whatever parts of you need that quality.
Directing the Healing
Now we begin to direct this elemental healing.
May all these heal my body.
Feel all of these qualities—the sun, the moon, the earth, the trees, the mountains, the water, and the air—moving into your body wherever they are needed.
You can place “heal my body” on both the in-breath and the out-breath.
Heal my heart and emotions.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel these elemental qualities moving into your emotional being and your heart—bringing healing and balance there.
Heal my mind and thoughts.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel these elemental qualities entering the mental realm—clearing what is no longer needed and restoring clarity and ease.
Heal my spirit.
Feel these qualities moving into the spiritual dimension of your being, allowing whatever healing and cleansing is ready to happen there to unfold naturally.
May they heal all beings.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel all of this elemental energy flowing outward—extending beyond yourself, out into the world, offering healing to all beings everywhere.
Āmīn… Āmīn…
Assimilation Meditation
We’ll now move into an Assimilation Meditation for a few breaths.
Let the energy flow deeply into all the cells of your being.
There’s nothing to focus on—no breath to manage, no directing.
Simply allow yourself to become very light and flowing, letting the energy go wherever it needs to go.
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