Spiritual Healing Techniques

Healing Techniques  as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda

swami yogananda healing techniques

Convert yourself into a divine battery, sending out through your hands divine healing rays whenever and wherever they may be needed.

Then your hands, charged with divine power, will throw healing rays into your patient’s heart and brain. Thus his seeds of ignorance will be destroyed, and he will smile with the health of God-love.

–Paramhansa Yogananda

AUM Prayer

After meditation, draw the energy to the arms and hands. Rub the hands together briskly, then raise them above your head.

Visualize the person you wish to heal. Chant AUM mentally or aloud three times, deeply concentrating on God’s blessings flowing through your hands.

Do this for as long as you feel to.

Prayer to Divine Mother

You may also pray thus:

Divine Mother, Thou art omnipresent. Thou art in all Thy children. Thou art in (the name of the person). Manifest Thy healing presence in his (her) body, mind and soul.

Rub the palms of your hands together briskly, then hold up your hands and chant AUM three times, sending healing energy to that person.

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True and Original Definition of Hospice

“You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die.”
-Dame Cicely Saunders

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Tai Chi Helps Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms

A new study provides promising results for Parkinson’s patients…now they have a great reason to practice tai chi!

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Major Palliative Care Conference coming in October

The longest-running Congress in Palliative Care and the leading event in the  palliative medicine field since 1976 is scheduled for this fall in Montreal. Hospice personnel, volunteers, nurses will all benefit from the programs. The 19th International Palliative Care information center has a full description of the conference programs…check it out!

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Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM – Upcoming Events

I first saw Roshi Joan Halifax at the NY Open Center’s Art of Dying Conference back in 1997 or so. She spoke with great clarity and conviction at that time and was one of the incredible speakers at that conference who changed my outlook on death and dying and started me on the path to edit The Great Adventure, write Caregiver Revolution, create this website, and  points beyond. Roshi Joan went on to start the Upaya Zen Center and it is now a beacon of enlightened death and dying teachings here on the planet.

There’s a lot going on at Upaya including Meditation, Zen Buddhist Retreats, Chaplaincy Training and End-of-Life Care.

Upaya Zen Center is a residential Buddhist community located in beautiful Santa Fe, NM. As a Zen center, we offer daily meditation which is open to the public, a weekly public Dharma talk which often highlights Buddhist teachings, a residential Path of Service program, and weekly retreats and workshops focusing on practices related to engaged Buddhism, how to live in our world responsibly, with affection, kindness and wisdom.

Feb 24 – 26: ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND: An Introduction to Zen Meditation with Sensei Beate Genko Stolte.

March 2 – 4: FUNDRAISING FROM THE HEART with Lynne Twist.

March 12 – 13: THE DHARMA OF LIVING SYSTEMS AND THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS with Joanna Macy. Limited spaces available.

March 20 – 22: TRAUMA RESILIENCY MODEL LEVEL I TRAINING with Laurie Leitch and Elaine Miller-Karas.

April 1: ZAZENKAI: A daylong silent meditation retreat. For more info or to register, click here.

April 6 – 8: COMING HOME: A Buddhist Retreat on Easter and Passover with Sharon Salzberg and Roshi Joan Halifax.

April 12 – 15: RETREAT ON CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE AND RITUALS IN SERVICE TO THE DYING with Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD.

April 27 – 29: ZEN MIND, YOGA BODY with Do-An Robert Thomas and Samantha Ostergaard.

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Carezone, a new website

Saw a Huffington Post article and thought I would post it. I’m not sure that the concept of this site will be easily understood and/or that it will be subscribed to and utilized by the average caregiver. What do you think?

carezone.com

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