This prayer, written by our friend Janaki Severy, is a way to prepare for surgery. And it may in fact be appropriate for many of life’s challenges.
Please enjoy this invocation of healing light.
Category Archives: Healing
Utterly Unique
Joyce as a little girl with her mother, Ruth.
Joyce Hawkes was a unique individual with a huge heart and a quiet gentleness. She was devoted to her work. Her gift and ability to help people heal was remarkable and I don’t think any one of us who studied with her will ever be able to measure up to that.
She continued working right up until the day she died. She loved her work.
And she still compels us to do the work. She once told me as I was just starting with a client’s challenging condition to “Trust the work. You are not the work, the work comes through you.”
She taught her students and her clients to “Allow. Allow what is, to be as it is. We are not going backward, we are moving forward to health and wholeness. Joyce know that healing went deep, far beyond even the notion of curing. It went to cells, to DNA, to personal histories, to mental and emotional makeups. And she knew that each one of us is utterly unique, even though our bodies are made up of exactly the same stuff.
Joyce is missed every day, and yet she seems to show up everyday as well, which makes life seem marvelous and mystical by turns.
If you were not fortunately enough to meet Joyce during her lifetime you can see her on YouTube in numerous videos, or here on our video page, or perhaps even in your dream time. She is still doing her work from that great big Office Above and she makes house calls.
As the year comes to a close we wish you peace, health, and happiness.
–Helen
Even if you can’t get to the beach, a few moments of inner beach time can be a tonic to your body and mind. In fact your nervous system literally cannot detect the difference between a ‘real’ walk on your favorite sandy/salty shore and a vividly imagined walk in that very same place.
The key is to use all your senses.
- Close your eyes
- Feel yourself walking onto the shore
- See that particular shade of ocean blue/turquoise/green
- Smell the salt air, the sea-weedy aroma
- Feel the air on your cheeks, the warmth of the sun on your back
- Let the water touch your toes, the sand shifting as the water retreats
- The sound of the ocean coming and going and birds too
- Soak it all in
The beach? You can go there every day.
Also works for walks in the woods, strolling by a river, jumping over a creek, lying in a sun-lit meadow. The healing you long for is right there within you.
You Are the Ocean
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. — Rumi
This is one of my favorite beaches. It is offshore from Nassau on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. When I can’t be here I visit in my mind’s eye in meditation. The water is warm and inviting, and the sea breezes are so fresh and alive. Walking here brings a renewed sense of peace and ease. Agendas fall away, and as the water underfoot allows my feet to settle into the sand I know myself to be at home, to be at one with sand and sea.
Human bodies are made of earth, water, air, and fire.
Our bones are piezo electric crystal, our blood is salty like the ocean, our lungs continually take in and release air. Within milliseconds the oxygen in that air reaches and nourishes our cells.
🔥Oh yes, and there is fire in the belly that digests our food, as well as in the tiny power packs in each cell, the mighty mitochondria. They provide power for everything we do, say, think, and create.
I invite you to join me here if you wish, to feel this wet sand and breathe in the gentle air, to allow this place to fulfill the longing in you.
Come and sing your heart open with me.
You can find yourself here. . .
Joyce Said, “Allow”
The founder of Cell-Level Healing, Joyce Whiteley Hawkes PhD, was a profound healer, teacher, protective mother and grandmother, friend, confidant, and neighbor. Before her passing she offered 4 decades of instruction and healing facilitation to hundreds of people. Myself included.
Of late I have been mulling over some of the things Joyce said; her words, her daily prayers, her humorous comments, her teachings. Perhaps here you will see how her words still hold wisdom and guidance for you.
Joyce said, “Allow”.
Joyce used this word with all of us; clients, students, family.
She encouraged people to start by allowing whatever was happening to be, just “Let it be.”
What does the word ‘Allow’ mean to you?
Is allowing the same as giving up?
What is easy to allow in your life?
What is not so easy to allow?
What would your life be like if you met it with the Spirit of Allowing?
Allowing was a general starting point for Joyce whenever she was seeking guidance. Without allowing what is to be as it is, it’s hard to see a way forward. We can get stuck in a mind loop, or flooded with fear, paralyzed or panicked.
If you will, see where the word ‘allow’ takes you today.
Thank you Joyce.
— Helen
