Tim’s Affirmations

Dear Ones,

I’ve received several requests for updates about Tim. He doing better and better. He continues to play hammer dulcimer and he does some light gardening.  Though he still needs a lot of rest, he can work 2-3 hours a day in the office of his business, MeditationBench.com

Tim a few years ago….see him well

Tim had a good visit with his oncologist last Thursday.  The doctor was truly amazed at how quickly the cancer seemed to be shrinking. It was beyond what he was expecting from the hormone blockers alone. Thank you for your prayers! I believe the combined effort of healing prayers, affirmations, positive thinking, music, hopefulness, western medicine, and some high powered natural supplements are moving him quickly toward healing.

He still has drainage tubes from his kidneys – though there is strong evidence that the ureters are no longer blocked. (That was why he went into acute kidney failure at Easter time.)  The urologist is playing it safe and wants to leave the tubes in a while longer… So, your prayers are still very deeply appreciated.

We have a follow-up phone appointment with Dr. Robert Rowen this coming Wednesday to review the supplements Tim is taking to heal from this cancer. (Tim doesn’t yet feel ready to travel down to Santa Rosa to see him.) A lot can be accomplished through this phone call. Dr. Rowen also stresses we need to heal the causative factors in body/mind/soul (he also is a meditator) but our consultation will be focused around fine tuning the supplements, etc.

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Healing Affirmations from Paramhansa Yogananda

Tim has found a lot of meaning in this affirmation, and he also uses it as a visualization:

My body cells are made of light.

My fleshly cells are made of Thee.

They are perfect, for Thou art perfect;

They are healthy, for Thou art Health;

They are Spirit, for Thou art Spirit;

They are immortal, for Thou art Life.

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Sometimes at night we do this affirmation together:

Perfect Father,

Thy Light is flowing through Christ,

Through the saints of all religions,

Through the Masters of India, and through me.

This Perfect Light is present in all my body parts,

I am well.

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Recently, when I realized I needed to overcome the pattern of worrying about Tim, I adapted the above affirmation in a way that I could use it as a repetitive prayer throughout the day, keeping my mind engaged in a positive manner.  It has been powerful and comforting to adapt the prayer in this way:

Perfect Father,

Thy Light is flowing through Christ,

Through the saints of all religions,

Through the Masters of India, and through Tim.

This Perfect Light is present in all his body parts,

He is well!

This has helped me to focus my mind and energy in a positive direction during this challenging time when I have often felt challenged with anxiety about Tim (until I started doing this prayer…)

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Previous posts about Tim can be found in the TIM category (click here).

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Thank you again for your prayers. And feel free to tell me what you think, or to share your favorite affirmation in the comment field, below.

Blessings,

Mary Kretzmann

PS – Below are some youtubes made by Dr. Rowen in 2007, when he still lived in Alaska. Many more are available here and here

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Dr. Robert Rowen, MD Tells Why He Became Alternative Doctor (very interesting video)

“The cancer treatments I saw were a disgrace, and still are…”

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Dr. Robert Rowen, MD Bioenergetic Medicine Hope For Future

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Dr. Robert Rowen, MD Good Nutrition Critical For Health

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Eternal Light

I am submerged in eternal light.

It permeates every particle of my being.

Spiritual Eye

I am living in that light.

The Divine Spirit fills me within and without.

Paramhansa Yogananda

A devotee called asking us to pray for her long-time friend, Kelley, who is “spiritual, but not religious.”  Kelley’s cancer has returned and is now in the liver (It was originally ovarian cancer).  I suggested some practical things that could help her – even at this late juncture, such as names of experts who have been known to help late stage cancers. No promises could be made, of course.

Kelley is age 62, and has the will to live, but the prognosis is not good. We are praying for her, and I wanted to offer her some inspiration that suits her nature. The prayers could indeed heal her – but we need to address her combined needs of body/mind/soul, now and always.

Her friend and I cooperatively created the affirmation card, below.  We were looking for the theme of helping her aspire toward the Light… It can be downloaded and printed, to be used for yourself, or to share with a friend.  Consider folding and laminating it to make a nice bedside affirmation card. Let me know what you think in the comment field, below.

Blessings,

Mary Kretzmann

Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry

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Dear Ones,

Back in January I asked the email members of the Ananda Healing Prayer Council to pray for my husband, Tim. I was deeply moved by the many messages offering loving prayers in response to that letter.  It was a long and winding road getting to a diagnosis, but on April 9^th he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Sometimes karma itself can put a veil on the diagnosis process, even when in retrospect the case seems pretty clear (but the unusual twists and turns made it complicated). The “Shiva” aspect of God teaches us our harder lessons, so sometimes a devotee’s natural good karma must temporarily be veiled or blocked for that to occur. Tim’s vedic astrology chart showed a very complex “Saturn” period this winter, but it is lightening up a bit now.

Tim’s case is paradoxically both serious, and yet also very hopeful, especially using integrative medicine, along with our spiritual “tools.”  Your prayers are very deeply appreciated. I will share deeper insights, as time and healing move along, on “Healing with Divine Energy.” healingprayers.wordpress.com

Tim’s energy is increasing already, and he is whistling much more – a good barometer for how he is doing. He also started playing his hammer dulcimer again daily; a very joyful sound now fills the house. It replenishes him very directly and immediately. Over the past several years his playing had dropped off to almost nothing once his Joyfull Strings business went dormant. So, part of the long-term healing plan includes taking time to play the music, smell the roses, and nurture friendships, etc. These areas were getting crowded out by work, but this karma forced a change. Everything has its own perfection, even illness. And, of course, we all need to make time for God. Tim was already strong in that; his inner strength and peace have blessed us all over the years, and I am sure that that will now go even deeper.

Krishnabai, our daughter, is pregnant with our first grandchild, due in September. Please see also her surrounded in healing light during this topsy-turvy time of both joy for the baby, and concern for her father.

Family picture from August 2011, right before Tim got sick – see Scribd document – above

L-R : me, Tim, our daughter, Krishnabai, Cullen (her husband) and our sons, Peter Sanjaya, and David, holding “Java”.

Thank you all for your loving prayers, and for your service.

Love in Him,

Mary Kretzmann

Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry

Healing words from Paramhansa Yogananda

From Divine Will Healing: THE LAW OF DIVINE HEALING, Part III (Soon to be reprinted)

“…Just as the life force is the principal source of energy of the body, so the sun is the vitality of the atmosphere that we breathe and of the earth forces — mineral, vitamin-laden vegetables, animals, and human beings. Therefore, all matter and all living creatures depend principally upon immanent cosmic life, energy, and sunlight from without. Diseases start when these two great energies fail to enter the system. Hence, one must know the various avenues through which these energies can penetrate the body. Besides, there is a great deal of reaction of life force on the sunlight. It is the chemically conglomerated force of the sunlight and life force that helps to support the human body.

Remember that doubt, mental fatigue, worry, indifference, boredom, fear, restlessness, timidity, mental and physical laziness, over-indulgence, unmethodical life, lack of interest, and lack of creative ability are counteracting static agents which make it impossible for the cosmic energy to tune in with man. Working with interest and desire to help others, creative spiritual ambition, calmness, and courage, unconquered attitude, tolerance, patience, and peace are avenues through which cosmic energy can help you.

This is a great secret law that some know, but few put into actual practice. If you continuously persist in thinking that your body is full of vitality, especially at the time when it is weak, then you will find that you have started to open up a new secret, invisible source of vitalizing yourself other than from the external material sources of food, and so forth. Metaphysically realize that your body (mental and spiritual) and vitality remain undiminished, because, as the Christian and ancient Bibles say: “You are made in God’s image.” Realize that only thought and consciousness exist as permanent realities. All matter is only cognized through ideas, and hence, realize that in working you are not using up energy, but using up thoughts of energy or materialized ideas; hence, you can never feel physical weakness if you continue to vitalize from your own thought continuous energy and enthusiasm…”

Inspiration on the healing power of music, from Cosmic Chants,

by Paramhansa Yogananda

Sound Is the Most Powerful Force in the Universe

“…Sound or vibration is the most powerful force in the universe, and music is a divine art, to be used not only for pleasure but as a path to God-realization. Vibrations resulting from devotional singing lead to the contact of the Cosmic Vibration or the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”—John 1:1. God is the Word or the Cosmic Vibration…

Americans Audiences Understand These Soul-Chants

         …Music which is saturated with soul-force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts. I have had many demonstrations of this truth during years of lecturing before American audiences. I was giving a series of lectures at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1926, and at that time I first suggested to some musical friends the idea of my singing one of these chants, asking the whole audience to join in, without previous rehearsal. My friends thought the chants would be so alien to American understanding that they warned me to expect overripe tomatoes as a possible commentary on my innovation.

I protested that music is the universal language of the soul’s devotion to God and that all soulful people, whether familiar or not with Eastern or Western music, would understand the divine yearning of my heart during chanting.

The next evening, while my friends sat behind me on the platform, fearing for my safety, I started to chant “O God Beautiful,” and asked the audience, who had never before heard the song, to join me in chanting it. For one hour and twenty-five minutes, the thousands of voices of the entire audience chanted, without discord, “O God Beautiful,” in a divine atmosphere of joyous praise. Even when I left the stage, the audience sat on, chanting the song. The next day, many men and women testified to the God-perception and healings of body, mind and soul which had taken place during the sacred chanting, and numerous requests came in to repeat the song at other services.

This experience, which occurred in Carnegie Hall, the musical temple of America and scene of the triumphs of many great singers and artists, was a spontaneous tribute to the universal nature of soul-music and to the untutored understanding of East and West regarding spiritual aspirations.

Since that first evening, I have used these chants thousands of times with large American audiences and have seen infinite divine benefits showered on the sincere devotees who chant the Lord’s name with love…”

Meditation to Fight Cancer

I bought a guided meditation CD for my husband called, Health Journeys:  A Meditation to Help You Fight Cancer, by Belleruth Naparstek. I wanted to pass along the info in case you have family or friends who may be in need of it. I’ve relaxed and listened to it a few times now, and I like her approach very much.  I believe it is a good adjunct to any healing program, and can help the patient more easily access and heal the mind/body connection, and start on the road to recovery. Her voice and the music are soothing and healing. It is even okay if the patient also drifts off to sleep while listening to this guided visualization, because her clear words will still reach the subconsciousness mind, a powerhouse of one’s healing potential. It also includes segments helping the patient to release gently any old pockets of emotion that may be stuck, causing blocked energy.

“This imagery combines images of tumors shrinking and fighter cells battling and triumphing over cancer cells, with motivation strengthening and energy mobilizing. Steve Kohns rich, empowering music broadcasts strength, support, safety and hope. “

Tim likes the CD and makes a point to use it twice a day. It helps hm apply these principles in a way that works readily for him, without having to study up on the topic, which would be overwhelming right now.  Put in the CD, relax and listen, and your body/mind/spirit has taken an important step toward healing, just like that!

He has also been able to meditate a little more each day, now that his pain has reduced significantly.  That spiritual meditation, purely for God, is done in our bedroom meditation area.  The healing CD, above, however, is done in the living room. It just sort of worked out that way.  I can see that it is good to have a separate “experience” to let it unfold in a natural manner, especially for devotees who already have an established meditation practice.

Blessings,

Mary Kretzmann

Affirmation from Yogananda

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Affirmation from Paramhansa Yogananda:

Paramhansa Yogananda

“Father, teach me to remember Thee equally in poverty and prosperity, in sickness and health, in ignorance and wisdom. Father, teach me to remember and be grateful for the years of health that I have enjoyed. Teach me to open my closed eyes of belief and behold Thy instantaneously-healing Light.”

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Paramhansa Yogananda taught the importance of the power of thought, and also feeling the healing affirmation.  The video, below, brings out this point very dramatically.  The Chinese healers in the video first feel in themselves that the healing is already accomplished, and then affirm dynamically from that center of feeling. This is a very important point. Feel that it is so, and then declare it and affirm it so.

This deepened my understanding of this prayer of Paramhansa Yogananda:

Visualize your patient well, say the person’s name, and then affirm:

“Name,” Be thou whole, for God is in you! Be thou well, for God is in you!

“Name,” You ARE whole, for God is in you. You ARE well, for God is in you!

By author and speaker, Gregg Braden

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January 312 Dwapara

Dear Ones,

 

To start off the New Year, I am including Swami Kriyananda’s serious letter to us all. One need only glance at the headlines over the past year to realize his letter is very compassionate; it is not intended to frighten anyone, but rather to warn and protect. He mentions the need to buy land in the country and prepare in various ways.  He also says that Paramhansa Yogananda also warned about nuclear war; Swamiji says that, mercifully, whenever this happens, it is likely to be short.  

 

We must always, in good times or bad, spiritually be prepared to leave this plane whenever God calls us. Pray, love, meditate. And we must also be prepared, physically, mentally and spiritually, to live on in strength to help ourselves and others. So, below is a simple little shopping list to help you, and your family and neighbors, should there be any nuclear event. (And to protect you from the radiation that is still spewing from Fukushima, anyway.) If nothing else, read and laugh…But better yet – read, laugh and buy:

1)       20 Mule Team Borax

2)       Boron supplement, 3 mg

3)       Bentonite clay

4)       Kelp and other seaweeds

 

For details on why – please read and print out: Big Island Dairy Farmers fight radiation with Boron

By Britton & Shekinah; Milk and Honey Farm.  (hawaiihealthguide.com)  Other good resources are available, as well, but I was impressed with practicality of their message.

 

And visualize PEACE, anyway. It will come…eventually.

God bless you, now and always.

Joy to you,

Mary Kretzmann

Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry

New Year’s Message By Swami Kriyananda, December 28, 2011

Dear Ones:

Here it is, 2012: the year people all over the world have been dreading, because the Mayan calendar ends on the last days of December in this year. Shall I add my two cents to the predictions? I have always felt it important, for the sake of those who look to me for guidance, and also as a close disciple of a great avatar, to keep abreast of important happenings in the world. One of the reasons I created Ananda was to offer people protection during hard times. And here the dreaded year is upon us!

Most of you know how urgently Yogananda stressed his prediction that the immediate future will be difficult. He said there will be a global depression — “much worse than that of the 1930s” — and that “the dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on.” Obama’s urging Europe to go further into debt as a solution to its economic woes points directly to a policy of further inflation. The ensuing financial chaos will result in world wars. “Europe will be devastated,” Master said (though he didn’t say when); “Russia will be annihilated.” America will fare better than most, because it has basically good karma (and hasn’t had time to accumulate bad karma!). America and India would end up leading the world together toward a more dharmic (righteous) way of life. I was in the Hollywood Church one Sunday when Master, during his sermon, paused to shout, “You don’t know what a terrible cataclysm is coming!” I still remember his exact words.

He urged people to get out of the cities, to buy land, and to live in little communities in the country, growing their own food, and becoming self-dependent instead of depending on government to save them.

One evening, when he’d received one more absurdly constrictive ruling from city hall, he commented wryly (as people do), “There ought to be a revolution!” He paused then a moment, and commented more quietly, “There will be one.” That comment makes me think of the mass protests recently in Zuccotti Park and elsewhere. Those protests were peaceful, but it would not take much more outrage on people’s part to make them violent, and then organized. Again, good reason to get out of the cities.

And a final reason: He said atom bombs will fly. Where do you think it more likely for atom bombs to fall — on Mt. Shasta? or on Los Angeles?

He added, finally, that those who love God will be protected. I myself have been teaching now for over sixty years. And I have noted a definite increase in spirituality all over the world. Yes, materialism too has increased, but there are more people now who think seriously about life, and who want to live more for God. I don’t think I could have started Ananda back in the forties.

I think this year may see many problems at least beginning. I urge you to look for land out in the country near you. If you live in a city, try to gather those around you who share high ideals. The communities you start needn’t be Ananda communities, but I can attest to the difficulty, on a human plane, of getting people to work harmoniously together. It will be much easier to start a new community for which the pattern has been already established. You can then tell dissidents, “This is what we are, and how we do things. If you don’t like it, go elsewhere.” So even if people don’t want to establish Ananda communities, they can pattern what they do on what we’ve worked out painstakingly over many years. (The first Ananda community is now over forty years old.)

A final word: Don’t get involved in mass hysteria. It won’t give you clarity. Be somewhat apart from any mania that seizes mankind in the years to come. This may be a difficult year, especially financially. Store food in advance of any crisis. Have some gold or silver as protection against the time when your nation’s currency loses value. And above all, live more for God. He alone can be our bulwark against the hardest of times.

love,
swami kriyananda

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November 311 Dwapara

Dear Ones,

Last month I wrote about the Peace and Harmony Prayer, and I’ve heard back that people are feeling blessed from the practice.  Beautiful! And we received this lovely note of gratitude: Thank you for the healing prayers on my behalf as I seek employment for work in a new field – I feel uplifted, see new possibilities, and think of ways to help others as an instrument of the Divine. I am so grateful for the prayers of the Healing Prayer Ministry. God bless you. – LH

Thanksgiving comes later this month. Remember, the Pilgrims were giving thanks that they had survived that extremely difficult first year.  Likewise, many people around the world are feeling economic hardship and other difficulties. It is easy for people to fall into fear, but if we hold on to higher thoughts and vibrations, it serves all.  Stay grateful for the blessings in your life; nurture them that they may grow, and thus bless others through your generous spirit.

Remain grateful and generous, always. God is ever with you.

Joy to you,

Mary Kretzmann

Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry

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Unselfishness is the only lasting way to secure individual prosperity.  Paramhansa Yogananda

The meaning of “neighbor“
Always avoid the evil of selfishness. Any person who lives selfishly for himself does not really live at all, for he chokes the expansion of his life. But when a person extends his sympathy from his family, to his neighbors, and to the world, he expands and connects his little life to its source in the eternal life of God…

Universal sympathy and love
Disease, universal depression, war—all these are making nations realize more and more that national security, prosperity, and health are dependent upon international development and world unity. We are a part of the world family and cannot exist without it….Real world unity and permanent prosperity, peace, and joy require that we feel that we are all children of the One Father, God….You can only develop this kind of universal sympathy and love through meditation and spiritual effort. Actual steps must be taken to live the brotherhood preached by Christ and the masters of all religions, and to learn to “love thy neighbor as thyself.”

From The Causes of Economic Depression, by Paramhansa Yogananda  - from Clarity Magazine – online http://www.anandaclaritymagazine.com/2008/12/prosperity-yogananda-samaritan/

 

Update on our healing prayer group in Kenya

                Last year I told you about Rev. Wangai in Kitale, Kenya. He has been a member of the Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry for many years now.  He helps several small, poor congregations, and also cares for a group of AIDS widows and their children. In addition, since some of the AIDS mothers have died, Rev. Wangai and his wife have decided to take in 10 of the orphans into their own home, to give them better care.

Many people from the Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry donated money to help Rev. Wangai in this special work. Over the course of many months, we sent money for 8 treadle sewing machines, cloth, goats and chickens.  They have done very well getting these projects going.   We also sent him a copy of  The Second Coming of Christ, by Paramhansa Yogananda. He reads from it each day, and then teaches it to his congregation and the group of widows who work on the sewing project.

One woman, Lucy, wrote to me, “There are teachings you have taught Rev Wangai, and he has been teaching us .Everyday we pray before we start work, at lunch time one hour and evening we pray when we are closing down our work. It has helped we as women in our project so much….God bless you…”

I have also sent to him instructions on meditation, affirmations, and several prayers to teach the congregation including “I was made for Thee” by Paramhansa Yogananda. They are very grateful for both the material and spiritual help. They really feel it. He is also sharing some of these teachings with other ministers in the surrounding area.

Please send them prayers, and also monetary help, if you feel so inspired… Love, in God, Christ, Guru……Mary K

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Rev Wangai teaching the Divine Mother Healing Prayer               Group photo after Sunday Service

 

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Food Distribution in the outlying drought and famine areas

Dear  Reverend  Mary,

Receive much greetings, I have sent you a pictures of Sunday service. In the picture they is my son, do you remember when I use to tell you to pray for him to get saved. Now he prays for convicts in correction facilities in Kenya. Your prayers helped him, he taught the children on Sunday. One orphan child got ill at night, we had to rush her to hospital at night. These children being together will make it easier for us to take care of them. By time God will help us be able to buy a farm and build a house for this big family of mine. May God bless you….Rev.Wangai

 

If you would like to help, please send any gift you like to me at the Ananda mailing address. 100% of the money is used to help this project. Please just mention it with your check – Mary Kretzmann, 14618 Tyler Foote Road, Nevada City, CA  – 95959

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