I read Your 3 Best Super Powers by Sonia Choquette just over a month ago. It's stuffed full of different practices, but the one that intrigued me most was a meditation practice called Breathing in the Holy Spirit. I read years ago that the key to successful meditation is giving the mind a …
The Body Pendulum and Asking For Directions
I hope you had a nice summer in your part of the world. I spent two months home in Shetland and just got back to Maine a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to tell you a cool story from my trip about how I was guided to the perfect meal while I was in Edinburgh, waiting for my flight to the …
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Buy the Baby Carriage
"Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight." Florence Scovel Shinn In Larry King's book Powerful Prayers, he shares a parable about two childless couples desperate to conceive. The wanna-be fathers heard of a wise man who lived far away …
The Power of Intercessory Prayer
“And as it turns out, if one person is praying or you, buckle up. Things can happen.” Anne Lamott I first became interested in intercessory prayer after reading a story made famous by the author Caroline Myss. A woman in one of her workshops had been in a serious car accident, so bad in fact …
What happens during a distant Reiki session?
My favourite story about distant Reiki comes from this book. A group of Native American elders gave Hawayo Takata a test to see if she really could direct Reiki energy to them at a distance. They met in a hotel and separated into different rooms. Hawayo then gave them a distant Reiki treatment as …
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My Top Ten Blog Posts
I have been blogging for many years, but recently I've made a focused effort to learn more about it to make my blog even more useful. One of the things I just learned about is The Top Ten: my 10 most popular posts according to Google. The results surprised me as this list doesn't necessarily …
We Are! A Prayer Experiment
Following the results of the Prayer Experiment, I'd like to let you know about a new group prayer project called: We Are! The participants of the Prayer Experiment tested various prayer statements and reported their results at the end of each round. Whilst all the prayers produced results, as I …
The Prayer That Stopped Time in Rwanda
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." Meister Eckhart The following story was submitted by a participant of the Prayer Experiment about a miracle she experienced whilst working in Rwanda. It's an important and profound story for many reasons. …
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The Prayer Experiment
“If more people prayed, we would interrupt the flow of history.” Marianne Williamson At some point during the long process of writing my prayer book, I realised that an entire book of just my own stories might give readers the impression that there's something special about me and my results …
The prayer that turned 3 months into 3 weeks
"Prayer does change things. Prayer does make things happen quite otherwise than they would have happened had the prayer not been made." Emmet Fox In 2013, as part of the application process for an American "Green Card", I had to provide the US Embassy in London with my vaccination history and, if …
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