I am Thou

RA MA DA SA, SA SAY SO HUNG

Recalling several practices of healing self and others that have stayed with me throughout my life, I am so happy to remember the Siri Gaitri healing mantra that calmed my anxiety when recovering from breast cancer surgery in 2011, Now experiencing an autoimmune disease attacking my lungs, I'm calmed again by this beautiful mantra: "Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung."

The first four sounds of the mantra ascend and expand into the Infinite; the second part of the mantra pivots those qualities of the highest and brings them back down, to interweave Earth with Infinity:

RA is the Sun  -- its energy strong, bright, hot, and purifying

MA is the Moon -- a quality of receptivity, coolness, and nurturing

DA is the Earth -- its energy is secure, personal, and the ground of action 

SA is Infinity -- the impersonal cosmos in all its open dimensions and totality

SA -- this repetition is the turning point

SAY -- awareness of a sacred "Thou"

SO (the personal sense of merger and identity) and 

HUNG (the Infinite, vibrating and real) -- "I am Thou"

When I Wish, I Blow Bubbles...

In Wishing Well Paul Pearsall drew upon the Hawaiian kahuna (shaman) tradition – that we can wish "well" or "poorly." Sometimes we want a specific outcome so much we find it difficult to surrender to the larger healing.

"Wishing is the enemy of the positive thinker who prides herself on being so strong-willed that there is little need for mysticism or the equanimity of wishing. Wishing is much too passive, gentle, and humble for the needy and power-motivated brain. So in wishing well we let go of needing to be in control, of expecting a specific outcome. We focus on serenity, delight, purpose, meaning, and compassion vs. 'trying' to heal a certain part of the body in a certain way. It involves a kind of easy flow with the cosmos."

This quality is conveyed by one person who said, 'When I wish, I blow bubbles...'" 

Relax, be patient, wish from the heart (vs. the mind), connect lovingly, allow surrender of the self.