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The next phone conference healing is
scheduled for Sunday, August 31
3 PM Central Daylight Time
(20:00 UTC/GMT)
and features world-renown dental healer,
Dr. Willard Fuller

Lynn Woodland, sometimes in collaboration with other accomplished healers, offers periodic healing services by phone. Using phone conferencing technology, participants call a conference number and are then prompted to give a "bridge" number that gives access to the network. Healing happens in live time as callers listen in and there is even opportunity to speak and hear other participants, just as with an in-person healing service. You may call in for your own healing or on behalf of someone else.

The format includes an informative presentation on the healing experience, a guided meditation in prepare to receive healing, a healing prayer and reading of names of registered participants and a general blessing of all listeners whose names weren't read out loud.

Many healers have noticed that healing miracles happen more frequently in group healings than in one-on-one sessions due to the amplifying power of group energy. This phone-in event is a unique way to make the power of group healing accessible across wide geographic distances and even to those too ill to travel.

For a better understanding of what spiritual healing is, how it works, and how to prepare yourself to receive it, see the next section, What Is Spiritual Healing?.

Please register by 8 pm Saturday evening, August 30 to make sure you are part of the of the service. Because of the demand for this service, we will need you to register to attend.

Donations: These events are offered on a free-will donation basis. At any time before, during or after the healing service you may make a donation via Pay Pal or by sending a check to Quantum Spirit Unlimited, c/o Lynn Woodland, PO Box 6705, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Your donations are applied to the overhead expenses of the healing events and help support the ministries of participating healers.

Here's what people had to say after the first phone healing with Dr. Fuller:

• I loved hearing Dr. Fuller speak - he has so much wisdom and is filled with love and kindness.


• I truly enjoyed the phone conference with Master [Dr.] Fuller and everyone. I certainly felt during the conference waves of peace and I have seen improvement in my health.


• I was so thrilled with my telephone experience - I am very grateful to you and Dr. Fuller - I have a new tooth coming in where one had broken off and a major filling put into a back molar which dentists said they could not fill!.


• My whole family had dental healings! We were all listening on different phones. I've suffered from TMJ pain on the left side of my jaw for thirteen years and the evening of the healing, as I was on my way to bed, I felt a crack in my jaw and all the muscles relaxed. I've been pain free ever since. My daughter had an even more dramatic healing. For years she has felt self-conscious about a tooth that had never fully grown in and was very crooked. After the healing, her tooth came down all the way and her teeth all straightened! My husband has had gum issues and hasn't been able to chew on one side for some time. After the healing he realized he was chewing pizza crust on that side with no pain.


• When I checked my teeth after the conference all my fillings seemed to become very shiny but not gold or white, just silver-looking. Since I don't have dental insurance I can't verify what metal exactly it is..... It just helps me to think that I have no mercury seeping into my body any more. For two weeks prior to this healing I was suffering with seasonal allergies and it was particularly hard at night, as I had very hard time breathing and had to constantly wake up to take a sip of water to keep my mouth from drying out. The very first night after Dr Fuller's healing all symptoms disappeared and almost 3 weeks after I'm still allergy free.

God Is Still Filling Teeth through Dr. Willard Fuller--Now over the Phone

By Lynn Woodland

The first healing service I ever attended with the world-renown healer, Dr. Willard Fuller, was in 1999. It was a packed event held in a Unity Church in Golden Valley, Minnesota and in no time at all he had hundreds of normally taciturn and composed Minnesotans laughing, shrieking and screaming "AAAA-men!" in true Southern Baptist style. After an hour or so of lively talk, he and his wife Althea, also a minister of healing, laid hands on everyone in the house, healing at breakneck speed.

Afterward, he began pulling people out of the audience and quizzing them about the state of their dental work. Discretely popping a Tic Tac breath mint, he asked them to open their mouths and, with flashlight and dental mirrors, peered in to take a look. Then he let them see for themselves. Pandemonium broke out as one person after another saw gold fillings where there had been none and other such startling changes, no short of miraculous. Members of the audience rushed up to crowd around someone's open mouth to watch teeth change right before their eyes, while others inspected their own teeth with mirrors that had been passed around the room.

I enjoyed the spectacle, feeling uplifted and inspired but didn't realize that I, too, had received a mouthful of shiny new fillings until hours later at home when, just for the heck of it, I looked in a mirror. Since then I've attended a number of other large healing services with Dr. Fuller and they're always the same. After a while, the mind-blowing transmutation of teeth, as well as all sorts of other spontaneous healings, begin to feel common place. A teenage friend of mine had the experience of all her fillings and cavities disappearing. She left the healing service with a mouthful of perfect virgin teeth, much to her mother's astonishment.

I travel in circles of people who are open-minded and willing to believe all manner of things most people don't. But even my most "out there" friends looked at me dubiously when I told them the story of my teeth instantly growing new fillings through prayer. I found that people who'd have no trouble believing that inoperable cancer could be spontaneously healed have difficulty believing that teeth can spontaneously heal.

This is exactly why I find Dr. Fuller's ministry of dental-healing so compelling. It could be argued that dental needs aren't as crucial to our well-being as the healing of more serious diseases. Yet teeth are such a bony, stony, unchangeable part of ourselvesÑa part we believe simply can't get better without the extreme interventions of drilling, pulling, filling and replacing. If we can experience this rock-like part of our body changing so easily and instantaneously then what, truly, is impossible? What other "carved-in-stone" aspects of our body, mind and life circumstances might also be subject to some new rules of reality?

Though Willard's style is all Southern, his theology couldn't be further from his roots as a Southern Baptist minister. When the gift of healing came to him some five decades ago, as he put it, he had to make a choice between Christ and Christianity. Now, his great passion is the formation of a "Spiritual United Nations" to bring spiritual leaders from all religions together to find the common ground of unconditional love that all spiritual paths share and help lead the world to unity.

In his mid eighties, Dr. Fuller and his wife Dr. Althea Cook retired from the non-stop travel of their ministry and established a small retreat center in the remote town of Lloyd, Florida where he now teaches theology, ordains students and offers healing to all those willing to make the pilgrimage to Northern Florida. Now in his nineties, it's been a handful of years since Dr. Fuller has conducted one of the exciting, large group healing services that made him famous. However, with the help of phone conferencing technology, all that's changing and on March 30th at 4 PM Eastern Time (3:00 PM Twin Cities time), Dr. Fuller and I will conduct a national, phone-in healing service for up to 250 callers. While participants need to pay their usual long-distance rates, the healing, like all Dr. Fuller's work, is offered unconditionally, with an option to make a free-will donation.

What Is Spiritual Healing?

An Overview of Spiritual and Energetic Healing

There are countless methods for spiritual and energetic healing and the following offers some explanation of the different broad categories most healing approaches fall into. Some modalities require many sessions, some take just seconds. Many use different hand positions and specific manipulations, some involve no touch at all, and others are practiced over long distances. Some are designed to treat specific symptoms and some are aimed at changing our very DNA. Some are steeped in religious dogma, ritual and ancient traditions while others are founded in science. Here are a few basic styles of healing and what characterizes each of them.

Energy Healing

Energy healing works with an energetic field that permeates and extends beyond the physical body. Signs of illness show up in this field before manifesting as physical symptoms and with a little practice this "aura" can be experienced, even by a novice. While the awareness of an energy field has been an integral part of mainstream medicine in the Eastern hemisphere for thousands of years (with medical systems such as acupuncture being every bit as precise, specialized and effective as Western medical techniques), it's a relatively new addition to Western ways of thinking.

Energy healing generally operates in much the same way as conventional medicine, by addressing symptoms, identifying energy blocks and areas of dysfunction, and moving energy around in specific, mechanical ways. The healer often visualizes transferring or channeling healing energy to the recipient, using energy in much the same way an MD uses medication, surgery and other treatment. Therapeutic Touch, a technique developed by nurse, Delores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., is a well-known example of this approach that has become increasingly integrated into mainstream medicine since she introduced it into New York University's nursing curriculum in the 1970's. Her book, The Therapeutic Touch is an excellent introduction to the practice of energy healing.

Spiritual Healing

With spiritual healing, instead of moving energy around to address specific problem areas, the healer goes into a powerful state of unconditional love and has an experience of becoming one with the healing recipient. Rather than focusing on illness, the healer joins with the person's spiritual self, where there is no illness. This powerful attention to the recipient's intrinsic wellness helps call it forth. I think of this style of healing as "repatterning" rather than repairing.

Faith Healing

Faith healing doesn't require that the healer "diagnose" energetically, direct energy, or be versed in a particular methodology. There may still be a focus on symptoms and on disappearing signs of illness but healing is performed by invoking the power of a higher spiritual source, as in Christian faith healing. Faith healers often describe their work as "prayer."

Attitudinal Healing

Attitudinal healing is simply a shift in perspective that assumes illness to be illusionary and the spiritual essence of our being to be eternally whole and complete. Thus, by identifying with our spiritual wholeness rather than our physical dis-ease, we can feel at peace regardless of outer circumstances and often release physical symptoms of illness as well. The term "attitudinal healing" was coined by psychiatrist, Gerald Jampolsky to describe a philosophy he drew from A Course in Miracles and applied in his work with children and adults experiencing illness (there are now many Centers for Attitudinal Healing around the world based on Jampolsky's modelÑGoogle "Center for Attitudinal Healing" to find out more) but there are numerous approaches to healing that give attention to attitude rather than illness. Some metaphysical paths even discourage healing practices altogether on the premise that the act of "healing" affirms the reality of illness and is counterproductive to achieving the greater reality that we are already perfectly whole.

The Common Denominator: Healing Follows Intention

All of these methods are very good at facilitating a peaceful state and all have been known to facilitate the spontaneous healing of physical illness, sometimes quite miraculously. Is one method better than another? I tend to think they're like apples and oranges, different and useful in different ways. The key principle that makes them all work, even ones that seem to contradict one another, is that healing follows the intention of the healer. While healers may be using hands or voice in very specific ways to direct energy, invoking higher powers, using elaborate ritual or working within a framework of specific religious dogma, it's their expectations, beliefs and envisioning of the healing process, along with their heart-felt caring, that are bringing about a healing response.

Seven Key Elements of Healing

The following are some key elements that facilitate a powerful experience of healing with any of these methods. The first two are aimed specifically at the recipient in the healing interaction but many of these are equally applicable to the healer achieving an effective state for facilitating healing.

1. Identifying a desire for healing: Identifying a desire for anything we wish to call forth is a creative act. It directs intention and focus toward this issue and starts healing energy moving in the direction of our intent.
2. Identifying and releasing the payoffs of dis-ease: As last week's lesson addressed in depth, as long as we need the payoffs of a painful condition, we will subconsciously hold it in place. Giving attention to how a condition is still serving us makes any form of treatment or healing more effective.
3. Living in the moment in unconditional love: When Lawrence LeShan studied a large group of spiritual healers, as described in his classic book, The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, he found the experience of deep caring to be common to all. In the words of one of his healers, "Only love can generate the healing fire." This is also the essence of attitudinal healing which is all about letting go of the past and the future and simply amplifying love in the moment. In Gerald Jampolsky's early experiments with this, he brought seriously ill children togeter with adult helping professionals to relate as peers, practicing these principles of unconditional love. What began simply as an exercise in creating a peaceful state of mind proved to facilitate healing miracles as children defied doctors' prognoses and healed from terminal illnesses. Dean Ornish's excellent book, Love and Survival pulls together decades of medical research documenting the connection between all different forms of love and physical healing. He concludes that, "love and intimacy are among the most powerful factors in health and illness." Quite simply, every time we experience even an instant of unconditional love, inner peace, compassion and forgiveness, we're in a powerful healing state. We heal ourselves and we become a healer to others as well.
4. Faith: Faith isn't a hope or wish for a future outcome. Rather, it's the feeling of certainty that the future is going to be fine, no matter what. When we have faith, we're free to be at peace in the present and able to let go of worry about the future. With hoping and wishing, we're focused on what we don't have and attach our peace of mind to a specific future outcome. It then becomes easy to vacillate between hope and fear and, consequently, lose our ability to be present and at peace. Ultimately, faith isn't about trusting in an outcome; it's a willingness to trust God and the process of life. Paradoxically, when we deeply trust we'll be OK no matter what, we begin to attract miracles.
5. Surrender: Surrender isn't the same as giving up in defeat. The kind of surrender I'm suggesting here is a lightness of being, not about losing the battle, but about stepping out of the fight. So often we think of ourselves as "battling" a health condition and even use that very word. (Choose your words carefully as you speak about illness as they describe the reality we're creating. Would you rather be battling cancer, suffering from cancer, living with cancer or healing from cancer? Think carefully of the implications because your words help shape your experience.) I once knew a woman who "battled" melanoma for fifteen years and finally became cancer free after weeks of working with the affirmation, "Thank you, God, for cancer." The first thing she noticed, just days into this affirmation work and before there were any noticeable physical effects, was that for the first time she felt at peace with her disease. Every condition we battle is in some way serving us. Even if we don't fully understand how, the more we accept the truth of this, the more swiftly we can release the struggle and pain. There's an exercise I sometimes do in workshops where I have an individual who feels hopelessly stuck in some area of life invite people from the group to represent the various limiting messages she has going on in her own head. These helpers externalize and dramatize the person's inner dialogue and what ensues is generally a noisy debate between the protagonist and her "voices." At some point in this drama I ask the rest of the group to call to person, now locked in battle with her own demons, and see if they can entice her with offers of love and kindness. It's fascinating to see how many people stubbornly hang on to the fight and find it more compelling than the breath of fresh air coming from beyond. There's never an end to these battles. They could go on endlessly if I didn't intervene and, even though fighting in the same old way doesn't produce any new results, people keep at it as long as I let them. When I do finally step in, the protagonist typically says, "Yup, this is how I feel stuck in my life!"
   
   Eventually, many in this exercise discover that as much as they hate the battle, it's energizing and seductively holds their attention. Some realize that battling their own self feels comfortably familiar, and safer than being fully available and intimate with another. Those who break free from this inner war don't do it by "winning;" they do it by losing interest in it. They shift their attention from fighting what's wrong to embracing love. The voices don't go away; they just fade into the background and eventually wither from lack of attention. This is the power of surrender. It requires letting go of stubbornness, of being right, of trying to control the outcome, and stepping back from fighting whatever condition we love to hate.
   
   One last important word on surrender: it's not to be confused with the highly debilitating states of passivity and depression. There are times when achieving a "fighting" state of mind is a good thing and supports healing. "Battling" is a big step up from hopeless despair, and early studies of mental attitude and illness showed that the more "difficult" cancer patients who fought their treatments and medical caregivers had a better survival rate than passive, "good" patients who just gave up and died. Sometimes getting mad is a step toward feeling alive. Surrendering to love is a next step, if and when we're ready.
6. Envision healing: Instead of waiting for healing, envision it. Any time your in a healing process and may be tempted to dwell on the evidence of your symptoms still there, vividly imagine them leaving or already gone. Build this envisioning into your daily routines. I knew a young woman with cancer who attached her healing imagery to the unavoidable act of peeing. At every opportunity, she imagined herself peeing out all the cancer cells in her body.
7. Group Agreement: The opportunity to do healing work in a group offers some powerful advantages. Some healers have even noticed a higher proportion of healings in their group sessions than when working with people individually. There's a powerful amplification of energy created when a group of minds join forces. Excitement, faith, and willingness to believe grow exponentially in groups and create fertile ground for miraculous outcomes. Individuals are propelled far beyond where they could go on their own steam alone. Even nonbelievers are more likely to experience dramatic results as the energy of the group becomes wave-like, lifting everyone.
   
   Group intention can literally suspend the rules of the natural world as we know them. For example, if you put your hand in fire, do you believe it would burn? Of course you do, and it would! But if you were to attend a fire-walking event and spent a few hours with a group of people convincing yourselves that the fire wouldn't hurt, more than likely you'd successfully trot across a big bed of hot coals, unharmed.
   
   The world-known healer and man who ordained me, Dr. Willard Fuller, defies known reality on a regular basis in his amazing healing services where, each time, numbers of people come away with shiny new fillings and other dental miraclesÑsometimes even new teeth! (To learn more about his work or to ask for healing prayer, see www.willardfuller.com.) Dr. Fuller has noticed a higher rate of healings in his large services than in his one-on-one healing sessions and I believe this is due to the group-mind factor.
   
   States of mind-over-matter that might take years of dedicated practice for an individual to achieve alone can be realized with phenomenal speed in a group, even by those who feel doubtful of the process or of their own ability to have a positive result. When people join together in an intention that reality is going to work differently, miraculously, it does. This even happens in groups that are separated by space or by time, as with my online classes and phone-in healings services. Quantum science and relativity theory have taught us that the fixed nature of space and time are as illusionary as the apparent solidity of the physical realm.
   
   We all have the power to heal and even if you don't think of yourself this way, know that your sheer intention to help adds power to the whole. As Delores Krieger describes this in the context of therapeutic touch, "...from the moment one turns one's attention to helping or healing another, an energetic interchange between those two people has already begun... The focusing of your intention gives explicit, although perhaps unconscious, direction to your energy flow." So as you participate in a phone-in healing service or listen to a down-loaded meditation, know that you add power to every listener's experience.

Potential Healing Outcomes

Along with the expectation that healing will happen for you, also be open to it taking the form you most need, not necessarily the form you expect. Healing comes in whatever way best serves us and as you prepare yourself for a healing experience, trust that it will happen in the best way for you, not just the best you can currently imagine. Typical healing outcomes include:

1. Spontaneous physical healing where manifestations of illness disappear instantly. In my own healing services as well as the distance healing work of my prayer ministry, I've seen many examples of a physical condition disappearing so completely and immediately that surgery or medication became no longer necessary. These occurrences seem to happen as often over distance as in person. On a night when my weekly group was experimenting specifically with dental healing, a woman with a painful dental condition who was unable to be there, just took a moment out from her other commitment to join her mind with the group work in order to receive healing. Not only did her tooth stop hurting, but she kept her scheduled dental appointment the next day just to be safe and the dentist could find nothing wrong.
2. Attitudinal shifts such as feeling at peace even though circumstances haven't changed, or seeing new options where choices had seemed limited. For example, a woman who attended a series of monthly healing services with me, first came wanting to heal the chronic pain she had lived with for years. The next month she appeared quite improved and reported that her pain hadn't gone away but she did have an experience during the healing service of feeling happy for the first time in years. This happiness stayed with her all month and so changed her state of mind that her pain slipped from the foreground to the background of her awareness. She felt able to get on with her life in a whole new way and several months later, she reported that the pain was much diminished.
3. A slow steady course of growth and healing where results may not be noticeable for some time (like planting a seed that grows invisibly at first). For example, another woman who had attended many healing services with me reported that a chronic condition of asthma had gone away and she didn't even know it until she found herself in a situation that would have ordinarily triggered an attack. As she tried to remember the last time she'd had an asthma attack, she realized it had been many months.
4. Circumstantial shifts that bring new conditions, opportunities or people into our lives. It's very common for fortunate "coincidences" to occur within days of spiritual healing work. Jobs show up unexpectedly, money shows up, new relationships form, connections are made to the perfect medical help or healing practitioner, etc. These are things we might not see as directly connected to the healing we want yet they support the totality of our well-being in a way that serves us even more than the simple disappearance of a symptom.
5. Relationship healing where specific relationships or relationship patterns shift to create deeper love, compassion, forgiveness and interpersonal harmony. I've often seen this happen with great serendipity, as with a woman whose estranged daughter called her after years of silence, just days after she'd talked about this painful situation in a healing service. Because the connection between love and healing is so strong, as our relationships heal, so do we.

It's important to understand all the forms healing can take because it's easy to come away feeling like nothing happened if we don't get the outcome we had in mind. While we could participate in healing work and receive its benefits passively and unconsciously, it becomes far more powerful when we consciously recognize the positive results. Firstly, as we're able to recognize the tangible results of our spiritual work, we have more faith in it, which makes it more effective. What's more, when we recognize the subtle beginnings of healing, we're more apt to nurture them and allow a small healing effect to grow into a greater one. Imagine if the woman with chronic pain dismissed her experience of happiness as momentary and insignificant and left the healing service disappointed that she still had pain. She might never have nurtured that new state of mind into a more fulfilling life that ultimately resulted in far less pain. Last but not least, any time we give grateful attention to our blessings in any form, we attract more opportunities to feel grateful. Recognizing healing is, in and of itself, a healing act.

Why Would We Not Heal?

1. We're stilling learning something from the illness/symptom. Perhaps it's meeting a need we haven't found another way to fulfill: for caring attention, time for ourselves, protection from risk-taking, etc.
2. Healing it too quickly would shake our sense of reality in a way that would be more uncomfortable than the illness. This level of discomfort may be unconscious until we're faced with it. A healer I know who had successfully healed himself of a terminal heart condition, diabetes and more, decided to grow a missing tooth back after seeing this happen in his work with the dental healer, Dr. Willard Fuller. He set about it in the way he had healed so many other conditions and there was a point in the process where he actually felt a cracking sensation in his jaw, right where the missing tooth had been. Instead of embracing the sign of healing, his first impulse was a big inner, "NO!" He was very surprised at his own response and understood it to be a manifestation of his limiting beliefs: even though he had healed himself in so many other ways, this one seemed "too big!" Fortunately, the more we're aware of these hidden agendas, the more power we have to choose and the less they control us.
3. We're focused more on battling something painful than on pursuing something joyful. What we give attention to we magnify. If we're giving a large amount of attention to our distress over the problem, we hold it in place. When we stop battling an illness we free up a tremendous amount of energy that can then move in the direction of healing.
4. The pain we know may feel safer than the potential risks of the unknown. If there's a symptom or problem we've been living with for a long time, one that's gotten a lot of our energy and attention, its sudden absence would undoubtedly leave a big empty place in our lives. While on the surface this might seem all good, this change could create significant stress and anxiety if we don't know how to fill the space. A Pandora's Box full of issues, from intimacy to life purpose, may be next in line to be addressed once the familiar struggle is no longer there.

What is this service, and who is it for?

This is a donation-based service offering personalized, distance healing from Lynn Woodland's Healing Ministry. Healing sessions take place weekly and recipients receive healing attention from several healers at once for 10-15 minutes. Afterward, each individual receives a personal, intuitive message from the healers who worked on her or him.

Feel free to use this service any time you're experiencing a health crisis or chronic health issues, or when you simply desire an energy boost.

If you are seeking healing for someone else, please let us know this as we use a different healing process. You may use this service in conjunction with the free prayer request service.

What kind of healing is offered?

The healers use a very effective format developed by Lynn Woodland that combines energy healing, spiritual healing and intuition (for general information about healing, see What Is Spiritual Healing?). We've found that this combination of techniques and the amplifying effect of multiple healers generally give rise to a healing experience that most recipients can immediately feel. The highly personal messages we send you afterward offer uplifting and useful information to apply to your healing process.

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Donations

If you use this service, please make a donation to support this ministry's continuation. You may contribute online through Pay Pal or send your contribution to: Lynn Woodland, PO Box 6705, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Make checks payable to Quantum Spirit Unlimited. (Thank you for sending only your love and gifts to this PO Box and not your apologies!)

To support your healing experience, consider reading the information on this page, using the Prayer Request Service and listening to the Self-Healing Meditation and/or Healing Prayer Meditation every day for as long as needed. You might want to check the schedule below to see when your healing will be taking place and listen to one of these meditations at that time.

Distance Healing Session Schedule

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Leave a Request for Healing Prayer

To Leave Your Request

First, please read the information on, Why do some prayers seem to go unanswered? and 7 Steps for Effective Prayer. State BRIEFLY your request for healing prayer. Keep this to a short paragraph or less. Include your name (first names only are OK) and your location. It’s OK to ask for prayers for someone else. Please, however, DO NOT send us someone else’s full name (first names only, please) as this can be a violation of another person’s privacy. For the same reason, this prayer ministry will only pray for the “highest good,” rather than for specific outcomes, when we receive third person requests.

E-mail to leave your request

Send Us Your Stories of Healing

If you’ve left a prayer request and had a healing experience, let us know. We would love to hear from you!

Prayer Request Phone Line:

If you prefer, you can phone in your prayer request by calling 651-641-9996.

About this Ministry

This prayer ministry, founded by Lynn Woodland in 1999, is not connected to any particular religion or spiritual path. We endorse an approach to prayer that is aimed broadly at calling forth the highest good and, over the years, we’ve heard countless stories of physical and emotional healing as well as fortunate opportunities and events showing up for our prayer recipients. When you leave a prayer request, a group of people will pray for you every day and send you love. Even though we may never meet, know how important you are to us and how loved you are! We encourage you to repeat your prayer request every week until your healing needs feel resolved.

Join Us!

Do you have a few minutes a day to pray from your own home for people in need? Are you looking for a simple, regular spiritual practice that will promote personal healing, well-being and inner peace? If so, we’d love to have you join our ministry. We’re looking for loving hearts and loving prayers to assist those who have left requests for healing and assistance. As one of our volunteers, you’ll receive, via email, a list of these requests and we ask you to spend a bit of time in prayer each day in a way that is consistent with the suggested 7 Steps for Effective Prayer. If you’d like to join our ministry, email us with your name and address (we sometimes send things to our volunteers via snail mail).

Why do some prayers seem to go unanswered?

Prayer is a powerful practice that invites grace and healing of all sorts into our life. Research is showing a powerful connection between prayer and physical healing, even when those being prayed for don’t believe in prayer or know that prayer is being said on their behalf. Science is proving what many world religions and spiritual paths have taught through the ages, that with faith, love and clear intent anything is possible. (A compelling book on prayer research is Healing Words by Larry Dossey, MD.)

With so much evidence coming, not just from the spiritual community but from the medical community as well, that prayer really does have an effect, why does it seem that so many prayers go unanswered? If we believe in a God or Higher Power, why would it choose to answer some prayers and not others? Even if we believe it’s the power of our own consciousness that makes prayer work, why would it work sometimes and not others?

I believe there’s an art and science to prayer that make some more effective than others. For many of us prayer is something we don’t even think to do until we’re desperate and have exhausted all other resources. In this state, our prayers are less a reflection of our trust in a Higher Power and more an affirmation of our own powerlessness. These aren’t the most effective prayers.

There’s a Bible passage, Matthew 7:7, that says, “Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” It’s easy to become cynical about this spiritual truth by the time we’re old enough to learn Santa doesn’t bring us everything on our list! Yet I believe “Ask and you shall receive” is spiritual law, not religious metaphor, and that if applied correctly, it works. Obviously there’s a trick to it because we all could name things we asked and pleaded for but never got. I believe the secret lies in another spiritual law, which we’ve heard a distortion of in the familiar, “It’s better to give than receive” but comes through more clearly in the modern day spiritual text, A Course in Miracles, as “Giving and receiving are the same.”

If we combine “Ask and you shall receive” with “Giving and receiving are the same” it means our prayer request needs to offer up, to give, a bit of what we’re asking for in order to be truly effective. A powerful prayer is one where we create first within ourselves a bit of the peace, joy, love, surrender, safety and fulfillment we want to grow in our lives and give it up to Spirit—like planting a seed.

When prayers don’t work they’re often a desperate plea of, “Pleeeaaassse God, rescue me!!” They may have an element of bartering: “Pleeaassse… I’ll do anything!” Or we may be praying from our fear-based need for control. Instead of praying for the highest possible outcome, trusting God to show us what that is, we come to God with our grocery list of specific requests saying, in effect, “This, God, and only this will do.” In so doing, we undermine the purpose and power of prayer: to give us what is truly for our highest good, not just the limit of what we can imagine our highest good to be.

Spirit gives us what we love and ask for, and we demonstrate what we love and ask for it by how we give our attention. Our state of mind is a powerful force and what we give attention to we magnify. So if we’re praying (pleading) for healing, love and prosperity while we fill our attention with wishing (magnifying what we don’t have), complaining (magnifying what’s wrong), resenting (magnifying separateness and lack of love) and worrying (can you think of any time worrying helped?), is it any wonder that God answers our prayers by giving us is more of the same?

If our prayers aren’t being answered in the way we hoped, we might need to ask differently. A 180 degree turnaround may be in order. Instead of a “pleading” prayer, try a “giving” prayer. Transform wishing into gratitude by giving thanks for what you have and even for unanswered prayers as though they have already been fulfilled. Turn complaining into creating by focusing on what you can create in your situation rather than what’s wrong with it. Change resentment into forgiveness. If it’s hard to forgive, start with yourself. If it’s still difficult, ask yourself the question often: Would you rather have God answer your prayers by proving you right or by making you happy? And when your mind is crowded with worries, this is the time for faith. Reach up to a higher power. Recognize that your personal power may not be enough to get you through but Divine Power is.

7 Steps for Effective Prayer

Here are some steps for working with the practice of directed prayer (that is, praying for something as opposed to prayer simply as communication/communion with God) to help make the most of your prayer time:

1. Identify a prayer request. Identifying a desire for assistance directs intention and focus toward this issue. Actually writing it in words makes this even stronger. This starts your creative and healing energy moving in the direction of your intent.

2. Begin your prayer period with 5-20 minutes of quiet meditation. Use this time to quiet any thoughts and emotions that strengthen feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness and fear. Read inspiring words, listen to uplifting music, or do whatever else helps you to shift attention away from the perceived limits of your situation and toward the limitlessness of God.

3. Imagine that you are, or whomever you’re praying for is, already whole and healed. In this way you magnify the healed Self rather than the dis-ease. If you’re praying for another person, imagine your own whole, healed Higher Self joining with theirs and, in this way, invoking their highest healing power as you also affirm your own.

4. Become the prayer. That is, fill yourself with the inner experience of peace, love and healing. If you’re praying for others, let this well-being overflow to include them. In this way you give what you most want to receive and discover that your gift comes back to you multiplied.

5. Let go and let God. Let go of expectations of how and when your intention will be fulfilled. If you pray for the highest possible outcome you won’t be disappointed. If you pray for very specific results you are more likely to feel that God is not listening. God gives us what is truly for our highest good, which may not be what we most want in the moment. Sometimes the path that will ultimately lead us to the highest joy requires letting go of something we’re attached to. We may need to release an unhealthy relationship, job or cherished but unrealistic goal before we can have something better. To have our prayers answered we need to stop telling God what to do! This is equally important when we pray for another. Instead of praying for someone to heal in a specific way, ask that they now heal in the highest possible way.

6. Expect results. As soon as you complete your prayer period, shift your attention from the “dis-ease” in your life to the signs of healing. Many of us have such an ingrained habit of paying attention to all that’s wrong that, even when healing and miracles start to happen, we still give more attention to our problems that to our blessings. What we give attention to we make bigger! Consequently, if we give problems most of our attention, we grow a bigger garden of unhappiness and don’t give healing a chance to take root.

7. Practice gratitude. Through your own and other people’s prayers, you receive a precious seed of healing. You must nurture its growth with your continued loving attention. Starting now, begin to find the gifts, blessings and miracles in your life and give thanks. The more attention you give to your blessings, the more there will be!

Healing Prayer

God (Goddess, Creator, Higher Power, Universal Spirit),
I turn to You with all my heart.
I joyously realize Your absolute presence.
I see You everywhere—in all places, all people,
all that is.
You breathe life and light into my very soul,
YOU who are Infinite Love.
Yes, I feel Your Presence—You live in me!
Thank you for the Divine Spark within.
God, You have said "Ask and it shall be given."
I come to You now in gratitude and love
for Your assistance that is ever present.
Receive my prayer as an offering of faith that what I ask for has already been given and received.

(Take a moment to bring your prayer intention to mind. Speak it out loud or silently to yourself. Imagine handing all dis-ease and lack over to God, and God lovingly receiving it. Create a vivid inner experience of already having, doing and being your prayer request. And then hand this, too, over to God asking that Divine Will be done.)

Thank you, Divine Spirit!
I have faith in reality of Miracles!
I believe in the power of LOVE!
I release this intention into Your hands.
I surrender to Your will.
May the Divine Design now manifest!
I know I am whole and perfect as You made me.
There is nothing to be healed;
only DIVINE LOVE to be revealed.

Now I join with my brothers and sisters
as we speak to You in unity.
Our hearts join and overflow with Divine Love,
And we become a powerful channel for
Your Healing Work:

By the Grace of God, Divine Love now heals and guides
all those who have prayed for Your help!

By the Grace of God, Divine Love now heals and guides
every member of our personal communities!

By the Grace of God, Divine Love now heals and guides
all life on our earth!

Divine Spirit, spark our faith, hope and love into new action this day.
Our lives fill with gratitude, wonder and awe. Miracles happen.
We receive the blessing of Your perfect love and wisdom.
And with this prayer we now embrace the call
You gave us—to be spiritual beings,
in service to each other
and to You.
Amen

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