Amma

Every Summer Amma makes a trip from her Ashram in Amritapuri, Kerala, India to the United States.  She tours the country from Seattle to L.A., Santa Fe to Dallas, Chicago to New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and ends with a retreat in Toronto.  She then goes on to see her many devotees in Japan.

I have been a devotee of Amma for 24 years.  I have just returned from seeing Amma for a public program and a Devi Bhava.  I am always amazed at the intensity of the Shakti, or Spiritual Light that emanates while in Amma’s physical presence.  There is nothing that compares to this experience.

I am happy to have been with her again and to have seen many long time friends at the programs.

I cannot describe in words the energy, the mantras, the fragrances or the infinite love that is experienced while in Amma’s presence, you just have to go and see for yourself.

Om Tat Sat

 

I AM Awake

I AM AWAKE.

I have realized that I am already awake.  In an awakened state.  In Light.  In Peace.  In Love.

There is no where to go.  There is only Light.  And there is more.  A never ending Journey.

I have realized that I am that Light and exist in that Light always.  In the human state of residing in a body, there is a limit to how much Light I can experience physically, mentally, emotionally and even Spiritually.  I have realized that beyond this physical body and this physical reality we call Planet Earth, that there is Pure Light, Pure Being, Pure Awareness, Satchidananda, Bliss.  I AM THAT.

Many years ago, early on in my quest for Enlightenment, I was given the Sanskrit name “Sanmayi” by my Satguru Ammachi.  Sanmayi translates to “Pure Being”.

Today I wish to honor the Spiritual Masters both incarnate and dis-incarnate who are here to help us to Awaken.

Om Tat Sat

 

 

 

Sound and Light

Amazing things began to happen to me. I began to have experiences of “The Light” and found myself working with various Healers who worked with Energetic Healing, Flower Essences, Reiki and Sound.  Sound.  It was not long before I began to find that sounds began to form within me and wanted to be expressed.  I began to learn how to make specific tones and chants from the voice for healing.

It was certainly a surprise as I had never taken any classes on healing or Energywork. I had never taken any course on Soundhealing.  These qualities began to emerge from me intuitively, unintended and unprovoked by me.

During this time I remembered that several years earlier, while working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, I saw an infant who was struggling to breathe and was being given oxygen through a small plastic “hood” placed  over his face and head.  He had the severe substernal retractions characteristic of a newborn in respiratory distress syndrome.  Although I was not his Nurse that night, I felt a strong need to go to his bedside and lay my hands on his small chest to heal him.  My action was spontaneous and was not coming from a linear place in my mind but instead came from an inner awareness.   I remember returning to work the next day and going over to see if the baby was better.  I was happy to see he was now breathing normally and was no longer requiring oxygen. On a deep level, I knew that my laying on of hands had helped to heal him.  This occurred several years before I began to have my Spiritual Awakening when I began to discover my innate healing abilities.  For many years I had expressed my healing abilities through mainstream Clinical Nursing using the traditional Western Medical Model.

I was going faster and faster into a previously unknown, or should I say, forgotten aspect of myself. I was waking up.  I began to have connections with other Sound Healers and was able to present my Intuitive Sound Healing Work at International Sound Healer’s Colloquiums and Conferences.  I presented Sound and Energywork at the American Holistic Nurses Association Conferences, first in Sedona, then at several other venues.  I presented my Soundhealing on radio, television, at fairs,  and eventually at the Whole Life Expo in San Francisco. My life was no longer the same.  I no longer looked at the world in the same way. Everything I did in my life was now related to following Divine guidance, without hesitation. I found an inner guidance that has carried me all these years and is still propelling me to the Light and to Enlightenment.

Thank you to all of those who helped me on the way.  Thank you to all of those who continue to help me to Wake Up and find the Light of my own True Self.