Global Blessings: Heal Yourself, Heal the World

by sabrina Sojourner

1. Roots

1.1. Traditions

1.2. Legends

1.3. Histories

1.4. Mythologies

1.5. Faith

1.6. Families

1.7. Music

2. Welcoming Activities

2.1. Songs

2.1.1. Up On the Roof

2.1.2. If You're Out There

2.1.3. Down by the Riverside/Lo Yisa Goi

2.2. Meditations

2.2.1. Guided

2.2.2. Silent

2.3. Psalms

2.3.1. 100

2.4. Words

3. Creating Sacred and Community Space

3.1. transition from meditation

3.1.1. preparing for prayer

3.1.1.1. Peace Like a River (with Swing Low?)

3.1.1.2. I Am Alive (Chant)

3.1.1.3. Adonai S'fatai

3.1.2. Doug Mishkin, Four Walls

3.2. Calling upon and Welcoming Divinity

3.2.1. Psalm 150

3.2.2. Holy Place

3.3. Community Building

3.3.1. Responsive Readings

3.3.2. Songs

3.3.2.1. Song of the Soul

3.3.2.2. What a Wonderful World

3.3.2.3. Man in the Mirror

3.3.2.4. Letter to Me

3.3.2.5. Buildings

3.3.3. Communal Prayers

3.3.4. Actions

3.3.4.1. Lighting candles

3.3.4.2. Making Contact

3.3.5. Chants

3.3.5.1. Return Again

3.4. Prayers/Blessings

4. Healing In Search of Healing

4.1. Songs

4.1.1. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

4.1.2. The Prayer

4.1.3. I Hope You Dance

4.1.4. Heaven Help Us All

4.1.5. Adonai Roi

4.1.6. G!d's Eye is on the Sparrow

4.1.7. Bridge Over Troubled Waters

4.1.8. Ruach Eloim

4.1.9. Heal Us Now

4.1.10. Do You know How Much Your Love Means

4.1.11. I've Been Thinkin'

4.1.12. Sitting Here In Limbo

4.1.13. I Need You to Survive

4.1.14. We Are All One

4.1.15. We Are Loved by an Unending Love

4.1.16. Mishebeirach

4.1.17. Good Morning Heartache

4.2. Chants

4.2.1. El Na Rafah Na La

4.3. Readings

4.3.1. Shel Silverstein, The Missing O

4.3.2. Call Me Bitterness

4.3.3. Oriental Rug

4.3.4. For the Caregivers

4.3.5. What is the Longing

4.3.6. Litany for Healing

4.3.7. Parables for healing

4.3.8. How do I count my days?

4.4. Actions

4.4.1. Silent Meditation

4.4.2. Community Hands

4.5. Psalms

4.5.1. 88

4.5.2. 6

4.5.3. 23

4.5.4. 86

4.6. Themes, Personal and Global

4.6.1. Healing

4.6.1.1. What constitutes Healing

4.6.1.2. What Does it mean to pray for healing

4.6.1.3. What promotes healing

4.6.1.3.1. Shalom/Salaam/Peace

4.6.1.3.2. Seeking God's Presence

4.6.1.3.3. Forgiveness

4.6.1.3.4. Surrender to reality allows for the possible to emerge

4.6.1.4. What hinders healing

4.6.1.4.1. Unforgiveness

4.6.1.4.2. Seclusion

4.6.1.4.3. Denial

4.6.1.4.4. Imbalance

4.6.1.4.5. Blame

4.6.1.4.6. Guilt

4.6.2. Anxiety/Fear

4.6.3. Vulnerability/Humility

4.6.4. Seeking G!d's Presence

4.6.5. Forgiveness

4.6.5.1. Self

4.6.5.2. Others

4.6.6. Shalom/Salaam/Peace

4.6.7. Restoration of Justice

4.6.8. Health

4.6.8.1. What is health

4.6.9. efficacy of prayer

4.6.10. The Holiness of Broken Places

5. Listen

5.1. Call to Worship

5.1.1. Standing in the Need of Prayer

5.2. Sh'ma

5.2.1. Zevit

5.3. Love Songs for the Divine

6. Retuning to Life

6.1. Songs

6.1.1. Work That I've Done

6.1.2. It's Upon Us

6.1.3. I am Willing

6.1.4. Redemption Song

6.1.5. How Can I keep From Singing

6.1.6. Morning Has Broken

6.1.7. Oseh Shalom

6.1.8. High Hopes

6.2. Readings

6.3. Psalms

6.3.1. 30

6.3.2. 100

6.4. Prayers/Blessings

6.4.1. T'filah HaDarech

6.4.2. In Beauty May I Walk (Navajo)

6.5. Chants

6.5.1. I Am Alive

6.6. Kaddish

7. Front Matter

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Healing and Faith

7.3. Healing and Judaism

7.4. Why focus on personal healing

8. Back Matter

8.1. Permissions

8.2. Credits

8.3. Acknowledgments

8.4. Thank yous

9. Quotes

10. Stories

10.1. Dace's Envelope

11. Adages

12. Prayers

13. Closing the Circle

13.1. Psalm 150

13.2. Od Yavo

14. Resources

14.1. National Center for Jewish Healing

14.2. Beshara

14.3. Allspirit Spiritual Song Lyrics

14.4. Belief Net

14.5. Kalsman Institute

14.6. Healing in Islam

14.7. Academy for the Love of Learning

15. Songs

15.1. Sitting in Limbo

15.2. Greatest Love of All

15.3. All the Love

15.4. Love is the Key