Original blog post was on 2/24/12.
Essence of Tulip Copyright 2011 Margaret Dubay Mikus
I would like to share my healing song, “Prayer of Lovingkindness,” which I wrote in 1996. When I read the first three stanzas below, I heard music. This was not usual for me, so I paid attention. I sat at my piano and figured out the notes I had heard. Years later, I was doing healing work with Susi Roos, NP, and she suggested adding on the second part to the song using present tense. It seemed very powerful together–and peaceful. Although originally shy about singing on my own, I’ve now sung “Prayer of Lovingkindness” at workshops, funerals, healing services, and in the surgical suite with my medical team before cancer surgery at a major Chicago teaching hospital (a story for another day). Read, listen, and sing along with my CD, Full Blooming: Selections from a Poetic Journal (track # 59). Please share.
Prayer of Lovingkindness
(music by Margaret Dubay Mikus)
The asking:
May I be at peace.
May my heart remain open.
May I awaken to the light of my own true nature.
May I be healed.
May I be a source of healing for all beings.
May you be at peace
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source of healing for all beings.
May we be at peace.
May our hearts remain open.
May we awaken to the light of our own true nature.
May we be healed.
May we be a source of healing for all beings.
The answering:
I am at peace.
My heart remains open.
I am awake to the light of my own true nature.
I am healed.
I am a source of healing for all beings.
You are at peace
Your heart remains open.
You are awake to the light of your own true nature.
You are healed.
You are a source of healing for all beings.
We are at peace.
Our hearts remain open.
We are awake to the light of our own true nature.
We are healed.
We are a source of healing for all beings.
And so healing ripples out from you like a stone skipped on a clear pond.
Words adapted from the Buddhist metta (lovingkindness) meditation, (originally I read it in Pocketful of Miracles by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)
Song copyright © 2006 by Margaret Dubay Mikus.
Recorded on Full Blooming: Selections from a Poetic Journal, (2007), track # 59. Sing along.
Please share!
Margaret, I Enjoyed the Meditation Blessing, and the story of the inspiration for singing it, and for writing it again in the present tense. I listened to the 30 sec. of music. very calm and healing, your friend, Charlotte
Thank you so much for reading, Charlotte. I appreciate the comment! I thought there was a longer sample to listen to. The track can also be downloaded for the whole song.