Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: healing

  • The Same Blue Supermoon Shines in Every Back Yard

    The moon again provides a backdrop for the Yellow Brick Road (see my previous post, Waning Gibbous Moon).

    A friend lives in Colorado where the skies are almost always clear. Each month he takes a photo of the full moon and sends it to me. (If you are not able to see the photo below, please click on the title of this post to read it on the website.)

    That ritual of friendship is housed in a story about a family who left the United Methodist church (which had an aging congregation with no Sunday school program for their young children) and joined the Congregational church where all the young families attended. A bit concerned about any theological differences that might be spiritually dangerous to their souls, they asked their Methodist minister what he thought. His reply was, “The same moon shines in every back yard.”

    Whether full, waning gibbous, blue, super, or dark — we sleep under the same moon.

    A lot is happening to cause this particular blue supermoon to occur. The red wavelengths do not reach the earth, so the blue ones make the moon appear blue. It is the second full moon in the month of August, a supermoon, and this year’s closest to the earth (100 miles closer than the August the August 1, 2023 supermoon).

    And this particular moon is visible everywhere on the planet….

    One post I read mentioned that it also falls on the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan, which celebrates the bonds between brothers and sisters.

    Another mentioned this as a time of heightened emotion and intuition. It’s rarity suggests an opportunity to connect with our innermost dreams and visions.

    Katherine May writes, “It’s as if the universe is inviting us to lean in, embrace our aspirations, and make heartfelt decisions about our relationships. Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention.”

    And under this moon magical things are in the making in my family. I have shared the success my nephew has had getting his life together following years of incarceration. I published an “Insights” clergy article about how difficult it is when someone gets out of prison with no car, no job, no home, no money. He did not even have a drivers’ license, and his profession is driving truck!

    It has not all been song and dance. But he was able to satisfy the conditions of and get off parole. Nothing short of a miracle, but he has made it. He says he could not have done it without some of his family.

    Just last week he was really down. He was without a job again, and therefore without a vehicle, money, or home. I reminded him how much better off he is now than then, and how Abraham Hicks says if your life is not working for you there is only one non-cooperative part: YOU.

    One website broke the influence of the blue supermoon down by Zodiac signs. The specific meaning for those whose birthday falls between November 22 and December 21, Sagittarians: brace for a home and family shift. Delve into emotional ties within your kinship. It’s ideal for a home refresh – renovate, cleanse, and invigorate your space. My nephew’s birthday is December 3….

    And this week, under this August 2023 blue supermoon, healing is happening. His sister and her husband are helping him renovate a camper trailer so he and his dog will have a stable base rather than ending up homeless every time he would change jobs. They are feeding him and providing him with a vehicle. He will be starting a new job, with a company he worked for previously (when he was not as stable as he is now). They see value in him and are giving his a job again.

    Soooooo much to be grateful for.

    In the Christian New Testament, Matthew 12:48-50, Jesus replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

    May all brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and neighbors and friends even enemies do the will of the Father (and Mother) in heaven and love one another. It is happening in this blue supermoon.

  • Healing is all the Buzz!

    Sacred Stories

    (A woman living in Florida, articulates her amazing synchronicity with a friend who lives in Mexico around a shared joy of the art form of dotting.)

    Note: Ze/Per/Hir/They – These pronouns offer inclusion and accuracy for someone who doesn’t identify by the male/female gender classifications, and were used in the original communication, and included here out of respect.
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    About 4 days after my surgery, I had an amazing dream and sent an email telling zer about it:

    I want to let you know that your dotting has factored into my healing process.

    My post-lumpectomy healing has been progressing really well. Last night I slept perfectly again, aided by XS Tylenol, and dreamed that you and I were emailing each other using only dots to communicate. We did it so much that the predictive text feature started suggesting dots for us to use. The really amazing part of the dream was when the dots came off the screen and morphed into a honeycomb alive with buzzing bees. I awoke feeling better than ever, almost zero discomfort, as if the bees and honey had permeated my body and resolved all physical issues.

    My friend wrote back:

    OMG!!

    First off, I’m so happy to hear that you are healing well and slept well with no pain!

    But…. Last night I was sitting here with a pencil and paper trying to figure out how to make a honeycomb out of dots. How cool is that!!!

    (really what is reading off a screen but just a bunch of dots we programmers call pixels)

    Here’s to more healing. Holding you in the buzz.


  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    This post might be considered “The High Road Part 2.”

    I learned to think of re-spect as the willing to look again and again.

    I am not attending an eight-day workshop Healing and the Everhealed with Barbara Brodsky (January 23-30). It was very odd to not be guided to attend, especially given that my life’s work is just this.

    In fact, it was more a matter of my having been guided not to attend.

    I watched the mind games: “I will miss out,” or “I already know this stuff,” or “I should attend to support others,” and even, “This is all just ego.”

    Fortunately, I have the privilege of sending out the audio recordings from the workshop, so I am benefiting by the teachings!

    Even the introductions of those attending the workshop was humbling. It is an amazing group of individuals with such diverse experience in the healing arts. Great love and sincere commitment to path. I bow to each….

    Perhaps this “birds-eye-view” of the workshop is allowing just the right space for integration. Meanwhile, notice the amazing synchronicities!

    Aaron’s Daily Quote the opening day of the workshop was, “Remember that at the deepest level there is nothing to heal. The ever-perfect is always there. We move through the distortion, to reveal the ever-perfect. In another articulation, the human uncovers the light body template for the ever-perfect and shines it into the body, asking the etheric and physical bodies to pick up that image, and to replicate it. All the healer is doing is holding the mirror.”

    Note* Aaron’s Daily Quotes are selected randomly by a computer program from a pre-loaded field of hundreds. No human being has the ability to select from that field.

    Yesterday morning I had a phone conversation with John’s cousin. I asked about her brother following a stressful interaction we had with him about masks (conspiracy) before we left home. She and her husband will be vacationing on Sanibel Island in a few weeks and wanted to know also about Pine Island for some friends. I had to admit to her I am not a good one to ask because it does not yet seem wise to live life as though there is no coronavirus.

    Aaron’s Daily Quote for today:

      Deep Spring Center
      Thought for Today

      If you get into a situation with somebody where there’s a lot of anger and verbal clashing, and you start to hear a little voice inside that says, ‘But he’s wrong and I’m right!’ do you think that voice is just from you? A lot of it’s from you. And then there’s your negative polarity cheering team that says, ‘Ooo, here’s a place to wreak havoc. We can make a mess here!’ So it’s egging you on, ‘Yeah, you’re right and he’s wrong! Tell him!’

      ~ Aaron

    And then I open today’s teaching from Neale Donald Walsch:

      On this day of your life Debra, I believe God wants you to know …

      … that negative passions may run high, but they do not
      have to rule you.

      Your inner peace, and the sanctity of your being, are
      not worth trashing because of some negative feeling
      you have about something. Just let it go, and return to
      the knowing and experiencing of who you really are.

      Try not to abandon the self. Try very hard. In the end,
      your soul will be so grateful.

    A subtle cue that I am releasing some long-held cherished ego position and integrating awareness is how EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS SAYING THE SAME THING.

    Also from this morning’s inbox:

    Respect toward yourself is more significant than any respect from others because you know yourself better. When you practice patience, for example, you must know why you’re doing it and how it benefits you. If you value self-respect and do virtuous things that are unknown to others, you will naturally gain self-confidence, strength, and freedom from your neuroses. You will feel more and more inspired to develop your tsewa and shed the eight worldly concerns because of the benefit and freedom you personally experience by doing so. Your heart will be at peace, and eventually others will respect you as a person who has truly been transformed.

    ~ Peaceful Heart
    The Buddhist Practice of Patience

    by Dzigar Kongtrul, Edited by Joseph Waxman, page 39

    * Vihiṃsā (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: nampar tsewa) is a Buddhist term translated as “malice”, “hostility”, or “cruelty”. It is identified as one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings.

    Over and over and over in this workshop comes the gentle reminder there is nothing to fix. Trying to fix anything thwarts availability to have every thought, word, and action guided by the open loving heart.

    Abraham Hicks joins the integration today:

      Making Peace with My Today Will Improve My Future…

      It may sound odd, but the fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation. By making lists of the most positive aspects you can find about your current situation, you then release your resistance to the improvements that are waiting for you. But if you rail against the injustices of your current situation, you hold yourself in Vibrational alignment with what you do not want, and you cannot then move in the direction of improvement. It defies Law. In every particle of the Universe, there is that which is wanted – and the lack of it.

      Excerpted from The Vortex on 8/31/09

      Our Love
      Esther (Abraham and Jerry)

    And just one more synchronicity from my inbox: They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do. ~ Anne P.

    Now, this is R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

  • All is Well

    Sacred Stories

    She had been nursing a bruised left foot for over a week when her friend suggested they look up the metaphysical meaning of bruise in Heal Your Body by Louise Hay.


    Louise says, “In order to permanently eliminate a condition, we must first dissolve the mental cause.” Her friend put down the phone, grabbed her copy of the book, picked up the phone, and read to her:

    Bruises (Ecchymoses)

    Probable Cause:
    The little bumps in life. Self-punishment.

    The affirmation:
    I love and cherish myself.
    I am kind and gentle with me.
    All is well.

    Mere moments before she had called her friend that morning she placed one of her “beach-stone-beauties” on the counter in the kitchen where her cat, Bella, eats.

    The words she had painted on the stone spoke directly to Louise Hay’s suggested affirmation for her bruised foot!

    All is well. And it will be well.

  • Father John

    Sacred Stories

    She was on retreat.

    She put her hand up and the energy of Father John came in.

    She says she doesn’t exactly know what happened, but a couple of months later when she had an echocardiogram the mitral regurgitation that was discovered in her 20’s was gone!

    When she asked her cardiologist if it’s possible for mitral regurgitation to disappear, he said, “No. Perhaps mitral stenosis.”

    (Be willing to honor the nature of healing… Healing is a return to the ever-present well-being that is our true nature, and can happen any time.)

  • The Appearance of Things

    It has been three years since I first watched the film Cloud Atlas, yet, after watching it again this week my fingers move over the keys trying to create an outlet for my unspeakable emotions. I confess that the watching did not cause my emotions, but it has amplified feelings long buried within my psyche.

    If you, like me, need a refresher about the film, you can access that September 2013 blog post:”Answer the Call.”

    The timing of this watching (and the depth of emotions) might be amplified by current events. One friend is dancing on the edge of duress anticipating a double mastectomy on Tuesday. Another friend has just received a diagnosis of leukemia for her young son.

    A few days ago when I opened The 50 Miracle Principles of A Course in Miracles, by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., I read these words: Just as the body cannot be healed because the body was never sick, the body cannot rise from the dead because the body never died.

    If you are new to the Course, it is important to understand that a core premise is that the world as we experience it is a delusion of the mind. In Indian teachings, this is called illusion, or Māyā. A simple way to think about it is to notice how a state of impermanence permeates everything in our experience. According to Wikipedia, “that which exists, but is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal.”

    Martin L. Rossman, M.D., addresses faith healing, placebo effects, and imagery in Healing Yourself: A Step-by-Step Program for Better Health Through Imagery. Rossman writes of meeting Edna, who had been refusing medical treatment, saying that Jesus was going to heal her. He asked her how she communicated with Jesus, and then suggested she ask Jesus to heal her in the next six weeks, agreeing to tests at that time, and to treatment, if necessary.

    Six weeks later she returned. The examination and the tests showed nothing abnormal!

    Norman Cousins healed himself by taking Vitamin C and watching Marx Brothers movies and Candid Camera shows.

    Brandon Bays healed herself of a massive tumor in six weeks, with no surgery and no drugs.

    Whatever it is that allows some people to regain health after encountering a serious diagnosis, it is undeniable: our mind, body, spirit, and emotions are interwoven.

    I sent my friend this dentist skit where Tim Conway is the would-be dentist and Harvey Korman is the patient. Every time I watch it, I laugh so hard my stomach aches.



    I also sent Red Skelton and Carol Burnett, and suggested she search for “Babies laughing at dogs.” I told her to watch and laugh for half an hour, then go to bed with her sweet puppy dog. It feels wonderful to laugh. We probably all need to laugh more. And pets are sooooo healing! These are important things to remember.

    And it is vitally important to know we have help. My friend/colleague Dr. Douglas Busby just released his new book Spiritual Healing: Help from the Spirit World. Doug will be signing books at a talk on Sunday, November 13, 2016, at 3:30 pm, here in St. Joseph. Let me know if you are interested in attending.

    For sure, it helps to remember nothing lasts forever, and what’s more, everything is nothing, including you and me.

    We live in an illusion and the appearance of things.
    There is a reality. You are that reality.
    When you understand this, you see that you are nothing,
    and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
    ~ Kalu Rinpoche

  • Jesus Healed Me!

    Sacred Stories

    Her co-worker’s daughter was having routine surgery in another state when the call came through with shocking news. “We are losing her!”

    Feeling totally helpless to do anything for her daughter, the mother asked her co-worker to please pray.

    Seeking a quiet space, the co-worker centered herself, and began to send healing intention. Much to her surprise, she had a powerful image of Jesus pop into her mind. This was not a normal religious icon for her, and she watched with great interest as Jesus went to the side of the operating table and began to work with the patient.

    Moments later, another call affirmed what she had seen happening, “She made it!”

    Although the woman did not share the images she had seen that day as she prayed for her co-worker’s daughter, several years later, she had the opportunity to meet this daughter. The daughter spontaneously burst into a description of the experience she had with Jesus while she had been in surgery—detailed as it had been seen by the co-worker of her mother.

    Jesus
    She is not sure why Jesus chose to come to her, but she has continued to always call on Jesus when she is asked for healing intention.

  • Poker Table

    Her mother had recently transitioned and so she went for a healing session to support her through the grief process. The image of a poker table popped into the healer’s mind immediately.

    “I get the image of a game table, you know the kind people play poker at, and my sense is that your mom is doing well. I would say she is letting you know she is enjoying herself. Your dad’s energy pops in, too. That all sounds promising to me.”

    They went on with the session and at the end she said, “The dining table in our home when I was growing up was a poker table. It came out of a saloon. In fact, after my dad died, when my mom sold the family home, I got that table. It is still in my house now.”

    You can appreciate when information comes that you know you could not have gotten through your intellect. You are being guided!


    poker table