Beauty is healing
and love is healing
and peace is healing
and laughter,
and kindness is healing
the friendliness and warmth in a voice
and gratitude and wonder are healing
friendship is healing
and human touch, when there is love,
is healing
drawing on the strength of our ancestors is healing
having balance is healing
natural light is healing
enjoying the peace, freshness
and joy of a new day
Our blue sky, and the magnificent oceans,
and the trees,
and flowering plants,
all the wonderful colors and scents of the earth,
these are healing
and all our family in the natural world,
mammal, bird, insect and fish-
all these infinitely precious ones –
these are healing…
fresh fruit, and vegetables, grains and bread, and homemade soup
give to our bodies and to our souls the power of the sun,
and the pure rain
all of these are
healthy and beautiful
and if needed, they are healing
food cooked with love is healthy, life giving
gifts given generously with love are divine,
they are health and life itself
and if need be, they are healing to us all,
the whole circle
children are healing
with their beauty, and purity,
and playfulness and wonder,
with their overflowing joy
they are angels among us…
Friends and family, kindred spirits,
beautiful souls, delight of the world, wherever they go
these are healing
Grandmothers and Grandfathers,
with their kindness and gentleness and wisdom are healing
Mothers and Fathers with us even now
these are healing
optimism, looking up,
and having a great aim
this is healing
patience and gentleness,
smiling to ourselves,
and to each other
this is healing
our dreams are healing
our visions, and our sacred songs,
our dances,
the awe and wonder we feel,
knowing the Divine
this is supremely beneficial,
this is supremely healing
and art is healing
need I say it? –
all of these gifts,
the loveliness of one thing done well,
with great care, and with boldness too…
drawing,
and
painting
what wonders!
sculpture
dance
photography,
poetry
architecture
needlepoint
dress
and on and on it goes…
music is healing
these and more
all of it,
all of it, healing
make your own lists today from these bright oceans…
from all this wonder and joy…
the artist’s vision
is health
it is life
it is healing
sacred places, such as this one, healing
loving animal companions, healing
angels and ancestors,
friendships,
now and recalled to mind
these are healing
learning about people of good will,
and stories of heroes and heroines,
famous or less known
these are healing
and how these gifts continue – oh!
Traditions are a source of healing
Saints and great teachers are healing
and our faith and devotion connects us to them
Oh Great Song!,
Ethics, meditation and wisdom,
prayer, mantra, and samadhi,
these are healing
wonder, joy and celebration,
and gratitude
these are healing
stillness, and quieting the mind,
and thinking, rightly used too
these are healing
honoring the tremendous richness of oneself and others
this is healing
breathing in and out
and smiling
peacefully
with an awareness of our body and our feelings
with gentleness,
and with great love
this is healing