I grew increasingly worried and scared as my hands started to hurt more and more every day. Through the pain, I was suddenly becoming aware of everything I do with my hands, wondering how I would manage to go on and thinking I was much too young to have hurting hands.

The words of a friend came to mind: "When you are in pain, send light to the part of you that is hurting." A lot of relief and healing came from this short, simple, and easy meditation. First, feet firmly on the floor or on the soil to ground. Then inhaling, and exhaling. Drawing divine healing energy specifically into my hands and releasing the pain. Drawing divine life force into my hands, and releasing the pain. Drawing bright, vibrant green, for healing, into my hands, and releasing the pain. Drawing divine light into my hands, and releasing the pain.

I know now that I have the power to start healing myself, to at least, help myself. The pain does go away when I choose to do the meditation, and if it returns, it's back to the basics, back to breathing, inhaling healing energy and exhaling pain.

~ MD

"Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old."

-- Stephen Levine

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