Spiritual practice of healing

The spiritual practice that I lean on more often than not is something simple. It’s going to youtube and finding some kind of orthodox chant and just playing it on in the background while I do whatever it is I do. Often I like having chant on while I write. I really don’t like English chant because I start to listen to the words. I don’t want to understand the words. I want them to just flow over me.

For me there is something beautiful in chant. It is just human voices singing praises to God. That’s all I need to know about them. They take me off to a distant place. The connect me with the divine. They sooth my soul and calm my spirit unlike anything else. They are healing.

And I find myself in need of these healing sounds more often than not. Because I’m going to get healing elsewhere. The world isn’t interested in healing. Our health care isn’t really health care — any care we receive only kicks in after someone gets sick. That’s not health care. That’s sick care.

I’m certainly not going to get healing from our politics and policies. The polarization of our nation is making the nation very sick. It is a virus that is running rampant — like a cancer that has metastasized throughout the body. our culture’s irrational attachment to political parties and politicians is unhealthy to the core producing anxiety for many, irrational fear, anger, and us/them situations.

I’m not going to get healing from entertainment, as much as I have tried. Most entertainment is mindless, but often very…