Not a rosary person? No matter your beliefs, you may be surprised at the power of this famous tool.
“Mary, she moves behind me / She leaves her fingerprints everywhere.” - Mary by Patty Griffin.
I grew up in a Christian household but I didnt grow up praying the Rosary, this came much later on my life path. I had all kinds of stereotypes in my head about people who prayed the rosary and I was firmly “not a rosary person.” That is, of course, until I tried it. When I became a Spiritual Teacher, I discovered that my Christian faith could play a very important role in the work that I do as both a healer and a spiritual teacher. I was also blessed with being able to channel several attunements that came directly from Jesus and Mary, one of them aligned with the Rosary. Everything started to fall in place. I have also struggled with anxiety and depression for many years but as soon as I started to work with the Rosary, I found that the blessings of Mother Mary began to work with me.
I started praying the rosary in the evenings. Sometimes it helped me quiet my mind and connect to my heart. The rosary gave me something to worry in my fingers. It was tactile, something to occupy my breath. When you are speaking, you are breathing words like a mantra. And the biggest gift of all, the one that surprised me most, was that it gave me something to do with my imagination - the mysteries from the life of Jesus that you imagine during each decade or set of 10 Hail Marys. And it takes a while to pray the rosary - at least 15 minutes which I thought, at first, was a strike against it, but it turns out it is a benefit because it creates the time necessary for me to settle into a calmer state before bed. Many have called it Marian Meditation which I feel is quite apt when using the Rosary for this reason. Before people had access to the written word, when books were still rare, the Rosary was sometimes called the “poor man’s breviary” because it had all the major Christian prayers {the Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, and the Hail Holy Queen} and took the person praying it through the entire life of Christ, one mystery at a time {the Baptism of Jesus, the Wedding at Cana, the Transfiguration, etc.}.
A breviary is a book used by priests and religious practitioners that contain prayers for the church year. The rosary grew as a daily prayer for illiterate believers who would never own a book. The prayers, recited by heart, became the book. The people became the book.
I love this. After meditating on each mystery, they become less like stories you’ve heard read aloud in a church and more like places you’ve visited in a dream. In any case, they’re a part of you.Practices like the rosary connect us to our ancestors, who are a great source of strength and intercession. For instance, the last words of the Hail Mary—“Pray for us now and at the hour of our death” were added during a different pandemic, the Black Plague. I feel connected to those who have gone before me when I take part in the practices that sustained them. I also feel connected to people around the world as every minute of every day someone in Nigeria or Belgium or South Korea is also praying a rosary. When Masses went underground or were outlawed, many Catholics would gather in secret to pray the rosary, so this can also be a resource for this time now when many churches are closed.
In the beginning, as you’re learning the prayers and their order, it feels clumsy and unnatural. But as the structure becomes familiar, the words fall away, and you move into a deeper sense of being with God, in God. The mantra or prayers become a backdrop, and your imagination can move and play within each decade.
The patterns differ slightly from place to place, but the basic structure is as follows:
Begin with the cross; kiss it, and say the Apostles’ Creed and the Our Father.
On the first three beads, say the Hail Mary {once for faith, once for hope, once for love}.
Then the Glory Be.
Then you move into the body of the rosary consisting of five decades of Hail Marys, before each set of 10 Hail Marys where you meditate on one of the mysteries of the Christian faith. If you’re doing the Joyful Mysteries, for example, you’re thinking about the Annunciation {the angel appearing to Mary}, the Visitation {a pregnant Mary visiting her sister Elisabeth for support}, the Nativity {the birth of Jesus}, or Finding Jesus in the Temple {after losing him for three days}. With the words in the background, my mind is free to meditate on these stories, and, as a result, I feel connected to the Holy Family - but especially to Mary - in new ways. I could picture her terrified but determined to be the mother of Jesus. I could imagine her giving birth. I could imagine what it was like to not be able to find your child for three days. And I could extend compassion to myself when I similarly “lose” Jesus. Her struggles encouraged me in my own. The rosary and praying to Mary gave me a relationship with her. Now, when I’m struggling to get through a hard morning because my mind is all over the place and I find that I’m having trouble giving myself permission to “waste time on myself” by simply relaxing, I sometimes pray a decade of the rosary as I sit down watching TV or meditating. I like to dedicate my prayer for someone’s needs. I find that when I am thinking about one of the mysteries, like Mary and Joseph’s fleeing into Egypt, while praying the Hail Marys, I can go that extra lap, feeling less alone in life’s challenges.
After that, I am centered and I can just run. The arguments I was having in my head with people on the internet or my co-workers have gotten much quieter or disappeared. I can see and appreciate the finches and the shadows the pine trees make across the gravel and the storm clouds in the sky that obscure the mountains this morning and feel wonder and awe and gratitude for all of it - including my own body and life. If I recite Mary’s Magnificat or another line from Scripture in my head as I run wind sprints, for example, all of a sudden there’s this space and peace that before was filled with chatter or just wanting to quit. I can’t explain it, except to say that there’s something about Mary and about repetition, which can often quiet the mind just as well - or better than - silence.
So, why not give the Rosary a try. You do not have the be Christian to pray it but I have a feeling that when you commit to the Rosary, it will become part of your everyday healing practices.
Distant Attunements
Now let's look at the Attunements that I have channelled for Mary and Jesus. Each attunement has been a real blessing to my own life as well as the lives of hundreds of students who I have taught about these energies since their creation. Below you will find a brief intro for each of the attunements plus a link to read the full listing. If you have any questions, I am only an email away and I will help as much as I can
The Blessings of Mother Mary and the Holy Rosary is a system that I have been working with for over a decade but it has taken a journey of Self Discovery, Worship and Devotion to Mother Mary and the Holy Rosary for this new attunement to come forth. There are no prerequisites for this attunement but I would suggest that you have a basic understanding of energy work and do not have a negative attitude towards Christianity because this system is heavily based on Christian doctrine. It is also recommended that you have a set of Rosary Beads or can purchase some Rosary Beads to use the 2nd level of this system.
The Blessings of the Sacred Heart Empowerment has been in the making for many years. I first connected with the Sacred Heart in 2015 after spending several months battling depression, anxiety and severe panic disorder. It was during this time, that I reached out to Jesus for help. As I reached out for his help, I was blessed with an experience that I will never forget and one that I go into detail within the accompanying manual. The Sacred Heart is probably one of the most well known religious aspects of the Christian/Catholic faith but for many, it is believed that one has to be Christian or Catholic to receive the graces that are given from Jesus and the Sacred Heart.
I understand that not everyone will call themselves Christian and this is ok, as I previously mentioned, you do not have to be Christian or Catholic to connect with the fundamental aspects and spiritual energies of Mother Mary. Mary is the mother of all of humanity and it is through her presence that we can receive the blessings of sacred source and Master Jesus. This attunement is also a personalised healing system in that you can use the energies for any purpose that you need help with. You can use prayers for these blessings which are given within the manual or you can simply use your heartfelt intention and the etheric miraculous medal that is placed between your heart and higher heart chakras.