World Prayer Project

      The World Prayer Project is a non-profit organization that collects prayers from different world traditions.  Prayers are grouped by religious tradition or by category. The “Invocation” category includes prayers of petition and healing.  Visiting this web site may bring peace and healing to nurses, as well as families and patients. While the organization does not publish prayers in the voice of nurses, there are many that speak broadly about healing. We have modified and shortened these prayers to make them more useful for busy practicing nurses.

      The following prayer has not been modified.  Although it was written for those practicing the Islam faith, it is general enough that it can be said by anyone wishing to pray to God.

Islam healing prayer

Beloved Lord, Almighty God,
Through the Rays of the Sun,
Through the Waves of the Air,
Through the All Pervading Life in Space;
Purify and Revivify Us
And we pray, heal our bodies, hearts, and souls.
Amen 

      We have shortened the following Navajo Indian prayer of healing obtained from the World Prayer Project (worldprayers.org).  This prayer can be used by those who believe in an Earth Mother, or are agnostic or atheist but still wish to take a moment to reflect on their place in the universe, and find peace in the beauty of the day as they begin or end their day.

      In the house made of dawn,

      On the trail of dawn,

      His feet, my feet, restore.

      His limbs, my limbs, restore

      His body, my body, restore

      His voice, my voice, restore,

      With beauty before him, with beauty before me.

      In the house of evening light,

      On the trail of evening light.

      Thank you for this day.

The following is a shortened Tibetan Buddhist Phowa Practice prayer (worldprayer.org) originally written for the care of the dying,. We have modified it so it can be used by any patient.

      Through your blessing, grace, and guidance,

      through the power of the light that streams from you:

      May all my negative karma, destructive emotions,

      Obscurations and blockages be purified and removed

      May I know myself forgiven

      for all the harm I may have thought and done.

      May I accomplish all that I need to today,

      And through the triumph of my disability,

      May I be able to benefit all other beings, living or dead.

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