Sharings from IIWP Worldwide Peace Prayer Participants

Thank you so much for participating in and sharing your experiences with the Worldwide Peace Prayers sponsored by the Institute for Individual and World Peace. Your presence with us touches our hearts and we are inspired by your contributions. We received an abundance of sharing from the December/January round of the Prayer!

GENERAL SHARINGS AND EXPERIENCES:

" So happy to be receiving these uplifting messages during these unsettled times in our beautiful country. I can truly say 'beautiful country' as I have just returned from the West coast. Even flying across makes you see the beauty and enormity of this wonderful land. When I first flew across in the forties on a prop plane 60 years ago with my then first child, it took us 14 hours to fly across, and this time I sat with my sixty year old first child, I am now 85; and this trip was a non-stop jet flight and we landed in four and half hours!!! We have been traveling since the first time, but this thought really hit home this time because of all the great changes that have occurred since the second world war. Now we are in war again-will we ever learn!! This is why I am so happy to be receiving all those wonderful thoughts and prayers. Thank you-I send my love and peace to you all during these beautiful holidays. The snow is covering our grounds outside and it all looks so very lovely. Love and peace – (JH, USA) "

" Yesterday in London, I had a meeting at the House of Commons. I had to go to the Central Lobby to meet the Member of Parliament and had about 15 minutes in hand. So, standing in the middle of the Central Lobby, I called in the Light and chanted the peace prayer (inwardly) envisaging all of our group circling all of the Houses of Parliament overhead, chanting the peace prayer, and radiating peace. It was a lovely experience. With loving, Light and Peace to you, (AN, France) "

" Choices I am currently making for peace include: By allowing myself to pull into a center space, I am giving all occurrences a chance to evolve with out interference. This simple act of consciousness allows me to have a chance to absorb and respond to unfamiliar or 'against' energy as opposed to react. I am finding that I am giving nurturing support to those who I may not agree with their choices, by recognizing these individuals as human souls. Allowing myself to meditate and pray when I am sad to find a light in a dark tunnel always helps me to give thanks for even desolate moments, because experience is teaching me that all energy travels and doesn't stagnate. Like water, our existence continues to travel, our beings can be cleansed and transformed into lovingness and light. Keeping all of this in mind and continuing my intention to cultivate healthy and valuable relationships with human angels too. . . . (MB, USA) "

" Hello beloveds, Thank for the processes and sharings. i really love receiving the quotes because i feel like it assists me in the experiences i have been having. . . .Choices I am currently making for peace include: I am choosing to experience the Christ and the living love in my heart, and i am allowing this Light to flood me, spilling into everything around me. The empathy, the forgiveness, the listening, the caring, the understanding, the tenderness of the Christ, for me, is peace. Because the Christ doesn't judge- he just loves it all. He can see past the hurt into the heart of every soul. and in this peaceful place I am choosing to trust that I am protected as a peacemaker in the face of negativity. Part of my choice is to accept more my responsibility to claim my awareness that I am a child of God, a bearer of Light, that i am a peacemaker, an initiate of the Christ and of the Traveler, and this is greater than any negativity or againstness in the world. Thank you for giving me the opportunity and space to share what i have been going through. i appreciate the caring. God bless us all with internal peace this day. Love, (LS, Chile) "

" Dear Ones, This morning it was announced that Vladimir Putin received the Time magazine's man of the year award over Al Gore and I felt outraged. I went on-line to the Peace Prayer update and went into meditation. Immediately peace and love flowed in. In my heart I realized that it is perfect that he receive the award for whatever God is bringing forward for his highest good and I envisioned the Light enveloping him and his country with peace. In the process I realized how powerful the Peace Prayer is as I let go of judgment and anger. God bless you all in this Holy season with Peace and love. (EP, USA) "

" The current way I express my purpose and intention for peace is: I take every incident, every person who enters my awareness, every news brief, everything that occurs to be a possible point of conflict, resistance or judgment, and I bless myself and I bless that which I hold in my consciousness about them. I am flooded with emotion in doing this, which begins as gratitude or release, and then expands and becomes pure joy. My heart opens wider and wider, and I embrace all. I find my inner self moving back and forth, constantly in motion, judging, noticing, forgiving, embracing, loving more profoundly than the moment before. I'm having a lot of fun praying, opening into the Light, remembering that we are peace-making, being a peace maker. (JP, USA) "

" I write to say 'Merry Christmas' and a prosperous new year. May the blessings of light fill you always. LL, (JE, West Africa) "

" Thank you so much for this wonderful service and ministry. The e-mails are like islands of repose, serenity and peace. It is important to be reminded that we are all on this 'fragile island home' together and that peace and Presence can only begin right now, within each of us. Thank you again. Blessings to you and all of us for this New Year. Love, (CM, USA) "

WHAT WAS YOUR INTENTION FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE PEACE PRAYERS?

" I wanted to bring myself more into my own inner peace, and bring more of the peace that's already present into, through and around this planet, its inhabitants, and all of God's creation. And I just wanted to join in with everyone else who's doing it! (LM, USA) "

" To join with others in a positive focus of peace, returning to peace whenever disturbance occurred, in myself, or in the outer world. (SV, USA) "

" My intention was to read the emails and do the exercises (answering the questions), and to say the prayer inwardly when it came up for me inside of me to say. (AM, USA) "

" As always my intention is to bring peace to myself, to forgive myself, create peace in my life and those around me and the world (PA, Mexico) "

" I am holding the intention for the world to be at peace, for the war to end, for the bombings to cease, for the anger and hostility to subside. What I have come to realize is the conflict must stop inside of me first. I've heard J-R and John mention this many times, but I saw it in action for myself. Making myself more aware, less conflicted, willing to take the initiative towards peace is the least I can do for the thousands of soldiers putting their lives in jeopardy to keep me safe in America. (SKA, USA) "

" To always keep peace within myself and others, or any other negativity that happens to arise. (SR, USA) "

" My intention is to improve myself (DS, Brazil) "

" My intention is to be aware of the peace inside of me more often throughout the day and to fill myself with light so that I can share it with others. (MK, USA) "

" To be peaceful within myself, so that I may contribute to the greater transformation of loving and peace on the is planet. my intention was to be of service, to stay committed to peace, in the face of negativity. Most of all, it is to be of service to God, to anchor God's light here in the world. (LS, Chile) "

" To bring more peace to the planet, especially with the illusions of strife with our political situations (LR, USA) "

" My intention for participating in the peace prayers is to take advantage of the inspiration they provide and the reminder that I can seek peace in myself at any moment, in any circumstance, -- and my intention also is to forgive myself for my judgments against myself that block my experience of inner peace. (MB, USA) "

" To offer the creatures on any existences l am accessible, most especially, the earth planet the healing of violences and peace. (SI, Nigeria) "

" To create a more peaceful world. (VS, Argentina) "

PEACEMAKER LEARNINGS AND DISCOVERIES:

" I have learned that if I keep participating in the peace prayers, my intention for peace keeps growing in my heart. (LPN, USA) "

" I've incorporated doing the peace prayer process as part of my daily 'Light-sending' every morning. It's part of what starts my day off beautifully. I feel as though I've prepared my way for the day, set an intention for how I'd like my experiences to take place, and done something to contribute to greater peace and balance for our planet and all of us on it. And when I say the words, 'God bless you, I love you, peace - be still, I give you my peace, ' I experience peace immediately. What a beautiful gift! (LM, USA) "

" I experience that when I say it often I experience a sense of letting go and relaxing, particularly in my body. I notice it most clearly in my stomach area where I tend to hold tension sometimes. (AM, USA) "

" I dreamed that an acquaintance came to me and said, 'You are beautiful. I am in love with you. I want to be with you. ' This helped me to see and accept my own beauty and to love myself. I quit buying into the thoughts otherwise. This promoted the confidence to come from peace, already being whole, and to take courage, to believe in myself. (SV, USA) "

" The Peace Prayers have made a big difference in my life over the past year. Just taking a few minutes out of a busy day to breathe and send healing energy out there is reassuring in a turbulent world (inside and out). The peace prayer is a mantra and an affirmation for me. I am so grateful.--I am a property manager in a 150 unit building that has recently been sold to new owners, so I went from a mom-and-pop situation where I was responsible for all the day-to-day management to a 40 unit conglomerate where I have to answer to several people and the work is fragmented. This has given me the opportunity to let go and surrender to the changes. I have been stressed and anxious and exhausted much of the time. And I have known through it all that this was a golden opportunity to go beyond, to learn and to reach deeper into the realm of spirit. I have probably been taking in more peacefulness than I have been giving out, but I can see that slowly changing day by day, as I become better acclimated in my new situation. In the meantime, I am continuing to hold the light for all the tenants, as building renovations begin and rents increase and their familiar way of life changes somewhat as well. We are a mini United Nations really, with people from all over and every conceivable background. I have always believed that I am here to be a bridge and this is it and it is wonderfully fulfilling service. I recently had the opportunity to minister to two men who were dying (not at the same time) and I kept chanting the peace prayers during their transitions and was just given answers as to what would be most helpful moment-by-moment. Having your Peace Prayers, knowing that you were sending me light and loving even though you don't know me, has been energizing and supportive and so very helpful. Thank you. Sending love and light from (TW, USA) "

" This time my best awareness was to be able to let go any againstness (PA, Mexico) "

" My experience was one of non-reactiveness. Things that in the past would have a charge seemed during this time somewhat distant and/or nonexistent. I spoke what was true for me in the moment. When someone started to give me a hard time, being disrespectful or trying to 'push my buttons, ' I found myself literally walking away and getting out of direct line of fire. One time I actually walked outside and came back in the door as if it was for the first time. Bringing a smile/laughter to the person's face and mine as well. (SKA, USA) "

" I became creative with the Peace Prayer in how I used it - in difference situations and locations. I cannot quite define what happened for me other that I did fulfill my intention. Reading the new book by J-R and PK, "The Rest of Your Life," made a big difference to my peacefulness. Being grateful for the blessings I enjoy in my life. Seeding and tithing. When people disturbed me, I claimed the experience as a blessing in disguise - and that is how it turned out to be. (AN, France) "

" Just to be aware of the fact that when something negative comes into our lives, there is somewhere we can turn to, knowing a large part of the world is trying to do the same thing, maintain peace. What I learned, is to try and stay aware, as for me it gets difficult, it seems more tests are in store for me, anyway, just to stay focused on the peace within. (SR, USA) "

" When I opened my email I went directly to the peaceprayer, I realize now that I don't have to wait for an email but just practice breathing and memory takes over. (MK, USA) "

" Thanks for your continuing efforts, commitment, and facilitation of this prayer process. I have participated in so many 'official rounds' of the Peace Prayer that it has become an integral part of my everyday life. It has become an inherent response in my relationships, my life experiences, my conscious participation in all that I do. It is a wonder-full link to like minded people ..Circles of Light and Love..creating spheres of influence in the world. Thank you... Lovingly.(KH, USA) "

" The prayers made a difference in my life by giving me a positive action to focus on, rather than be passive, or victim to the circumstances. I am learning that peace is definitely a choice, and it is my choice if i choose to call it forward or not. a couple weeks ago, i was in a very difficult situation, where it would of have been easy for me to act out in physical violence. but instead, the peace prayer came forward, and evoked the most beautiful reservoir of compassion and empathy for the other person. i felt it was my Christhood, and knew that this prayer is blessed. So I am learning that peace is the Christ in me and in others. I did it in an inconsistent way, and really forgot about how I myself could benefit...it was more of giving. But now that you ask the question (thank you) I realize that I could incorporate myself to receive of the peace. Actually what was I thinking? How can I give peace if I don't consciously receive it? Now that I think about it, it was good to let go of anything in the prayer and then bless the planet...I loved that part. (LR, USA) "

" Blessings to you in the New Year! There is an immense strength in group consciousness. knowing that there is a group of us who are praying together for peace everyday is what motivated me to participate. I loved taking a moment each day praying for peace and visualizing we are all doing this together. The only suggestion I have is that it'll be nice to know we are all doing this around the same time, preferably mornings. I remember participating with designated time and names in the past which was even more energizing to me. I love what you are sharing with me and I'll participate in the future. Thank you!
'Afikralehu
Amlak Yibark
Selam Setbelu
Yene Selam Yedress'
LL (SB, USA) "

" The peace prayers position me in my true self. Immediately as soon as I do this, I feel peace and no hurt at all. I can think clear; I take the next steps towards my own true and keep on going. I have learned that while I am in this life, there will be people with whom I do not connect for one reason or another. However, I immediately turn into my true self, my inner peace and say my prayer. I live a more fulfilling and peaceful life. (PT, New Zealand) "

" Here is an example of how I used the peace prayer and expanded on it: My boyfriend and I were driving to the airport to catch a plane to Tobago. He had not checked the gas gage . . .The gage was now showing 'EMPTY. ' He thought he knew where he could exit the main highway and go to a nearby gas station out of town instead of going to one near where we lived. However, he was unable to find one. Nevertheless, he did ask someone who told him there was one in the other direction we had been going and not toward the airport. I started doing my peace process after telling him that was what I would be doing for awhile.. . .At the end, after visualizing the light of peace dawning over the earth, starting with everyone I could remember or had heard of-such as the doctor who delivered me, I sent this Light to them. It took me over an hour. By then we had gotten gas and were close to the airport. I felt a warm loving glow in my heart. I felt joyful, loving and peaceful and very grateful for the process. (AD, USA) "

" These prayers make me feel like I am part of a bigger process than I make for myself. I feel like I am an instrument in a GREAT orchestra. When I am feeling very thin, I always know that I can choose peace as my process. If I get to far away from this process, I also realize that I can call upon one of the Angels here to help me work out a feeling of againstness. Somedays, I listened to meditations to keep me rejuvenated. I am grateful and welcome more growth process. lt made my attitude to automatically adjust to current situation no matter what. lt shunned violence reaction and acceptance of any situation as the lesson for further development. (SI, Nigeria) "

" The prayers helped me to go back to my center when I would be upset. (VS, Argentina) "

" Every time I do these prayers I know I will be tested. I have to go to my heart and not my fears. I learned that my fears are bigger in my mind than in real life. My car broke down in downtown Tucson, where all the construction is going on and the traffic is really bad. I was by myself going back to El Paso, TX. There are hardly any side roads on the freeway, but I managed to be near one. There was a lot of peace in the whole situation. I got the opportunity to see how easily I could go into fears, but my choice was peace. I learned that people were ready to help me and that I was never alone. What was one of my biggest fears, ended being a real blessing. I saw the love, peace, stillness and the oneness. My real Christmas gift was doing this process and being so blessed by it. (LPN, USA) "

" (Sorry my English) My purpose is to be a better human, to be a peace maker in my daily life, . . . .in a practical way .The effects of reading the iiwp mail is to be more aware of things that i choose and knowing where is the difference between peace and other attitudes, is very useful to me, to learn how to letting go other people opinions and attitudes because i remember i don't have control about them, Thank A LOT GOD BLESS even more All of you (FS, Mexico) "

" It always remember me I am divine and make me better. (DS, Brazil) "

CREATIVE SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENTS:

" I just personally add the Light columns through the North and South poles, coming from the highest realms of Light and anchoring down into the center of the earth. To me, that's part of what I see as a planetary blessing. And then I'll ask that another column of Light come down from the highest realms of Light and anchor down into the center of the earth using my physical body as an anchor point so that, wherever I am when I'm doing the process, that particular place gets a Light column, too. I sometimes do this in the car on the way to work, so it gives me an opportunity to place Light columns as I go. Thank you for giving us another opportunity to avail ourselves of our own inner peace, and contribute to blessing the rest of God's creation with the peace that's already present! (LM, USA) "

" PS: If you like I can get a translation of the Peace Prayer into Arabic, Berber, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish, German and almost any other language you might like. It may be that saying it in many languages strengthens it in ways we don't begin to understand just now. Who knows? . . .Light, (TW, USA) "

" Would it be too much trouble to send a general email out to everyone each day? I found when I received the email I was almost relieved, that as soon as I saw it I went into my sending peace to the earth. (SKA, USA) "

" Maybe we could have an audio so that we can close our eyes when we receive the peace prayer. (MK, USA) "

" Thank you so much for being there, here, and everywhere now, then and everywhen. This is a message I need everymorning, so I give it to myself thanks to YOU ALL! Dancing & Singing in DeLight Loving Hugs, (NL, USA) "

" I am in!!! (SE, USA) "

" Thank you so much for putting this together and coming into alignment with peace!!!!! God bless everyone.(FG, Mexico) "

" I am gratefully participating. (RD, USA) "

"I love this process. I receive nothing but Peace and assurance by the means of this design.
Thank you so much for giving me LOVE.
Thank you God for being my PERFECT partner.
I give you my peace. Bathing in yours...
High Respect...(MB, USA) "

We close with a quote from John-Roger, the Founder of the Institute for Individual and World Peace.

" If you will strive to have a pleasant disposition while you're doing whatever you're doing in the world, there is a greater tendency for your Soul, which is so perfect and so loving, to radiate out of your pleasant disposition. A truly pleasant disposition is loving, compassionate, and empathic, with the ability to know what's going on in the world, because it is not run by the ego. If you take that same pleasantness back inside you, you live with an abundance of enthusiasm that overflows to others. Now, that is truly helping the planet. "