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Kuan Yin's Prayer for the Abuser
Domestic and Family Violence can be:-
PHYSICAL ABUSE - Hitting, punching, kicking, shoving.
EMOTIONAL ABUSE - Making you feel worthles, criticising your personality, you looks, the way you dress, constantly putting you down, threatening to hurt you, your children or your pets.
VERBAL ABUSE - Yelling, swearing at you, name calling to hurt or embarrass you.
SEXUAL ABUSE - Forcing you to have sex when you don't want to.
FINANCIAL ABUSE - Pressuring you to hand over your money, not giving you enough money to meet your basic needs, taking control of the shared money.
SOCIAL ABUSE - Controlling where you go, keeping you in the house, not letting you see your friends or family.
SPIRITUAL ABUSE - Telling you or others that you are evil, crazy or mad when you tell the truth or act out of moral integrity, forbidding you to partake in your religion or religious group, calling your beliefs crap or nonsense.
Here I will list the Australian, English and American Hotlines but please find your own..
Lifeline Australia - National Number - 13 11 14
or visit their website
www.lifeline.org.au
Domestic Violence Australia Wide Telephone Service
1800 811 811
Women's Aid Federation of England
www.womensaid.org.uk/
Helpline 08457 023 468
National Domestic Voilence Hotline in USA
Ph. 512-453-8117
To those who withold refuge,
I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being.
To those that cause a child to cry out,
I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony.
To those that inflict terror,
I remind you that you shine with the purity of a thousand suns.
To those who would confine, suppress, or deny,
I offer the limitless expanse of sky.
To those who need to cut, slash or burn,
I remind you of the invincibility of Spring.
To those who cling and grasp,
I promise more abundanc than you could ever hold onto.
To those who vent their rage on small children,
I return to you your deepest innocence.
To those who must frighten into submission,
I hold you in the boxom of your original mother.
To those who cause agony to others,
I give the gift of free flowing tears.
To those that deny another's right to be,
I remind you that the angels sang in celebration of you on the day of your birth.
To those who see only division and separateness,
I remind you that a part is born only by disecting a whole.
For those who have forgotten the tender mercy of a mother's embrace,
I send a gentle breeze to caress your brow.
To those who still somehow feel incomplete,
I offer the perfect sanctity of this very moment..
