Prayer: What is Correct & Effective? What is a Hindrance?
by Steven W. Graham, C.Ht
There are some who believe that meditation and time spent within is a time for asking, visualizing, begging, and even demanding for what they want or think they need. These activities represent three-dimensional thinking based in separation instead of unity consciousness and are not of a higher state of BEing. Many see prayer going unanswered as a result.
The minute an agenda is attached to meditation or BEing, it becomes preying instead of praying and will act to create and further maintain beliefs of “I don’t have.”
If you are worried or concerned about something and you approach prayer from a standpoint of “lack” by holding the belief that you don’t have it, or there is war somewhere and you hold the belief of that war as real as you pray, then that belief and visualization you have of the situation is actually strengthened.
Why? Because “Energy flows where thought goes.”
See and feel what you want to have or what you want the situation to be in its real outcome, and not what you don’t have or what isn’t yet.
Don’t reinforce a negative by holding onto it, making prayer ineffective. Instead, visualize peace, prosperity, healing or whatever it is that you want to have happen — the solution to the problem. See THAT in action playing itself out right “now” and give thanks that is is already done!
Once you do that, feel and energize it with an emotion of relief or gladness or gratitude for having it in the “now” moment as if already done.
That is correct and powerful praye — seeing and feeling the accomplished goal, not seeing and feeling angst for what isn’t. Focus on the solution not the problem.
This is how the master Jesus did his healing work: Those seeking help brought themselves to him and were lifted into his state of consciousness where disease did not exist. He saw the perfect, healthy person and held that image with thanksgiving and it became so.
Jesus said, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. New King James Version