How to pray for wellbeing
A prayer is an earnest request. There are two components of prayer: the request and the earnest feeling. In prayer, as in seeking to manifest your intent, there is a male aspect and a female aspect. The male aspect includes projecting the thought into the world. The female aspect is th earnest feeling - opening yourself to receive the result. When we experience these two components as one moment, we are praying … and our prayer is being answered. The clearer the vision of our thought, and the more open we are to receive the response, the quicker our prayer is being answered.
The quality of our openness to receive - our earnest feeling - is determined by the depth of emotion we associate with the object of our prayer. Emotional feeling is vital to manifestation. Emotion is a vibrating, magnetic energy. We propel our thoughts into the universe with our emotion. The more powerful the emotion, the greater the force of attraction, and the more readily we move toward a worldly experience in which we manifest our prayer. What we attract in response to prayer has nothing to do with what we are doing physically, or someone’s notion of how worthy we are, or how good we are, or what our supposed destiny may be. It has to do with the emotional quality we attach to our projected thought – our vibration.
The key to manifesting a prayer is to find a way to feel good about the object of the prayer - not to wish for it, long for it, sigh for it, or feel discouraged about it, but just to feel good about it. We do not have to explain our reasons, make excuses, or exceed some moral threshold. When we feel good about the object of our prayer, we attract the experiences, people and things into our life at the same vibration as our good feeling. The more we practice prayer in this manner, the more we may move the reality of our lives into experiences of higher vibrations.
One of the beauties of prayer is that we do not need to figure out how to create the desired outcome. By focusing on the quality of our prayer, (the clarity of our vision and the emotion we feel about the vision), we attract the outcome into our experience. If we feel bad about the object of our prayer, we are attracting experiences at lower vibrations, such as fear, loss and neglect. In such case we actually may be praying for the opposite outcome from what we hoped.
These concepts are very important when praying for the wellbeing of another. Often when we pray for someone, we are sending out a desire begging god for healing. In brief, we are trying too hard. If we are sending, then we are neglecting the female aspect. We are not moving toward manifestation of our desired outcome. To pray we need to be open to receive. Sending our will out merely blocks the ability to receive. Even asking for an outcome for the person’s highest good may be done in a way in which we are sending out our will, and thus blocking the receipt of healing.
One way of praying for the wellbeing of another is to contemplate the divine in such other person. Remember moments of joy involving the person. Or create your own experience of the divine, and include a vision of the person at their best in that experience. See the person whole, well, and vital - and feel the joy of witnessing their divine self.
How to Pray: Before praying, contemplate your prayer so that you can be very specific in your request. Identify what you want and distinguish over what you do not want. Identify affirmative wants and avoid negatives. Ask for outcomes that are based on love, not fear. For example, praying not to fail is a negative request. When praying there is no negative. You are in fear of failing. So, what you are creating is fear and failure. As another example, praying to feel better is a prayer latent with fear. Praying to be rich is filled with a sense of lack. When praying about feeling better, first ask yourself, “What is it about feeling well that I desire?” Maybe the answer is, “I want to be filled with vitality and experience the joys and wonders of life.” You can even get much more specific than that. “I want to feel the wind against my cheek as I gracefully ski the snow covered slopes and feel the sun on my back.” Or maybe, “I want to share laughter with my children.” In forming your prayer, get into that feeling place of what you really want. Then bask in that vision and feeling. Then expect it, listen for it, and allow it into your life.
Steve Koda, ND
