Scientific prayer is how. Get quiet, do not try to control your thoughts, anyone who says they control the thoughts that float through their mind is selling a book or seminar. We do not control our thoughts, what we do control is our response/action when the thought surfaces in our consciousness. Turn your attention to God, contemplate on what you know about God, His Love, His Guidance, our connection to Him as Father to child etc. Do not under any pretext think about the issue you are treating. Read a short passage from any spiritual tome that appeals to you and then take a few moments in contemplative meditation to consider what was just read. The purpose of this is to center our thoughts in God, to place our attention there, to raise our consciousness. Now take two or three breaths, breathing in deeply through the nose, exhaling through the mouth. Now claim quietly that which you need or the situation or condition requiring a healing. Be very clear here: always ask in the affirmative. If we ask thusly: “I need” money, health, peace, serenity etc what we will demonstrate is more need. We will be affirming need, not abundance. If money or resources are lacking ask that your life be a demonstration of abundance. If it is employment, ask to be of service to God and your fellows, for the perfect position for your unique set of abilities. Health, in general, ask to demonstrate a healed and vital radiance, for a specific ill or condition ask for a healing, visualizing the body free of the condition. If the demonstration is to assist another, frame your words carefully so that only positive and affirming actions are employed. Remember, words have power but do not concern yourself with the notion that any prayer can bring harm, to ourselves or others. As you are making your demonstration see it from the end, as an accomplished fact and thank God for accomplishing it. Prayers of thanksgiving are the most powerful of all. Under no condition discuss the treatment with anyone, it is between God and you alone. When you find yourself drifting back into thinking about the difficulty stop as soon as you become aware and give it back to God with thanks.
It would be easy to end this teaching here, for the lesson is complete. However there is an elephant in the room. Everyone dies. Death comes from illness, accidents to just the wearing out in time of this physical conveyance. No matter how well we phrase our prayers, our how fervently we make them, loved ones, the young and the innocent will pass from our sight. It is not a case of God not hearing our plea or turning a blind eye, he feels our loss and pain even more acutely than we do. It is our lack of perspective, thinking of death as an ending, when in fact it is merely a change in consciousness, a change that comes for all, as certain as the setting of the sun, that brings the pain. Nothing can ameliorate the pain felt when a child or loved one is taken before we are ready. One of the saddest comments made by survivors of a major tragedy that resulted in loss of life is “it’s God’s will they survived.” Does this mean that those who perished were less somehow in God’s eyes? Of course not. No one can say exactly why one escapes death, temporarily, while another, perhaps sitting right next to them does not. The rain falls on the just and the unjust equally. God does not play favorites. Do not allow our limited perspective to instill the false belief that God does not hear our prayers or feel our pain.
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