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with this city and its people. This state and its inhabitants. This continent, this planet, this solar system, this galaxy and then the whole of the universe with all the billions and billions of warm, loving personalities in various shapes and forms. They are your spiritual brothers and sisters. Now you are seeing the universe of personalities as God sees it. He is the creator personality. Meet him on that level, and greet him! Now hand him the imaginary envelope which contains all your soul's desires and give it to him. He takes it and acknowledges your deepest desires. All is well.
6. Thanking God
Now, let us thank the Creator. Thank you, God, for our lives! Thank you for all the creatures in the universe, thank you for making our lives a joyful one! Thank you for the good experiences, for making our lives enjoyable. Thank you for the bad experiences, for allowing us to learn and grow wiser with the experience. Thank you, God, for all that we have and all that will be given us. We truly appreciate our lives!
7. Receiving
Now, be ready to receive an answer. Imagine yourself as a satellite dish pointing to the center of the universe. Or a flower opening its petals up to the sunshine. Be completely relaxed and receptive. Your whole being is tuned in a state of relaxed openness to receiving God's love. God's emanations may come to you in various ways. It may be just a warm feeling or a loving thought. Just be assured and have faith that your soul is soaking it all up. Enjoy this moment of loving and being loved by God!
8. Total Health Of Body, Mind And Soul
Now it is time to narrow our perception from the whole of the universe to clusters of galaxies, then to the galaxy we live in. Then to our solar system, planet, continent, state, county and down to our city, building, room and then to our body. Now, narrow your perception to the parts that make up your body: your face, hands, feet, arms shoulders, your organs. Your blood and bones. See and acknowledge the cells that make up your body. To your cells, you are God. They want your love so that they can love you in turn. Give love to your cells as God gives love to you. Treat your cells as you would want God to treat you. And feel the love from your cells. They adore you. And you adore them. Consciously reach out to them with your mind and bestow to them your highest and deepest love, the love that you received from God. Now realize the importance of your cells getting along well together, and appreciate the importance to God of you getting along well with your fellow creatures. This circulation of divine love and energy from the highest to the lowest, from the largest to the smallest is what empowers the total health of your body, mind and soul.
9. Maintaining The Consciousness and the Circulation
You have relaxed to a place where you are virtually one with God and the universe. Health, strength, power, love and peace of mind are yours. You have relaxed to your deepest level and with God's help, have re-created yourself. You are now a better person - healthier, stronger, smarter and more spiritual. The circulation of divine energies has cleared away all blockages and has revitalized and reinvigorated all your cells. Your mind is now more in tune with God and your soul is empowered and inspired. Maintain this circulation of consciousness in your daily life. Keep the energies flowing everyday. Whatever may happen, know that you can always energize the cycle by tapping in to the peaceful inner space within, where lies the divine spark, the source of total health for your body, mind and soul.
2. Connecting to your true Self: Uplifting Prayer
Prayer mobilizes our unified human vehicle in the performance range of depth. But before we can go further into exploring this process, we need to define what is meant by prayer here, as I have noticed that people use this word to mean different things. Some use the word prayer to mean any process in which we go within our non-material self. What I defined as worshipful meditation is prayer to others. Sending out good thoughts to other people, whether such mental emanations are real or not, can be thought of as prayer.
Affirmations, whether to oneself or to others, are a form of prayer. Mantras, chanting and singing songs of positive intent can be prayer. All of the above may be considered as prayer, but in the main, the word prayer is meant as an appeal to our Creator for intercession in our lives. Through praying, we ask God for assistance.
It may be arrogant and even ludicrous to think that God, an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent entity will grant the request of one human being just for that person's sake, especially if there are others who are praying for just the opposite result, such as in a war, a conflict or even
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