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What is prayer? How do I pray?

The word "prayer" has become confused by religious misunderstanding. Your prayer is your attitude and your words. It is your unique spiritual posture that directs your creative life force energy that comes forth from within you and takes shape in the experience of life. To pray is to send forth that which dwells within you in spirit. To pray can be a deep and profound experience of love and positive intent and it can also be observed in your thoughts, words and deeds. We have free will to express ourselves on whatever level we choose to express moment to moment. Our thoughts, our words, our actions, our intentions, are our prayer and it is powerful and creative for good or ill. When practiced with good intent it can change the world for the better. It can be carried out with focused and positive intent by going within and consciously aligning thoughts and emotions with your highest spiritual nature and then intentionally directing your energy in the form of an image with love guiding you. Energy always follows intention, for better or worse, that is your free will in every moment. We can pray from our lower nature where we are guided by fear and pain or we can raise our consciousness by choice to higher thoughts. Ideally we can direct our will, "our prayer", with intention that is consciously aligned with our highest self. We align ourselves with the divine, our highest nature, for the benefit of creating and manifesting our desired reality or lessons we need to experience in order to evolve to higher thought consciousness. To pray with clear, powerful, uplifting intent is to call forth the creative life force that we are all made of and to place it consciously above the mundane and to know that the power is within to connect with the love in our heart and bring forth an image that represents that. Align that image with uplifting feelings and senses. In this way you are sending forth a powerful uplifting prayer. You are directing your energy in a positive way. We choose from moment to moment whether to direct our prayer with love and joy or fear.

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