Meditation and prayer are essential tools in your spiritual arsenal. They’re the very means through which you commune with the Divine to gather up the spiritual power and wisdom needed to pursue the spiritual path.
Think of it this way: Prayer is reaching out, a petitioning of the Divine. It is ascending up of energy and intention. Meditation is receiving from the Divine. It’s drawing in of the blessings from the Divine source. Through meditation, you are receptive to what God has to say to you. Together, they complete a spiritual circuit.
The Power of Prayer
The most ancient of all religious and metaphysical practices is prayer—the acknowledgement of a greater, more encompassing power than ourselves and how we relate to that greater presence. The common misconception is that prayer is a form of wanting something of God. In this way, you attempting to make the Divine a servant. While there is a place for making a request of the Divine, the fundamental purpose of prayer is to commune with God for the sole purpose and pleasure of being one with God—not to have your questions answered or your request fulfilled. In sincere prayer, you are making a stronger connection with the source of all creative love, light and power.
To understand the significance of this, let us turn to the question of when you do ask for something of God. Let’s say that you’re feeling nervous about something, and you are asking God for peace in your heart. If God already understands, wouldn’t the Divine already be giving that which you need? Why would you need to petition God for help?
What’s really happening through prayer is you’re asking the Divine to illuminate your troubled heart, so you can understand the truth that’s already there, but you are not connecting with. You’re saying, “God I don’t understand how to bring Your peace into this part of my life. I request Your help.” Of course, the Divine will respond to open the door of understanding, so your soul can step into the silence of peace.
The Art of Meditation
It’s ironic that many who pray think you shouldn’t meditate. That’s completely false. You need both: prayer and meditation. You need to complete the circuit. Once you have reached out through prayer, it’s now your job to become still to receive from the Divine.
Keeping the consciousness truly open and receptive is not easy. The mind wants to be active and engaged. Yet in meditation, you are stepping away from the world of activity. When you’re meditating, the mind and body is still, yet the consciousness is vitally attuned. Then the Divine can reciprocate, and you can effectively receive that blessing, because you have trained your consciousness to become open and receptive. This is the completion of the spiritual circuit of giving out and receiving in.
Putting Your Meditation and Prayer into Practice
Once you finish with prayer and meditation, naturally you will be reengaged in life activities. You now have to embody the very thing that God gave you. For example, if in your prayers and meditation you were blessed with Divine peace, you have to be that peace. Say you walk into a job setting where there’s tension and stress. Your job is to maintain that blessing of peace and not to give in to those stresses and pressures. They way, you honor and embody what was given.
Your spiritual work is a cooperative process with the Divine. Like any relationship, if you want it to grow and thrive, you have to spend time with it. Prayer and meditation need to be daily practices. Through the years, your prayers and meditations will greatly deepen, and you are truly drawing closer to the Divine.
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