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Nov 04 2009

Why Silence?

Here are some folks questioning the purpose and experience of Silence, being answered by folks who have tried Silence and find It working for them. These answers are paraphrases from individuals in my meditation and healing practice.

Why would you ever sit in Silence when there are ever so many other more interesting things to do?

Because in Silence, nothing is expected of me. In Silence, I feel at ease, safe with no one asking anything of me. Perhaps that is a lot like hiding but when I come out of it, I don’t feel like I have run away. I feel like I have run towards something that perhaps I don’t fully get but I know is great and it feels trust worthy. Also, increasingly, the myriad of “interesting things” in my life is not helping me become more peaceful. As long as I “do things”, I feel worthy, productive, competent and focused. I feel more in control. However when I stop, I know I am not in control. It feels good to sit in Silence where there are no control games going on or even the pretense of those running in the background. I love to do this in the woods, or at the beach. It seems like a whole other way of being.

I don’t see myself ever seeking Silence because my mind won’t settle down when I stop running from one thing to another. There never seems to be any peace in Silence for me.

When I first stopped doing, thinking, running around, working, to enter into Silence , my mind only knew how to keep thinking thoughts. That is exactly what it continued to do. I focused on my breath going in and out or sometimes on a candle flame or on the blank wall, and let my mind go. Eventually , my thoughts silenced themselves because I gave them no attention. Then real peace set in. I would find myself simply swirling along, not aware of time at all. There is a great sense of floating at times and of taking a real break from demands, lists, concerns and responsibilities. When I come out, I am usually more centered and less frantic. I’d like to be free of worry and concerns, all day long. In the meantime, I am getting healthier, while I practice getting there.

What could possibly be in Silence that I can’t get from putting my energy and efforts on what I like to do?

…perhaps a space where just being is a nice state. It is a great relief to be able to sit in Silence and simply be there. It is like taking a short nap for me. I usually come out refreshed and feeling lighter. I have no idea how that happens but I experience it again and again. What I find in Silence is more space to be. If I find that I can’t get away from issues and stuff from my daily life, I name them out loud and escort them back “outside the doorway to the Silence” and leave them there. They are always there when I finish my quiet time but they are often different in ways, less pressing or I have some clarity about how to respond. I really don’t know how this works, but it does. I don’t get this type of refresher in the day just running around doing things on my list. I like the sense of entering Silence and coming out of it, both. It works for me.

Why would I ever consider Silence, I don’t like to be alone usually and I find it boring in the extreme.

Intentional Silence is completely different from being alone. For me, I go into Silence to connect with a Greater Whole which I don’t fully get but know is probably there. I never feel alone because I go with the intention of connecting with Divine Energy. I don’t know about boring. I did have to learn to be still and listen to the Silence. There is a different kind of knowing there which I am slowly getting. In the beginning though, it was simply a place of Peace for me.

I don’t like Silence because I don’t know what to expect and I can’t really figure out what I am suppose to be doing there.

That is a great reason to keep going there. We don’t know what to expect most of the time in life. I often get thrown when things do not go as I expect. In Silence, I simply sit and am quiet and things happen in that space in a very different way than in my daily life. I get the sense that the hardest issues for me to learn can be learned there. I often get gentle nudges or hunches which help me when I leave that space. I don’t know what I am supposed to be doing there for sure, but I go there because I feel better when I do. I get to be there doing nothing, having no rights or wrongs in that space. When I come out, I am more able to roll along with things rather than feeling I need to control them. That has been great for me.

When my doctor asked me how I brought my blood pressure down without medicine after 10 years of it being too high, I told him through spiritual clearing and healing in Silence. He just rolled his eyes.

But really, that is what I did. I began sitting in Silence and when things came up which were stressful, I named them usually as a fear, called out the blocked energy around them and asked for them to be consumed from my energy field. This process has worked for me, big time. Then I usually enjoy my Silence after I do my release work. My blood pressure I guess was related to all the stress I was carrying when I got angry, irritated or frustrated. Maybe my cells just settled down as all those things left my energy field, who knows. Anyway, my doctor is happy and I think I am a lot healthier all around. ( for more on how to name and release) http://robbinshopkins.com/2009/09/calling-out-impatience-part-2/

Other Responses to Why Silence?

When I finally got to entering Silence on my own, I found it amazing that when I came out, I was clearer about the issues I was facing even though they were not specifically addressed by me in that Silence.

I found myself always making excuses for myself as to why I was drinking too much until in Silence I found a place to connect in stillness and within the quiet. I then began to be able to consider getting help for my drinking habits.

When I was really lost, in a situation I was completely confounded by, doing things that were unfamiliar and sometimes unpleasant for me, I could always take 5 minutes in Silence and know I was still connected to the Greater Whole.

When I got to Silence even for a short time daily, I began to see that my temper was less explosive and my language was more even, even the curse words dropped out in time. Some type of peace was coming over me just by a few minutes in Silence.

: Tjosvoll Vest by Vinje

Try Silence for several days, a few minutes at the time and then keep giving it to yourself, as a gift. You are actually giving Divine Presence/Greater Whole/All That Is/your “I AM Presence” a chance to send you Love so that you will have more Light to bring to your body, your affairs and your thoughts. Love creates Light which heals us completely. Sometimes we just aren’t creating enough Love of our “I AM Presence”/own True Self /Core Eternal Being for us to generate enough Light to feel balanced, centered, content and whole. When you enter into Silence:

1. set an intention ( say it out loud) to connect with All That Is

2. to receive healing Love

3. to experience inner Peace, with time

When you leave Silence give thanks for whatever happened for you in that time, regardless of whether you think if was good or bad, well done or botched, helpful or unhelpful. Appearances often deceive us. Being in Silence with these intentions is ALWAYS HEALING even if we can’t see it in the beginning or on a specific day.

Sep 24 2009

Calling Out Impatience, part 2

If you are reading this blog for the first time or after a while away, read the previous post before reading this one, as they go together. Go to http://robbinshopkins.com/2009/09/patience-is-love-of-self-part-1/.

It is possible to focus on impatience within ourselves and rout it out! This concept though came to me slowly over a long period of time. I awoke gradually to the implications of naming what was causing me distress, imbalance and friction in my life. Here are some concrete examples of how to name impatience and command it out of our field.

A Half and a Third of the Sky by Shamanic Shift

Before doing this work or any other of a spiritual nature, open a sacred healing space. I do this by inviting my Highest I AM Self , the Angelic Host, the Nature Intelligences, the Ascended Master of all traditions, the Comic Light Being of the Highest Light, Divine Physicians who can work with me today. Do what works for you.

When impatience is manifesting in our lives in the present time, we usually know it is present. We sometimes carefully and cleverly ignore it, make excuses for it or downright deny we are being impatient. This is a process when you are ready to honestly face the energy of impatience within.

1. The first step is to NAME the settings, interactions, situations where we are feeling impatient with ourselves or others. It looked like this for me. Getting up every morning, stomping around the house looking for my hair brush and cursing about never being able to find anything, repeatedly, day after day when I had to go to work!!

Also, even though you can quickly and decisively name impatience in others, that does you absolutely no good. You can only change that pattern in yourself. Your own healing of this imbalance will affect those around you.

What does impatience look like in your life? How does it specifically manifest? Pick one instance where you have been impatient with self or others, to further explore.

2. A second step in this process is to name all the ways impatience in the situation you have named is benefiting you. For me, it benefited me because it allowed me to get out my impatience with myself in a safe private environment before I was publicly at work. The ranting also kept me in touch with my power, as distorted as that was, because I felt trapped by the daily routine of going to that job. Giving power to my impatience provided me a forum to rail without any perceived consequences to myself. I could let loose and not hurt anyone but myself.

How does the impatience in the situation you have identified, benefit you? What pay offs are your getting from you impatience in this situation?

3. The third step is to consider the costs of this continued set of behaviors to yourself and to others. In my case, it was very unpleasant for my husband to witness this self-condemnation on my part every morning I had to work. Though I seemed to be getting in touch with what I thought of as power, really, I was venting my impatience with myself all over the house. This made it very difficult to get to work with grace and ease, actually, next to impossible. I don’t think grace and ease were even in my vocabulary at the time.

What are the costs to yourself and to others of continuing with this form of impatience with yourself or others?

4. The fourth area to explore is what specific fears are fueling the impatience with self or with others. In my case, my fears were of losing the “me” I liked, by being in a job I was not happy with. Another fear was that I was losing my sense of my 0wn power by needing to “fit in” to the organization where I was working. Another fear was of never getting to where I could really make a difference through what I was doing.

What specific fears are fueling the impatience with self or with others?

When the fears are specifically named, you are ready to decide if you would like these to leave your energy field for good. If so, continue with the next section for how to do that. If not, perhaps you can return to this when you feel ready to release the fears manifesting in your life as impatience with self or others.

Clearing the energy behind impatience.

There are a few basic concepts which will support this clearing of blocked energy manifesting as impatience. The first is that impatience is not an eternal energy. It is not of the family of love and therefore is fleeting, passing and is not a permanent fixture of our own true selves. We may have this trait for months, years or lifetimes but none the less, it is a passing trait which we can release if we are so inclined. Secondly, we have the deep knowing of All That Is within us. We are one with God/The Great Oneness/All That Is. We may not feel we are connected to this knowing, but we are. We need to claim this connection and releasing that which is not of love, in any form, strengthens that connection on our side. From the “other side” that connection is constant, everlasting and steadfast. Thirdly, if we command blocked energy out of our field, it will go. Until you have experience doing this, you have to simply do it and see. Then the experience of cleared energy will be known to you in this time and space and the process will become easier over time.

The clearing process begins with intent. One day I decided that I no longer wanted impatience in my energy field. Thus began a series of letting go and clearing of impatience energy from all areas of my life. I imagine there is still more to do but the backlog has been addressed! We get as many chances as we need. We can do the work now or do the work later. This is a loving step towards claiming the power and peace of our own true selves. Every one of us is capable of being patient with ourselves and others. We simply need to call out the blocked energy manifesting as impatience and call forth love to replace it.

Steps to Clear Impatience from you Field

1. Reopen your sacred healing space or restate your intent to work within that space if you have already opened it that day. ( see above)

2. Call forth the sacred flame from within you.

This flame is the form of God, All That Is, the Great Oneness which is within each of us. It knows nothing beyond the Presence of God. It is the energy of our own I AM Energy and of the Great I AM Energy in the same moment. Further, the Sacred or Eternal Flame is constant, all powerful, all knowing and everywhere present. We are in good hands with this image of Divine Oneness! Say, “I call forth the Eternal Flame from within me.”

3. Call out all the blocked fear energy you have identified in your field which is manifesting as impatience. Say something like, ” Sacred Flame consume the blocked fear of ______ which is manifesting as impatience with myself and others. ” You can call out all the specific fears you have identified from Step 4 above, at the same time.

4. Call out the core of the blocked energy from the specific year, month and day of its inception into you field. Say something like, ” I call forth this blocked fear of ____________ from all time and space from the specific year, month and day of its inception into my energy field which is now manifesting as impatience with myself and with others. Consume the original blocked energy source of this impatience from my energy field totally and completely.”

All that can go in the given day, will leave your energy field. However, you may have to repeat this process many times until the manifestation of all impatience leaves your field. Each time you do this, more and more blocked energy will leave your field forever!

5. Call in the Presence of Divine Love in the place where the fear has been. Say something like, I call forth the Presence of Divine Love into my thinking, feeling, acting self where this blocked fear energy has resided manifesting as impatience with myself and others.

6. Give thanks for the loving support of the sacred healing space. Say something like, Thank you so much for this opportunity, for the clearing and for the reconnection with Divine Love.

Blessing to all who come this way! If you try this process, share your results with us here that we may witness each other’s efforts and share in the energy of seeking greater Peace individually and collectively. If you do not see the “reply box” here, click on the Title and you will be taken to the Internet space to leave a comment.

Aug 12 2009

Being Eternal

When all seems to be said and done, there is still more to handle, respond to, and integrate, always and forever! We are never said and done. We are never completely finished, not in death, not in life, not in work, not in love.

There is always more awaiting us when we are ready to receive it, into our knowing. We are ETERNAL. We are eternally presented with more of something or another. Even in the most severely extreme actions taken to end a life, one is never said and done. It is impossible to finish or end ourselves. We are always with our being whatever dimension we are living in. This is an absolute truth for all beings, everywhere.

Eventually, sometime, somewhere we will begin to hear the small voice of All That Is which is always with us whether we attend to that voice or not. Even at the end of deeply destructive action, we come face-to-face with ourselves and we are IT. There is no getting away from us, from our thoughts, words, deeds and actions. We are IT.

Being Eternal is a forever process.

Our beings repeatedly move from one dimension to another and pick up where we left off. We still have to face the same heartache, the same sadness, the same misperceptions, the same feeling of disconnection from God and Divine Love. As above, so below. As below, so above. We are the creators of our own lives. We are the ones who make choices with what we are given. We are the ones who give meaning and power to the things which happen to us. We can do the clearing work now or do the clearing work later, the choice is ours but the blocked energy NEVER simply goes away on its own.

We are inextricably part of All That Is, in mind, body and soul regardless of what we have done, what we are thinking, what we are presently doing or not doing or what we will chose to do in the future. We create our own lives, the good and the bad, for the sole purpose of healing our souls from the separateness we feel from the Greater Whole. Why do bad things happen to us? Why do good things happen to us? We are on a journey and each of us will have the precise and exact situations we need to heal our souls.

Upon my return from India three years ago, I experienced 10 days of amoebic dysentery and 4 weeks of a serious, painful knee infection which had me in bed for over 2 weeks and on crutches for another 2 weeks beyond that, affecting all my systems because of the bacteria.

I had been on a spiritual journey to an ashram while in India. You can imagine my outrage, anger and ranting about having such a thing happen to me when I had “put out” so much to make that trip! What had I done “to deserve that reaction” in my life? I was not at this level of outrage on the first day of the dysentery nor even during the first week of the infection but as it wore on and on, I wore out, more and more. I felt exhaustion, weakness, pain, pain, pain and then anger, fear, rage, blame and finally release. Ah, the sweet energy of surrender!

I finally saw that the entire experience was for me to GET THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGES of the trip and to integrate that knowing into every aspect of my being, including deep and serious illness. I am not a super “swifty” in this type of learning! However, with enough pain and discomfort, I did have to stop railing, begin meditating and praying, and eventually, let go.

I was supported in this odyssey by a book I had gotten in India written about a spiritual mystic, entitled Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness* by Satprem. During the endless days of my debilitating imbalance, I read this book. My strong emotions were raging around and then I got to chapter 14. Here was something that struck to the very core of my being:

We cannot heal unless we heal all the way down and we cannot go all the way down unless we go all the way up. The deeper we want to descend, the more powerful the light we need, otherwise we are eaten alive. … Ultimately, progress is not so much a matter of ascending as of clearing all that obstructs — when we are clear, everything is THERE. …..When the seeker has had a first decisive opening above, when he has seen the Light, he almost simultaneously feels a battering below, as if something in him were aching. …And he will have learned his first lesson: we cannot take one step above without taking one step below… As soon as we have touched a certain intensity of consciousness or light, it automatically exerts a pressure on the rest of our nature and brings out the corresponding obscurities or resistances. *Institut de Recherches Evolutives, Paris, 1996-2003, pgs 235-239.

This extended pain finally made sense. My confinement and pain was not a punishment, not a “bad thing”, not cooked up for me to suffer. It was a necessary experience if I was going to really escape all the emotions I had of blaming and raging against the Universe when my body was deeply hurting. Having spent 18 years earlier in my life with debilitating back pain, I was deeply familiar with pain. However this time, I could see that my body was speaking to me LOUDLY about letting go all blame, anger, outrage and pain.

Resist not evil came hurling into my mind and saturated the pores of my body. The message was to simply allow and this would pass as well. It did pass and I had a talk with the Universe to arrange for other means to get my attention if and when I needed such a clearing in the future! I envision an email from God with a clear message, “clean up your act, you need to move on! ” I would hope I would get such a message now and not need more weeks in bed.

Have you gotten any emails from God recently? I had probably gotten lots of messages which I had not recognized or ignored before my knee episode. The “big guns” were brought in so that I had to attend to the messages. May we each attend to the areas of our lives which are bringing us imbalance. They don’t go away, ever, they just retreat and wait for another occasion to get us to pay attention to what needs clearing and balance in our lives. As we are eternal through and through, we have all the time we need to learn the lessons before us.

Prayer and Clearing Suggestion

Open a Sacred Healing Circle as you envision that for yourself.

Say from your heart : I forgive myself completely and ask forgiveness from all others, where I have tried to hurt or punish myself or another knowingly or unknowingly including the following specific incidents ( _____) through all space and time. I want to walk more fully in the Light, in Balance and In Harmony with myself and with others. Thanks be to All That Is.

Jul 31 2009

Say Yes to the Universe

What happens when an opportunity comes along which we have not consciously called to ourselves, and it keeps insistently inserting itself into our lives? This has been my experience of being the executor for my mother’s estate. It is probably a good thing I did not know all that was involved because I would have probably gone running in the opposite direction. Well, I did run in the beginning!

One thinks of these roles as a few months duration and then closure. This role for me has been forming and reforming itself for over 3 years.

Now as I am seeing a possible end to this, I realize that I have been given numerous opportunities through this process to say “YES” to the Universe or “NO”. My major learning is that if I can get into a place to wholeheartedly say “Yes” to the Universe, my life flows more smoothly. If I don’t get into that place, I feel drained, worried, frustrated and disturbed.

When it was clear that my mother was finally ready to move to a retirement center, I kept ignoring what all this would mean to me. We found a great retirement facility, lovely apartment, worked out the financing, discussed the move. We planned out the furniture she would be taking with little cut-out scaled furniture representations for each room courtesy of my husband. I would be very present with her at her home, then return to my home and stop thinking about it, completely. I just simply did not think about any of the real consequences of this for me. That worked okay for a while to lull me into thinking, “this will chug along just fine”.

Then I began to get phone calls 3-4 months before the move, such as, “Robbins, I just don’t think I am really ready to move quite yet. You know there is only so much time and I’d like to spend it here where I am. ” Or another call, “Robbins, I don’t think this new place is going to really suit me. Perhaps we should wait. ” These calls were coming after we had paid a hefty deposit and already set the move date.

It slowly dawned on me that my 86 year old mother could not cope with the move, at all, really. She might be able to work with me on what to take but the idea of really clearing out her home of 41 years, was simply shutting her down. At my home, I went ballistic, right into agitated anger, then “I can’t cope” mode, I am ” incompetent” mode, why me?, defeated resignation and on alternate Saturdays, begrudging acquiescence. In other words, I was in a state of resounding “NO”!

I really did not want to go to Richmond (2.5 hours from me) week after week to make this move happen. I had a healing practice in full swing, for goodness sake. I had terrible “clearing out” skills myself. Why me? Why me?

Thus began my daily training and education about saying “YES” or “NO” to the Universe. All the agitation with the situation and with myself simply made me feel worse. I had not expected to begin my role as executor while my mother was still alive and fully competent. I felt surprised and really unprepared. Therefore I tried to control everything I could. Grasping for control is completely different from saying “YES” to the Universe.

Grasping for control looked like my trying to get clarity and a firm decision from my mother about what she would take to her new apartment, in one afternoon. We both ending up frustrated. Another image comes to mind of my driving on I- 95 South and being detoured by a three lane accident. Traffic was at a standstill for 1.5 hours before it moved. My reaction was to fume. The more I fumed the worse the situation got. I eventually realized I was driving in the wrong direction on a secondary road before I got a hold of the anger. These are just some of the none too pretty exchanges which occurred in my “NO” period.

I did finally get that I was making myself and most everyone else miserable AND that I had a choice in the matter. I began to call for the clearing of my anger, my fear of failure, my fear of not being competent to help my mother, fear of screwing up the legal process, fear about resenting the time I needed to spend in Richmond and a few dozen other fears as well. As each one of these fears was named and released over a few weeks, our time together got easier and easier. Surprise, surprise!

I went for 2- 3 days a week regularly and we began by setting up systems for addressing the “stuff”. I remember being quite thrilled at about 6 weeks into this process, when my mother called and said that she had actually gone through a desk by herself and cleared it out as well as a chest of drawers. She was very pleased with herself. This was the first time ever, in all the years I had known her that I remembered her doing this of her own volition. So, confidence was growing for both of us. As I was increasingly going with the flow, saying “YES” to the Universe, amazing things were happening.

We actually laughed a great deal as we were plowing through boxes from our lives in Holland, which had not been opened in 41 years. We spent one afternoon remembering all the clothes my mother had made for me through the years. This was aided by still having ever single one of the patterns in the basement and many actual material scraps of outfits themselves to aid our memories! I began to program my IPod for the trip on I-95 South and by playing my own music, the trip seemed shorter and shorter. We went out to dinner just the two of us which had hardly ever happened as we were always with other family members. Such truly precious times, all from saying “YES” to the Universe. I came to realize that this was a supreme blessing for me on every level, one I had not called for myself but one which the Universe had presented all on its own for me.

Try saying “YES” to your Universe in your life.

There is likely to be a delicious blessing past the anger, frustration, need to control, fear of failure and fear of having to do something you don’t like doing. My husband laughed with me as I began to come home each week and delve into our own piles of stuff, clearing, sorting and giving away. I became determined to de-clutter and clear out so as to never have to face a 40 year stint of accumulated possessions of my own. Another opportunity to say “YES” to the Universe. Happy affirming to you.

Jan 28 2009

Praying with Power

Prayer can be more than tepid thoughts, fear filled words or memorized prose. The purpose of prayer is to actualize the Divine Presence in all aspects of our lives. We may strongly feel the need for “help”, “healing” , “relief” for another or for ourselves but our strong sense of need does not charge a prayer, nor necessarily make it happen. This is because all that is needed already exists in the Universe. All That Is really means All That Is. So, what is praying with power?

What are we praying for? by Silverlinedwinnebago

When we charge our prayers with determination, envisioned wholeness and balance, we draw on Infinite Power. Powerful prayer brings form to the Universe of Divine Love that is all around us waiting to be actualized in daily life. When we see, sense, or envision, the Presence of Divine Grace for another, or for ourselves we are praying in power. When the envision wholeness we give form to prayer so that the energy of Divine Love which is all present, all knowing and all powerful can be “harnessed”, “directed” and “focused ” for another.

We are working in the midst of Love Energy all the time. That Love Energy can be activated or not, focused or not, directed or not. If we plead, beg or seek to inform our Higher Power we are essentially giving credence to a “God” separate from us and manifesting a world view of “in-completion, loss and need”. Even if we don’t fully get that we are One with All That Is and that we are made of the same substance as the Divine Energy itself, we can pray in the power of this energy and have our prayers be filled with direction, power and focus.

Prayer 1

Dear God, I hope you will hear me. I really, really, want you to help Nancy because she is in so much pain. She desperately needs your loving touch, care and attention. She is suffering terribly and needs healing. Help me with my deep sadness. I don’t want her to suffer and die. Please heal her and don’t let her die. She is a great mother and doesn’t deserve any of this. Her children really need her. I hope she does not die. Thank you so much for your help.

Prayer 2

Spirit of the Living God, I open a sacred healing space for Nancy. Nancy, beloved child of God, be healed. Receive the healing energy of the Great I AM in all areas of your being, thought, emotion, spirit and body. I call the Divine Healing Energy which is all knowing, all p0werful and everywhere present. Come Divine Healing Energy of All That Is. Fully actualize in Nancy’s being. I cast out all blocked energy in Nancy’s field which is now manifesting as pain and imbalance. I call in the Presence of emotional (mental, spiritual) and physical peace. I see Nancy as whole and balanced in all ways. My thanks for the Love of the Divine Wholeness/God/Universal Oneness. And so it is.

The first prayer has a pleading tone and sees Nancy as lacking something, suffering and in need of something to happen to make things “right”. The prayer is informing God of Nancy’s pain, her mothering skills and her need for healing, as if God does not know this intimately. The person praying gives form to his/her own fears and sadness, rather than to the vision of balance and wholeness for Nancy. This prayer sets God apart from the person praying. This person praying thinks that Nancy is being punished because she doesn’t “deserve” this treatment. On every front, this prayer is leaking power and energy.

The second prayer affirms the limitless power of All That Is in all directions. It is full of commands, be healed, receive, come and fully actualize. The commands affirm the energy of WE ARE ALL ONE, even God and I. This prayer is calling the formless energy of God/Eternal Oneness into actualized form in Nancy’s energy field. This person sees Nancy as “whole and balanced in all ways”. The pray-er is giving form to the Divine Energy at the human level by envisioning the wholeness which is already there. There is also recognition of the need to call out blocked energy Nancy is carrying which keeps keeping her from manifesting wholeness at the physical level.

The way the first prayer is conceived drains it of its power before it is even spoken. When we continue to see ourselves as unworthy, small, insignificant and separated before God, we are essentially turning away from our own true power, denying what has been give to us, that which is our birthright. Our relationship with God is nothing like our relationship with humans, though many of us continue to view it with just the same limitations we might have with our sister or a friend. There is no power in the first prayer because the person praying has not claimed that power which is there but for the asking. It is not charged with the Knowing Of All That Is. It is riddled with pleading, fear and the energy of being separate from God. The words are said in love and desire to help but the source of the prayer comes from a sense of lack.

To pray with power, we have to claim the power that is waiting for us. We have to try out a new vision of partnership with All That Is. We have to use all the goodness we have to see the Blessings of Wholeness and Balance for another. Understanding that we are giving form to the unformed energy of Divine Infinity, we need to claim the Highest Good for ourselves and others when we pray.

Use these steps to infuse your prayers with power.

1. Address the power you are recognizing

2. Open a sacred healing space

3. Command the state of wholeness for self or others

4. Call the Divine Energy to the person or situation

5. Cast out all blocked energy manifesting imbalances

6. Give thanks for the Love of Divine Presence

7. Command that all that has been said is so.