Big Prayer

Our prayers must be felt. Now more than ever our prayers are being called into action. The earth and all her creatures need us, the elemental mothers need us and our brothers and sisters need us… we are the ones we have been waiting for. 

Prayer has flowed from me in many different ways. As a child I would begin a prayer and was always surprised at how the momentum of the prayer would grow. The prayer would begin to shape itself and it didn’t want to leave anyone or anything out. The healing was infinite, the more I prayed the stronger the prayer became. No prayer was too small nor too big.

As a body worker and energy medicine practitioner I’ve noticed another way prayer unfolds in my practice. Connecting to clients and their higher selves or guides I would be led by a prayer that was not always moving from me but rather through me. I also began visualizing healing and that prayer became part of my practice. I noticed how the body would respond to the prayer/visualization and  the simple witnessing of healing occur. At The School of Natural Therapeutics I attended in Albuquerque,  the philosophy of Nature Cure taught me that regardless of the kind of healing practice I have- I am never the healer. Only God and Nature heal. A prayer allows me to connect to Creator so the healing can flow through me. 

I began working the energy in what I thought of and called “Big Prayer”. By being aware of the multi-dimensionality of the prayer and the quantum component I could witness how energy would shift as the prayer unfolded itself. I began to see how our prayers, thoughts, beliefs and physical bodies are actually made of the same foundational components and that the outer layers, or those that are less physical would be the first to respond, but once that change occurred it would work toward the more dense and physical matter. Theta healing has shown me that the healing is in the witnessing; observing of the prayer shifting the energy wether it be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. I could also notice how sometimes a prayer or healing wouldn’t “take”, as if the situation was not quite ripe. In those cases, the prayer stays and lingers in the field until there is a deeper resonance. This shifted my perspective from what people refer to as “unanswered prayers” into “Prayers in Progress”. Prayers in Progress require us to step forward and prepare the field, to amend and prepare the soil if you will, so that the flowers can bloom and the prayers can be realized.

Prayer is so much more than I was taught as a youth. Prayers are not just words and requests, they are actually Consciousness.  The “ask and thou shall receive” school of thought is misguided due to a misinterpretation of the scripture. Although we must be careful what we ask for because the asking does indeed carry weight, it is not as strong and potent as the feeling. In Truth, the saying should extend to – we must be careful what we feel for. The modern King James Version of the Bible (John 16:24) states: “whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto have ye ask nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Something is missing here, the key perhaps, when we compare it to the original ancient Aramaic text: “all things that you ask straightly, directly… from inside my name, you will be given. So far you have not done this. Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full.” In Big Prayer we feel it, breath it, see it and know it. And so it is.

This is how we step into a prayer, by breathing it and becoming it rather than asking for something and waiting with expectations and in trepidation. When we are asking for something, we are at the same time acknowledging that it does not already exist. This misunderstood way of praying could in some instances cause more harm than good. In a feeling based Prayer we align our hearts, minds and spirits and at the same time remain unattached and have unconditional love and forgiveness for ourselves and others. The feeling is the secret ingredient of prayer. We feel the outcome of our prayers being answered. We feel it both physically and emotionally. Sometimes we can feel it strongly enough for the feeling to overflow from us becoming contagious and creating healing not just in us but around us. This is Big Prayer.