A SIMPLE APPROACH TO PRAYER AND MEDITATION

 

Prayers and meditation work best when consciousness is in the "NOW". Past harms, resentments, and fears are blocking the materialization of offerings from spirit. I have to let go of the barriers I have built to protect myself so I am presently emotionally available. Clearing the channel to connect consciously to my higher power is the direct route to my source and guidance.

 When I clear my relationship to my Creator as stated in the St. Francis Assisi prayer, "Lord make me a channel of  Thy peace," through releasing my past fearful ways and making amends to those I harmed, I am ready to be allied directly to the God of my understanding. 

 Abundance, health, and love are my inheritance. They manifest when I merge my energy with that of the source of my being. This aligns me in the flow of a beneficent spiritual energy. I feel bliss and prosperity. If you are following this column, you will find past articles that describe letting go of fear, guilt, shame, and other negative energies to allow emotional freedom. It is necessary to include acknowledging your part in past relationships and making them right. This further completes breaking emotional strings from the past. I describe the process in my book, "Paradigm Busters, Reveal the Real You" at Amazon.

Reading a book to learn to meditate did not work for me. Therefore, in prayer I asked God to teach me. I lay on my bed facing the cross on the wall with open arms. "Whatever you have for me God, I am here with open arms to hear." After a few days of silence, Daily, I began to hear unspoken messages, which were new to me about how to heal my relationship with my mother. The next year, I heard that I was to take action along with my new information. Each morning I listen for new understanding. For me life is about walking in faith.

After hearing Tesla's explanation about the universe, I understood. He said that to understand the universe, it is about energy, vibration, and frequency. Prayer is raising my consciousness beyond the ego and going directly to my Creator. When that higher contact is achieved, I am listening in the stillness. For me, it is like tuning into a higher frequency of a radio-tuning dial.

It took time to understand the more that I let go of past mental obstructs for protection, the more easily the answers and resolutions will appear. When I was in grade school visiting my aunt in California, I thought her baby grand piano was the most beautiful thing I ever saw. I prayed that I could have a piano like hers. At home, I played on an old upright, which was a decent, piano, but not beautiful. When I married, we could not afford an expensive one so we bought a quality spinet. In the divorce, he got the piano. This created an opening for a new piano for me.

I wanted to replace the piano I lost in the divorce. After a few years, I decided I would save for a baby grand piano like my aunt's. When I was ready to shop for my new piano, my best friend, who had perfect pitch, went with me to try out the many pianos at an outlet barn. While I was browsing, I heard her playing a black baby grand. It felt like it called out to me. I even wanted an electronic player installed like my other aunt had on her piano, which I loved to play, too.   

While refinancing my mortgage for my home two years later, I included the remaining loan amount of the piano. I had paid the cost of the piano I had in my marriage. The surprise was that the outstanding amount of the new loan did not make the latest mortgage payment any higher. It felt like God had paid for the rest of the piano, the difference of the cost of a baby grand from a spinet.

If I had tried to buy a keyboard sooner, my husband who took everything as his, would have ended up with the baby grand. The best part I realized later was that I had cleared out the past negative energies that stopped my prayer from manifesting. I deserved a baby grand piano. I cleaned the channel for the manifestation and it appeared at the right time.

If you have read my prior articles about the Universal Laws, I unconsciously had used The Law of Attraction. My vibrational offering equaled my point of attraction. Timing was the last part of the attraction to manifest. It showed up at the right time for me to enjoy and keep.

Prayer and Meditation raise me into an altered state of consciousness, where the ego cannot dominate my thinking and the solution to my problems can be rational, loving ones. Real prayer is going within and experiencing aligning and merging my energy to the consciousness of the universe. It is the direct way to connect with my guidance and direction.

My actions and thinking are now coming from a loving cause. In a higher vibration, the spiritual energy provides my needs that are the effect of the cause. Life is about cause and effect. I change the motive to get a new result. Love creates loving resolutions and answers. Most people call that beneficent energy God.

Self-searching, prayer, and meditation are very practical. Daily prayer and meditating builds a firm foundation for emotional balance. Correct understanding allows the highest-quality outcome possible. In my guidance to help others, my energy expands and it feels good. That expanded energy manifests into meeting my needs. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, says, “Here is my secret. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Edgar Cayce, The Father of Holistic Health, said, “Mind is the builder,” that spirit is our source and the physical is our result. From his famous quote, I learned to change my mind set to create good results, inspiration, or solutions. I tune in through meditation listening for guidance and directions, accepting the results.

I do not pray for myself; my thoughts are not from selfishness, self-centeredness, and fear but to help others. In morning mediation, I hear information for my daily activities, especially for my writing books, this column, articles, and projects needing to be completed. Opportunities to be in service are also offered. Doing the right thing is never wrong. I call myself "God employed". 

It is not always easy to follow my inner messages. Yesterday, I had to approach a new gardener to work in my yard. I never got costs from the two former fellows I interviewed for the work. They just disappeared. So once again, my shy self had to speak up. 

My neighbor mentioned that he had yard maintenance people coming the following day. The best option was to talk with them while they were working next door. I spoke up and we quickly and easily agreed to his starting the next week. I felt a huge sense of relief that it had gone so well. I can apply using God's will in my daily life.

It shows me how practical the spiritual path is. I was hurriedly trying get all my ducks in a row like at the circus-shooting booth. My hasty search to find yard maintenance was not successful; however, the gardener working right in the neighbor's yard was the right one.

Some people call this surrender to the perfect will of God. When I listen to the silent voice inside, my life goes efficiently. Thy Will Be Done shows me that I need to let life happen and not be the director. I give up my ideas for better ones that are rational and productive. Thy will be done, proves to me that it is the easier, softer way.

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CHANGING FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Changing From the Inside Out
By Marilyn L. Redmond

 

Through my many years of self-searching, prayers, and meditation, I have cleaned out the old for the new life. In doing this, I take responsibility, today. This is the process of growing up and maturing. This has created a new foundation upon which to build my new life of joy, gratitude, living in the presence of love. I am learning to respond to all circumstances and situations in life with a loving solution. These problems are opportunities for my practicing to live from a loving motivation and heart.

 In childhood, my information came from family, friends, and religion. I listened to the doctors and ministers and more problems multiplied. I became addicted from doctors' prescriptions and my minster thought I should stay in my domestic violent marriage of rape. I did not find my answers in reading autobiographies, either. I read every one I could, looking for how famous people arranged their lives.

 My family modeled their beliefs and mindset; however, it was not working for me. I was a sponge and followed my parents lead. At that time, I did not understand that people pass down what they learn without question and keep perpetuating what does not work. Learning that I could create my own mindset to overcome my inherited genetics, not volunteer to be a victim, and release all false beliefs brought freedom. My parents did not mature, but I can. I do not have to live my parents' life.

 In the past, I came from reactions of fear. I acted as a child reacting in my older years as this was the only way I knew. Today, I have become aware that changing to responding in love is the responsible way to live. There have been many traumatic occasions in my life in this growing up time for me to practice.

 "When I was a child, I spoke like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 I understand today that I cannot change overnight or by a magic wand. It is a step by step process of doing it differently. My 10 books, blog, and, 173 You Tubes have tools and answers for moving forward in life. "Paradigm Busters, Reveal the Real You" at Amazon is the ultimate book for this process.    

 Through faith and truth, it is possible to rise above the fear and past family patterns of immaturity, illness, or addictions and live beyond their influence in faith. Moving into the "eye of the hurricane" where there is peace and calmness sounded wonderful to me. As fear and old beliefs are outgrown, maturity develops. This is a good time to seek a spiritual counselor or someone who can help restore total wellbeing from healthy actions. Living in the "Now' and not recreating the family dysfunction creates fearlessness bringing maturity, gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, and unconditional love that is also labeled Christ Consciousness.

 When turning my life over to a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, I felt a new power and direction to continue in my spiritual journey. My walk in faith moves me further from the qualms and turmoil of the past. I yield to being in the presence of peace.

 I gave up being the director of my life. I daily surrender to a beneficent loving force of the universe for guidance and direction from the love within my heart. I believe submitting to a loving basis for my life was the most difficult decision and action I have taken. Love had always been there, I was afraid to listen and be vulnerable. This was the turning point in my life. Making the decision to allow love to be my assistance and bring direction created a new basis for my life. I changed from being a fear-based person into being a love- based person. Becoming an agent of love is powerful.

Who will I become? Maybe people will not like the real me. What you see is what you get. How will my life be different? Will I even have a life? Telling the truth can be scary. However, expressing my secrets with a trusted person/counselor is freeing. I will have integrity. I will be genuine.

 

The past is history. For me the change brought forgiveness for all past, present and future people, and events in my life. I give up the emotional strings to be free of reliving my parents' life and my growing up.  I cannot recreate a new past. Therefore, to accept that I can learn from it and move on is a new independence.

 

Finding forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, and unconditional love for all creates a new life in joy. This has brought insight and understanding that I did not expect. Living in the "Now" is a gift that is why it is called The Present.

 

My efforts have produced wisdom an understanding of the dynamics of life. I have come through major challenges of life and have a new life in the presence of love. Extending this information has become valuable for helping others to move into a better life. Knowing the truth sets me free.

Marilyn is an ordained spiritual minister and medium for readings, counseling, regression, past life therapy, and healing. Check out her website, https://www.angelicasgifts.com/, her 173 videos on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/user/puyallup98372, her books at http://www.amazon.com/Marilyn-Redmond/e/B0069WIKDC, her blog at http://marilynredmondbooks.blogspot.com/