Today is the National Day of Prayer. I believe that today should be a day that regardless of our ethnicity, beliefs, and backgrounds we can all come together, take into account that we all have differences but at the same time we all want the same thing and we are all brothers and sisters. Regardless if you are Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Pagan, Hindu, or Catholic, we all share the same core in our practices and spiritual paths, and that is compassion and peace. Prayer doesn’t have to be to a god or deity, and in fact prayer in any form is equivalent to the other. Setting that intention, that thought, the faith and belief that something will happen in your life or the lives around you is prayer and can be done by anyone, under any belief.
A great example of the diversity in prayer are two things my friend Jeremy Gotwals share with me yesterday during a session of meditation that he has been holding lately. The first practice involves meditating on becoming the Buddha, but also imagining the people around you as Buddhas. The second was another visual meditation in which you imagine a ball of white light surrounding you, emanating from your core. After you have meditated on this image for awhile, you are too send out this positive energy into the universe. There are many types of visuals and prayers Buddhists have that aren’t to a god, but concentrate on meditating on images and sending out that energy of the world in peace and compassion. As I talked about in my post on the Law of Attraction, simply meditating on an image of something can manifest it into reality.
Some ways that you can pray:
- Meditate and visualize the world around you in peace, without diversity. Imagine compassion within everyone’s hearts. Visualize the worlds suffering ending.
- Look up prayers under any spiritual path and recite them aloud, or in your head, until you feel satisfied.
- In quite, with your eyes closed, visualize whatever it is that you want to happen within yourself or others. Health, happiness, a job, etc.
- Prayer to your god or deity.
- Chanting mantras.
- Simply repeating what you want, and believing it will happen.
- If you choose to visualize something. Visualize the the image of aftermath. Visualize not getting the new job, but visualize you in the car. Envelope yourself with the feelings you will have once you get the car. Visualize your yourself healthier. Visualize and feel yourself healthier. Visual the new you, as if it has already happened.
So today, and every day, remember that the form of prayer you partake in is sacred to you. Its your form of communication with the universe. Whether its to a god or deity, meditation, a statement, visualization, a mantra, or a ritual. Whatever it is that you feel is prayer, take time and be apart of the unity and power of this day by joining in with your form of prayer. We are all brothers and sisters, and together we have the power to do anything.
"The Greatest prayer is patience"
- Gautama Siddhartha (the Buddha)
