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Mystical Forms of Prayer — Part 2

Discover letting divine consciousness flow through you in prayer

Eight — VISUALIZATION PRAYER

If you are talented in creating mental images — i.e., gifted in creative visualization — you can pray by conceiving positive pictures within your mind and then offering these images to the Infinite Spirit on behalf of the person for whom you are praying.

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First, strive to sense Spirit is everywhere. Then bring into your mind the person or problem you’re praying for.

Visualize that Spirit fills the person or situation fully, abundantly and perfectly. Visualize that the person or problem is entirely transformed in a delightful and ideal manner. For example, picture that the illness is healed and the person is dancing in health and joy. Or, picture that the enemies have come into accord and are embracing one another in cooperation and trust. In other words, picture that the lack is now perfectly fulfilled.

Visualize the ideal. Then offer your new image to the Lord as a prayer. Mentally see perfection as clearly and vividly as you can. Then release your image to God with the sincere conclusion, May Your will be done. Let go of the image completely. Don’t think about it for the rest of the day.

Leave the image in God’s hands.

It is best to practice visualization while in serene mystical attunement, which will help you to know what to visualize.

Nine — AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER

Through Affirmative Prayer you can help overcome negative events, destructive emotions and self-defeating states of mind in those who request prayer.

In Affirmative Prayer you realize that your mind is part of the Infinite Mind and is thus connected with all individual minds. In the awareness that all human minds are joined together in the Infinite Consciousness, you bring the person who requires prayerful assistance into your mind. Then you affirm and recognize that God is present in this person’s body, mind, heart, life and circumstances.

Yes, yes, yes! God’s Spirit abides within you. God is moving and expressing perfectly within you now. Yes, yes, yes!

Ten — METAPHYSICAL PRAYER

Metaphysics means beyond physics, the study of original source and true cause. We humans tend to have a “herd consciousness” which keeps us from realizing True Cause and most of life’s possibilities. We habitually follow the fears and primitive perspectives of our ignorant groups, thus limiting our ways of thinking and living.

In Metaphysical Prayer, you consciously recognize the Divine everywhere and in everyone.

In attunement with Spirit, first recognize the spiritual self of the person for whom prayer is being offered. Simply abide in Spirit and let Spirit reveal the real, true self of the person to you.

Then, abiding in awareness of that person’s spiritual self, observe that the negative condition and false belief falls completely away. It is dissolved by Spirit into nothingness. Aware of Spirit, see him or her totally free of spiritual ignorance and the former problem. Recognize the person as pure conscious Spirit, entirely emancipated from the problem and any negative, self-destructive desire(s) which may have caused the trouble in the first place. See that the person is now entirely whole and happy. (Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes is full of beautiful metaphysical prayers. It’s published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York.)

Eleven — REALIZATION OF GOD EVERYWHERE

This is another form of mystical and metaphysical prayer. It is especially effective when used after deep meditation as you abide in profound awareness of, and unity with, Spirit.

Mentally chant, You, You, You! and realize the presence of God in everyone and throughout the universe.

Then also bring the person needing prayer and the problem into your mind. Continue to chant You, You, You! and recognize that the Presence, Love and Power of God gracefully, totally and victoriously prevail within the person and the problem.

Continue to chant You, You, You! until you realize that Spirit has saturated and operated upon the person and situation in a perfect, loving, transformational act. Then release your prayer with Amen or Om.

Twelve — INSPIRED PRAYER

As your spiritual awareness grows deeper and you can sense Spirit more easily, you may often wish to practice Inspired Prayer.

Abide in Spirit after meditation and simply allow yourself to be moved by Spirit as you pray for your personal needs or those of others. Let your prayers be inspired by the Divine Consciousness which flows through you, through your mind and heart.

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#2 THE MYSTIC GAZE
A Classic Technique

This classic technique is one of the mystic’s greatest treasures.

It is designed to stimulate your mystical faculties and begin the process of spiritual awakening.

With the Mystic Gaze enjoy the developing sense of clarity, coordination and attunement with life in all you do.

  1. Sit calmly and relax your eyes
  2. Gaze slightly upwards 20-30 degrees
  3. Look into space 20 feet or more
  4. Gaze, don’t stare or strain your eyes
  5. Simply observe and appreciate your awareness of space
  6. Enjoy the dawning wholeness for several minutes
  7. Gear down and go about your day

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#7 EXPANSION THROUGH ATTITUDE AND GOOD WILL
Change Your Heart

Your practice of good will cultivates the heart’s truest, deepest feeling:  love.

These good will practices are a boon to mystical study.

The goal of good will practice is the change of the heart.

When your heart naturally and spontaneously radiates forth a palpable good will, then you are a changed person.

  1. Consciously direct your thoughts and feelings toward an attitude of good will
  2. Bring a person to mind
  3. Or place your awareness on a person closest to you
  4. Direct good will toward this person
  5. Feel free to add specific well-wishes like health, love, courage, etc.
  6. Allow your heart to expand, to change

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#6 EXPANSION LEVEL ONE
Quality of Life

Mystics break out of body bondage through numerous expansions of the heart — of the sense of self.

Your feeling of self-awareness imprisons or frees you.

Happily, you can do something powerfully liberating about the state of your heart and the quality of your life.

  1. Sit comfortably for 15 minutes
  2. Choose a person you know
  3. Imagine you’re walking in his/her shoes
  4. Feel you’re inside this person
  5. Say “If I were (name), I’d feel and think…”
  6. Have fun with it and let your heart expand

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#5 THE HEART AND ITS LIBERATION
Your Sense of Self

Mystics break out of mind and body bondage through expansions, expansions of consciousness.

Your “Heart” is your sense of self, your feeling about who you are.

Who are you as a distinct person from everyone else? This is your core individuality, your mystical heart.

  1. Focus on your mystic heart
  2. It is located in the right-central chest or inside the spine behind the heart
  3. Practice The Radiance or The Mist:
  4. Feel that your mystic heart…
  5. Radiates love, light and energy, or
  6. Generates a white mist flowing outward

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#4 THE MYSTIC BREATH
Your Window

Your breath is the key to the mystery of your life. The Mystic Breath is conscious use of this key.

Our individual natures will require different windows — different energy centers — from which to view the life force.

Allow the mystic breath to reveal your personal window.

  1. Stretch and then sit comfortably
  2. Take 5 to 7 deep breaths
  3. Focus on the center of your upper lip
  4. Witness the breath come and go
  5. Let your mind move to a natural center
  6. Watch your breath and the life force from this “window”

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#3 THE ASCENT
The Essence of Your Life

We begin meditation on the Infinite by focusing our awareness on Spirit, the life essence within us.

How can we do something so seemingly abstract? It’s easy. Spirit empowers your breath night and day.

Let the life force reveal itself to you. Sense the higher power which flows through you.

You’ll feel more alive.

  1. Stretch and relax your body
  2. Sit comfortably
  3. Take 5 to 7 deep breaths
  4. Focus on your nostril rims
  5. Witness the breath come and go
  6. Enjoy for 10 to 12 minutes
  7. Inhale deeply and stretch

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#0 THE MYSTIC SELF
Our True Nature

In the view of mystics, the major problem in life for most of us is ignorance of our true natures.

The Mysteries reveal many ways that you can actually contact your mystic self — and the Infinite Consciousness.

Do you, can you, contact your Mystic Self? Yes, indeed!

  1. Practice this anytime you like
  2. Probably your mind wanders quite often
  3. At times during the day, look at your mind and notice when it’s wandering
  4. Then, turn your attention to that part of your consciousness which observes that your mind is wandering
  5. That special overseeing awareness is part of your marvelous mystic self

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#1 MYSTIC AWAKENING
Benefits

Stimulate your mystical awakening.

When you wake up from a dream you realize you were only dreaming.

Consider too that this normal state of awareness in which you live may be a kind of sleep also.

As you do this technique you’ll find the world becomes more beautiful and enjoyable.

  1. Try this many times a day
  2. Whisper to yourself, “Wake up!”
  3. Mentally say, “Wake up!”
  4. Increase your attention, appreciation and feeling of love
  5. Just cheerfully exhort yourself
  6. Wake up!

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