The power of prayer

Blog Aug 2023

The one thing I share with all of my clients, is the beauty and power of crafting a daily prayer practice. It doesn’t matter whether you have been on your path for a long time or consider yourself a beginner, prayer is a wonderful way for you to connect regularly with not only the wisdom and presence of your own soul and higher self, but also with unconditionally loving spiritual guides and beings such as Angels, Goddesses, Ascended Masters and Star Beings.

Often, on our journey as a Soul having a human experience, we come across a situation that we don’t have a logical solution for. This could be anything from birthing our dreams to life in the material world, or overwhelm from a challenge which seems insurmountable at times. You may feel blocked from ideas on how to move forward, you may be feeling burnt out, or in the throes of hopeless grief, you may even actually be feeling gratitude for your life. 

These are all wonderful reasons to craft your own prayer practice. In fact, expressing gratitude for your wins, or moments of joy and contentment makes you even more magnetic to more blessings, so it’s a good idea to remember prayers of thanks are just as powerful as prayers for assistance.  So, how do we craft a personal prayer practice? It’s something you can add to your daily life and it can be so simple. We don’t need to use special or ornate language, merely a sincere heartfelt request for assistance is enough to trigger a response of loving support from the Universe. In surrendering to higher will, we get out of our own way, our thoughts about how things should turn our, or our grief over the helplessness that can arise when things don’t seem to be going to plan dissolves and we can trust life more. It is so important to remember to empower the divine to help us through the use of our free will to make a request from our heart. 

The Practice – Heart connection and guidance.

Start by finding a quiet space and intending to make a connection with your heart. You can place a hand over the centre of your chest (your heart chakra) and imagine you can breathe into your heart for a moment.  Then imagine or intend that a pillar of pure white light surrounds you and connects you deep into the heart of the earth and also way up into the heart of the universe. 

It can be very powerful to sense into or imagine your own light wings extending from your heart centre out through your shoulder blades, left and right. You may also like to invoke the Archangels to support your prayer process or a divine being such as Mother Mary, Buddah or Green Tara. 

Take a few slow breaths and then silently or aloud state your intention to ask for assistance. For example: “I call upon the unconditionally loving Universe to assist and support me in all ways, empowering my journey and blessing my path” Then simply speak from your heart, as if to a trusted and beloved friend, your desires or your fears.

Allow yourself to be heard and received by Divine Light.  When you have finished, take a moment to breathe and open your senses, along with your heart to listen for any guidance or receive any supportive energies into your body, mind and energy fields.

Even if you don’t think you have received a reply, just understand that all prayers are heard and the Universe wants you to live the life you were born to live. 

In praying, we are not trying to control outcomes, we simply want the assistance to create the best and most helpful circumstances so that we can achieve our purpose and live the life that our Soul wants for us. Answers and support are always available as we train ourselves to open our viewpoint and receive them.

The very nature of prayer when conceived from a pure heart is to bring healing and benefits not just to us the individual, but to all people and the whole of the earth. In this way, blessings are not limited and when we offer them to the “all”, it exponentially increases what we can personally receive.  Creating a personal relationship with the divine will help you to find comfort in difficult times and also deepen the beauty of your life path.

May you be inspired from my suggestions to craft your own prayer practice, simple is always the best and the words will flow from your own heart. Adding prayer to your day brings so much peace and support.

Love and Light,

Laura