How to speak with God, find enlightenment, manifest your best life while working 9-5, Daily Prayer
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A. Guiding Scripture: Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
B. Problem: The inner human condition: the soul is asleep and dominated by the diabolical power of the glory seeking ego. People pray and try to manifest from their egos. That type of prayer goes nowhere. People pray like they are talking to Santa Clause. I want this…Give me that…Then they don’t understand why their ego driven prayers are not answered. They are asking for stuff instead of asking for real things. When people ask for real things then the stuff will come, or it won’t matter. Shallow living will loose its appeal.
C. Solution: You must flip your heart’s motivation from the love of power to the power of love. Flipping from an ego centered belief system to a soul centered belief system. Reorganizing your foundational belief system is not simple. This inner struggle between the pure of heart soul and the destructive ego is evident in great literary works such as Dr. Frankenstein and his monster creation, Dr. Jekyll and his Mr. Hyde creation, Cinderella and her wicked stepmother, Sleeping Beauty who literally went to sleep because of the evil queen, and the list goes on and on. The conclusion to these stories ends with the destruction of or abolishing the monsters (the ego).
These books are classics because their metaphoric stories ring true to our inner human condition: the soul is asleep and dominated by the diabolical power of the glory seeking ego. Talk therapists have been trying to help people reorient their egos for decades. I compiled a daily petition prayer to rid yourself of the ego. The most powerful and quickest way to change is through prayer. The prayer is constructed from the instructions of global prayer teachers who are masters, past and present.
D. The Prayer Masters Referenced (show their pics): My only contribution to this prayer is choosing which ideas go into the prayer and how the ideas converge together. None of these words are my original thoughts. They are from the following prayer Masters and are noted in the content.
Psychology
Marisa Peer
Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Karen Horney, psychiatrist
Carolyn Myss
Hawaiian Ho’oponoponon Prayer of mediation
Jesus/ New Testament scripture
The 7 Deadly Sins: Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th century.
Psalms/Proverbs: Torah, Old Testament Jewish Bible
Hymns
Wayne Dyer
Carl Yung
Yoga philosophy
Eckart Tolle
Buddha/ Buddhism
Krishna/Hinduism
Lao Tzu/Taoism
Saint Teresa of Avila (1550s): REPTILES…A REPTILE is any aspect of the ego or 7 deadly sins in beliefs, thoughts, feelings, actions.
Brene Brown: Courage and Vulnerability are the same.
F. Definitions of Multi-Cultural Sacred Language: for this prayer, not exhaustive definitions
1. Prayer is talking to God.
2. Meditation is listening to God.
3. Chakra: 7 energetic centers or vessels containing different catagories of spiritual content within the human body. Chakras sit along the spine and head. They are like energetic cups holding the segments of the soul. Together, the 7 chakras operate as the spirit. These cups are made of refracted light, like a rainbow. When light refracts it splits into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo blue, and purple. These are the colors of the individual chakras and the colors are in the same order. When each chakra and the segment of soul it contains is healthy then that chakra emits its true color. When the 7 colors of each chakra converge together, they create light. This is represented in art as a halo of light at the top of the head and sometimes as a glow around the body. Halos in art are reserved for people who have very healthy souls. Also, the associated body parts become healthy as the chakra becomes stronger, more aligned with the soul and God and less dominated by the ego.