Many people still do not know the difference between prayer and meditation. http://youtu.be/zuFVnGTFQuk
Storified by IvonneAlexander · Mon, Sep 29 2014 03:17:49
What Is Meditation? How Meditation Is Different Than Prayer
Hi. In this video I’m going to share with you what meditation is not, and what is the difference with prayer. And before that, to master the use of the law of attraction, go and visit my website at IvonneAlexander.com.
One of the things people think meditation is, is that it’s so hard, and it’s the number one most top lies about meditation. Meditation is the easiest and most flowing and most natural thing for human beings.
Babies do it. Children do it. When children, when you suddenly see them that they are locked, and they are like, you think that they are focused on space and doing nothing, they are actually in a natural state of meditation.
What has happened is that we have believed now for years and years that meditation means sitting, being strict, not having thoughts, and just simply not being human, and that’s ridiculous. Meditation is as easy as just following your breath, listening to the wind, and just sitting still for just one moment. That’s meditation.
And then some people always ask me, you know, about meditation, I pray when I’m meditating. Actually not because a lot of people go praying with words, go praying with asking, go praying with please, God, or please solve this issue that I have, or I need to have more money, and that’s not meditation.
Meditation is actually the letting go of the wants and the needs and just be an observer of your mind, without wanting your thoughts to stop, without wanting anything to be different than it is.
And prayer is actually, it’s like your call to action to God. It’s like actually requesting what you want, requesting divine support, requesting something that you want to see happening. And so prayer, I will say, is more like an open speaking, a call to action to the divinity or source, how you want to choose to call it, and meditation is to sit down and allow and receive, because when you meditate, you actually, even if you have thousands of thoughts, when you’re just focused to be still for a moment and watch that ebb and flow of thoughts to go, you’re actually now receiving both. When you pray you are more active, you are asking, you are actually aligning with a universal laws that will attract exactly what you ask for.
Meditation is not hard. Prayer is not meditation, but they both together are perfect compliments of each other. So what I usually do is make a prayer, and how I pray is actually forward. I will never pray backwards. And what does that mean? Praying backwards will be praying with worry. “Oh God, please don’t make my child suffer.” That is just a ridiculous thing because for the universe, the universe doesn’t hear suffering or worry or negativity, it just hears requests.
So if I’m, “Oh I’m worried, please that my daughter is suffering.” Oh, she’s enjoying suffering so we’ll keep sending the same thing. So I pray forward, I pray for what I want. I specifically describe, how can I be of more service to people through my work than that which I am doing already. I always ask in prayer. And then after I have prayed, or I said like, “Please the divine intelligence, guide us for us to serve to the best of my abilities to my children, to my husband, to my mentors. Be a good student.” And then I sit down after I have prayed, after I’ve asked for what I want, I sit down and let go and let God.
So that’s what meditation is not and it is and what is the difference with prayer.
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