Your Personal Prayer

Prayers, intentions, visualizations… whatever you want to call them, are a great tool for centering and aligning the five aspects–particularly alignment of the intellectual (word centered) and intuitive (feeling centered) aspects. While I could (and will) give you some prayers you can use….and there are tons of prayers written by sages, mystics, priests, pastors, rabbis and imams… I think everyone should have their own personal prayer.

Writing a prayer is easy, and here’s one simple way to do it: cheat.

1. Find a prayer from a tradition you are familiar with. For example, I chose The Lord’s Prayer.

2. Do a little anlysis on the prayer. What is it really saying? Take each stanza and think about what it means.

3. Next re-write that stanza in your own words, using your own conceptualization of the meaning.

4. Pray like you mean it. Feel free to modify the prayer from time to time, as you understand more or as you make new choices.

Here’s my personal prayer, modeled on The Lord’s Prayer.

Lord’s Prayer Text	Meaning	My Interpretation
Our Father, who art in heaven	The conceptualization of God	God that I am, God that I am in
Hallowed be thy name	Exultation	Thank you for coming forward through this body/mind
Thy kingdom come	God is the power that fuels manifestation	Thank you for blessing the world with abundance and compassion
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven	Guidance is available, choose to follow it	Thank you for guidance that shows this body mind how to be an ever more perfect reflection of truth, beauty, and goodness.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us	Love is all of this	Thank you for this experience of love.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	Following guidance leads to good things, but you gotta follow it!	Thank for the energy that flows to me, giving me the strength to follow guidance, and discipline to make guidance manifest.
For thine is the power and the glory.	God is good.	Thank you for the blessings of your friendship.
Amen	I like the word Amen	Amen