Well...let's start with the idea that foundational to conscious living is the idea that "we are spiritual beings having human experiences." I didn't make that up, it's just a starting point. The idea that there's more going on than what we experience on the groud in these bodies on this planet.
A religious view calls who or what we are praying to God and we know that different religions to say nothing of different religious people have different ideas about names. I know that Kabbalists in Judaism, for example, have 72 names for God. Yet there are also a lot of people who consider themselves to be "spiritual," not necessarily, or at all, religious. For them, there are all kinds of names in terms of who or what we might pray to such as All That Is and Source and Source Energy and Creator. There are also people who align with the notion, from a more scientific point of view, that there is field of energy, sometimes referred to as the Unified Field (and other names that escape me right now) that responds to human thought and feeling.
I am personally, just me, of the belief that "every thought is a prayer" for that very reason -- our thoughts and feelings are responded to, somewhere, somehow, and that we have the ability to attract the kinds of experiences we want to have. So in this sense, a "prayer" can be anything we ever think. I'm advocating here for being "conscious" of what we're thinking about, at least sharing any and all "privileges" we may have with others who may not have them, because we're always thinking something, we're always feeling something, and the opportunity exists all day every day to be conscious of those things. I hope this helps.
Who or what are we praying to?
Well...let's start with the idea that foundational to conscious living is the idea that "we are spiritual beings having human experiences." I didn't make that up, it's just a starting point. The idea that there's more going on than what we experience on the groud in these bodies on this planet.
A religious view calls who or what we are praying to God and we know that different religions to say nothing of different religious people have different ideas about names. I know that Kabbalists in Judaism, for example, have 72 names for God. Yet there are also a lot of people who consider themselves to be "spiritual," not necessarily, or at all, religious. For them, there are all kinds of names in terms of who or what we might pray to such as All That Is and Source and Source Energy and Creator. There are also people who align with the notion, from a more scientific point of view, that there is field of energy, sometimes referred to as the Unified Field (and other names that escape me right now) that responds to human thought and feeling.
I am personally, just me, of the belief that "every thought is a prayer" for that very reason -- our thoughts and feelings are responded to, somewhere, somehow, and that we have the ability to attract the kinds of experiences we want to have. So in this sense, a "prayer" can be anything we ever think. I'm advocating here for being "conscious" of what we're thinking about, at least sharing any and all "privileges" we may have with others who may not have them, because we're always thinking something, we're always feeling something, and the opportunity exists all day every day to be conscious of those things. I hope this helps.
Thank you, Steven! Have a good day.
Yes!!!