Prayer of Healing Part 1

My friend was feeling a little under the weather – a cold that, on the face of it, could be attributed to last night’s sudden temperature drop.

As we spoke on the phone, she mentioned her concern for her parents, particularly as her recent interstate visit with them gave little cause for confidence. Dad was wearing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and the medication he was on was producing a fresh suite of symptoms while only mildly masking the original lot. Mum was not coping terribly well. My friend was feeling worried and helpless.

What can you do? she asked.

We both have an appreciation of the mind-body interaction. We both agree that worry, as she was prone to, was not helping. We both recognize that, despite our best intentions, if a person is not prepared to act on advice given, their action (or inaction) has to be respected. And we both understand the importance of giving our support unconditionally. Still she asked:

What can you do? What’s the best thing to do?

Pray, I said.

I’ve come full circle on the subject of prayer, having rejected it as meaningless and disempowering at one stage. This despite, or perhaps because of, a childhood and early adulthood of resorting to prayer (and an embarrassing and guilt-soaked resorting I might add!) often in desperation or puerile supplication! When nothing else works, try praying!

In recent years however, I have become a little more enlightened and mature about prayer. I wrote about prayer in a post How to Pray and Who to Pray to? . There I said:

To me, prayer is my attempt to reach my highest level of consciousness, that which is free from my conditioned ways of being (thinking, feeling, speaking, acting, sensing). I sometimes refer to this level of consciousness as god-consciousness or pure consciousness.

The purpose of my prayer is to draw me into the ‘unconditioned’, limitless state of being where all things are i.e. all possibilities exist. It is an invitation to myself to approach all that is possible and desirable. It is not an appeal to a more powerful and separate being who will make judgments about whether or not I should get that which I desire. There is no such separate ‘god’ for all is in god and god and I are one.

To that, I might add: Neither is prayer the art of compiling a shopping list of things that I want, whether they are for myself or for others. That type of prayer does not honor the high consciousness of ‘oneness’ wherein love flows fully and freely, not from, but as you and me and every being.

So, how do we pray?

Pray with imagination of the ultimate and enduring states of being – that of peace, joy, wholeness (from which the word healing is derived) and oneness. Notice I did not say pray for but pray with the imagination, imagination being the re-cognition of what is already and always true!

And when we pray such a prayer, we experience the healing or wholeness that we have always been. And it is in this state of grace that we hold the presence (through thought and imagination) of another, allowing them to also experience their healing and wholeness, our healing and wholeness.

Tomorrow, I should like to continue sharing on prayer and the mind-body continuum of health and wellbeing! Thanks for being here. Do feel free to share your thoughts, feelings and reflections!

In love, Lucy
How shall I serve you, my love?

Contact Lucy at lucy@lucylopez.net

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