Post by Dave on Jun 17, 2022 8:30:57 GMT -8
Two-way prayer (aka meditative prayer) has been an important part of my recovery from love addiction.
Step 11: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
Many love addicts like me have trouble connecting to their HP (Higher Power) because we are focused on a qualifier or ruminations and obsessions. It is hard to connect to HP when you are triggered and reactive. Higher Power doesn’t go anywhere. So we have access to God at any time if we have tools. The present moment is where you can experience joy. Joy is not in your head, when analyzing and trying to figure out the past or the future. Joy is not a concept, its an experience. The present moment is also where you experience conscious contact with God, not just the concept of God. Connecting to the present moment also stops the unpleasant thoughts for now. Then now.
Then now....
2-way prayer is one of the tools I have found very effective and fulfilling for connecting with my Higher Power, (God as I understand God). You can do 2-way prayer alone or in one of the on-line Zoom meetings that often have people from all around the world sharing the experience. Most meetings start with readings for about 10 minutes (unique readings for the different groups hosting the meetings).
The reading is often the same in every meeting. Then meditative music is played for 10 minutes while we write down a question we have on our mind, or just start journaling until the question (and the answer) are revealed to us in what we have written.
I am amazed by the answers and wise Truths that come to me when I do 2-way prayers, so now I do it every day. When my writing reveals a “Truth”, I Know that I Know that it comes from God. The words have wisdom, peace, power and comfort in them. The words are unconditionally loving and give me clarity and often specific guidance. I am often guided to the next right step, small or large step, one day at a time, and how to have faith in the guidance. I take actions based on what I have written and this requires faith.
An example of 2-way prayer (written during a Sound Bath Meditation at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco:
Me: God what would you have me know tonight?
HP: You are divine. You have magnetic consciousness and attract good as well as not so good with your thoughts.
Don’t focus your thoughts on the negative. Have an expectation of good, but don’t outline how that will look. Expectation is the toxic twin of attachment. Don’t hold on to suffering when life doesn’t look the way you expected it to. Let it go.
Me: What is detachment?
HP: None of it belongs to you. Everything is temporary so enjoy each person and experience in the present moment but don’t try to hold onto the sensation or experience. Drink up life while its happening, not in hindsight. Savor life like this sound bath. Each beautiful note fades and it not repeated exactly, nor accompanied by the same notes. Life and joy are dynamic and holding on causes suffering not joy.
I have laid out a table of plenty, of abundance, and your entire life is to be savored. You are in a sound bath and know that only being able to hear is a miracle. Every sound. But when you open your eyes, every sight is also a miracle. Love is eternal and a miracle. You can access love with every sense and every thought. If it doesn’t resonate as love, change your interpretation until it does. The love of which I speak is the love of God, not addictive love.
God does not want you to suffer but suffering is inevitable on the human plain so don’t cause it for yourself.
Joy. What a blessings this event and these fabulous performers are. They are divine expressions of HP. every time you open your eyes, even the color is different, the light gets deeper and paler, different hues of beauty. Even the shadows are beautiful. Enjoy the energy of the beautiful souls you are listening to. There will never be this
exact experience again so enjoy the front row, the vibrations and sharing it with your happy friend.
The singer sang Hallejuh. Fear not, you will be dancing again. But dance with all you do. Let your heart sing and dance for the fullness of your life. Hallelujah! Sing it! Dance it!
Joy and gratitude are enlightenment. Not taking life personally is enlightenment. Taking God personally is enlightenment.
The musicians become at one-ment with their music and you can feel them raise your collective consciousness to the divine source of their musical expression, me. Love is present here. The vibrations and beats of the music wake up God in you and it is a luxurious feeling of peace, ease, and timelessness. Flowing. Eternal. These beats belong to all cultures and have existed across time for centuries.
This church has been the space of millions of answered prayers. It is also sacred. Even the number of answered prayers changes by the minute, nothing stays the same. Like the gong, the sound of its vibration building to a crescendo, consciousness is also expanding and changing. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah is a higher exclamation of joy. It is a state of ecstasy. Peace + serenity + joy + gratitude.
These musicians bring their ecstasy to the cathedral and fill this huge space of answered prayers with beauty for people gathered in my name. Millions of people from all around the world across many decades have been here to feel the awe and wonder. The vibe you are bathing in now, hallelujah. These musicians are cleansing you with the vibration of HP moving through you.
Release any thoughts that don’t serve you.
I am here to give you energy, inspiration and life so you can also raise your own consciousness, your vibe, and help others remember their own songs, at a higher frequency than suffering or just surviving life.
You are responsible for your joy, for being present to miracles and to ecstasy so you can share it in your own unique way. There are an infinite number of ways to connect to HP, I am in everything. Music, dance and song are easy to find joy in. Tasting food, touching a soft kitten, hugging your child, smelling baking bread, or your intuitive inner knowing are all ways to experience me in any moment. So sing and dance, listen to music, see, hear, taste. Smell. Touch. Intuit me, feel me, listen for me in your still small voice.
Love yourselves first. You are of me. Dance with bells. Try new things. Life has many experiences to feast on that are light and good, you could do something different every day for eternity. Live life fully with joy and gratitude.
Dance with GOD! Love, HP
PS We can read our prayers to others on our 2-way prayer meetings and share our reflections on what their answered prayers meant for us. When someone else writes the answers to your own questions during a 2-way prayer meeting, it is called 3-way prayer. Look to see if any of the 2-way prayers I post have answers for you.