We usually think of prayer as getting down on our knees and asking God for all the things we want.
There is something sacred about putting our hands together in a prayer position. Doing that can trigger energies at the level of unconditional love.
But there are other ways to pray. We can express gratitude for all the blessings in of our lives. This includes past blessings, present blessings, and future blessings. If you look at things in a certain way you see everything as a blessing. There really is a blessing in every situation. Some blessings are more visible than others.
One approach to prayer is through a pad of paper or a computer word processor. We can express gratitude starting with the most visible blessings in our lives. As we do this more and more we become aware of less obvious blessings as blessings.
Gratitude is the recognition of blessings as blessings.
We can start by deliberately pondering each blessing and pondering why that is a blessing. But we can really kick it into high gear when we let go of thinking and simply let it flow. Keep on typing or writing.
Stream of consciousness gratitude is an amazingly effective form of prayer, self-help, and spiritual processing. Keep on typing or writing without thinking much about it. Eventually you can let go of the thinking altogether and feel the warmth and the love as you experience the gratitude.
Just keep flowing. You can start a sentence without knowing how the sentence will continue. Some of that will be nonsense. Just keep going with the expression of the gratitude. You are recognizing blessings as blessings.
Much of what you write will make sense. It will make sense in new ways that you didn’t realize before.
Your overall level of happiness will improve. It doesn’t have to take a lot to make you happy.
What counts is our level of happiness – not how much stuff we have. Stuff doesn’t make us happy.
Prayer / gratitude at the keyboard can get you to high levels of happiness very quickly. There is no limit to how good you can feel if you keep on writing and writing. Just let if flow.
Gratitude is one form of prayer. There are others, but that’s another topic.
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Hi Jim,
This is so true.
Counting your blessings multiplies them. Writing them on pen and paper helps to make them concrete in your mind. When they feel tangible they are more effectively realized. The feeling which this generates results in an inward bound wave of happiness and joy, which leads to us receiving more things to be thankful for.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
Ryan
I will keep on writing. My sincere thanks go to you.
tasanas
Thank you 4 showing u care or 4 being such a good servant of the Lord by taking the time to put this information together. It is a simple reminder of what we all know works and a demonstration of how to go about doing it.
There are times when knowing what to do is not enough. We sometimes need someone to say, this is how to do it. God bless you and may you always have his love and his peace!
With enormous gratitude,
Kirstin
This is so true, Jim! I do this regularly and have quite a folder of stream of consciousness gratitude essays. They were very helpful to me when I was typing them, and they continue to lift my spirits and clarify my thoughts when I re-read them. Thanks!
Thank You Jim!
Your face reminds me of that you’re emanating from ancient Indian Guru tradition, such as blessed ancient souls during Vedic times
Thank you for spreading wonderful, powerful, spiritual strength of love. Your little words on tweets amazes me, for it compasses profound meaning – that’s a great joy to listen to.
Hi Jim!
I wanted to comment on the “Alladin” image you have in your Blog header. I LOVE that scene coupled with that song “A Whole New World”! That is one of my two most favorite Disney movies of all time, and that scene is my favorite!
Keep blogging!
Best,
Laura
By-the-way, great article!
Thank you Jim
Your guidance is so good to follow. We all need to be reminded of the blessings we have and come across on our path to demonstrate love and peace in our lives. Hope to get closer to that demonstration in my life and be able to have the people around me benefit from the infinite love that should flow through me into the universe.
Love
Annie
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