| If you think your prayers are answered sometimes, | | | | working in your life all along: |
| and not answered at other times, or that the answer | | | | |
| to prayers is sometimes, "Yes," sometimes, "No," and | | | | 1. Your "mind" is like a tape recorder; it plays back |
| sometimes, "Maybe," then you need to consider at | | | | only what is programmed into it through sensory |
| least one other possibility. Maybe you just don't | | | | experience - hearing, seeing, feeling, learning, etc... It |
| always pray effectively. Maybe there's more than | | | | also plays back information according to the volume |
| one way to think, or pray, and you just aren't doing | | | | and intensity the information is recorded with. In |
| it... | | | | other words, if you pray for more money on |
| Of course, there are many other possibilities that | | | | Sunday, but spend the rest of your week worrying |
| explain why it seems that some of your prayers are | | | | about debt, you will continue to see debt. And, if you |
| answered and others are not. You may not | | | | had a particular set of beliefs impressed upon you |
| understand what prayer is, or you may have so | | | | with great fear, violence, or trauma, you will resist |
| much "education" about prayer that you're thinking | | | | any information that isn't in alignment with what you |
| more about doing it "right" (which simply means, "the | | | | "already know." This is true for anything you learn as |
| way I was taught..."), than you are thinking about | | | | a child from a trusted or authoritative source. |
| what you want to happen and why you want it to | | | | 2. Anyone can record information into your "mind;" |
| happen. | | | | this is why companies spend trillions of dollars each |
| There are many possibilities for why someone would | | | | year in advertising and promotions - including |
| think that all prayers aren't answered; perhaps you | | | | commercials, billboards, print advertisements, jingles, |
| were taught about prayer by someone who didn't | | | | slogans, free samples, etc. You can only think of one |
| completely understand the concept - when asked | | | | thing at a time; and, whoever controls what you |
| why their prayers weren't all answered, they would | | | | spend your time thinking about is ultimately controlling |
| have offered the only explanation that made sense | | | | your behavioral tendencies. |
| to them. What else could they have done? | | | | Ancient teachings from every religious philosophy tell |
| Unfortunately, the minds they helped form and | | | | us that our life experience is created by our thought |
| "program" now think this flimsy explanation of an | | | | processes. "As a man thinketh, so it is done unto |
| arbitrary creative force is actually some sort of | | | | him," and "Declare a thing and it is so," are just a |
| "Truth." | | | | couple teachings on the creative nature and power |
| The simple fact is that most people feel their prayers | | | | of our thoughts and words. Whether you call it |
| aren't answered because they don't get the things | | | | prayer, thought, dreaming, or wishing, there is always |
| they want, and they have the general opinion that | | | | mental activity before something new is created. |
| their lives could be better - and, if prayers are always | | | | Unfortunately, there are people in this world who |
| answered, their lives should be better. Of course, | | | | know much more about how your mind and thoughts |
| their lives are in the state they're in not because | | | | work than you do; and, until you know what they |
| prayer doesn't work, but because they don't know | | | | know, you aren't really in control of your thoughts or |
| how to think (pray) effectively, and don't know very | | | | your life. Without understanding how your mind |
| much at all about the mind they pray with. | | | | works to create your experience, you might just go |
| Here are two things you need to know about your | | | | on believing - or pretending to believe - that your life |
| own mind that could dramatically change your ideas | | | | is miserable because of someone else, and that |
| about how effective prayer is - and how it's been | | | | prayer is something that may or may not work. |