During these times of financial uncertainties, we are constantly searching for something to sustain us. Some of us are turning inward for the answers. And as we do, we need to know that in minds exist all the power we need to overcome life's uncertainties. This power is our unconditioned consciousness or the I AM.
There's nothing new about this power. Most of us have heard about it all of our lives. Unfortunately, few, if any, of us have been able able to access this power and use it effectively.
Similarly, many of us have relied on books and people to guide us in our search for this elusive power that's purportedly in our minds. One of the tools used by the spiritually enlightened men to access this power was prayer.
They recommended that we pray to an invisible God or Creator for solutions to our seemingly insoluble problems. They also taught that this power we sought was within us.
The great and wise men of yesteryear all understood this powers of mind philosophy and used it very effectively. Unfortunately, they have departed from the visible world and we have forgotten what they taught us about powers of mind. So here's a little reminder about the hidden secrets of powers of mind:
"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
In other words, when we go into our minds, we need to shut out the powers of our senses. This means we cannot allow ourselves to be controlled by our beliefs and values. We must believe that what we seek is already given to us by our commitment to the process of creation.
As we know, there are many other teachings by the Christ, Buddha, Krishna, the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Kabbalah and other books written to remind us to search for our power within our minds.
Most of their muses confirm what some of us know about our own powers of mind. We know that our minds are the source of our prayers. And that we typically pray whenever we doubt our powers of mind.
Furthermore, in spite of our doubts, we must remain mindfully that we are endowed with the powers of mind to imagine things not yet present in the visible world. And when we have the commitment to nurture our vision through the necessary time interval to its fruition, we produce miracles in our lives.
In some cases, prayer is one of the tools we use to inspire us to believe that which we seek will be provided to us by sources known and unknown. So what we believe are miracles coming from our prayers are nothing more than individuals mastering the powers of mind process.
So at the core level of our existence, prayer is part of our powers of mind. It is not something that exists on its own. We created prayer as part of our beliefs and values.
For us to use prayer effectively, we must first understand why we pray. And when we pray, we must understand who we are in the prayer, and what type of power we are possessing in our prayers. Otherwise, our prayers are just another tool in our arsenal of toxic beliefs and values.
Regardless of how many enlightened people advocate for power within us, many of us don't believe we have this great power in our minds. We continue to believe it exists outside of us in the vastness of the universe and we're not directly connected with it.
There's a part of our minds, our unconditioned consciousness, that remains free of the illusions. This is the consciousness of I AM. The power we have to exist without existing as something. In other words, this power is similar to imagining ourselves enlightened while our senses confirm us as powerless.
We are always imagining ourselves as such and such person with all types of characteristics. And depending on our powers of mind, we embody the beliefs and values that confirm this new identity.
A good illustration of imagination is to perceive ourselves free from all forms of oppression.
First the thought of freedom. Second, the embodiment of the thought as a reality, and we begin to express freedom. Third, the faith or commitment to do the work to nurture the thought or vision through the necessary time interval between conception and expression. And fourth, the daily action required to produce a clear vision of freedom and stick with it when confronted by the doubts of our beliefs and values.
Meanwhile, if we want to understand our powers of mind, we must be willing to lose ourselves (beliefs and values) in order to find ourselves (enlightenment).
"Far greater is He (unconditioned consciousness) that is in you than he (powerless ego) that is in the world."
"Therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding."
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