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INTRODUCTION

During a time of seemingly increased uncertainty, violence, insecurity and fear, when more and more people feel they are losing more and more control over their lives and livelihoods, many have turned to conventional or traditional religion in search of comfort, safety and security. They hope to find the sense of wholeness, meaning and well-being that religion promises. As they were taught, they often pray in a meek, needy, supplicating way to a distant, judgmental father-figure God who, depending on the virtue of the individual, may or may not deem to grant his or her request. Furthermore, many people only pray when they want some “thing” or are in desperate trouble.

For an increasing number of others, however, the concept of a traditional “God-figure” is found to be lacking, unfulfilling and even demeaning. Finding traditional prayer, in which one supplicates, pleads or cajoles ultimately unsatisfying, an increasing number of people are searching for ways to speak to and experience Spirit in more direct, self-affirming, practical and meaningful ways; to feel Spirit living, moving and having Its being in, through and as them every day.

This book can empower you to do exactly that. It is a spiritual yet simple practical guide that shows you how to easily compose and create effective prayers that, when stated with conviction and belief, trigger the appropriate universal spiritual Laws which are proven to produce amazing results.

This guide outlines the five Steps used in Affirmative Prayer; a positive, proactive, consciously directed, confident and creative statement of fact, and how you can use them to create “perfect” prayers.

Affirmative praying is not supplicating, fear-based or needy.

Where traditional prayer solicits a request to a “God-person” that is separate and “out there”, hoping for answers, Affirmative Prayer starts with the knowing that Spirit is not only the Creator and Source of all Life, It is present everywhere as well as within all Life. An Affirmative Prayer recognizes that the Universe (as an aspect and out-picturing of Spirit) always says, “Yes!” and manifests and reflects back to you what you think and say into it. Since Spirit expresses in, through and as you, it logically follows that what is true of It must therefore be true of you as well. This includes the creative power of your word, which, as Spirit in expression, is Law in the universe. Using the spiritual Laws of Cause, Attraction, Manifestation and Effect, you manifest your reality and create your experience by what you believe, how you think, and what you say, often unconsciously. Speaking your word unconsciously, day after day, often manifests what might seem like negative results, or provides results that you didn’t expect or wish for. The five Steps used in Affirmative Prayer put the spiritual Law of Mind (more on that later) into conscious, directed motion, which then manifests as specific form. The Steps transcend all spiritual beliefs, and so they can work for anyone of any spiritual tradition, religion or teaching, as well as for anyone of no particular spiritual persuasion as well.

Why? Because it is done unto you AS you believe.

Social research shows that what you believe, think and say is what shows up in your life. Perfect Praying: 5 Simple Steps That Make Prayers Work is intended to be an easy-to-use, nondenominational guide for people across the board who wish to consciously participate and become co-creators with Spirit. It puts the “positive punch” into prayer.

To quote Abe Lincoln, “I think people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” This guide allows you to “remind” with your positive, powerful SELF.