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The Power of Thought

7/20/2015

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I think the power of thought and intention is taken for granted.  We have so much power to affect our lives but it is largely ignored.  Someone I respect has legitimate problems with organized faith in general.  She makes good points, but she hit on one that bothered me.  Making fun of people asking for prayers for a loved one or a hard time.  I looked at that and thought how can she be spiritual (which she is greatly) and not see the power of intention?

The universe is a vast animal that, by all accounts, will provide.  You can call it science and say it’s the electrical impulses of our thoughts, something that has been proven, reflecting back to us.  You can say it’s the power of the elements around us that answer our needs.  You can say it’s God or a Creator answering your prayers.  It all amounts to the same thing, but in our human need to understand it we all have different ways of defining it, different ways of understanding the rules.  Person of faith to person of same faith, even, will have a different belief in how it works.  That is the human condition.  Some mysteries will never be fully answered.

However, I can tell you with great certainty from my own life, the universe will reflect whatever you put out.  It’s this cosmic caretaker that wants nothing more than to provide what we want, but it doesn’t understand our basic human flaw.  This little glitch we were all created with.  Fear and worry and a need to obsess over it.  See the Universe, however you define it, pays attention to what we think and feel.  Its job is not to judge those thoughts, but reflect them.  It doesn’t understand that you really don’t want to lose your job it sees only that you are spending a lot of energy thinking about that.  So it gives it to you.  Likewise for the good things.  Ever notice how negative people keep getting negative things happening?  Like the klutz that proclaims they’re klutz right before tripping on air.  Or the person convinced they are hexed having all things they’re scared of happen.  They focus on these thoughts being truth and the Universe reflects.

My point is this:  We know the Universe will give us what we focus on.  Spells, prayers, good energy, are all attempts and keeping the negative out our minds focusing on what we want to have happen.  Simple belief can change worlds.  It doesn’t even matter what you believe in.  Those calls for prayers, or a focus on happy, healthy, whole, may not cure cancer.  They can’t unlight the fire that burned down someone’s home.  But they can and will reflect the good intention put out.  Never discount, even if it’s not your faith, the power of someone’s call to prayer.  Don’t feel you have to answer them in the way they say either, but with your own good intention however you see that happening.

Never discount that they are praying because they care.  I’ve been through many hard times, and when things are at their worst, knowing someone cares, even if they can’t do a thing, makes me stronger.  Heartfelt caring has more effect on me than actually fixing the problem.  To know I’m not alone and this person actively has my back.  People call to prayer because they feel helpless and go to what they believe in their hearts to be something bigger and stronger and humble themselves, something that is very hard for any human by our very natures, before it and ask.  That is no small amount of caring.

Now this isn’t say that prayer should replace all help.  Sometimes people say it and not mean it.  Sometimes they feel it will wipe away their moral obligation by saying trite words and moving on.  Making 100K a year, and prayer for a cure to cancer rather than donating to research or supportive organizations (Not Susan G Kolmen fund, don’t give them a cent, but that’s another rant.  Research and you’ll see what I mean).  Or showing yourself topless because you want to save the tatas but don’t encourage others to put in time or money to actual help.  Raising awareness is another form of intent, or prayer that’s more pragmatic, but same thought.  Get the Universe to reflect your needs.

But prayer, good energy, a spell, a call to awareness, given from pure good intention.  That is gold.  That is more meaningful than anything else we can do as a global society when action just isn’t feasible or possible.   Even if I’m dying, and no doctor, or transplant will save me, to know I am loved, to feel the energy of people around me as I go is a gift you can’t put a price tag on.

Focus on the good.  Focus on the outcome.  Do what you can.  And when you can’t do?  Write a spell, announce your intention to the Universe.  Pray.

In the end, love really will change the world.

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