There is a difference between prayer and meditation. The two primary types of meditation are ones that can be called A) focus, and B) witnessing.
In focus, you direct your attention towards an object: your breath, a candle, a spot on the floor, a part of your body.
In witnessing, you let go of all focusing and merely observe what arises without managing it. Or rather with the intention to merely observe, as letting go of management doesn’t come easy in the beginning.
By management, we mean the desire to push and pull, to have a different experience than the one you are having. Different thoughts, different emotions, or different sensory perceptions.
Of course, you can witness that you are managing, and that is perfect.
This type of meditation is about awareness, not outcome. You can’t do it wrong.
Rather than beating yourself up, say to yourself that you are going to celebrate the moments in which you realize that you were lost because in those moments, you are waking up.
In those moments, you are learning.
Your awakening is a long string of moments of awakening.
Prayer is different from meditation. Prayer is a process of transformation and manifestation.
Prayer is asking for what you want. Prayer is designing what you want.
Prayer should include gratitude/appreciation and a request. Gratitude is important because gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.
Be aware of prayers in a state of lack or separation, in a state of conditionality, in a state of “if I get what I pray for, I’ll be happy.”
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and and it will be yours. —Gospel of Mark 11:24
Prayer, then, is the process of becoming who you would be and how you would feel if you got what you pray for IN THE MOMENT OF THE PRAYER.
If you seek financial abundance, then see the abundance you already have.
If you want a romantic relationship, fall in love with yourself and fall in love with life.
Ask yourself, who would your ideal partner be more attracted to: someone who is needy and unfulfilled and seeks their love to feel whole, or someone who is so in love with themselves and life that they don’t need anything, they just enjoy the process of sharing all the love they have?
And by “in love with themselves,” we don’t mean narcissistic love. That comes from Ego, which seeks comparison and separation.
We mean divine love, the energy that sees everything as it is and loves it as it is.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. —Matthew 6:33
What this means is: Seek God, love, oneness above all else, and you will have everything that you want deeply.
And what you want deeply is unconditional peace, love, fulfillment, whether you know it or not.
What you want deeply isn’t what your Ego or separate self want, though it may overlap.
We are not telling you to give up financial abundance, we are telling you that there is a direct and lasting way to be unconditionally abundant, irrespective of your external environment, and when you realize this state of Being, your external environment is exponentially more likely to match that state.
Because the Law of Attraction IS LAW: “That which is like, onto itself attracts.” It happens from the inside out, not outside in.
Prayer, as this process of becoming what you seek, is also a process of clearing your blockages and resistance to it.
Because something cannot manifest in your life if you are subconsciously pushing it away. If you are not in alignment with it.
You will not have the money if part of you believes that money corrupts or that money is evil.
You will not have the relationship if you also want freedom and believe that the relationship would take it away.
In this way, prayer and meditation work hand in hand to clarify what you want and get into a state of alignment and receivership.