Prayer

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem.  The secret is -- pray and believe."  -Norman Vincent Peale

Prayer is the most powerful tool we have to contact God - the All-sufficient, All-knowing, All-amazing, Always-here-for-you source of unconditional Love.

At CSL, another word for prayer is spiritual mind treatment.  Are prayer and spiritual mind treatment the same thing?  The answer is both yes and no.  If a prayer is affirmative,  recognizes the allness, oneness and wholeness of Universal spirit and mankind, then it is indeed a spiritual mind treatment.  If a prayer is an asking or desperate cry out to some Heavenly being who sits in judgment and then decides whether we are "good" enough to have our request fulfilled, then that prayer is not spiritual mind treatment.

  A spiritual mind treatment consists of 5 steps:

• Recognition

• Unification

• Realization

• Thanksgiving

• Release
  
  

It is a scientific formula that is brilliant and provable.  We never declare it to be the ONLY way to pray, but we are very confident that once you learn how to do a spiritual mind treatment and experience the amazing results from it, you will easily become hooked.   (If you want to delve more deeply into these steps you MUST take the next Foundations class.  It's truly an amazing class that will change your life!)

So who do we say our prayers to? CSL teaches that we are all of God, the One Mind. The power and vitality of prayer lies in a awareness of one's union with this power and presence.  The approach to Spirit is direct, through our own consciousness. 

"It shall be done unto you as you believe."  In dealing with the One mind, we are dealing with a force we cannot fool.  God can do for us only what It can do through us.  If your prayer is for love, be receptive to love.  If your prayer is for abundance, be ready to receive it!  If you find your prayer is "not answered" take time to go within yourself and ask, "What is it I need to know, understand, allow?"  Ask the power of God within you to clearly guide you. The answers are there, right within you.

Remember, you can always pray!  Long prayers, short prayers, out loud, alone, or with someone else. Although CSL teaches a specific formula for prayer, never let that stop you from going for it NOW.  God, the Universal Mind, listens to the intentions of your heart.

The absolute Truth is PRAYER WORKS!  Prove it for yourself. 

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be."  - Morris Adler