How Prayer Can Be Healing
and Connect You to the Divine

By Max Highstein

Rediscovering healing prayer is like finding gold in your pocket—it is the most direct way of communicating with the divine and bringing about positive inner change, and it can be invaluable to the true seeker.

Most of my clients are spiritual seekers whose path has led them away from organized western religion. Many of them were numbed by religion that was forced upon them at an early age, and as a result they rejected prayer as having no value.

Often part of what blocks those on a spiritual path has to do with past difficulties in their relationship with God, so prayer can be difficult, like visiting to an estranged parent. Situations in this or other lifetimes where one has, though their own misunderstanding, had their belief shaken, felt betrayed, or been bitterly disappointed by God leave us with the bitterness inside. God doesn’t apologize, because He didn’t do anything wrong, the problem was in our perception. So it’s up to us to soften our hearts and let go of any hard feelings we might be harboring, consciously or unconsciously.

I try to help my clients let go of any limitations in that regard, and establish a heartfelt connection to the divine within. If the word “God” has a charge for you, I actually suggest that you use it anyway, rather than substitute a euphemism like “Universal Love”. That way you have the opportunity bring up any charge you might have picked up about God, and clear it.

My wish is for my clients to open their inner channels to all the love, support, energy and information that can flow from God and their own higher self, into their conscious awareness. One prayer I often use and suggest to others is this:

Dear God:
Please help me open my heart to receive your love,
and please help me to let go of anything in the way.

Should you decide to sincerely pray that prayer, get ready, because the world inside you may change faster than you expect!

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