“When you desire something very strongly from your heart, it isn’t really a desire, but the memory of what is already there for you.” Alex Presciado
The expression of a deep desire from the heart is really a prayer. The key is intention, and you do not even have to believe in God to pray! You simply need to align yourself with the highest expression of your own desire, with 100% devotion to that vision.
You will then become aware that the answer to your prayers has been alive in you all along. As a co-creator, you come to realize the power and beauty of your heart’s deepest longings, and to trust yourself and the universe in the dance of creation.
Why courage is needed
It takes courage to allow yourself to feel this deep desire, which is first experienced as the longing for something that is absent, as an ache in the heart.
It takes courage to be devoted to its unfoldment, even as the mind attempts to dissuade you in an effort to protect you from disappointment.
It takes courage to not believe that you are unworthy, not good or not smart enough, or that you aren’t just plain cursed to live a life where your desires never come true.
Rather than courageous, you may be called a dreamer, or one who possesses unbending faith. Very different from denial or stubbornness, unbending faith arises from the place of infinite possibility inside you. When your prayer of desire arises from this place, miracles happen.
Different expressions of desire through prayer
There are different kinds of prayer, such as the prayer of gratitude, which we know now changes our brain chemistry to help us feel calmer and happier. A 2015 article in the Journal of Personality and Differences,showed that higher levels of gratitude were associated with higher levels of personal well-being, greater life satisfaction, and lower levels of psychological distress.
There is also prayer of invocation, which is what we classically think of as prayer. It is when we invoke or petition for support from a higher power, a calling forth through prayer, incantation, concentration, projection or visualization. It is a way of summoning power from an unseen force or source, to influence the physical world in a specific way.
Evocation is the coming forth of energy or Spirit in response to an invocation, which comes as a downpour of light, often called Grace,
Gravity and grace
Living on planet Earth has always been a balancing act of gravity and Grace. As the mystic and political activist Simone Weil says in Gravity and Grace, “All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. We must always expect things to happen in conformity with the laws of gravity unless there is supernatural intervention.”
There are conditions under which the grace and strength of a higher plane may be brought down to a lower one and expand exponentially. This seems to be possible only when a special channel is opened for the moment by sincere effort on the part of human beings.
There are countless instances when something physically impossible occurs due to this powerful force, such as when two mothers lifted a 1.1 ton car off a boy’s body.
The Spiritual Law of Grace speaks of Grace as a kind of Divine expression of mercy bestowed upon human beings. It dissolves karma, changes matter, and creates miracles.
Our Divine selves, or Souls, accepted the awesome opportunity to become embodied beings on the Earth-plane to experience life as fully as possible, particularly the emotions we feel. We are always at choice, having free will to co-create our lives to the most beautiful and perfect expression of our desires.
When we invoke the Spiritual Law of Grace to transmute and uplift our emotional feelings to heal our relationships, bodies, and even our financial struggles through prayer, we must open ourselves to receive.
Your prayer causes you to focus, and the Law of Attraction causes everything in the Universe that’s in vibrational harmony with your focus to come to you. It is your open heart that allows you to receive.
Open the door of your heart to others
As the American novelist, Flannery O’Connor says, “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and change is painful.” So it is more “normal” for people to focus on their problems than on their desires! It takes courage to pray for what you truly want and then open the door of your heart to receive.
We can offer Grace to others through compassion, empathy, forgiveness, mercy, and love. Each time we do this we open our hearts to receive an inflow of Divine love and mercy, which is truly supernatural intervention.
Whenever the thought or feeling you send out is solely self-serving, the energy which it produces moves in a closed curve, and thus inevitably returns and expends itself. But when the thought or feeling is absolutely unselfish and for the benefit of others, its energy rushes forth in an open curve, and pierces through into the plane above because only in that higher condition can it find room for expansion.
In the breaking through such a thought or feeling opens a door or channel through which Divine force pours itself into the human realm, not only for the one experiencing this, but for the Greater Good.
This force is always available to us when we ask. In Buddism, this kind of prayer is called metta which is the practice of loving-kindness, or the opening of the heart toward ourselves and others. The result of the descent of Divine energy is a very great strengthening and uplifting of the one who has invoked, which then radiates outward to everyone else a powerful and positively influencing way.
In truth, if we pray for the benefit of others, our prayers carry the greatest power.
There is one more kind of prayer I truly enjoy experiencing. I call it a prayer of awe and it and it naturally elicits the desire to praise. It is when you are so overwhelmed with the beauty of a moment in nature, with another person, or just the fact that you are alive, that your cup runneth over and you express this sacred desire in a totally authentic way.
It is natural to both cry and celebrate in these moments. They are an exquisite blend of gratitude, humility, and praise at the power of life. These moments offset all expressions of darkness in our world and call forth a great light that is love that is life itself.
May you have more and more moments of awe as your days unfold.
May this fill you to then flow your love toward others.
May you remember all that is already there for you.
Wanted to celebrated this day of thanksgiving with this prayer I wrote in 2017.
Prayer of Faith, Love and Desire
by Kathleen E. Hanagan
My deep desire for spirit is creating higher faculties within me,
I AM an emissary of light joyfully sharing with others.
Love is the key to manifesting a higher order reality that emanates out from and returns to my desire.
Desire infused with love allows me to be a vessel to bring heaven on earth.
As a radiating sphere of light, the love I AM is in perfect unity with the Creators—father and mother Go
As I rest in zero point, stillness, I AM receptive to the Mind of Go
My own Sacred Heart is one with the Heart of Creation.
I AM a force of forward evolution, wholeheartedly devoted to the task.
As I recognize and honor my value to the world, I increase in value to Creation.
I AM a child of God, and trust in the infinite support I receive moment by moment.
As I realize my vast worth as a child of the Creator, I let go of all fear about my future.
I have all that I need to fulfill the destiny I choose.
It is God’s desire for me to allow the Light of Creation to come through me.
I AM the Light, and the Light is me.
