Greetings Everyone
September is usually the time of the Jewish new year. Massive
amounts of hours are spent in the synagogue praying. After all this praying one can ask themselves
what is the purpose of so much prayer
G-d knows my thoughts and isn’t
once enough to let him know our needs.
This is amazing question and something to think about since
prayer is part of all of our lives, some more and some less. It is interesting
to find that even to those far from prayer but when circumstance pushes one in
to a corner, for example something that is beyond our control, it is almost a
human instinct to reach to a higher power for help.
We all have picked up our hands and voice in prayer OH G-D
HELP ME!
Well questions are more about causing us to think about a
things in a more creative and deeper way, to be able to see something that was not so obvious the first time we
looked.
For starters I would like to mention what Jewish sages
have said that G-d loves to hear the prayers from his creation and that is the
reason there seems sometimes to be a delay to our request, all because G-d craves
sincere prayer.
To understand this concept better let me share with you a
parable of Rich Parents and their beloved children.
Nothing is too expensive or extensive when it comes to their
beloved children. All their hear desires are fulfilled with most minimum of the
children asking. The parents just love to watch the look of amazement on their
children’s faces when getting the latest and best of what this world has to
offer.
One day they decided
instead of every time the children coming to them for their latest request, why
not just give them free access to get everything they desire without the need
to come to their parents every time they need something. The idea sounded
brilliant they opened a bank account and deposited for each of their children
twenty million dollars to use to their liking.
Well can you imagine how grateful the children were with
this amazing generosity. For the first few months, every time they made a new
purchase they right away shared the great news with the parents the excitement
of what new gadget or vacation they had purchased.
But as time passed the calls became less frequent and the
sharing became less and less. The parents looked at the silent phones and the
empty driveway; there was no sign of the children and no more sharing with what
was going on in their lives.
The parents pondered what had changed, till they realized
that change was needed. They implemented one small change on the bank account.
They added a condition to withdraw money the children needed an additional signature
of one of the parents. This small condition brought along the continuous
contact of the children with their parents since they needed the signature to withdraw
the money, they felt foolish not sharing all that was going on in their life,
to the utter delight of the parents.
I will not waste time explaining the analogy between the
parable and the need for continuous prayer it is a tactic to build our
connection with the creator.
However in all honesty I am writing this post to share with
you my personal enlightened thought on continuous prayer.
This philosophy is not only useful in prayer but in our
overall thought process at succeeding at our goals.
The five senses are our most basic important tools to
discover and navigate our way in this beautiful world.
1.
Touch
2.
Sight
3.
Smell
4.
Hearing
5.
Tasting
However, these five senses can lead us to our detriment as
well, since they sometimes tend to give us inaccurate information.
As an example, you might be out walking late at night and
you see something that looks like a sinister person standing in the shadow and
the street is empty, your heart starts pounding thinking all kinds of thoughts
what kind of things that person is up to. Finally, you get the courage to walk up the
block and what a surprise, the shadow you saw was just a tree branch that
looked from afar like the shadow of a person. Well your eyesight is to blame to
this misinformation.
How about you go to a party, the table is set with all kind
of delicies and all tasting soo good but you’re a diabetic or someone trying to
lose a couple of pounds. If you just go by taste, you would not hesitate a
instant but grab one of these great cookies and might even go back for seconds
but in reality taste can be so deceiving while in reality these foods are bad
for your health.
Therefore, in this instance your sense of taste was the one
misleading you.
I can go on and on but I think you got the point.
The solution is to use the additional six mental faculties
that we are graced with.
1.
Will
2.
Imagination
3.
Perception
4.
Reason
5.
Intuition
6.
Memory
(This post is not the place to dwell now on the explanation
of the mental faculties.)
Let’s get back to prayer – when a person turns to the
creator with a request. The person is usually bound by the reality and
information what their five senses have fed them. The reason why a person turns
to the creator, if it is not to express gratitude it is usually the request of
help and change.
But since they are bound by what they perceive reality is, they
tend to believe that change is possible but only in the guidelines that their
senses perceive possible.
That is where the six mental senses come into play. With these six mental faculties you have the
power to transform your seemingly reality to an authentic one.
Let us take one of the mental powers to elaborate on, “IMAGINATION”
Imagination is a powerful tool being used by all of us every
day but a lot of its use, is to hurt ourselves rather than to help us. As an Illustration
instead on focusing on your fears and worries, seeing in your mind’s eye all
the terrible predictions you foresee. Instead,
why not paint a beautiful picture of the real results you so desire.
All these mental faculties are all designed to help you
discover the hidden part of the universe. The truth of the universe can only
discovered by putting in the effort to discover them.
So let me take this a full circle and get back to where I
started the reason of continuing to pray for the same things repeatedly since
the creator knows our thoughts and wants.
The repeat of prayer is for our benefit, by delving on what
we want by consistent prayer, we can convince ourselves of the unseen, or the
unimaginable is possible.
Call it a form of affirmations if you may, so when we turn to G-d, sometimes we are missing true belief that G-d can help us. However by continuing to pray and focusing on what we want we can reach the level of belief so our prayers can be answered
And even not just in prayer to those seeking success,
you must believe you will achieve and see yourself in your mind succeeding
already now in order to succeed as Napoleon
Hill said “whatever the mind and conceive and believe it can achieve”
Read more about the power of the mind and the success mechanism
that we are all endowed from when we are born. A great source Is the book from
Maxwell Maltz, Psycho Cybernetics and Think and grow rich from Napoleon Hill as
well The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
And there is lot more information out there on this, these are just some of the books that I
liked.
Wishing You The Best
Pinny
