Simple, But Not Easy
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Speaker 2:A practical prayer is a prayer that works.
Speaker 3:These discussions between Reverend Bill Marchionne and Carol Lawrence dive into the details of how it works and how to work it.
Speaker 2:Reverend Bill is a new thought minister and the author of Practical Prayer For Real Results.
Speaker 4:Your new life begins with a new thought.
Speaker 3:Carol Lawrence is on a spiritual quest. Finding the new thought teaching after decades on the pulpit in 3 different traditional denominations.
Speaker 2:I've got some questions. Together, they're exploring the philosophy and activities that come together from many of the world's religions to create the practical spirituality that is new thought.
Speaker 4:Welcome to the Practical Prayer podcast. I am Bill Marchionne, flying solo today without Carol Lawrence. She's off doing holiday stuff with family, and I'm taking this opportunity to do a solo episode. Kind of giving myself the opportunity to share on some of the things that have come up for me in recent days. And also seeing if I still have the chops left over from when I was, on the radio in my younger days, And sitting in front of a microphone by myself and talking for long periods of time just didn't seem like it was a thing.
Speaker 4:It's much easier to do when there is a group, or when there's a partner and somebody to have the conversation with. But we're gonna talk about practical prayer in a perspective that, it comes up a lot for me in the classes and in the work that I do individually doing, prayer sessions with people, because the process, practical prayer itself, is just ridiculously simple. It is a very simple, very streamlined process. There's 5 steps, and it's really very easy to learn the 5 steps. And the additional 2 steps that you use when the 5 steps don't seem like they're gonna, kinda clear the bar for whatever you're bringing into your experience.
Speaker 4:So the process is very simple. And in the book, Practical Prayer For Real Results, it only takes a few pages to lay out exactly what the steps in a practical prayer are. So simple. Yes. It is very simple.
Speaker 4:But people point out, yeah, it's simple, but it's not easy. And that is correct. It is not easy. There are a few really, really important things about transforming your life using prayer, especially using practical prayer, where you're not turning your attention to some force outside of yourself and begging for a favor. This is all an inside job.
Speaker 4:This is all an infinite creative power that dwells within. And it's not always easy to turn away from our problems and turn toward the solution and invite something new and different into our experience. One of the analogies that I use is for athletes, and it's a great example. So So if somebody wants to bench press, pick a number, £300, £250, 110, whatever is out of reach for you right now, the process for doing that is pretty straightforward. You, first of all, learn the technique for bench pressing weight, which is to get on the the bench and position the weight above you, and then use your muscles in a controlled and concerted and focused way to lift the weight to the height that they're gonna be, and then to let them come back and put the weight back, on the, on the stand.
Speaker 4:And the idea then is to continue doing that and do this certain number of repetitions so that you build up your muscles. And then after a certain amount of time, then you increase the weight and you continue doing the repetitions. And you go through that process again and again and again and again until you have built up enough muscle and perfected the technique to the point where you can lift £300, or 250, or 110 pounds or whatever it is. And the process is as simple when we're lifting £300 as when we're lifting £50, but it's not easy to get there. There's a lot that we need to add on.
Speaker 4:There's a lot that we need to build up. There's a lot that we need to get out of out of the way of. And we need to make sure that the technique is good because we've all heard about people who are trying to do something like that and they wind up injuring themselves because they try to do too much too soon. Gymnastics is another great example. So is figure skating and ballet.
Speaker 4:It looks so easy. It looks effortless. Performing magic tricks. The magician makes it look easy. It's not easy.
Speaker 4:It's not easy to do that. The process might be simple. The trick might be simple. But getting the nuance so that it looks the way that we want it to look, so if what's being presented to the world around us looks the way that, we want that to look and and it's received that way. The the gymnast being able to do all of the techniques that are required to put their body in the position where it's going to do what they wanna do, might be very simple.
Speaker 4:Might be very simple to explain and describe, but not easy to do. It takes a lot of practice, it takes a lot of dedication, it takes a lot of focus. The same thing is true in all sorts of areas of life where we wanna create something new, where we wanna change something, where we wanna have some transformation, or some growth. The process itself itself might be simple. It might not be simple.
Speaker 4:It might actually be pretty complicated. But whatever the process is, we have to keep at it. We have to be persistent. We have to let go of the fact that it's gonna be easy, and bring our full self to it, bring our presence to it, and allow that channel to open to bring in the goodness that we're looking for. Same thing with practical prayer.
Speaker 4:The process itself is simple. It is not always easy to do. So I'm gonna start by going over the steps in a practical prayer and how we do them. And then a little later, we're gonna get into some of the details and the nuance on how we get over the parts that seem really hard. The first step in a practical prayer is recognition, where we turn our attention to the awareness of that infinite creative power that creates everything.
Speaker 4:A lot of people just use the word God. That's pretty easy, because God is a 3 letter word that most people understand what it means. And it works as long as you understand that God, that divine creative power that creates everything, dwells within. When we turn our eyes to God and we look up towards the clouds past the sky, we're looking in the wrong direction. God is there, but God is everywhere.
Speaker 4:And to really demonstrate to ourselves that we've got it, what we wanna do is be able to close our eyes. When I say look look for God, then you close your eyes and you go within. And know that that divine creative power that creates everything has created you. That divine creative power is everything. The first step is that recognition of that one infinite creative power.
Speaker 4:And what's already leading into the second step, which is unification. Where we understand that that one creative power abides within. It is in me as well. It is in the mind and the body and the existence of the person who is doing the prayer. We are all 1.
Speaker 4:The first two steps are about identifying that creative power and identifying that we have it, that we are it, that we are using it. So that we can set up the 3rd step, which is our realization step, where we're gonna claim the new experience of goodness that we're looking for. Once this prayer has happened, what will be in my experience? And that's what we're gonna be claiming. And that recognition step that I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:That realization step, the affirmation that we are doing as part of our practical prayer is the same as an affirmation that we do in self help or a manifesting process where we're just claiming the good that we're looking for. And it should follow some particular structure. We like to have the 4 p's in there. It should be positive, powerful, personal, and present tense. And going over those individually powerful means that we wanna state it in the most powerful possible language.
Speaker 4:I have prosperity now. Rather than I am someday gonna maybe have a little bit more money than I have today, or I'm gonna be done with the struggling sometime soon. We want it to be a powerful statement. We wanna be claiming the good that we're looking for right now. It needs to be positive.
Speaker 4:If what I'm looking for is prosperity, I wanna be talking about prosperity. I wanna be talking about the experience of abundance that I'm inviting into my life, rather than the experience of poverty, or not enoughness, or lack that I've been having up until now. So we want it to be positive. We wanna be talking about what we wanna have. The infinite creative power that creates everything doesn't know not.
Speaker 4:It doesn't know not sick, not lonely, not helpless. It knows yes, and it's going to say yes to whatever good to whatever we're claiming. It'd be great if all we ever claim is good. It's gonna say yes to whatever is in our belief system. It needs to be personal.
Speaker 4:So it's not gonna be a there's something out there that's gonna make my life happy. No. We wanna make it about ourselves. I have this happy experience now. I am loved.
Speaker 4:I am prosperous. I am healthy. I am comfortable. I am in the flow of my good right now. We wanna make that be a personal statement about ourselves so that we can experience and invite what it is that we wanna have in our lives.
Speaker 4:And the other one, which is a little slippery, is present tense. Because the universe doesn't know not. The universe also doesn't know later. Stuff either happens or it doesn't happen. So if we want something to happen for us to unfold in sweet perfection, so the wedding that's coming up in a month, we want that to be a perfect experience.
Speaker 4:We don't wanna say that wedding will be perfect. We wanna say that wedding is already perfect. That is already unfolding in sweet perfection. That's happening now. The goodness of that wedding is happening now, even if the experience of it isn't coming along for another month.
Speaker 4:It doesn't all need to happen now, but we're opening the channel for it now, and the claims that we are making are all present tense. This is the good that I'm inviting now. Even when we're doing a blessing for a meal, we don't say this is gonna be a good meal. This already is a good meal, and we enjoy it, and we celebrate it, and we connect with it, and and it it it feeds and nourishes and uplifts us. So we wanna be able to say whatever that claim that we're making in the person in in in that present tense.
Speaker 4:So the 4 p's again, powerful, positive, personal, and present tense. And that's the 3rd step of the prayer. And the next thing that we wanna do, now that we've claimed this good, knowing that that infinite creative power that creates it all is already creating this goodness for us, we're gonna go into gratitude. Thankful for this wonderful goodness that's already happening. This thing that I have defied and explained and described in my prayer, the claim that I have put upon that infinite creative power, I know it's already created.
Speaker 4:So what else to feel but thanks? So thankful, so grateful, so deeply, deeply grateful for the good that's already happening. So next to last step in the prayer is about that feeling of gratitude, being thankful for the good that's already showing up in our lives. And once we've expressed our gratitude, the last step in the prayer is release. This is not something that that uses our will power.
Speaker 4:This is not something that we are creating in our own minds. There's an infinite creative power that is creating this. And once we have set that creative power in into motion, we let it go. The analogy that we use is if you're gardening and you wanna grow pumpkins, you're gonna prepare the soil. You're gonna plant a pumpkin seed.
Speaker 4:You're gonna cover it up. You're gonna water. You're gonna make sure that it's taken care of. And you're gonna go away. You're gonna release it.
Speaker 4:You're gonna let it go. You're not gonna go back and dig up the pumpkin seed and make sure that it's growing properly. In the same way that we're not gonna go back and check and make sure that the infinite is growing whatever it is that we wanna be growing in our lives. We're gonna let it go. Know that it's happening and be able to move on.
Speaker 4:So those are the 5 basic steps in a practical prayer. Recognition, unification, realization, gratitude and release. And there are 2 extra steps in there. If you get to the end of the realization step, if you say the affirmation where you say, I'm prosperous, and the little voice in the back of your head says, I've seen the bank balances. Prosperous is not something that has anything to do with me.
Speaker 4:That's doubt speaking. And some people think that that's an expression or an example of failure. It is not. When our doubt speaks up, it's actually showing us what we believe. So in the case where we make a claim on that infinite power that creates everything, I am prosperous.
Speaker 4:I am loving. I am healthy. I am comfortable. And the voice comes in and says, yeah, but you still can't get off the couch and walk. Or, yeah.
Speaker 4:But you can't do this. Or, yeah. But this is a problem. That's the voice that's telling us what we actually believe. And at that point, what we wanna do is identify that that doubt has no power of itself.
Speaker 4:That doubt is the shadow showing up that's blocking the light. There's something in the way of that divine light of goodness that we have been talking about that's keeping it from showing up in our lives. And it's that doubt or disbelief. So what we wanna do in the next step in the prayer, that first r, is we wanna refute that. This idea that I can't have prosperity, that I can't live in a life of abundance is completely untrue.
Speaker 4:This is an infinitely abundant universe, and all the good that's available everywhere is available to me, and I am claiming my good right now. And that repetition of that realization step, that repetition of the affirmation is the extra the the is the that extra second r. So if we come up with doubt, we wanna refute whatever it is that's making us doubt that the good is available to us, and then we want to reaffirm the good that we're claiming. And once we've done that affirmation again, we get to go into the gratitude step and the release. And if the doubt comes up again, then we go through the refutation and the reaffirmation again.
Speaker 4:And we can continue going through that cycle as many times as is necessary to clear our consciousness to get rid of the doubt, or to convince us that we're praying for something that's way past what we can possibly believe. So in addition to being therapeutic, where we're creating a newness in our lives, where we're changing our experience, it's also diagnostic. A practical prayer is showing us what our belief system actually holds, because as you've probably heard, it's done unto you as you believe. Not the way that you wanna believe. Not the way that you think.
Speaker 4:Not the way that you say. Not the way that your bossy mind is trying to push things around, as you believe. So if we understand that we are asking for something that we don't actually believe, then it becomes pretty clear that what we're gonna get is not what we're asking for, but what we actually believe that we get, That we're going to get. What we believe that we deserve. So with that information, we are able to fine tune the prayer, tweak the realization or the affirmation that we're doing, or understand that we need to go back and work on our belief system a little bit, so we can claim the good that we've been saying that we wanna have in our lives.
Speaker 4:In any case, the last two steps that we end with are gratitude and the release step. And as I started by talking about in in this episode, this is very simple. That process is very simple. It took me a few minutes to explain the whole process. It is not easy, especially when the stuff that we are praying for, the things that we wanna change in our lives, seem like they're big.
Speaker 4:So let's take a break, and when we continue, we'll talk about how we deal with the big stuff and make it more manageable.
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Speaker 4:Welcome back to the Practical Prayer podcast. I am Bill Marchionne flying solo this week. Carol has the week off, so I get to talk about one of my favorite subjects, which, of course, is practical prayer, and specifically focusing on the notion that it is simple but not easy. And I wanna do a quick shout out. There is a live class that we're doing in January.
Speaker 4:It starts on January 9th. It's 5 I'm sorry, 4 Thursday evenings. And it's called, learn to do healing like Jesus. And the idea is that the same technique of practical prayer is the healing technique that Jesus used and was described very thoroughly in the new testament. And what we're gonna do is go back into the source material and identify exactly where we are told how this process works, what the technique is.
Speaker 4:And if you are very comfortable with practical prayer, then it'll give you some context for where that shows up in scripture. And if on the other hand, you're very comfortable with scripture, it will show you that the scripture is actually telling you how to do something, which is what I'm telling you today is simple, but not easy. Yes. It is a transformational process, and you are invited to come along. The information is on the website at be the light.combedashtheedashlight.com, or at new thought philly.org, which is where I keep all the stuff for my, teaching and ministry sorts of things.
Speaker 4:So we're talking about practical prayer, and the 5 steps or the 7 steps in a practical prayer, which are simple. And they're very simple. I, you know, outline them in the book in a few pages. They're not easy to do. And the reason they were not easy to do is you kind of alluded to the the when I was talking about that it's a 5 step process except when we have doubt, in which case it becomes a 7 step process or a 9 step process.
Speaker 4:Because when the doubt shows up, we have to refute whatever the doubt is, and then go back to the affirmation. And if it shows up again, then we get to repeat the process by re refuting, and reclaiming the affirmation. And And we get to continue going through that process, because it's going to happen as we believe it happens. And if I barrel through and I insist that I am prosperous, or I am loved, or I have my perfect wonderful loving relationships, or, I am healthy and comfortable, and I don't believe it's true, I don't have evidence that it's true, and I don't necessarily think that that's what's gonna be showing up in my life next, then what shows up in my life next is the experience that I believe I'm going to have rather than the one that I'm claiming now. So the process for identifying that is built into the prayer by allowing ourselves to listen to that still small voice that says, yeah, but I'm not sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4:To listen for the doubt showing up in our mind when we make that claim on the infinite. Because it's one infinite creative power. It's one divine presence. It's one love that's sharing itself as everything. It is just as easy for the infinite to create a life of harmony and uplift and love and connection and peace and joy for us as anything else.
Speaker 4:And if we're not experiencing that, and we are wanting to invite that infinite creative power to change the experience that we're having and bring in something new, we first need to change our thinking about it. We need to believe that it's possible. We need to open ourselves up to that possibility and bring in something new. Now, in a lot of cases, that's gonna involve changing some of the activities that we've had. If we have always been doing the same thing and we've been always getting the same result, maybe what we wanna do is change what we've been doing to invite in a different result.
Speaker 4:It is possible that as I make the claim for I am prosperous, and simultaneously, I spend more money than I earn, and I keep on making commitments for financial obligations that I can't possibly keep up with under the current circumstances, I can claim all the prosperity and abundance in the world that I want to, and it's not going to work because I'm not behaving in accordance with that. One of the points that I've often made on the practical prayer podcast is that when we are having an experience of lack or insufficiency, our immediate thought is I need to make more money. But possibly we wanna do is change our our our circumstances so that we need less money, so we're using less money. If we are living within our means, if the income and the finances and the financial support that's available is enough to meet our needs and some excess, that's all that's required. There are people who are spending 1,000,000 of dollars a month to support their lifestyle, and they could probably get by with a very reduced lifestyle, which is not gonna impact them that much and require an awful lot less money.
Speaker 4:Now if they've got a couple of $1,000,000 a month to spend, then have at it. You know, there's no critique or judgment about that. But it's not like that level of spending is necessarily going to be required to live a happy life. Same thing with us. There might be a different way of doing this.
Speaker 4:There might be a different way of approaching this. There might be a different way of sharing our gifts in such a way that we can bring that goodness into our lives. Met a fellow once who was actually, he was living in a slum. And, he was strung out on drugs and alcohol. And, all he wanted to have happen is he's just he wanted to he wanted everything to be better.
Speaker 4:He wanted to be clean and sober. He wanted to live a life of luxury. He wanted to be on yachts and private airplanes and mansions and, just be, be living the high life. And he really didn't feel like going out and earning all of that stuff and having those jobs, but he knew that there was a possibility that was open to him. So he set the intention for the transformation to come along and he said, whatever it takes for this to happen, I'm doing it.
Speaker 4:And his family came and plucked him out of there and sent him to rehab and got him cleaned up. And so he was no longer addicted and he was no longer drinking. He was sober. And the family had a sailboat in the Caribbean, so they brought him down. So he's sailing around the Caribbean on a sailboat being taken care of.
Speaker 4:And it was a pretty nice lifestyle. And he's realizing, hey, you know, this is what I was talking about. It's has nothing to do with what I had in mind. I thought I was gonna be the captain of my own ship, but it doesn't matter. I just assumed to be on somebody else's ship.
Speaker 4:And he had been living in New York, and he moved back to New York, and he wound up meeting somebody who, an an investment banker, very, very wealthy, with a luxurious house out on the eastern end of Long Island in in the Hamptons. The guy was looking for, like a caretaker, an assistant, personal valet type, somebody who would take care of the house when he wasn't there, make sure that the kids got back and forth to school, etcetera. And he wound up living in those mansions on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in the Hamptons and taking the helicopter and the limo back and forth and living this life of complete luxury without having to be the person who was funding that lifestyle. Somebody else was paying for it and was very grateful to have him there to take care of the things that he was doing. It fit perfectly for the idea that he had.
Speaker 4:There were some things that he got to let go of along the way. It was not his house. He was not completely in control of that, and he was okay with that. He gave up the life of, addiction and, alcoholism, and he was okay with that too. It was a transformation in his lifestyle, but he was ready to let it go.
Speaker 4:And the point isn't that you have to go work as a valet or a nanny for somebody else. The point is that there is transformation that's possible for all of us in our own way without necessarily being the way that we would describe or define or explain, or specify it if we were doing that on our own. Which brings us to the 5th p. And this is the one that actually happens before the, before we get into the prayer. There are actually, it's a 5th and a 6th p.
Speaker 4:The the the first of the spares. The the the pre prayer piece. The one is a purpose statement. Before we do a prayer, we need to be very clear about what the purpose of the prayer is. Once this prayer has worked, what will my life experience be?
Speaker 4:What will the transformation look like? How will I describe that to other people? The purpose of the prayer is what sets up the prayer. Because if I just go barrel into a prayer, having, an experience that I've been having going, yeah, I kinda know what I mean, and I want it to be better, and I kinda know what I mean. We're not clear.
Speaker 4:It's like doing a prayer to say I wanna have money or doing a prayer that says I wanna be happy. Seems like it would be fine. And if you think about yourself right now, you you have some money. It might not be as much as you would require to live the lifestyle that you wanna have, but you have some money. Same thing with happiness.
Speaker 4:Even people who are miserable have some happiness. And praying for happiness is like, going on to amazon.com and putting in an order for something nice. And committing yourself to be okay with whatever it is that shows up. It's not gonna be your nice. You need to identify identify what it is that you wanna be bringing into your life.
Speaker 4:You need to know what the purpose of your prayer is. Once that order shows up, what does it look like? What does it smell like? What does it feel like? How does it fit?
Speaker 4:All those things. We need to identify what the success metric is. And that's the first p. That's the purpose of the prayer. And the second p is the pivot.
Speaker 4:We have been having an experience up until now, and we are aware that we wanna have a different experience instead. So we need to be able to shift, to turn our attention, our awareness, and our consciousness away from the experience that we've been having so we can open it up to something new. What is that new experience that I want to have? We get to turn away from the darkness and turn toward the light. What is that new experience that I'm going to be inviting in?
Speaker 4:And then we get to go through the practical prayer process of recognition, unification, realization, gratitude, and release to invite that new experience into our lives. And the amazing thing is that it works. The process works. The technique works. Practical prayer actually works.
Speaker 4:And there are lots and lots and lots of people who have stories of prayer working in their lives. And you can have that too. It is a very, very simple process that anybody can do. It is not necessarily easy to do, but it is very simple. So we're gonna take another break, and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do a practical prayer on each of us being able to overcome whatever those challenges are to step up our lives into a practical prayer practice that's working even better.
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Speaker 4:Welcome back to the Practical Prayer podcast. I'm Bill Marchioni. Running solo today, Carol Lawrence has the day off. So I have the opportunity to talk about practical prayer and to do a practical prayer on my own. The topic today is simple but not easy.
Speaker 4:And the process, the technique of practical prayer is very simple. It's a few simple steps that allow us to invite in transformation, to partner with the infinite creative power that creates everything, and bring newness and transformation into our lives. Before we do the prayer, we need to set the intention for that which we wish to bring into our lives. That's the purpose of the prayer. And in some cases, we get to look at what we've been experiencing up until now and turn away from that so we can turn to the newness that we are inviting in.
Speaker 4:Sometimes the unhappy experiences that we've had are clues and guidance and a nudge in the direction that we wanna be moving. So we allow that experience to give us a pivot, to let us turn to that new experience that we are inviting in. And once we have that purpose in mind, we turn our attention to that infinite creative power, that one divine presence, that one love that creates everything. We call it spirit or God or nature. We call it the big bang.
Speaker 4:It is that one divine power and presence, the one that shares itself as and through and in all of its creation. The one that has been creating since the very beginning of time. The one that shares itself as and through and in all of its creation. Everything, everywhere is that one divine presence taking its own form. That everything includes me.
Speaker 4:It includes each one within the sound of my voice. We are each individualizations of that one divine presence. Each endowed with that same creative power. That consciousness that allows us to choose the newness that we are inviting in. To let go of what is no longer serving us.
Speaker 4:To set the intention for that good and let loose that creative power to create all of it. That power abides within. So the claim that I'm making right here and right now is that each of us in our own way, as we pivot to that new experience that we are desiring, that we are inviting, that we are opening to, that we are releasing what's no longer working, that we are moving beyond any limitations, any doubt, any hesitation that we've had previously, and opening even more fully into that new possibility. And knowing without question, doubt, or hesitation that that infinite creative power, that one divine source that shares itself as everything is sharing itself as this goodness right here and right now. This good that we are seeking is at hand.
Speaker 4:And the wonderful part is there is nothing that stands in the way of that one infinite creative power. As we get out of the way, as we let go of our own limitations, the good unfold. The love is at hand. The stories are even now beginning to be told about all of this goodness coming about. And I'm so grateful for it.
Speaker 4:I'm grateful for the willingness of each one to release the doubt, to let go of the limitations of the past, to open to the possibilities of the future, to claim that goodness that can be available and know that it's already unfolding. I am grateful for the good that's already happening. I'm grateful for the creative process that lets me speak this word and activate that creative power. I'm grateful for the good that's already coming about. And so with gratitude for all this good, I speak this word and I release it into that creative law that creates everything.
Speaker 4:And I know that it's now creating this. And so I let it be. And so it is.
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