This article of mine was also accepted on You The Journalist Website: here
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A friend on mine once said, “May the Lord Bless us all!”
His prayer triggered a thought related to some wisdom from the book "Conversations with God."
Every thought, every action, every word exists out of either of the two Sponsoring Thoughts "Love or Fear." Actions like jealousy, hatred, anger have fear as a sponsoring thought. Actions like forgiveness, sacrifice, caring, happiness have Love as a sponsoring thought.
The astonishing truth of the conscious universe is that no prayers are unanswered or left unattended; we just don’t pray to God in a way that our sponsoring thoughts reinforce our actual prayers. The universal law is that our sponsoring thought takes precedence over every other form of prayer. And so we need to alter and realign our sponsoring thoughts.
The problem with our duality is that our prayers are mostly for supplication. We pray that God make us rich, God protect us, God take care of us and so on. But the underlying sponsoring thought in all this is that we FEAR that God doesn't protect us, doesn't care for us in the way we want and so we have to ask for all that. And in such prayers what manifests is our sponsoring thought and not what we explicitly ask for, because sponsoring thought is our subconscious reality that we're entrenched in. Rather than God making me rich, the sponsoring thought of fear that God doesn't make me rich or I’m not rich takes precedence because these thoughts have immense creative power. And scarcity of money becomes your existential reality.
So a better form of prayer is a prayer of Gratitude and not Supplication. Here you visualize yourself enjoying what you deeply desire. If you want to be rich, you constantly imagine yourself riding the best cars, living in a luxurious bungalow, earning millions. You make that dream of richness a part of your conscious thought process even though you can’t actually act that way at this moment. Then you thank God for making you rich, thank him for making richness a part of your reality. And the whole universe will conspire to make your subconscious reality your existential reality.
The only thing you need to change is your sponsoring thought and have a rock solid faith. Professor Debashish Chatterjee, Dean Leadership Cell – SP Jain Center of Management, describes faith as the ‘Exhilaration of child thrown in the air by his father – knowing fully well that he would be caught when he comes down, the song of the lark before the first rays of sun hit the earth – knowing fully well that Sun would rise. Faith is what makes you hungry after a few hours of taking a meal, faith is what makes you feel cold in the winters and hot in the summers.’
Every action whose sponsoring thought is ‘love’ is an act of faith. Every action whose sponsoring thought is fear is prompted by a lack of faith. Faith is the biggest science that science has yet to discover.
So the correct statement is "I thank God for blessing us all." and not "May God bless us all."
His prayer triggered a thought related to some wisdom from the book "Conversations with God."
Every thought, every action, every word exists out of either of the two Sponsoring Thoughts "Love or Fear." Actions like jealousy, hatred, anger have fear as a sponsoring thought. Actions like forgiveness, sacrifice, caring, happiness have Love as a sponsoring thought.
The astonishing truth of the conscious universe is that no prayers are unanswered or left unattended; we just don’t pray to God in a way that our sponsoring thoughts reinforce our actual prayers. The universal law is that our sponsoring thought takes precedence over every other form of prayer. And so we need to alter and realign our sponsoring thoughts.
The problem with our duality is that our prayers are mostly for supplication. We pray that God make us rich, God protect us, God take care of us and so on. But the underlying sponsoring thought in all this is that we FEAR that God doesn't protect us, doesn't care for us in the way we want and so we have to ask for all that. And in such prayers what manifests is our sponsoring thought and not what we explicitly ask for, because sponsoring thought is our subconscious reality that we're entrenched in. Rather than God making me rich, the sponsoring thought of fear that God doesn't make me rich or I’m not rich takes precedence because these thoughts have immense creative power. And scarcity of money becomes your existential reality.
So a better form of prayer is a prayer of Gratitude and not Supplication. Here you visualize yourself enjoying what you deeply desire. If you want to be rich, you constantly imagine yourself riding the best cars, living in a luxurious bungalow, earning millions. You make that dream of richness a part of your conscious thought process even though you can’t actually act that way at this moment. Then you thank God for making you rich, thank him for making richness a part of your reality. And the whole universe will conspire to make your subconscious reality your existential reality.
The only thing you need to change is your sponsoring thought and have a rock solid faith. Professor Debashish Chatterjee, Dean Leadership Cell – SP Jain Center of Management, describes faith as the ‘Exhilaration of child thrown in the air by his father – knowing fully well that he would be caught when he comes down, the song of the lark before the first rays of sun hit the earth – knowing fully well that Sun would rise. Faith is what makes you hungry after a few hours of taking a meal, faith is what makes you feel cold in the winters and hot in the summers.’
Every action whose sponsoring thought is ‘love’ is an act of faith. Every action whose sponsoring thought is fear is prompted by a lack of faith. Faith is the biggest science that science has yet to discover.
So the correct statement is "I thank God for blessing us all." and not "May God bless us all."
