Michael Beckwith

Anything you observe changes on a subatomic level simply because you observe it.

If you observe yourself with the intention to wake up, you're putting the observer effect on steroids.

So you're literally giving yourself spiritual therapy.

and waking up and then sometimes there's a dramatic opening sometimes it's just little by little by little you're eliminating the false beliefs perceptions from your perceptual window and then you notice after a period of time that you've changed but you may not know when you change because it may not come with lights and cameras you just notice hmm that used to bother me doesn't bother me anymore i still don't like it but i'm not bothered by it what happened

But what happened is you've become more yourself.

You become unbothered and unbotherable.

So this meditation is key.

And then what we call affirmative prayer is a prayer that you're not begging a God out there.

Because as Ralph Waldo Emerson taught, the innermost God and the uppermost God is the same God.

You know, that which is within you is the same presence that's around you.

And so you're not reaching out there because you're losing your power.

If you reach out there to God, now you're sending your power away.

So when you pray, you're basically recognizing there's a presence everywhere.

You start off with a deep sense of gratitude that you are alive, you're awake.

And then you recognize there's a presence everywhere.

You feel yourself one with this presence.

And then you speak your word.

From that sense of oneness, you can say something like, even as I'm speaking this very word, something magnificent is happening in my life.

All of my needs are met.

My body temple can heal anything.