Michael Beckwith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 14 Jan
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But reality with a capital R is beautiful, infinite potential, infinite possibilities everywhere. There's just so much beauty everywhere that's real. But what most people experience is just a sliver of reality, you know, and they think that's the reality, but it's not. It's just that the perception is small.
But when you meditate, when you affirmatively pray, you're expanding your perception, expanding your awareness into this infinite field of consciousness, and you start to see life differently. Life really is good. So when I say that, I'm not talking about people's experience of life because people are only experiencing their perceptions, but life, capital L, life is beautiful. It's magnificent.
I'm super charged with it all the time.
Affirmative prayer.
Absolutely. Meditation is key. It's foundational. Meditation, I call it paying undistractable attention to reality. Basically, training yourself. First of all, the way I teach it, there's millions of ways to meditate because there are millions of people. And every technique is probably good. It's probably good for something. So I teach you have an intention.
You establish an intention when you sit down. So let's say your intention is, my intention is to wake up. to my glorious nature. Because most people are sleepwalking. They don't know it. I wrote a song one time, and one of the lyric is, we're dreaming we're awake. We're walking asleep, dreaming we're awake. That's the average person. They're walking asleep, dreaming that they are awake.
So you establish an intention to wake up. Then you take your attention, and you place your attention on your intention. My intention is I'm sitting to wake up to my glorious nature. After a while, that intention begins to have a feeling within you. You could actually put your attention on your intention. Then when you sit, you realize you go into a deep listening. I don't mean with ears.
You're listening with your entire being because there's a broadcast of let there be light, let there be beauty. This broadcast is happening everywhere through all creation. So you're sitting with a deep sense of listening, You're placing your attention on your intention. You're saying to yourself, this is the first time I've ever meditated, whether you are a veteran or whether you are a newbie.
This is my very first time. I'm in beginner's mind. I'm like a child. And so now I sit and I can place my attention on my breath. Why? Because you can't breathe in the future and you can't breathe in the past. This breath is happening presently. And so now my attention, I'm present. with my intention, my deep listening, and my beginning consciousness. And now I'm available to what?
Insight, revelation from my intention, because that's what I'm interested in, that will wake me up from my limited paradigm. In that, it's a combination of the pasta meditation and how I've designed it as Beckwith. And so then if something comes up, you observe it, but you don't try to get rid of it or enhance it.
Like if an emotion comes up, a sensation in the body, crazy thoughts, you learn how to watch it because you're not those thoughts. You're the awareness watching the thoughts. And then after a while, what you're watching changes on a subatomic level based on your observation. The scientists call that the observer effect.
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. It 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 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. You begin to speak the word from the sense of unity.
Then you give thanks that it's already done. Then you release it and go on about your business. So that's just a modicum of what affirmative prayer is. Because a lot of people are begging and beseeching a reluctant deity. And so they're actually putting out into the universe that they don't have what they're praying for. Please give me this. Please give me this.
So they're saying to the universe, I don't have this. I don't have this. So they're misusing the law. They're not praying aright. So you have to pray believing. This is what the teacher said. Pray believing that ye have. that you may receive. So all prayer is to move you into the state of believing and feeling that you already have it.
And then you walk, and then the universal law responds to that frequency. Serendipity happens. Coincidences take place. You start to see things and opportunities that you didn't see before because your perceptual windows are getting clearer and cleaner.
Right. That's why we call it new thought, ageless wisdom. It's nothing new. The only thing that makes it new is when people begin to practice it and then it becomes new to them. And if it's complicated, it's probably not truth because the truth is simple. It's very simple. If a person is bringing a whole lot of complications to it, it probably means they don't know it at the depth.
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