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Living in prayer …. what is it?   Living in prayer is constantly in prayer mode like in  meditation.  Finding your center and focus for the rest of the day.  Praising and thanking for good  things that happen.  This is finding goodness in  whatever comes our way.  Like when traffic was  light or anything that goes well without you exerting effort.  They are small things that  shows you are not alone and that  a divine guide is given  to you.

In our society,  there are  numerous perceptions and faiths  and if not all, then most of them  teach the same thing and that is to love our neighbor and  act with compassion. 

I was christened, raised and educated as a Catholic and I got bonus too… my parents (may   they rest in peace) were members of Science of the Mind.  So as we were growing up both teachings were imparted to us plus is the  culture and belief of herbal and other beings. Oh! And my Mom was went to study angel  and crystal healing as well.    It’s only now that I am really opening my eyes  and immersing myself with  very familiar territory yet I tread cautiously so I won’t offend anyone.

As  children, my younger sister and I were very close to our Mom since we lost our Dad to cancer in our teens.  We had older siblings working already at that time.   My Mom was so devastated that she sought healing and peace.  We didn’t understand  at that time.  It’s only now that I began to understand why she had to start finding something that would open her horizons.  She  needed to find peace away from this critical world.

I hate fanaticism.  Yes, from me you heard the word hate which I know is a very strong word.  I have lived in a culture of faith  and spirituality  and  unfortunately a culture  with  religious fanaticism.  Although, faith can move mountains, when it starts hurting how other feels and thinks about themselves, we have to look into it.  We cannot blind-side feelings.  Blind-sided feelings  start revolutions… spiritual and eventually political.

I believe that one’s  faithful devotion is enough but when it conflicts with  the basic needs of humanity which is love and compassion, it is fanaticism.  Spiritual devotions are pure.  However, when a human dictates  others of what should be done to restrict any kind of freedom and  this action would be deemed law to undervalue another person’s life and being, this veers away from the essence  of  the spiritual belief.

In a nutshell,  no matter what  faith or belief we have  we can  always live in prayer.  As long as you  find your center,  wherever you are you can pass on blessings  or even  be grateful  even for tiniest things. Many people need solitude  to be in prayer.  You can find it inside you  even in a bustling and crowded place or  in the confines of your room.  What helps most is an hour of just being  with yourself.  There are so many ways to find yourself.  You can do meditation, yoga, you can go to the Church and pray, you can  do reflections and do journal writing too. 

Our core  would have  difficulty  assimilating everything when we are in  constant in motion. I would compare  it  as  in the concept of overfeeding .   When one feeds so much in one sitting, how does the body feel afterwards?  It takes a long time to  figure  things out but eventually  you will.  We just need guidance  to do things specially when  everything’s all new to us.  Once you have established finding your solitude,  you are ready to find it anywhere amidst the noise of the world.  Practice makes  things easier.   Life is not perfect.  Life is a constant journey.  We just need  to  have that  willingness   to  learn and  live in peace and positivity.

By Josefina Navarro

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