Affirmative Prayer is the best way to pray.  It is a five step process:

   1. Recognition, 2. Unification, 3. Realization, 4. Thanksgiving, 5. Release

Below is an Affirmative Prayer.  As you can see it has 5 steps.  Each of these five steps has a function in bringing the person who is praying into the flow of Primary Cause or Luminosity assisting a  Bodhisattva  in manifesting positive effects through the planting of positive seeds.   (If you wish, you may use the term Luminosity, instead of Primary Cause, or when sharing with friends who are following non-Buddha Dharmas, you may explain it using the terms God or Goddess or any term that describes First Cause which is the root energy that permeates everything.) Here is an example of a prayer.

1. First Cause flows though everything, First Cause is now and always.  We are one in First Cause. 

2. First Cause flows through me, I am one with First Cause. First Cause flows though me now and always  I know unity with all things as First Cause flows through me now and always.

3 I open up accept and receive wisdom, beauty, love and harmony into my life, I open up accept and receive deep joy, happiness and love into my life and open up to my transformation to deep understanding and Enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings.

4. I give thanks for this, I give deep, heartfelt, loving thanks for this and with utmost gratitude

5. I release this into the field of First Cause, knowing that it is so and so it is.  

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