He honored all of the directions, the six directions, north, south, east, west, up and down. He had his hands in the prayer, the prayer Mudra in front of his heart. He stepped into that prayer wheel, that medicine wheel. It’s a circular wheel that is defined by the rocks that were put there by the ancestors, we don’t even know who built this, this medicine wheel. And we arrived at an Ancient Medicine Wheel.
So I had an expectation of what I thought I would see dancing and chanting and, you know, Native American stuff.Īnd I was not prepared for what I saw because I met my friend and we walked across a huge field of high desert sage, beautiful sage, it smells so so beautiful. And so I said, Yes, I’d love to see this, this prayer. They said that the elders had never seen the kind of ground that was happening. A friend of mine, a Native American friend asked me if I wanted to join him in a prayer of rain,because we were in a severe drought. I had the opportunity in the early 1990s. They this has been their land for thousands of years. And we are surrounded by the indigenous population here. Sharing an experience that I had I live in, in a rural area in northern New Mexico in the high desert of New Mexico. Elizabeth, I often illustrate this, this mode of prayer through a So rather than asking for a prayer to be answered, we approach the prayer with the feeling as if the prayers already answered and the feeling of gratitude and appreciation, as if the prayers already answered. And it is a prayer that is based on feeling and it is feeling as if the outcome is already accomplished. But there’s always been a prayer, a modality of prayer, that is not accounted for in traditional prayer studies. So we’re very familiar with those kinds of prayers. So that is a petition airy kind of prayer, where you are, you’re claiming a certain outcome. And all past present and future manifestations. So we say a mighty I am I petition for the right to heal and be healed now. So for example, petition God so the their teachings, they’re called the I am teachings, for example. There are petition prayer was called petition prayer where we petitioned the Lord. And we’ve all had those kinds of prayers. So that is that’s a prayer where we feel we feel powerless, we feel helpless. So we say Dear God, you know, if you let my car get to the gas station before I run out of gas, I will never let my gas tank get this low again. It’s square, we feel helpless, or we feel powerless.
So the most common form of prayer, for example, is called a prayer of supplication. Some of them are we’ve known about in the past. And there are different kinds of prayer that allow us to accomplish different kinds of things. What what the prayer researchers tell us is that there are different modalities of prayer, they’re like tools in the toolbox. Gregg:”… Well, there’s no incorrect way to pray.