The Most Powerful Prayer I Know
When I feel like I made a huge mistake, and have somehow gotten very off track, I find my breath and create the space for this practice.
And especially when I’m feeling guilt, regret or fear, I know where to turn.
This prayer helps with relationship challenges, it helps with self-doubt, it helps when I’m being too hard on myself. It’s there for me when I feel like I need to be forgiven, or when I’m seeking to forgive someone else.
It recognizes that I am human, and it’s ok to make mistakes. It gives me space to forgive.
This practice never fails to realign me with God/Spirit/The Divine when I am feeling this way.
To realign with the will of the universe. To open to a miracle.
It clears the slate and helps the universe re-orchestrate to align me with solutions for the highest and best good.
It lifts the burden of regret, guilt and shame and helps me remember that God is a loving and forgiving force.
The roots of this prayer originate in A Course in Miracles, an esoteric book of Jesus’ teachings.
Jesus preached The Way of Love, which in essence, is everything I wish to embody in this life.
He was here to remind us to embody love - to love and forgive ourselves, and love and forgive our neighbors just as we would to ourselves.
He encouraged us to see from the eyes of others and to forgive them.
A simplistic form of this prayer was first shared with me by Gabby Bernstein, when I went to see her speak live, about ten years ago when I was first starting my business.
The essence of the prayer is to state the situation you are in, offer it up to the divine, and trust a miracle was on its way.
It struck a chord with me, I wrote it down, and it became a consistent practice. Over the last decade it has landed into this form:
Miracle Prayer Steps:
1. Welcome Your Guides to Witness You
Angels, guides protectors, benevolent ones, please be here with me in this prayer
As you speak: Remember you are not alone. You are loved. You are being witnessed.
2. Describe the Situation
This is what happened. This is how I feel. This is why it’s a problem in my life.
3. Take Responsibility For Your Part
I take responsibility for… where do you feel like you made a mistake?) What was your part in creating this situation? Own up to it all, as shameful as it feels. Speak it out loud.
4. Offer it UP
Imagine you’re piling all the yuck and challenge into a big pile of garbage. All that you can’t control, all you're ready to release and let go.
5. Share Your Prayer
What do you long for what do you wish to release? Ask for help. Ask the universe to take this from you and realign you with miracles again.
6. Imagine Hands Coming Down From the Universe to Hold it All
Take three deep breaths. On the third breath exhale and imagine the universe taking it away…
7. Trust a Miracle is on its Way :)
Trust that you are forgiven.
By taking responsibility for your part in the situation, you are realigned.
You are in spiritual alignment. The universe forgives you. Now you must do the work of forgiving yourself.
We are all in co-creation with the divine. After this last step, know there’s nothing else you need to do. The weight has been lifted. You can rest.
You can also listen to this as a guided meditation on my teacher profile in the insight timer app.
With love,
Meredith
