Donna Eden, the author of Energy Medicine, The Essential Techniques, has seen meridian energy ever since she can remember. She has been healing people – and teaching people how to heal themselves – for over thirty years.

A born healer, Donna is a delight to be around. We are all fortunate that she has had the courage to pursue her gifts and share them with the world.

Yet, when she first started out, there was a lot of skepticism since most of us have been taught from babyhood not to see energy. And when she told her first husband that she saw energy, he told her never to mention it again or he would commit her to a mental asylum!

Fortunately, we have made great progress in clearing superstitions and fear about people who experience psychic phenomena, or who see and channel healing energy.

They – along with spiritual and faith healers of all stripes – have been pioneers, people who have gone ahead of the rest of us in their fearless exploration of our God-given potential to channel God healing energy.

Their empowering message is that we are in an energy universe and connection with Universal Mind – God’s Mind – is both possible and necessary for optimum health and abundance.  Yet what was the fate of women like Donna in the past? [Read more →]

The topic I’ve been addressing in my last three posts is about learning how to pray and praying more effectively so that our prayer requests are fulfilled.

Before we can be expected to pray differently, perhaps we need to understand why we need a different approach.

After all, what’s the problem with the traditional approach?

The problem with the traditional approach to God – and to prayer – lies in the idea that we are hopelessly flawed and sinful. No, we are not perfect. Yes, we should always strive to be better and to do better. Yet the insistence that we are sinful , evil or bad creatures does not help us become better.

Instead, when we believe it, it actually damages us and works against having our prayers answered.

The Insistence Upon Sinfulness

The insistence that we are sinful and powerlessness was originally impressed upon us out of ignorance. People really didn’t know how things worked. God was mysterious.

Consider that Jesus talked in parables appropriate to his time. Science did not exist and there was no earthly way He could explain the physics of what was going on so that anyone could understand it as we can today.

Then, as the practical application of what He had been teaching began to dawn on those charged with handing down the history of his existence, His message was finessed for self-serving ends.

While some really believed people were born bad  and were too wicked to be heard by God, others simply wanted to maintain their power, and not give it away to the common people.

Gatekeepers To God’s Blessings

There is significant power and money in being a gatekeeper to God’s blessings, and it was not desirable that people should come to know their own God-given power and connection to God. The gatekeepers might become expendable. So all power was reinvested in Jesus.

So, although Jesus came to empower us with a demonstration of how God’s power could work through us,  once those with direct experience of Jesus died, there was no one to counter the official story that people were powerless and all power to perform miracles and healing belonged to Jesus alone.

Furthermore, while Jesus taught responsibility, later Christians were taught that they could do anything they wanted and avoid any adverse consequences by simply casting their sins on Jesus.

There is a serious flaw with this idea because, by saying we are inherently sinful and without hope of ever progressing beyond our sinful nature, we have precious little motivation to change, and we can justify a lot of bad behavior.

Next post: Buy Yourself Out Of Hell

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In my two previous posts I discussed how Christians have been taught to fear God and why so many continue to fear they are unworthy of having their prayers answered.

Although negative beliefs and behaviors keep us from having the lives we dream of,  there is always some “payoff” for everything we do, whether it is positive or negative.

Although prayers cannot be answered when we believe or affirm we are unworthy to have them answered positively, there is a payoff for that powerlessness.

So what is  the payoff for unanswered prayer? What is it that keeps us from claiming our rightful heritage to joy and miracles?

Easier To Be A Lump Of Clay

The fact is, isn’t it just easier to accept an identity as a powerless sinner than as someone who has the responsibility to develop an ability to love and heal that has the potential to be equal to that of Jesus?

Maybe we fear we might have to turn off our televisions and go out searching for homeless people to feed and cloth and shelter.

Maybe we fear we might have to do something to alleviate the pain of sick people too, and maybe learn how to run energy through our hands. After all, who has the time and where do we start?

Also, while energy medicine is now starting to be incorporated into traditional medical  models for a more holistic approach to healing, many still think it’s “flaky.”  It takes a lot of courage to be willing to be dismissed as a flake by people who formerly considered you reasonable and respectable. It could be a lonely road for a while.

We would also have to be peacemakers. We would need to speak out in favor of peace, and contribute peaceful, loving thoughts  to difficult and tense situations instead of just mouthing off when we are annoyed or frightened.

And then there would be that constant contact – that continuous  communication with The Father Within – that could no longer be ignored.

Life is far easier at a lower vibration as a powerless lump of clay, don’t you think? As long as we are blocked, we can always say:

“Hey, we didn’t hear You! We didn’t think You were talking to us. We really are our brothers’ keepers? You’re kidding. We thought that only applied to Jesus.”

Consider that claiming our God-given greatness might be completely unthinkable when the responsibility that goes along with it is fully grasped.

However, the result of staying small is that when people pray with the energy of “I am a lump of undeserving clay,” then they will, likely, receive what a lump of undeserving clay is likely to receive.

So although they may pray earnestly, they remain without power, blessing or healing and can only bemoan how “God never answers my prayers.”

Yet, is this really what we want to choose when there is another way?

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  Healing prayers since 2003.

In my last post I wrote about specific aspects of prayer practices that are ineffective.

I hope I did not come across as a little harsh or cavalier because I certainly didn’t mean to.

If you are suffering because you have a need that is not being met and God doesn’t seem to be listening, I know how devastating that can feel. So  I don’t mean to discuss this as though it is some intellectual puzzle that anyone can figure out. It’s far from that.

Never blame yourself when your prayers aren’t answered. After all, who has taught you what works?

Most of us were taught to pray ineffectively when we were learning how to pray. I spent decades figuring it out before I learned how to pray so that my prayers manifested.

We were not taught that joy manifests.

We were not taught that love manifests.

We were not taught that genuine gratitude manifests.

We were not taught to fill our minds with as much positive as we can.

We were not taught to visualize what we want and thank God profusely for it before we ever see a trace of it, and to keep on thanking God until it manifests.

We were not taught the type of prayer practice that guarantees success.

Yet, when people are experiencing failure, trouble, broken dreams and unanswered prayers, they usually go searching for a solution.

So why has affirmative prayer not been more widely adopted?

Why do so many Christians persist in praying in the self-defeating way  I discussed in my last post when they see it isn’t working? [Read more →]

I have an admission to make.

Every day for ten days last June, I watched each one of the four visualization videos  posted on the official website for The Secret.

I did  this because they each filled me with such good feelings – tremendous feelings of gratitude – toward our Creator and Mother Earth. They made me purely happy.

Since my feelings were  so intense, I started to journal privately about my experiences so that I could chart the changes that would occur in my life, because I knew changes would come.

Joy is the fuel of positive change, so these feelings will continue to manifest more good things in my life as I continue to cultivate them.  In fact, this practice of watching visualizing videos inspired me to increase my prayer practice and make other positive changes as well.

Yet, for years I did not realize how important it is to start and end my day with an inspirational experience. I’ve since learned what a tremendous difference it can make.

So, whether you choose to watch an inspiring video, read uplifting literature, spend time  speaking affirmative prayer, or listen to happy music, do something to “bookend” your day with positive thoughts and inspirational material that lifts your spirit.

I do it and it makes a huge difference in how my day goes.

If you are not sure where to start, start by watching these 4 videos. Watch all four every day for 30 days. It will only take about ten minutes per day to watch them all and, in exchange, they will raise your energy.

One warning: they may make you cry before they make you laugh. But that’s okay, isn’t it?

As the saying goes, God is closest in laughter and in tears. And most of us, I’m convinced, are carrying tears that need to be released. It’s part of our journey; part of being human.

However, when you fill yourself with positive feelings first thing in the morning and then again before you go to sleep, those good feelings begin to transform you, and everything around you. The tears disappear and only joy remains. It’s quite amazing.

And should you want to buy the Secret DVD or book, there is a widget on the right hand side of this blog that allows scrolling to find the product you want,  whether it’s the book, DVD, daily teachings, or gratitude journal.

So enjoy.

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  Healing prayers since 2003.