We have written many times about how to address higher powers so that they hear you. We have talked about at what stage of development higher powers, your higher aspects, begin to notice you.
Lately, we have been talking about how you yourself are the creator of your life, the generator, the initiator of the events and changes that happen to you.
So the question arises — why rely on higher powers then? Is it appropriate to ask if you are the creator yourself? In which cases are requests needed and useful, and in what format?
Our article today is about this. Read about which forms of addressing higher powers, your higher aspects, are best to use.
The difference between prayer and meditation. The proportion of asking and listening for the answer to your request
For many people, the word “prayer” is associated exclusively with religion. There is a rigid link between these two concepts (prayer and religion/egregore).
Interacting with the divine, believing in God, believing in higher meanings — that is one story. Whereas the religious form that this interaction can take is a completely different story.
In Jason Estes’ interpretation, prayer is essentially any request; it is a state where you make a request.
Meditation is the moment of listening and hearing the answer to your request.
From this, a formula can be derived. If you sit in prayer for 5 minutes asking for something, spend twice as much time listening to the responses and signals coming in answer to your request.
This is your meditation — you are listening to the answers to your own request.
Most people don’t do this; they are used to asking and asking, but they don’t know how and don’t learn to listen for the answers.
A metaphor from J. Estes is appropriate here. A person has one mouth and two ears. In other words, speak half as much and listen twice as much.
When do you ask, and when do you give thanks?
The topic of asking naturally raises the question of being a creator. If you are a creator, what’s the point of asking for anything?
Each of you periodically becomes an “average” person.
This happens, for example, in moments of decline, of falling into “victimhood.” These are the very moments when you start asking for something. You ask when you are feeling really “crummy.”
When everything is going well for you, you naturally shift into a state where you give thanks.
Training yourself in gratitude is a kind of gentle reprogramming of yourself and your consciousness.
To be able to give thanks for what you have, you must first value it.
Since most people have a huge block around feeling their own worth, many things are taken for granted as a result. This is what could be called “consumerism”: something just exists, it’s a given.
You need to see the value in order to be able to give sincere thanks.
As you cultivate your own worth, you begin to feel more gratitude for the simplest things or the actions of other people.
You stop looking at the world around you through the lens of “this exists as a given.”
See also Gratitude. What is its role in your life
The Request Embedded in Practices
Notice what you usually do in your practices.
For example, recall the most popular practices of the Keys of Mastery project – visiting the Pyramid of Light and Power and invoking the Violet Flame.
You enter these practices and through the invocations essentially ask for something – to transmute something, to do something for you, etc. In other words, a form of making a request is embedded in the practices.
You step beyond your ego-personality and turn to the advanced parts of yourself, to the Higher Self, guides, etc. This is normal and natural.
At the same time, your request can be expressed in different forms – a direct request, an invocation, or an intention.
Recall the big broadcasts of the project – the monthly group meditations and broadcasts held during equinox and solstice celebrations. These are live streams where a huge number of people gather to participate.
In these broadcasts, you also express a collective intention, which is essentially a request.
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Asking is Natural and Beneficial
Many people go so deep into spirituality that they start to forget that asking is a wonderful tool.
You are constantly surrounded by guardian angels, who sometimes even intervene and help you without your involvement. But guides do not get involved without your participation.
Moreover, the Higher Self does not hear you until you yourself begin to proactively interact with it.
You always have the opportunity to communicate directly – “they” are always nearby. Reach out, speak, explain, consult, demand help, and listen.
In this sense, a request, whatever form it takes, is one of your natural states and at the same time a wonderful tool.
Whether you realize it or not, you occasionally resort to this form of interaction with yourself and the universe.
Perhaps some people should consciously introduce into their lives the practice of asking and actively listening for the answer.
See also Transformational and Spiritual Practices. What is their difference and why consistency in working on yourself is important
Does a Creator Ask?
Asking as a phenomenon is not connected to the theme of being a creator. This remains true for most people, because for many, being a creator is still a borderline state.
In some areas, a person takes responsibility upon themselves, while in others, they run away from responsibility; they are not yet ready for it.
A true creator is one who, from within, from themselves, creates entire worlds and galaxies.
Thoughts are material. Emotions, through thoughts, materialize.
When you are able to purify yourself to such an extent that not a single grain of destructiveness remains inside you, only then can we speak of “pure” creation.
Humanity is moving toward this level. It will soon open to those who are ready.
Forms of Addressing Higher Powers
How, about what, and to whom do you address your requests
Your requests to your own higher aspects can be very diverse.
For example, you can ask for clarity in a specific situation or in general.
Many would benefit from asking for wisdom, an open heart, and maximum connection with their soul, with their Higher Self.
So that everything that no longer serves you is cleansed and transformed into light, so that your desires and aspirations align with the divine will – your divine will.
In doing so, you are essentially addressing yourself.
You can consciously change the algorithm of “asking”: first you give thanks, then you choose (what to intend).
Many have already shifted their phrasing. Their addresses increasingly sound like: “I choose for my highest good, for the highest good of all involved parties/humanity.”
You can always create a formula/phrasing that suits you on your own.
You start with gratitude and then express your intention. In this way, you set a focus and an alignment for yourself.
The main thing is that your phrasing comes from the heart, naturally – when you don’t think about the words, they flow from you on their own.
In other words, you formulate your vibrational message, for example, for the day.
A request, an alignment, an intention, a call, a vibrational message, etc. – essentially, it’s all the same thing.
Use any word for yourself that has no limiting or negative associations for you and that doesn’t cause you resistance.
See also You are generators of the heart frequency and the new world. What is important to know and how it manifests
The Evolution of the Request
Your “asking” evolves along with you.
At different stages of your life, you first make a request and ask mainly only for yourself and, as a rule, for material things; then you stop making only material requests, you add gratitude to your addresses; over time, from a position of broader perception, you switch and begin to ask for other things.
Many, on their spiritual path, go through a stage where you address higher powers, guides, guardian angels.
Track the dual “bookmarks.” They are embedded everywhere and exert influence unnoticed.
It doesn’t matter if you are against war or for peace. Both war and peace are two facets of a single whole.
You feed the whole as long as you have not integrated and united both within yourself, as long as you have not entered a state of neutrality.
Yes, you choose.
But it is impossible to do this while you are on one of the poles, opposing yourself to the other pole.
The ability to see two poles as one whole, without opposing them to each other, requires serious transformation.
If a text or any interpretation contains the idea of confrontation, know that it strengthens what you are fighting against.
Here you can also express an intention (request) for the integration of the remnants of polarity and everything that binds you to the matrix.
And in exactly the same way, you can ask for the realization of any of your material desires.
See also From Opposites to Neutrality. What it Means to Be an Example of Living Outside Polarity
Affirmations vs “I Choose”
The effectiveness of affirmations is determined and tested both by the degree of maturity of the meaning invested in them and by the degree of maturity of the person using them.
Lately, many people’s sensitivity has heightened. Because of this, when reading someone’s words, you can feel that it’s an empty slogan. It’s taken from the mind and there’s no personal lived experience behind it.
You sense the discrepancy between the words and their content, and the inner state of the person transmitting them.
There’s nothing wrong with affirmations. At the initial level, everyone uses them. They serve as a kind of hint and reminder for you of how you want to feel.
Through an affirmation, you define your focus of movement for yourself (where you intend to move).
Every time you find yourself on the verge of falling out of this focus, you remind yourself of it with the help of an affirmation.
At this stage, the higher the degree of your automaticity (the strength of your patterns), the more often you have to turn to affirmations.
You hang reminders around yourself, use other tricks. Eventually, after a certain time, you reach a moment when a match occurs – between what is declared and what is felt.
Up until this moment, affirmations are a working tool for you.
At the finish line, you no longer need these crutches. When you reach the desired vibrational state, you no longer need them.
You switch to another tool that will be more appropriate and effective for you at the current stage.
Tools have a habit of becoming obsolete. You use any tool as long as it serves you. As soon as it stops serving you, you turn to a new one, without getting stuck on the old one.
A more precise formulation than the affirmation template is “I choose…”.
For example, “I choose to feel light no matter how the situation unfolds.”
Feel the difference.
The “I choose” formulation carries a different vibrational message.
Unlike an empty slogan (something you haven’t lived) or an affirmation (something you’re only learning to live), this “delivery” includes an important part – the subject (I) and the predicate (do/action).
This is your decision, your conscious choice. You understand what you are doing, and you choose it.
You choose it again and again, choose and choose.
In such formulations, try to avoid phrasing through negation (for example, “I choose not to get emotional”).
Choose “affirmatively” (“I choose to remain calm”).
See also Quantum Leap: What Holds You Back From It
Summary
You can and should ask. The main thing is it’s important to listen to what comes in response to your requests.
Look inside yourself, observe yourself.
Colossal changes are happening. Much is changing in your physiology, in terms of your rhythms, reactions, and perception as a whole.
If you are not internally observing yourself, you can easily miss the sprouts of something new, and sometimes even radical changes.
Be vigilant and filter out the mind trap called “I’ve heard this before.” Simple and banal things can reveal themselves to you from a completely new perspective.
Ask. Give thanks. Listen to what comes in response. Live it.
Regularly set your focus. It is advisable to do this daily. Include in your focus (intend) clarity, wisdom, the highest good for all, and self-care.
Some may need to add lightness and love in the heart to their focus. Others may need greater resilience and non-reactivity.
How do you address your higher aspects, do you ask anything of the higher powers, or do you rely only on yourself?
This article is based on a live broadcast from the #разговор_на_диване #133 series, Ask and it shall be given.