Prayers, mantras and sounds focus our thoughts and contain healing energies. The more they are recited by people the world over, the greater the build up of energies they hold. I believe prayers can act as a medicine for the mind and soul to create shifts and changes from the inside out. These are some of my favourite prayers which have helped me on my soul’s journey. Please use the ones which resonate with you to invoke healing power and divine grace.
Gayatri (Sun Prayer).
I have found this to be an immensely potent and life enhancing prayer. It insites healing energy on many levels and wakes us up to the Divine within. It helps to bring an awareness of our life’s purpose. There are different variations of this powerful prayer (this is taken from the book of runes). The energy it invokes also purifies and protects. For rapid transformation, recite daily. Silently or out loud, invoke the Sun’s energy:
You who are the source of all power,
Whose rays illuminate the world,
Illuminate also my heart
So it too can do your work.
While reciting the Gayatri visualize the sun’s rays streaming down into your heart. It helps to open your arms up as if to receiving golden light from the sky. Make sure you ground the energy that flows into you by imagining it flowing through your feet and into the earth – like a tree bringing light energy down into it’s roots.
All is Well Prayer
Use this comforting short prayer/mantra throughout the day to combat negative thoughts:
All is well. All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well – Julian of Norwich
…or simply say: ‘All is Well’
Balancing the Chakras
Singing and chanting are healing for the body because they help us shift dead energy and release blocked emotion. This is why we cry and shout in times of heightened emotion. Use these sounds to clear the energy points in your body and focus on where you feel the sound.
Krim (‘kreem’) Root chakra
Klim (‘kleem’) Sacral Chakra
Hum (‘hoom’) Solar plexus
Hrim (‘hreem’) Heart chakra
Aim (‘eyem’) Throat chakra
Shrim (‘shreem’)Third eye
Om (‘aum’) Crown chakra
The Lords Prayer
As you recite this popular prayer imagine a powerful white light pouring into the crown of your head, down your body and enveloping your entire aura.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom,
the power and the glory are yours.
Now and for ever.
Amen.
A Baha’i Prayer
Baha’i prayers are some of my favourite. They are beautifully written and reciting them is like reading poetry. This prayer is especially beneficial in helping with depression, anxiety negativity or mind disturbances of any kind. Recite daily.
O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit. Purify my heart. Illumine my powers.
I lay all my affairs in Thy hand. Thou art my Guide and my Refuge.
I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved; I will be a happy and joyful being.
O God! I will no longer be full of anxiety, nor will I let trouble harass me.
I will not dwell on the unpleasant things of life.
O God! Thou art more friend to me than I am to myself. I dedicate myself to Thee, O Lord.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha
