How Meditation + Prayer Connect

Practicing meditation and prayer together completes the infinity symbol of how we as Humans can connect to Spirit. Like yin and yang, both practices are complementary to one another and serve to create a dynamic whole that far exceeds the sum of its parts.

However, for many in their practice of spirituality, religion, and communicating with the God and the Universe, this connection is overlooked, minimized, and even discouraged, effectively shortchanging the individual from the full potential of their relationship with God. Whether it’s an overemphasis on meditation or an overemphasis on prayer, without the balanced presence and commitment to both in one’s spiritual practice, Divine Guidance will simply get lost or corrupted in translation.

Because in any relationship, there is a give and take with communication, and a flow that opens freely when all involved are willing and committed to both listening and speaking in turn. And not simply waiting for someone to finish talking so you can hear yourself speak, which often results in the conversation veering off target into disjointed tangents that serve the lower self rather than the higher self. But an invested effort in listening and responding appropriately in a respectful and compassionate way that brings all within the relationship into closer, more uplifted communion. Both sides willing to give and receive in harmony in service to a Higher Good of the whole, establishing a mutual interdependence instead of a codependence.

And so it is with our relationship with God.

So let’s go a bit deeper and define how prayer and meditation can be perceived as part of this relationship and how they connect.

What is Prayer?

When we pray, we may think of ourselves as speaking to God. Actively contributing to our conversation, communion, and relationship. For those raised in religious and spiritual disciplines, the automatic association may be with the prayers you were taught to memorize and recite. And while your conversation with God can certainly include those if you want, know that the act of praying is absolutely not limited to them. Just as your conversation with a dear friend, a trusted confidante, or a member of your family can be casual, spontaneous, and free form, it doesn’t have to be any different with your conversation with God.

Prayer is your opportunity to give thanks for all the blessings and gifts that have been bestowed upon you. To candidly express your needs, your wants, and your desires in confidence. And to ask for help and guidance when life on Earth gets rough and you feel lost, overwhelmed, or “in the dark” as to how to move forward.

The act of praying, even at its most silent, can be an external outpouring from your heart to God’s ears.

It may seem awkward at first to have spontaneous, even casual, conversation with God, and you may fumble nervously and wonder what to say or how to say it. I know that’s how I felt for a long time, and I would struggle with getting out of my head and into my heart. Again, so much in common with our earthly human relationships! But don’t give up. With time and practice, you will learn, as I did, to be less self-conscious, less afraid, and more vulnerable, and eventually more confident in your worthiness and the validity of your desire to have a closer, more intimate connection with God. Because God doesn’t want a distant, closed off relationship with you that invokes shame, guilt, and fear. God wants a close, open, and loving relationship with you that invokes trust, faith, and joy. And if you want that, too, then allow yourself to speak to God with that desire in your heart.

What is Meditation?

On the flipside of prayer, there is meditation: Listening to God. And creating the appropriate space, silence, stillness, and openness within so you can receive God’s answers to your prayers more clearly. For God is constantly communicating with us and answering our prayers. But are we putting ourselves in a place to actually listen and receive? That is the question.

While there are many ways to meditate, ranging from guided meditation, seated meditation, moving meditation, to breathwork, anything you do that serves you to quiet your emotions, still your mind, and access a higher consciousness so you can perceive things more presently and clearly can be part of your meditative practice. Examples of this include gardening, cooking, dancing, exercise, walking, connecting to Nature, playing chess, listening to classical music, etc. The more of these things that you can do, the better! Practices, or rituals, that help you to clear your mind so you can focus your attention to what is happening in the moment, thus elevating your ability to listen to God and tune into God’s frequency.

Now, to be clear, this is not to be confused with distracting yourself or using a substance or behavior to self-medicate. While the intention may be to relax and “let off some steam,” those activities actually serve to numb the mind into mindlessness and static. To bypass the reality of what is happening and check out so you just don’t have to think about it or feel anyway about it for just a little bit. And over time, actually inhibit your ability to relax and still your own mind and dull your capacity to raise your own frequency.

In the act of meditation, the objective is the opposite. Instead of mindlessness, you are seeking greater mindfulness. Instead of checking out, you are checking in. You are leaning into, and practicing, your innate power to filter out the distractions and static so you can raise your frequency to be more fully present and get a purer signal. And in a more mindful state of stillness, receptivity, and fluid brain wave patterns, you are prepared to not only listen to God’s replies to your prayers, but to understand them, trust them, and strengthen your discernment so you can heed the guidance and take clearer action in your life that serves a Higher Good. Elevating yourself up towards God to meet God halfway in your communion, as opposed to expecting God to meet you down where you are or relying on someone else to mediate and filter God’s guidance to you.

You have the potential already within you to receive God’s guidance clearly and directly. From my perspective, it’s designed into us as part of our original Divine blueprint. And through practicing meditation consistently and devotedly, you move yourself towards manifesting that amazing potential and fulfilling the bigger purpose of your mission on Earth.

Practicing both prayer and meditation and making them important to you is part of accepting your responsibility for your spiritual growth and evolution. And to be honest, responsibility for your birthright as a child of God. It is an empowering act that serves to expand what is possible in your service as a vessel to a Higher Good and a Bigger Picture here on Earth. And most importantly, practicing both prayer and meditation allows you to calibrate your spiritual compass to know which way is which so no matter where you are on your spiritual journey, you can always know where you’ve come from, where you are, and where you’re headed.

For as with all sincere spiritual seekers, if they truly desire growth, healing, and enlightenment on their journey of becoming who they were created to be, they will inevitably find themselves in the uncharted territory of the unknown and mysterious and on the precipices of many leaps of faith. And many a seeker - most, in fact - lose their way and eventually turn around to return to the safety and comfort of the mundane for lack of a strong, durable, and reliable spiritual compass.

So invite you to consider the perspectives I’ve shared with you. Consider the relationship between prayer and meditation in your own life and check in to see where it is. And explore both prayer and meditation in your life. Explore both speaking to and listening to God and all the other spiritual beings, guides, angels, ancestors, and Masters of the Hierarchy of Light who are there to help on your journey. And give yourself permission to experience a deeper, more meaningful, and more mutual relationship with God and Spirit so you can find your way with less fumbling, confusion, and uncertainty and more purpose, clarity, and light.

PS - if you’re interested in going deeper with your journey and gathering more tools to serve you in illuminating your own path of spiritual evolution, ask me about the Empower Thyself Initiation Class. Like a camping and hiking supply store, it’s a one stop shop in many ways for what you’re aware you’ll need (and also what you’re unaware you’ll need) to complete that journey. And my job as a Guide is to help more of the sincere seekers of the World, like you, find their way and not get lost, sidetracked, and consumed by the Matrix.

Bottom line: Humanity needs more Light and to heal not only our relationship with the Divine, but our relationship to the Divine within each and every one of us. And I know that this path of enlightenment from the Lineage of King Salomon the Wise is a way to do that that works!