The only true prayer is gratitude

Prayer is not just asking for things to be different. Prayer is a FEELING in which you tap into deeper levels of consciousness by setting aside the temporary vessel to connect with your eternal vessel. Prayer is alignment. If you notice, many prayers start with gratitude, as it is a transitory energy. You can change many moods by choosing to be grateful, regardless of situation. That is why people tend to pray before they eat a meal, because of that FEELing that they bring vibrationally allows for the whole body to work better to process the food. It centers the attention off of the daily thoughts, and more toward the food. It makes eating more vivid, and conscious. Much like love, how love can make you see something completely different, it is close to gratitude, and it is a chosen state of being, given our conditions are met. That beautiful mate, that gorgeous car, that stellar beach, that special song, all conditions that we choose to allow that feeling, and the idea of ascension, or enlightenment is to broaden that focus, to widen the variables that we accept that have these properties, and therefore, maintain our connection to our own eternal being regardless of circumstance, in order to experience abundance and ease. Just like the idea of meditation, prayer is something that we want to not cease, and when we find ourselves away from that feeling, we can use gratitude to transition back to using the whole of our being, and work from there. That is what you seek, and it takes awareness that you are making the decisions to be anything less that. Align align!