| Practitioners of Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry, Healing | | | | when we are in communion with God. Our role as |
| Touch and Reiki know that there is power in prayer | | | | healers is to pray, to connect, to love and show |
| when they do healing work. Humans have always | | | | compassion for others. God does the rest. Prayer is |
| prayed, looking outside themselves to some Supreme | | | | communication with the "Breath," the "Life Force" of |
| Being for protection, help, guidance, or blessing. We | | | | all creation, and it is an expression of the love |
| have prayed to appease an angry or a punishing God, | | | | between the created and the Creator. Jesus taught |
| we have petitioned God to strike down our enemies. | | | | his disciples not to worry about what to say when |
| We have prayed to a compassionate God to | | | | they prayed. "The Spirit will speak through you," |
| intercede on our behalf, blessing us with good | | | | Jesus said. |
| harvests, fair weather, and healthy children. Prayer is | | | | Prayer is much more than what we have to say to |
| something we have learned to do as part of our | | | | God; it is what God has to say to us or through us, |
| human activity. Prayer is a reflection of our | | | | which, as Roth says, can come in many |
| emotions-fear and love and devotion. Ron Roth, | | | | forms-guidance, prophecy, wisdom, clairvoyance, or |
| mystic and healer teaches that the power of prayer | | | | even a simple hunch or gut feeling. To hear the many |
| is not in the prayer itself but in God which is released | | | | voices of God requires an openness that is truly an |
| in our communion with God. The importance is not in | | | | attitude of the heart. All of our conscious thinking is in |
| the form our prayer takes but where is our | | | | essence a part of prayer. As healers move their |
| communion with God coming from-our heart or our | | | | hands or hold them still when doing energy healing |
| mind. Wayne Dyer says begin all prayer with "make | | | | work, they pray with their whole being for the good |
| me an instrument of...then add 'love,' 'peace,' 'joy,' | | | | of the individual, without putting conditions on God's |
| 'kindness,' 'abundance,' 'well-being,' or any other quality | | | | healing. The prayer of petition and affirmation may |
| that you know in your heart defines the essence of | | | | provide words for our minds that serve as an anchor. |
| the Holy Spirit." | | | | It is the prayer of the heart, though, that lifts us |
| Prayer simply put is energy. It is a connection or | | | | beyond words into that simple resting in the Spirit. |
| attunement to the Divine. This energy gets released | | | | |