The Natural

Prayer is really not a supernatural activity and affirmative prayer is about as natural as one can get. We don't have to make fists or scrunch up our faces, or drop our voices an octave or two like Ted Baxter reading the news on the old Mary Tyler Moore show. Rather than imagining we are pushing our prayers up to God through layer upon layer of material resistance, we can relax into the knowing that the answers to our questions and achievements of our desires are ours by right of consciousness. There is nothing to resist nor to be resisted by. We live in a hospitable universe, begirt as Emerson put it, by spiritual laws. Prayer simply changes the mind, and thus the forthcoming set of experiences of the one praying. When seen and used in this manner, prayer becomes so much fun that we rush to do it.

We are always affirming something, looking at a situation and calling for it to turn out this way or that. Situations tend to proceed as we expect. This may make us think we have some amazing ability to predict outcomes. we do but its better than that, we share in the divine capacity to shape outcomes. Our prophecies each self fulfill. Things happen within and around us not because we wish or will or hope or long but because we clearly, quietly know. Affirm: Now I settle into my natural state of partnership with the Infinite, living my part through calm and steady realization, confident that my inner convictions resound throughout all creation.
The Science of Mind