A great many of you are accustomed to pray to God morning to night, not just once or twice, but incessantly and tirelessly in the hope that he may hear you and grant you a favourable outcome to a situation, which you insist may need divine intervention. Or you may pray for strength when things are tough, or you might just pray out of habit, simply because you was told by your parents or your peers that this was the only reliable way to talk to God. So here is my question. Why do you pray so repeatedly to the point of obsession? Are you assuming that God has not heard you the first time you prayed that day, and so you do it again and again, just to make sure? Maybe you believe that God only speaks to his favourite sons and daughters, his chosen few, and you obviously would like to be included in this imaginary hierarchy. Please understand that God doesn't play favourites. Also, many will only pray at specific times, and in specific ways. To be honest, this sounds like God is only available at office hours. God hasn't got a 9-5 job! As strange as it all sounds it is worth talking about, because all the things which I have mentioned here have their roots in a fear-based belief system, and this is highly undesirable. I want you to always remember, that all fears are illusions of the first waters and that (especially) includes spiritual fears of all kinds. Should you doubt God and spirit, then you are inviting fear to enter your life's. Fear and love together do not a pairing make! Fears of any kind are by definition designed to hold you back in your progress- any progress. The only thing fear begets is more fear. Just think for a moment. We all have our being within God, and there is absolutely no place in the universe which is not a part of him. He is expressing himself through his creations, and that means us. That in turn means, that we are all gods in the making since we are all trying to be reunited with the divine and as such have need of truth, not fears and superstitions. If you are one of those people who are hugging your fears close to you, please learn to recognise them, let them go and embrace love instead, because after all is said and done, the love of God and Spirit will be the only thing that remains once you let go of your old concepts. Coming back to prayer, the next time you pray, and I know this is hard, try not to request anything of God. According to the laws of manifestation it is by far the wiser thing to give thanks to the things or conditions "you have not yet got", because by doing so you will quite literally create them. Thought is a creative force, never underestimate this. You may not know this, but it is an undeniable fact. So try it, next time you pray make it a prayer of thanksgiving, of gratitude, and you will find that there is definitely a much better feeling attached to it, because the process has become so much more uncomplicated. Your love can pour out so much easier, because you are not requesting anything, you are creating instead. You all got the power of creation within you, and there is no limit to the things you can do, spiritually, emotionally and indeed physically. This site is called "the art of becoming", so allow yourself to become; simply create a better version of your self. This you are doing all the time anyway, for better or sometimes for worse, you might just not be aware of it yet. Creation is God's gift to you, and that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with religion or religious thought.

Another outmoded concept is the apparent need for ritualistic behavior. Some people will not burn black candles for instance. They somehow adopted this fear, that should they do this, they would in some way attract evil to them. This is of course not true, just use your God given reasoning for a minute and you will come to the same conclusions. It's just a superstition which they have adopted along the way. Incidentally, the fusion or merging of all colours will result in black; isn't that ironic? There are many such examples. Here are some more favourites. Some will place flowers in their living space in the hope that it will keep ghosts and unfriendly entities at bay. Some will not keep black cats, some will endlessly cross themselves in the hope it will protect them from harm, and still others have a morbid fear of the dark. You all know the "mustn't walk underneath a ladder, because of..." scenario. Then there are 101 uses for salt, mostly protective of course. There are an awful lot of people out there, who insist it is only safe to do "guided" meditations. What on earth could be the reason for that? Some will not meditate at all in bad weather conditions! Here is a good one, apparently only priests, or generally people of the cloth have the power to bless another human being. Now that really is daft. Every person, and I really mean every person on this earth has the power to give blessings, believe it. This is just another archaic manipulation concept. Here is another, there are millions who insist that they will go to hell, should they live what they would consider a sinful life. Well you can all rest easy, because the simple truth is, that there is no such place in spirit called hell, and there is certainly no such condition. There is no hell, no devil with a pitchfork, no anti-christ or any other such entity, and there is no one sitting in judgment over you. "Spirit will not condemn one another", period! There is an endless supply of superstitious and superfluous beliefs, and to try and list them all would probably result in me losing my will to live. Suffice it to say, you must try to rid yourself of them once and for all. There are of course a great many individuals out there, who may not feel the need for any sort of change. It is possible, that their ego will not yet allow them the required determination for self observation. No doubt they will gravitate towards this decision at some later date. You must understand, that a certain level of maturity is called for here, which I assume you all possess, otherwise you would not be reading this.

Human consciousness/awareness is an ever evolving thing and loathes barriers of any kind, because barriers will hinder your evolvement. So please do yourselves a favour and learn to unlearn. It is so easy to do, and you will feel a hell of a lot lighter without all that extra emotional baggage. You will not succeed in creating a better version of yourself, if you fear Life. I would like to encourage you to explore yourselves, and in doing so to free yourselves. Once you are free of old fears and concepts, you are able to express yourself better and take better charge of your destiny, a destiny which hopefully has love and awareness at it's foundation. Take it from me, that Love is the "ultimate" reality, it's all there is!